Honda
Where is the paint code on a Honda?
Driver's door jamb, on the label on the B-pillar, on the line reading COLOR or PAINT.
Step by step
- Open the driver's door and look at the B-pillar behind the door latch.
- Find the line on the sticker labelled COLOR.
- The code appears there in the form NH-731P or similar.
- The TRIM line beside it is the interior code, not paint.
If the sticker is missing or faded
- Genuine Honda touch-up paint part numbers embed the code — part 08703-NH797M-ES is code NH-797M.
- Any Honda dealer parts desk can look the code up from your VIN.
Is the paint code in the VIN?
No. A VIN does not encode paint color. We checked this directly against the US government's vehicle database (NHTSA vPIC): a VIN decode returns 140 fields, and none of them is exterior color or paint code.
A dealer can look your color up from your VIN because it is recorded on the build sheet held by the manufacturer — but it cannot be read out of the seventeen characters themselves. Any site claiming to decode paint color from a VIN alone is either querying a build-record database or guessing.