I have a white 2000 maxima gxe with the stock paint. My hood was key'ed a while back and I have small paint chips from door dings, but am not sure what color white I have? It is original OEM. How do I know?

 

http://www.courtesyparts.com/paint/maxima.html

Paint code: QT1

 

or just go to your nissan dealer, show them your registration, and they give you the paint you need

 

if you have the pearl white it will be very difficult to match even if you have the stock #'s to do so, but please let me know which paint not only matches but holds up the best. is it better to buy from dealer or after market?

 

I also have the Icelandic Pearl, and I purchased both the paints available from Courtesyparts.com
For our pearl paint, there has to be two coats applied, the white basecoat, and then the pearl top coat. The pen with clearcoat they have available does not even come close to the OEM pearl look, But the two bottles (notice that QT1 comes with two bottles) of the Nissan OEM paint match very nicely.
But I will say, that you may want to just leave the long key scratch alone, and just touch up the chips. I did a couple long scratches, and I think they may be more noticable now then before I painted them.