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Should I repaint after side skirts
I am thinking of getting the cloude side skirts and the 2 piece front spoiler however I dont want to do an entire repaint.
Maybe I need a new repaint though since I have chips but I am hoping they can go away with professional touchup service. Can anyone here tell me if theyve ever done a addon like side skirts without painting the entire car. If so, did the results look seemless our could you tell the addon was painted seperately since the paints dont match. |
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Re: Should I repaint after side skirts
I believe solarsvx went through the same thing, he just repainted the side skirts, said it was good although it wasn't a perfect match. The problem you'll likely encounter is finding a shop that can color match 15 year old faded paint...
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Re: Should I repaint after side skirts
I also installed beautiful slotted rotors.
Then I had my calipers painted red just like solarsvx. |
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Re: Should I repaint after side skirts
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Solar's car to me, to my eyes, is the prettiest on the network, particularly when it had the wheels you bought from him. When he showed his professional pictures set over a year ago I asked politely why the skirts were not the same colour as the rest of the car. Some of the responses from people blew me out of the water. I was told I was nit-picking. The paint was "matched". It's particularly difficult to match even new pearlescent paint. It is exceptionally difficult if not impossible to do a decent match if the original paint has weathered 10 or 15 years. As far as I am concerned Solar's car does NOT have matching paint, otherwise it could not be noticable in photographs and I would not have asked "what's the problem with the paint?" As long as Solar is happy with the end result, that's fine, it's his motor. If I was a potential buyer coming to look at his car, and I saw the mis-matched paint, I would walk. Simple as that. If your red paint is "solid", i.e. not metallic and not pearl, a really professional shop may be able to match it for you. However, their success rate is usually poor with red paint. [you notice the difference in tone under sodium monochromatic lighting] . Whatever you are happy with. I would paint the car. Joe
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Re: Should I repaint after side skirts
Plastics/fiberglass pieces always have a darker look to them than metal. So yea you'll see a difenance plus the paint on the car is YEARS old.
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It really boils down to how much sun your car has seen. Mine has seen little, so the paint was easily (dare I say flawlessly) matched during collision repair.
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Re: Should I repaint after side skirts
Joe, I just looked at a few pictures of solars svx and I do now see the color difference. It doesnt look good and thats too bad because that means I will get a complete paint job. Hope its not too expensive howeer I have seen the skirts and 2 piece front spoiler and cannot live without them now.
Thats okay because I will end up with one awesome looking car that will be gragaed and probably driven no more than 1000 miles per year. |
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Re: Should I repaint after side skirts
Joe,
Don't blame it all on the paint, at least the painter's matching of it. A few years back, I did a classic car feature on a newly restored 1939 Mercedes 540K convertible. It was stunning. However, when I presented the owner with a print of one of the pictures, I had to have the driver's side door retouched (by airbrush, this was before Photoshop) because in the transparency, it was a different shade of green from the rest of the car. I found out from the owner that the door had been repainted after the rest of the car, because of some minor damage. To the eye, it looked like a flawless match. But the new paint reflected more, or less, UV than the rest of the car, so IN THE TRANSPARENCY, it came out a different color. The sensors in our digital cameras also react to UV and InfraRed differently from our eyes, so it's altogether possible that can happen with a digital shot. Just a FYI. Paul
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