Color match spray cans: where to buy

Anybody have luck buying paint match spray cans from online or from autozone/napa? Need to get some silver for my subie wagon.

napa more likely than autozone. You need to find the place that supplies the local body shops. The napa in milwaukee would do it for me, and the local car quest here has the capabilities as well.

I used the local NAPA store for my white Miata and my silver one. The silver shows only because my technique wasn't great and you can see a hint of "tiger stripes" where I painted. The colour and metallic content match well though.

Napa has a dedicated paint store here that does matching to order.

My local O'Reilly's distribution center will mix catalyzed paint and load spraybombs -- Nason is the brand.

Avoid internet sources. The cans can/could have been mixed years ago and you will get the unhappy feeling about 15 seconds into the actual spray job you are trying to accomplish. The nozzle will clog or sputter. Somehow it knows to work OK while you are testing.

While I've since found a local paint shop that will colormatch and fill a spraycan with exactly what I need, I did have a great experience last year with AutomotiveTouchup.com.  They have a kit with primer/base/clear that works extremely well and has held up great so far.  Price was about $50 shipped IIRC.

Find a local paint shop.  There's one near me in PA - Colours.  It might be a chain.  I took them a piece of the car (the gas door) and they color matched based on that.  They mixed me up a spray can.  

ebelements said:

While I've since found a local paint shop that will colormatch and fill a spraycan with exactly what I need, I did have a great experience last year with AutomotiveTouchup.com.  They have a kit with primer/base/clear that works extremely well and has held up great so far.  Price was about $50 shipped IIRC.

Me too.

The local CarQuest (now owned by advance, but still run by the same people as always) did a good job for me, but I've had good luck with Napa in the past.   And yes, the best is if you can do like VCH and bring them a piece of the car from the same approximate area, so the sun/salt/rain/etc fading matches well with your area to touch up.

Try any local auto body supply house.

For solid colors on gm and fords I have had really good luck with duplicolor spray bombs and then clear over that.  The match is excellent in the last two touch ups I have done.  

I've had a color match spray cans mixed up perhaps four times and every time it is no where near the right color. Duplicolor makes good stuff, it actually matches. I could probably eyeball select an unrelated duplicolor color and do better than the paint store/autoparts stores have done for me.

In Altoona, PA, the source is Fender Mender Supply, Inc.