Has anyone found a paint close enough to solar yellow?

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Has anyone found a paint close enough to solar yellow without paying for solar yellow? I am looking to paint some underbody parts and get them as close as possible.
 
On my 04 the closest rattle can is Rustoleum Sunburst Yellow. It works great as long as it's not adjacent to (or touching up) OEM paint. I actually bought 5 different yellows to do a comparison. I believe they changed the tint slightly between years, but I'm not not sure if it was before '04 or after. That Sunburst Yellow is pretty much a stock item everywhere. I also remember reading a while back how someone added just a tiny bit of black tint to a can of that stuff and they said it matched even better, but I'm too lazy to paint Jeep parts from a can.
 
Here is a picture. Sunburst Yellow is the rightmost one. The leftmost one looks pretty good too, but it's just the lighting... it is too green, almost fluorescent, when you look at it in different lighting. You can see how the OEM color is just a tad darker tint than the Sunburst.
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I was looking at the rustoleum yellow and thought it would be close. I will give it a shot.
Thank you.
 
Carve said:
I'd like to see how this turned out. I live out in the desert and would like to paint my black hardtop yellow to reduce the heat load and to match the Jeep
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I've used the the non-spray version of Rustoleum yellow and it's pretty close, just a bit darker. I'm guessing it's the same as the yellow spray.
 
I broke down and purchased the small cans of factory paint by code. It’s still not a spot on match but when used underneath, it looks good to me.
 

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RubiconRic said:
Here is a picture. Sunburst Yellow is the rightmost one. The leftmost one looks pretty good too, but it's just the lighting... it is too green, almost fluorescent, when you look at it in different lighting. You can see how the OEM color is just a tad darker tint than the Sunburst.
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i bought the “touch up” solar yellow brand and it was completely to dark it looked like th one in the middle of this picture maybe the suns faded the actual paint of the jeep im sure but that was even after i used a cutting compound 🤔 im not sure il ever get the match close enough
 
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