Toyota Yaris & Echo Paint Codes & Media Archive

[Neurotic Hapi Snak]

My car's color code is 1F8 and it is definitely not the medium gray Meteorite Metallic is, it's a darker silver than your average silver car, more like a pewter. I purchased Medium Metallic Silver, for a Corolla, touch up paint for my car from The Bumper Store and it matches the factory paint perfectly. The Bumper Store is, IIRC, who told me some Yarii were painted the Corolla color, because I contacted them about my car not being the medium gray Meteorite metallic, despite having the code 1F8. Maybe Toyota changed the paint blend for Meteorite? But my car is no where near the color of the older Meteorite Metallic Yarii I've seen. Plus I've seen at least two other Yarii the same color as mine on the road, all 3dr hatches. I would have preferred Meteorite Metallic, too, but there wasn't too many choices in the used market.
Corolla 1F8http://www.amazon.com/2005-2011-Toyo...3&keywords=1f8
Yaris 1F8http://www.amazon.com/2006-2011-Toyo...7&keywords=1f8
Edit: And it's definitely not the 2012+ color 1F7 Classic Silver Metallic. I thought maybe they switched out paint at the factory to prepare for the new model and painted some older models while finishing production, but that doesn't match. Maybe they ran out of Meteorite and didn't want to order more and just used what they had on hand?
Edit: It may have been a color sold in Asia, and some US cars painted Medium Silver Metallic were made. I looked on Google Image Search and Asian Yarii as old as 2007 came up as being painted that color.