Layer colour change using dropper

Hello,
Hardly ever used PSE before so bear with me!
I have an image of a car that i want to change the colour on, what I'd like to do is use the colour of a car from a different image.
I found this guide : http://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/manipulating-the-color-of-an-automobile-in-photo shop--photo-965
I've followed it to create a separate layer that gives me the area of the car that I want to change the colour of, but I'm struggling to actually get the colour to change.
In step 3 it says "on the layer palette click on the color swatch. This will bring up the color palette but will also make a color picker eyedropper available."
I can't find how to bring that up in PSE, I appreciate it may be different in the full photoshop package vs PSE but I can't find how to bring it up.
I did find the option : Enhance -> Adjust Colour -> Replace Colour but I couldn't get it to work (i.e. change a colour) and it doesn't let you use the dropper to pick a new colour.
Any help will be appreciated!

Here's another approach which is actually similar to the methods previously described.
1. Select the portion of the car to be changed.
2. Add a Solid Color fill layer and select your new color.
3. Change the Blend Mode of the fill layer to Hue or Color (the result will be slightly different between the two).
4. In case your initial selection was not precise, you can fine-tune the result: In the Layers palette click the mask portion of the fill layer. This sets the foreground/background color chip (at bottom of toolbar) to their default white/back values. Using a hard brush, paint with white to add the new color where needed, paint with black to remove excess new color. You can type "X" to toggle between white and black.
Notes:
- Before step 2 you can use the Color Picker to initially select the new color. The fill layer will then use that color.
- You can always change the color by double-clicking the fill layer's thumbnail in the Layers Palette.
- When you do the selection in step 1you don't have to worry about excluding thinks like the headlights and chrome. The Solid Color fill layer does not change "non-colors" like white, black, gray, silver.
- If the color is too light or too dark you can add a Levels adjustment layer to darken or lighten.

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