2018 Toyota Tacoma
10 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 2017:
- Added for 2018: Midnight Black Metallic (218), Cavalry Blue (8W2)
- Dropped after 2017: Black (202)
Verified against 2 independent sources: 2018 Toyota Tacoma official brochure (dealer CDN mirror): https://cdn.dealereprocess.org/cdn/brochures/toyota/2018-tacoma.pdf — color page lists Midnight Black Metallic, Blazing Blue Pearl, Cavalry Blue, Barcelona Red Metallic, Inferno, Quicksand, Magnetic Gray Metallic, Cement, Silver Sky Metallic, Super White, with the footnote 'Cavalry Blue is only available on TRD Pro'; PaintRef Toyota cross-reference, 2018 Tacoma: https://www.paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?year=2018&make=Toyota&model=Tacoma&rows=100 — returns exactly these 10 codes.
Ten colors, the widest third-generation palette so far. Plain Black 202 is replaced by Midnight Black Metallic 218 — a real code change, not a rename. Cement 1H5 loses its TRD Pro restriction and spreads to other grades. Cavalry Blue 8W2 arrives as the new TRD Pro exclusive, which the brochure states outright in its color footnote. Last year for Inferno 4X0.
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.