2016 Toyota Tacoma
8 factory colors were offered on the Third generation (AN300) Tacoma. Your code is on the driver's door jamb sticker on the line marked C/TR — the characters before the slash.
Changes from 2015:
- Added for 2016: Quicksand (4V6), Blazing Blue Pearl (8T0)
- Dropped after 2015: Pyrite Mica (4T3), Blue Ribbon Metallic (8T5)
Verified against 3 independent sources: 2016 Toyota Tacoma official brochure (dealer CDN mirror): https://cdn.dealereprocess.org/cdn/brochures/toyota/2016-tacoma.pdf — Color/Trim/Wheels page lists Black, Blazing Blue Pearl, Barcelona Red Metallic, Inferno, Quicksand, Magnetic Gray Metallic, Silver Sky Metallic, Super White; PaintRef Toyota cross-reference, 2016 Tacoma: https://www.paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?year=2016&make=Toyota&model=Tacoma&rows=100 — returns exactly 8 chips, matching the brochure name for name; Toyota USA Newsroom, 2016 Tacoma debut: https://pressroom.toyota.com/2016-toyota-tacoma-debut-aug17/ — 'eight exterior colors' including three new ones, Quicksand, Inferno and Blazing Blue Pearl.
Third-generation launch year, eight colors. Quicksand 4V6, Inferno 4X0 and Blazing Blue Pearl 8T0 were the new-for-2016 additions. Black is plain 202 — Midnight Black Metallic 218 does not appear on the Tacoma until 2018. There was no TRD Pro grade for 2016, so no TRD Pro exclusive color exists for this year.
Where to find your paint code
Driver's door jamb (B-pillar), on the white or silver build sticker, on the row labelled C/TR.
Driver's door jamb
- Open the driver's door and look at the B-pillar at roughly latch height.
- Find the row labelled C/TR on the printed sticker.
- The three characters before the slash are the paint code.
- The characters after the slash are the interior trim code, not paint.
If the sticker is missing or faded
- Call any Toyota dealer parts desk with your VIN. They can read the code off the build record, usually in under a minute and at no cost.
- Genuine Toyota touch-up part numbers embed the paint code — part 00258-004X0-21 is code 4X0.
Other Tacoma years
Color availability changed year to year. Codes often carried over; names sometimes did not.