We've determined that all Foresters on Alberta highway #549 are cursed.  After writing off two last year (deer), a moose ran my girls off the road on Friday.  I just can't get a break (in the wrenching) with these things.  Now I need a fender.

So I looked up my VIN on vindecoderz.com , which is the best free online tool I've found so far (Question 1:  Does anyone know a better one?), and it confirmed that I've got 8J6 - ROYAL SILVER M/GRAY paint.  Now I'm plugging in the numbers from the wrecker's web site in an effort to find a match, but it's not returning the "additional information" section, where the paint info is.

Question 2:  Is the problem that the paint is in the last six ("sequential production") digits, and the detailed information on those is just not available anywhere?

Question 3:  Am I going about this all wrong?

Question 4:  Which years use the same panel?

year and model?

 

Sorry - stupid me.  '01 Forester.

MY 98-2002 will use the same panel (according to car-part.com)

Edited January 28, 20197 yr by Mike104

Okay, thanks.  Guess I'm just going to have to trudge the yard to get a paint match.

Edited January 28, 20197 yr by jonathan909