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Just curious....I have a 05' Frosty White vibe & a 04' Matrix XRS in "Toyota Super White II" toyota code 040. To me the colors look identical when the cars are parked next to each other, but the Vibe looks a bit less vibrant. MIght be cuz the paint isn't as polished & kinda faded compared to the Matrix which I just buffed out when I bought it.

Anyone know if the paint colors are the same? I got a bunch of duplicolor spray cans of Toyota 040 that i used to re-spray the XRS bumper spoilers and I wanted to re-spray the underskirts of my Vibe cuz they are looking yellow/brown & nasty when viewing from the side.

Thx guys

Frosty vibes lack clearcoat, which is probably why you notice the luster difference. I doubt the colors are exactly the same but they may be close enough that you can't tell.

Rayven01 wrote:Frosty vibes lack clearcoat,

Frosty Vibes definitely have clear. The clearcoat on my hood on the vibe is flaking near the hood creases from sun exposure. The matrix paint was incredibly faded/oxidized when I bough the car so I buffed it with rubbing compound then a 4-step polish/wax system and the paint looks awesome. Haven't done the same to the Vibe...yet mainly due to the ridiculous heatwave we are having.

Ahh, maybe it's only the 09 ultra white vibes then? I'm fairly certain mine does not have a separate clearcoat layer. There are nicks and scratches in many places and it always flakes off whole down to the primer (or bare metal on the roof ). I could have sworn I read others complaining about gen 1 frosty's having the same problem, but I could be mistaken.

I've never heard of a white car that wasn't clearcoated. I had a older mazda 323 in red that wasn't clearcoated (lots of red car's aren't for some reason).

Best way to tell is to take a different-color rag (darker in this case) and use some car polish or rubbing compound to buff a spot on your cars body. If the rag changes to the color of the body then you have no clearcoat. If it looks the same color as the polish then its clearcoated.

What I find annoying is they used a darker gray primer on our white cars while on darker cars like my friends dark blue matrix, they used an almost white primer. my question is WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?!?!