Paint!

Jon Darlington · Jan 13, 2004

Can anyone suggest a good paint shop, I looking to spend about 2,000-3,000 which needs to cover a colour change + prep. I would supply the vehicle stripped of components

I not looking for a concourse job, I just want it to look nice for the 40th B'day.

Evil J Guano · Jan 13, 2004

Sportwagen did a great job of my bonnet but 3k won't get them near a whole car these days.

Are you talking bare metal, windows, engine, suspension etc out kinda job or a more cosmetic approach?

There are some guys in Suffolk who did some repairs for me for ok money. They could do you a ok job.

If you could provide a good sound stripped shell then the paint is the easy bit.

I am sure Mark could offer some advice if you wanted to go that route.

Guest · Jan 13, 2004

Gavin's got a very important point here - decide whether this is a cosmetic job or a back-to-bones bare metal job first. Anything other than cosmestic and you could be discovering that the cost of panels, welding and preparation costs you far in excess of the paint job...

...lets face it -once you've stripped back to bare metal you might feel loathed to paint over the rust holes. You 'might' be lucky...

I saw an article in Excellence once with this guys 356 that looked terrible, all cracking paint, the works - but the crux was that the car had bags of character and was mechanically A1 and the business to drive. You could argue that you might get more fun out of 3Ks worth of engine, brakes suspension (etc) tweeking and a weekend on the car with the Zymol and Waxoyl. Just a thought...

SRD

bullett_uk · Jan 14, 2004

I had an essentially cosmetic job done on my car. It was very solid with no bubbles or anything visible but the paint was beyond polishing better as it was heavily faded on one side with quite a few stonechips and some scumbag had keyed it at some point in the past and the repair was poor. I did keep the colour the same though.

Jon Darlington · Jan 14, 2004

The original plan was to flat the paint back in most areas only going to bare metal where the paint has crack/crazed.

I thought that the engine bays were all black, regardless of exterior colour, let me know if this is not the case.

I was (and still am) toying with the idea of just a quick blow over in black (maybe matt) and then spending the money else where, I nearly spent (if I had it) about £4000 at the AJP day. Could look quite cool with some nice detailed wheels![8D]