2019 Nissan Altima
9 factory colors were offered on the L34 (sixth generation) Altima. Your code is on the driver's door jamb sticker on the line marked C/TR — the characters before the slash.
This is the earliest model year currently in our database for the Altima, so there is no prior year to compare against.
Verified against 3 independent sources: Nissan USA official 2019 Altima brochure (nissanusa.com CDN): https://www.nissanusa.com/content/dam/Nissan/us/vehicle-brochures/2019/2019-altima-brochure-en.pdf - CHOOSE YOUR COLOR page, nine swatches each tagged S SR SV SL PLT; PaintRef Nissan Altima 2019 cross-reference: https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?year=2019&manuf=Nissan&model=Altima - returns exactly nine chips matching the brochure one-for-one; Nissan 2019 Altima press kit, which describes Scarlet Ember Tintcoat and Sunset Drift ChromaFlair as the premium colours in a nine-colour palette: https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-a1c3c9a4c6e44735a4b5001f12188fdf-us-2019-nissan-altima-press-kit.
Launch year of the L34 Altima. Nine colours, and the brochure availability grid marks every one of them as offered on all five trims (S, SR, SV, SL, Platinum) - there are no trim-restricted colours on this car. Pearl White TriCoat, Sunset Drift ChromaFlair and Scarlet Ember Tintcoat are the footnoted extra-cost premium finishes. Black is Super Black (KH3); Magnetic Black (G41) is not an Altima colour.
Where to find your paint code
Colour label on the driver's-side door jamb / B-pillar
Driver's door jamb
- Open the driver's door and look at the B-pillar and door jamb area.
- Find the small silver, white or black Colour ID tag carrying barcodes and dense alphanumeric text.
- Read the 3-character value printed under the heading COLOR (for example QAB, K23, XEX).
- On a two-tone Rogue the label shows the single X-prefixed combination code, not the individual body and roof codes.
If the sticker is missing or faded
- Check low on the door jamb near the striker - on some cars the label sits in the bottom corner and needs a crouch to read.
- Look at the bottom corner of the VIN plate, where the colour code is tucked beneath the word COLOR.
- Call Nissan Consumer Affairs at 1-800-647-7261 with the VIN and ask for the factory paint code.
- Ask any Nissan dealer parts department to run the VIN - the build record lists the exterior colour code.
Other Altima years
Color availability changed year to year. Codes often carried over; names sometimes did not.