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Originally Posted by cmjohnson
Whatever you choose, know this: When changing the color of the car, the job is always a LOT better if you go to the extra effort to paint inside the door jambs and around corners, under the trunk lid and hood, etc,
as close to how the factory painted the car as is possible. Ideally, you won't be able to tell that the car
has been repainted short of yanking the carpet out and taking a look under it.
And it's NOT that difficult! You need to strip a lot off the car but everything either is held in place with snaps
or with snaps and a couple of screws or nuts. Nothing is hard to remove or takes long to remove, and the
more you take off, the easier the masking is for repainting.
I don't know if you intend to do the repainting yourself, (which is by far the cheapest way to go but still
will cost some money) or if you'll pay someone else to do it, but either way, additional labor put into
stripping pieces off the car so they don't have to be masked around, and labor put into filling and
blending any minor dents or damage, will definitely pay off with a better paintjob.
If you're going to have someone else do the painting, YOU strip the trim off the car yourself, as far as
is possible (and I mean including removing the door panels and interior trim around the doors, stripping
the trunk all the way out, removing the door gaskets and seals, everything), and mask off the rest for
painting, and you'll be able to get your painter to shoot all those extra spots for not much more money,
or for no extra charge. If he doesn't have to put any extra labor into painting those pieces, and he has
enough paint to cover them, it'll cost you almost nothing extra to have it done, and then the job will be
done RIGHT.
If the doors are one color but the jambs are a different color, that's always a sign of a cheap and cheesy
paintjob. I recommend not doing it that way.
CJ
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Yea im very well aware of this, i was actually gon do tha bodywork myself, ive had my share of experience already, my 89 Celica is proof
, but yea thas where bodyshops make their dollar, tha body work/masking/removal of panels n gaskets, tha painting is tha easiest n cheapest part. I would do it myself but dont have access to a paint booth/compressor at this time.
I knoe watch mean bout tha door jambs, ive seen waaaaaaaay too many cars wit tha old color of tha car still in tha jambs. Which is why i kinda wanna stick wit that sage color cuz it tha closest to tha existing paint when coloring tha jambs, goin wit a darker colors means more prep work, which i dont really have tha time for, but can do-it'll jus take more for me to do thas all.
Thanks for ur input ya'll, i would go black, but it wont really match tha interior in my opinion. It would look kinda amateur in my opinon, same goes wit that white, i like it but again wit tha interior restriction-would match better than black tho. I was originally thinkin a light silver also, but wont match tha interior-worst of those 3 colors under my circumstance. Any more opinions?
