Janie..I just called my son in PA who has done auto painting & detail for 18 yrs now. Left a message to call me with advise for you. IF the garage that's going to be fixing your panel are also the ones (I'm assuming they are) who'll be repainting it? Call and ask them for application advise-and if you give them the make & model & original color of the car? They can look it up & can make up the exact color, and give you a tiny jar of it to use. My son gave me some for my 2000 Sebring when someone 'dinged' me in a few spots. If he should call me back-I'll post to you.

Krylon and Rustoleum both make appliance paint. IME the spray gives a more even finish than the brush/roll kind but it's messy to an extreme and STINKS. Not a large color selection either. If it's not terribly hard for you to move the fridge (like you have access to muscle and a pickup truck), call a bunch of auto body shops in your area. It's not too expensive to have an appliance painted, especially if they're doing a vehicle or something in the same color, and doubly so if you do a lot of the prep work like removing the door handles, gaskets, hinges, masking the plastic parts, etc. Triply so if they're hurting for business. :-) They have a HUGE range of colors to choose from, pretty much anything you can dream up. I knew someone who had all her perfectly-functional, good-quality "harvest gold" kitchen appliances repainted with automotive paint at a body shop. She took the opportunity to replace the door handles on the fridge and oven and the stove knobs, and everything looked new. It cost her a few hundred bucks to have stove, fridge, and rollaround dishwasher repainted, and it would have cost over a grand to replace it all with absolute-bottom-of-the-line appliances. She did use a little chrome paint, which she bought in a hobby store (model airplanes and cars and such), on some small trim bits rather than having them rechromed, but you had to know it was there and look for it to notice.

I am using Behr primer with paint on my cabinets and in the process of wet-sanding them down to a nice polish. We like the paint color and just stayed with Behr cause this is what we started with. After a few coats, the paint definitely needs time to dry between coats. I made the mistake of putting one on top of the other after a few days of drying and the paint stuck together. But once their are hung on the cabinets we will use those gel pads on our doors to prevent the doors from rubbing against the bases. All in all- I wish I would have done more research on the paint- but we just stuck with the paint to keep it uniformed. I finally gathered enough courage to talk to a local painter about getting a better polish on my cabinets and he told me about wet-sanding! Do your research and another thing he told me; paint with a brush and THEN back roll... don't dip your roller in the paint- just back roll... Before In the process...

If all they need is a good cleaning then that is what you need to do. After which go to Lowes and get Rustoleum paint in a can. It is the most amazing product I have ever used. I will never use their spray again. It flows and levels like you won't believe. It also goes a LONG way. I did our pool surround with it. I used a green scrubby and cleaned the metal coping first. I rinsed and let dry. I then applied 3 light coats. No sanding. None. Rustoleum even tells you that there is no need to sand. They have great primers too but I didn't need them as the surface was in good shape...this is a pool coping that is 25 yrs old !! It looks new now. Has held up well so far..has been 4 months now. Please look at the Rustoleum web site and even email them if you have questions. There is NO reason to sand those cabs if the paint is soiled but intact. NONE !! This will cost you nothing but time and they will look great. Also you can get the paint tinted any color :) c