Originally Posted by McLeod

Here is what applies to my rig.
Just for clarity, mine is a 95 Bronco built in 10/94, so it is an early 95..
It has paint code WM just like yours.
Notice that some charts call it "light opal clear coat metallic" and others call it "light opal poly". The name is not important but the paint code (WM) is what rules.

If you notice the paint formulation number above is M6631A where as everywhere else I look shows the formulation number as being M6631.
Light Opal metallic:
https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorco...e=Light%20Opal

So going back to what I mentioned before that I was given a choice between an "A" or "B". I think I am mistaken. I now think that it was an "A" variant that was the option.
I was likely given the choice of M6631 or M6631A equivelant. These are Ford numbers and other paint manufacturers use different numbers for same color.

With that being said, the paint I had purchased from the Carquest store back in 2010 was a single stage made by Third Dimension, which I believe is a Sherwin Williams brand.
This paint formulation number is 54-48459-A . I would assume (oh oh...) that the "A" at the end of the formulation number correlates to the Ford number of M6631A -vs- M6631 that shows on most look up charts.


Now back to what I can report about my specific vehicle, I sprayed an small area inside of one of my door jambs this 54-48459-A paint. This paint is slightly darker that the original paint that came on my Bronco. The original paint has more of a silvery look but new paint is slightly bent to a grayish tone. Not terribly noticeable but a keen eye will see it.

Now, except for the door jamb area that I sprayed, I never used this paint. Instead, I sent it to a body shop to paint the new tailgate and they used PPG 2 stage which was the darker paint and yes you could notice the darker tailgate next to the original paint just above the tail lights.

Fast forward about 8 years and decided to get entire truck repainted. A different shop used PPG formulation for the M6631 and it too is the darker color and the slight color discrepancy over the original paint can be witnessed at the door jamb areas. Most people wont even notice this but it is there.

Given this, my guess is (and this is only a guess so do your own due diligence) is that the earlier production vehicles used the lighter almost silvery color and they later switched to a darker more grayish color later in model year for some reason.
So if you are given the choice of an "A" formulation this would likely be the darker late production color. I would also be speculating here but it looks like PPG defaults to the later production darker gray color.

Yours looks to be a later production 95 given the build date on your data tag.

As a side note, when I used this Third Dimension paint to spray a small area inside of the door jamb I used a Preval sprayer. The spray out was way too heavy for the metallic content and it just looked all muddled and metallics looked awful. Glad it is in a hidden area. So be warned that metallics didn't seem to work well in a Preval sprayer.

Hope that helps some.
Here is a picture of my Bronco wearing the darker WM paint:

Originally Posted by McLeod

At a glance they look to be the same shade of white.
Like mentioned before, the name (white -vs- colonial white) of the paint is not relevant, it is only a marketing thing.
It is the code (ie: YY) that matters.

Originally Posted by OBS460

It matters if you walk in and say I need white paint for a 95 F-series vs. my truck is Colonial White. I care because whoever is helping you or working on the truck probably wasn't even born when it was manufactured and to them white does not contain any hint of yellow.