I am trying to determine how many different body colors the 5th and 5.5 gen maximas came with. Sterling mist silver, majestic blue, merlot etc...

So here is mine: Sterling mist silver (paint color code KT3). Please post a picture of your car and tell your paint color.




Glacier Pearl - QX1 - 2002, 2003
Gray Lustre Clearcoat Metallic - KV3 - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Icelandic Pearl - ??? - 2000, 2001
Mahogany Pearl Clearcoat - ??? - 2000
Majestic Blue Clearcoat Pearl - BW9 - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Merlot Clearcoat Pearl - AX5 - 2001, 2002, 2003
Polished Titanium Metallic - ??? - 2003
Satin Blue Pearl Titanium Metallic - ??? - 2000, 2001
Sheer Silver Metallic - KY0 - 2003
Sherwood Green Pearl Clearcoat - ??? - 2000, 2001
Sterling Mist Metallic - KT3 - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Sunlit Sand Metallic - ??? - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Super Black Clearcoat - KH3 - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Tungsten Blue Metallic - ??? - 2002

 

Merlowwww aka Merlot AX5.

 

Sterling mist silver (paint color code KT3) and Carbon fiber

 

Majestic Blue (BW9)

 

I gotta say, Merlot looks sweet. I really like the Majestic Blue too...

 

1)Super Black Clearcoat

2)Sunlit Sand Metallic

3)Sterling Mist Metallic

4)Sherwood Green Pearl Clearcoat

5)Satin Blue Pearl Titanium Metallic

6)Mahogany Pearl Clearcoat

7)Icelandic Pearl

8)Gray Lustre Clearcoat Metallic

9) sheer silver

 

kv3 grey lustre pic in sig

 

Same as this guy....

 

Nothing better then a Sterling mist silver with a black theme black wheels, dark tint , carbon fiber hood and se tail ....ect

 

damn, you came prepared son!

 

here is a picture of my neighbor's max next to mine. So I guess his is the icelandic pearl?

 

Super black (don't know the code.)

 

I think white and merlot may be the 2 best IMO

 

Sheer Silver ------- KY0

 

KH3

 

QX1 Glacier Pearl

 

Sweet baby jesus...

 

Sheer Silver and Polished Titanium were 2003-only colors. Sheer Silver FTW, btw.

While this is fun and all, simply Google "2003 Maxima Colors" and you'll see that a website called CarsDirect.com does a pretty excellent job of laying out all the color options, inside and out. For example:

http://www.carsdirect.com/2003/nissan/maxima/colors

 

Wow I love majestic blue.
KV3 FTW!

EDIT: That page posted by Rochester is interesting. It almost looks like Gray Lustre on GXE's could be a tiny shade different. Not sure though, maybe I need my eyes checked. Kind of makes since though. When I was calling some local shops to get some quotes on painting some body parts, one of them told me that there are actually a few different tones of Gray Lustre depending on what location the vehicle was built. Its not an extremely noticable change, but there is one.

 

I didn't realize there was a difference between Sterling Mist and the Sheer Silver on '03s until recently. I just figured something was wrong with my car because it was SM, yet didn't look nearly as gray, metallic, and cool as other SS cars I'd see that were, I thought, the same color.

Yeah, SM beige is hideous, but the Merlot and Majestic Blue are hawtttt.

My '05 is "Liquid Silver" according to that website. Liquid is cooler than Sheer, obviously.

 

I agree, the colors represented there are off, but that's because they're just solid web-colors, not photographs of the actual paint. They don't represent metallic flake and clear-coat. For example, it shows Sheer Silver as darker than Sterling Mist, which is clearly wrong.

However, it is a good source for actual color names matched to model years.

 

Super Black KH3

 

sterling mist KT3 see sig

 

Tungsten Blue FX0:

 

Polished Titanuim is the best and the rarest, but maybe because that's my car color...

 

What's it look like?

 

It's a deep, dark silver/gray color. One of those colors that looks entirely different depending on the lighting.

This was MaximusTi's 2003 SE TE 6MT in Polished Titanium. Pictures don't do it justice, because in-person, this car color is absolutely gorgeous.

 

What's the color code?

 

Mahogany Pearl, not sure what the color code is either :-\

 

Satin Blue Pearl -

 

Most Common Color Sterling Mist