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 Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 10:51 am |
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Ok so after looking at my paint work and the amount of dings all over the body work I think it would be time for a respray. The car is currently indigo blue (EGJ) but I was thinking if i could get away with painting it a different shade of blue without having to pay a lot more for matching the original colour. The colour I was thinking off was Volkswagen Biscay Blue Metallic, I know it will probably cost a bit more to buy the paint as its metallic but what do you guys think about the cost and how it will look?
this is the colour im looking at:
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 11:04 am |
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£2k
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 11:43 am |
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Vinyl Wrap !
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 11:49 am |
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vinyl wrap would be good but I know some car sprayers who would do the work a bit cheaper plus I really like this colour think it would suit the curves on the car
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 11:53 am |
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How you going to be doing the respray?
Will you be going down to bear metal and taking everything off including taking the engine out. If do with all the prep work that is involed its going to cost a lot of money.
It will be cheaper to get the dings done and paint it the same colour.....
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:03 pm |
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| anton7350 wrote: |
| vinyl wrap would be good but I know some car sprayers who would do the work a bit cheaper plus I really like this colour think it would suit the curves on the car |
You can get your whole car wrapped for under £800 if you can beat that with a respray or even get within £750 ill be impressed.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:04 pm |
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| Callum206 wrote: |
| anton7350 wrote: |
| vinyl wrap would be good but I know some car sprayers who would do the work a bit cheaper plus I really like this colour think it would suit the curves on the car |
You can get your whole car wrapped for under £800 if you can beat that with a respray or even get within £750 ill be impressed. |
Especially fixing the dents in that price too!
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:37 pm |
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yea was planning on doing the dents myself as there not too bad but really bug me and I would like to avoid going down to bare metal if I can, thats why I was asking about this colour to see if I could get away with it. The engine wouldn't be removed as I don't think I could do all that myself but the windows will be removed as it needs a new windscreen due to deep scratches, im just trying to gather all the options that are open to me but I may have to go with the original colour.
as for the labour cost it would be my mates dad thats going to be spraying it on his down time but its gonna be at the end of the summer till he can do it so if i can get a decent price to get it done sooner and i don't mind doing the prep work to get it that bit cheaper as iv helped out a few mates doing this before but do you guys reckon for that colour its gonna have to go back to metal???
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:41 pm |
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How long are you thinking of keep the car?
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:46 pm |
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as its blue and going another blue you can get away with not having to go down to bare metal and won't need the whole car primed, just the dent repairs primed, to keep costs down just get the door shuts and boot shut done and backs of doors/boot, i wouldn't bother removing the engine and doing the bay
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:55 pm |
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| starlet wrote: |
| as its blue and going another blue you can get away with not having to go down to bare metal and won't need the whole car primed, just the dent repairs primed, to keep costs down just get the door shuts and boot shut done and backs of doors/boot, i wouldn't bother removing the engine and doing the bay |
thats what I was thinking about doing, the car is just a plaything for me atm and i plan on keeping it for another while, im wanting to go down the euro look and i thought that colour would complement the car better, it just something different here as all my mate have silly wee saxos and corsas that you can hear a mile off and they just look like wee McDonald's racers lol
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 1:03 pm |
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also it would be my mates dad that was going to do the respray as he has his own booth and has a good repituation and was gonna charge about £400 with me helping out with the prep and the original colour but he cant do it now till the end of summer which is too long to wait with the paint chipping and flaking. I dont mind doing the prep myself if it dosnt need to go down to bare metal which I why I was asking advice here, just something I have been thinking about for the past few days.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 1:14 pm |
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if your going down the euro route, then surely you will want some body mods/some smoothing so do them before you get it painted, otherwise it will be abit pointless getting it painted, then doing the mods and having to get alot painted again
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 1:29 pm |
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if the price isnt too bad I will be doin some mods and body smoothing when doing the prep but i think the most important thing is to get the bare metal covered first, either way ill be smoothing off the side strips and the strips on the roof before the respray 
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 1:41 pm |
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remember holes/recess' need plates welding in before smoothing with filler
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