2024 Subaru Forester
11 factory colors were offered on the Fifth generation (SK) Forester. Your code is on the driver's door jamb sticker on the line marked C/TR — the characters before the slash.
No color changes from 2023. All 11 codes carried over unchanged into 2024. If you are matching paint on a 2023 or 2024 Forester, the roster is identical.
Verified against 2 independent sources: Subaru of America 2024 Forester retail brochure, 'Color Combinations' matrix p.12 - https://cdn.dealereprocess.org/cdn/brochures/subaru/2024-forester.pdf; PaintRef Subaru 2024 colour cross-reference, Forester rows - https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=Subaru&year=2024&rows=100.
Final year of the SK generation; palette identical to 2023. The 2024 brochure prints the trim headers explicitly - Forester, Premium, Sport, Wilderness, Limited, Touring - confirming Sapphire Blue Pearl as Sport-only and Geyser Blue as Wilderness-only, with Brilliant Bronze Metallic on Premium, Limited and Touring and Cascade Green Silica and Horizon Blue Pearl absent from Sport and Wilderness.
Where to find your paint code
Under the hood, on the strut tower or firewall plate — Subaru does not put the paint code on the door jamb.
Driver's door jamb
- Open the hood and look at the driver's side strut tower and the firewall.
- Find the small metal or foil plate carrying the model and colour codes.
- The paint code is the three-character entry, often labelled COLOR CODE or COLOR NO.
- On some model years the plate is on the passenger side instead — check both.
If the sticker is missing or faded
- Genuine Subaru touch-up part numbers embed the code — part J361SAJ090A1 is Carbide Gray, code K6U.
- Any Subaru dealer parts desk can look the code up from your VIN.
Other Forester years
Color availability changed year to year. Codes often carried over; names sometimes did not.