Hey John..the paint matched pretty good as far as I could tell.My car is covered and away in the garage for the winter so I could not pull it out in the daylight to check it out.
1- I used an extension and taped the bolt to the socket and was able to get the bolt started that way.It is a pain but it can be done.
2- That plug was for the cmcv connector and is not used anymore.
It took me 16 hours to do mine by myself..have fun