rvpuller

I can't find the color code for the wheel flares on my 03, I need to touch one of them up.

Denny

white89gt

I believe it is usually under the TP/PS (Tape-Paint/Pin-Stripe) section. Was yours by chance done afterwards? I know mine was painted after the fact. To match mine, I took it to a guy that matched it by eye, and did a really good job.

akdoggie

According to the sticker, your fender flares were YN, silver from Ford.
Here is a list of the paint break downs for your year. Note the last of the exterior paints charts to match the flare color only if they used Ford color to offset the trim.

Here you are:


Exterior Paint Codes:
Exterior paint codes may be listed as a 2-part code. The first set of characters identify the primary body color. The second set of characters (if applicable) identify the vehicle accent or 2-tone body color.
Primary Exterior Color Codes:
AQ — Arizona Beige
CX — Dark Shadow Gray (clear coat)
E4 — Vermilion (clear coat)
JL — Dark Toreador Red
L2 — True Blue Pearl (clear coat)
LD — Medium Wedgewood Blue (clear coat)
P5 — Aspen Green Metallic (clear coat)
T5 — Dark Copper (clear coat)
T7 — Charcoal Beige (clear coat)
UA — Ebony (clear coat)
YN — Silver Metallic (clear coat)
YZ — Oxford White (clear coat)

Exterior Accent Color Codes:
AQ — Arizona Beige (body side moulding)
CX — Dark Shadow Gray (body side moulding)
YN — Silver Metallic (wheel opening moulding)
Interior Trim Codes:
The following lists the interior trim and interior color codes:

Interior Trim:
Interior Trim Type
K — Knitted vinyl bench seat, F-Series
C — Cloth bench seat, F-Series
F — Cloth captains chairs, Excursion
F — Flight bench seat, Mexico sold F-Series XLT only
G — High back cloth individual seats, F-Series
H — High back knitted vinyl individual seats (captains chairs) with console, F-Series
J — High back vinyl individual seats, F-Series
3 — Cloth 40/20/40 seats, F-Series/Excursion
D — Cloth 40/20/40 seats with integrated restraints, F-Series
8 — Leather 40/20/40 seats, F-Series
9 — Leather 40/20/40 seats with integrated restraints, F-Series
2 — Cloth captains chairs, F-Series
6 — Cloth captains chairs with integrated restraints, F-Series
4 — Leather captains chairs, F-Series/Excursion
7 — Leather captains chairs with integrated restraints, F-Series
5 — Leather quad captains chairs, F-Series
L — Leather captains chairs, Excursion Limited
B —Leather captains chairs with vinyl rear bench, F-Series
M—Cloth 40/20/40 seats with rear bench mono. F-Series
P—Leather captains chairs with vinyl rear bench, F-Series
A — Hampton vinybucket seats — Econoline
E — Camden cloth captain chairs — Econoline
C — Stockton vinybucket seats — Econoline
F — Kirk cloth captain chairs — Econoline
A — vinyfulbench seat (split back), vinyfulbench (Mexico) — F-150, F-250
C — polyknit fulbench seat (split back), polyknit fulbench (Mexico) — F-150, F-250
M — cloth 40/60 bench seat — F-150, F-250
E — leather 40/60 bench seat — F-150, F-250
H — simulated split vinyl bench seat (Ranger)
E — Cirrus cloth 60/40 split bench seat (Ranger)
G — Triad luxury sport bucket seats (Ranger)

Interior Color Codes:
H — Medium Parchment, F-Series
E — Medium Flint, F-Series/Excursion
B—Ebony, F-Series
D—Dark Flint, F-Series
X — Medium Prairie Tan (F-150, F-250, Ranger)
2 — Medium Graphite (Econoline, F-150, F-250, Ranger)
S — Willow Green (F-150, F-250, Ranger)
D — Denim Blue (Econoline)
P — Mocha (Econoline)
N — Cordovan (F-150, F-250)
E — Dark Denim Blue (Ranger)

Tape Stripe Codes:
B — Silver/Red — Econoline (Chateau)
C — Light Teal/Red — Econoline (Chateau)
D — Medium Silver/Red — Econoline (Chateau)
H — Silver Metallic/Heliotrope (F-150, F-250) 4x2
2 — Ebony/Amethyst (F-150, F-250) 4x2
T — Silver Metallic/Medium Titanium (F-150, F-250) 4x4
5 — Ebony/Graphite Sparkle (F-150, F-250) 4x4
R — Silver/Dark Toreador — upper, Dark Toreador/Silver — lower (F-150, F-250 Lariat)
8 — Dark Blue/CoraPeach — upper and lower (F-150, F-250 Lariat)
9 — Bright Green/Pacific Green — upper, Pacific Green/Bright Green — lower (F-150, F-250 Lariat)
S — Silver/Ebony/Silver — upper, Ebony/Silver/Ebony — lower (F-150, F-250 Lariat)
C — Light Prairie Tan/Heliotrope (F-150, F-250) 4x2
F — Light Prairie Tan/Medium Titanium (F-150, F-250) 4x4
P — Platinum (Ranger XLT "Off Road")
S — Silver (Ranger XLT "Off Road")
B — Blue/Dark Blue (Ranger XLT)
C — Copper/Gold (Ranger XLT)
G — Green/Gold (Ranger XLT)
T — Tea(Ranger Splash)
V — Violet (Ranger Splash)
4 — Silver/Medium Graphite (Ranger SE/LE)
5 — Beige/Brown (Ranger SE/LE)
8 — Santa Fe/Woodrose (Ranger SE/LE)

akdoggie

I forgot to say, whomever had the truck changed the color of the flares to give it the look it has now. It looks good, but is hard to give you which of the lower two colors to tell you to use. The angles are all wrong to try and judge which color they really are. Pictures are so damn deceiving.

You can take you truck to any good automotive paint company and take their sample chip to match your flare.

I just noticed that they painted the front upper bumper cover also to match. Your truck was totally YN when purchased from Ford. The dealership might of made it a "sales leader" and done some stuff for a sale promotion or a package they decided to provide. Our dealers get Alaska packages, which are a heater and LSD. They put a decal that say AP and that's it. Maybe an upgraded set of wheels also.

akdoggie

http://www.autobytel.com/ford/f-150-...ew/2003/color/

Jbrew

Great info AK...Tanks!

white89gt

AK, am I correct that it would have been under TP/PS?

Dealer packages kind of **** me off, lol. We have one dealer here that made a High Boy package with a Super Duty. When I saw that, I was pretty giddy that Ford had brought it back.... and let down when I did the research. I think bringing back the High Boy moniker would be pretty favorable for Ford, but who knows.

akdoggie

I circled it in the picture. YN is silver that year. Notice that there is not another code in line with the YN. That would be the second pair of letters. There is none listed, so it is a one-tone truck.

I agree GT that dealer add on's are a real pain in the butt.

akdoggie

To the OP. Do you have skid plates on your truck? I see it came with 17's stock, and LS rear diff, so I'm questioning if it has the FX4 package, and not the decals.

rvpuller

Yes it has a skid plate in the front, under the transfer case and fuel tank and Rancho shocks but the shocks could have been installed latter, at 122K when I picked it up its hard to say.

I'm sure the flares are factory but I guess the paint on them isn't. It's had some painting done on it over the years so who knows what decals it had on it, trying to match the paint has been a pain where I fixed the rust, one place it's to dark and in another it's to light so it may just get two toned next year.

I bought it to keep miles off our DRW when we are home in the summer, it has geart running gear but needed a lot of TLC.

Denny