Tesla Touch Up Paint — Mixed to Your Exact Code

Car Details on the touchscreen, or on many cars the door-jamb label: PNT and four characters, such as PPSW.

On the label it is PNT followed by four characters: PPSW Pearl White Multi-Coat, PMNG Midnight Silver Metallic, PBSB Solid Black, PR01 Ultra Red. Tesla says the code may be printed on one of the labels, so not every car has it.

Not directly: the paint code isn't in the VIN. A Tesla dealer can look the code up from your VIN, or you can read it off the label described above. The finder also lists every Tesla color by year and model.

A tri-coat gets its depth from two separate components: a color basecoat, then a translucent pearl mid-coat sprayed over it. They can't be combined in one can, so we supply both, each mixed for your exact code, and you finish with clear. The Tesla tri-coats in our list include PPSW White Water Pearl Tricoat, PPMR Sunset Red Tricoat, PR01 Ultra Red Tricoat, PN00 Quicksilver.

Yes — when you send us a sample. Mail us a painted part from the car (a fuel door, a mirror cap, a chip) and we match the paint to it and check it against your sample before it ships. If the mix doesn't match your sample, we re-mix it and ship it again free. Orders mixed from a paint code alone follow the factory formula, which can differ from paint that has faded or been resprayed, so they aren't covered — spray a test card before you paint. Full terms.

A door ding or bumper corner: one 6.7 oz aerosol. One can covers about 2 to 3 sq ft in two coats, so a fender takes three or four cans, a door four to six and a hood six to nine. Spraying a larger area with a gun? Run it through our coverage calculator.

Every can is mixed fresh to your code in South San Francisco and spray-out tested, and it ships within 2 business days.