Can't figure out two tone paint??

[Bluemill]

We have a 2001 Bronzed Gray Pathfinder SE. The bumpers and wheel well arch trim is painted a slightly lighter, more silver pewter color. I went to the dealer and it totally buffaloed him, and he said - the car must have been custom painted. Later, I saw vehicles with the same slightly 2 tone color treatment.

Does any body know what that color is? The main color is KXO Bronzed gray, but what is the bumper color?

I need to have some paint to spray on my rear bumper. Here's a warning to all of you out there. The pick up bed spray from Duplicolor is an excellent product BUT BEWARE- it's self etching.

Last weekend I was doing some rust repair on my right rear wheel well, and I got a little squirt on the side of the rear bumper. I had my hands full at the time, so I figured I'd come back later and wipe it off with one of the many solvents I have on hand. NOT- it would not budge! On an area on the door where I had made a quick pass with some lacquer thinner soon after it got sprayed, the thinned bed liner coating stained the paint, to where I had to buff through the clear to get it off!

It is not like a paint where you can come back and wipe it down with some solvent a little later- it etches into the existing surface!!

Best,

Bluemill

[Chuck Tribolet]

Ian't there an options tag somewhere, usually under the hood or in the door jamb?

[Towncivilian]

I have a KX0 2001 too. I also got annoyed at the differing two-tone paint colors. I have not yet found the correct color code for the trim areas. I just painted it all black instead. See here.

And if you look under the passenger taillight, I also got some spray paint overspray (from spraying something else, not while spraying the rear bumper - that was actually off the vehicle, but everything else was just masked off) on my body, and haven't dealt with it yet.

Sorry for not being much help. Even Nissan FAST doesn't tell me the trim color, so we're probably out of luck.

[Bluemill]

OK, That is a brilliant alternative, and by the looks of your pictures, it looks great to. It "lowers" the car visually, or makes it look a bit slinkier.

Sometimes the answer is so damn obvious - you don't notice it. It wouldn't have ever truly matched if I tried to get the same stuff mixed, so instead I go with another color, both bumpers, and wheel arches - cool!

Years ago, with an early Mitsubishi/Chrysler car, they two toned in year two, and the rather chunky, egg shaped body looked a whole lot better.

Super idea!

Thanks,

Bluemill