total car respray

[Ryan S]

and yet it looks no better than an £800 respray
all well and good if you want to spend that amount on a 20 year old car, most of us don't really have £2500 to spunk on a paint job.
and for those that do, well.....

[alan_uk]

well to add some fun in to this i paid £87 for my respray

only because i work at the place and only had to pay for materials,

however tbh sheppy's car looks just as good as yours red

and straight 2k black is a damn site easier paint than a 3 stage pearl to strip a car like that and paint in a 3 stage pearl you would be looking at almost £5000

a £2500 paint job is still a cheap paint job in fairness

we restored a e-type jag and charged the guy £8700
this was it finished









i dont mean to sound funny but if your the kind of person who goes to a place hands over a load of money and says i want this, then you dont really know anything about it, so its kinda a waste of time trying to argue over it

at the same time we done my mates r33 skyline added gtr quarter panels done a lot of welding and bodywork as it was rotten and charged him £650

and the finish is no different from the jag in all fairness and that was a full colour change to bmw arctic grey metallic from white, which was what you call a masked up job, but again if you use fine line tape first before masking you get a nice tight finish and you can also wire the rubbers so the paint gets behind rather than a dead flaky end







TO SHOW IT WASNT BODGED EITHER IT WAS WELDED UP












So the point im trying to make is not everyone is in it to make a rediculous profit and you can get good jobs for sub £1000 if you find somewere that takes there time and does a good job of prep work

[Ryan S]

now see, this is what you spend your "paint job wad" on, not a clapped out Toyota!

[alan_uk]

now see, this is what you spend your "paint job wad" on, not a clapped out Toyota!

hahaha too true

i restored my mk1 escort last year too bought it for £1200 rotten with a wasps nest in the roof lining haha

got it to this stage after 18 month and sold it for £6000 as it stood there


i had everything to put it back together custom gaz coilovers made a full new transmission tunnel to take a yb engine and box full custom quilted red recaro interior all new glass everything and the guy i sold it to put it all back together and fitted a 2.0l zetec ffs lol

[Ryan S]

Fords go for silly money!! I just don't see the appeal myself (sorry man haha). A friend is into Escort Cosworths and they are just so drab

[alan_uk]

your right mate there ugly boring and crap to drive tbh i only done it to swing a profit lol

i used to own a diamond white k reg escort cosworth they were my fave car and wanted 1 since i was 14 and seen my first 1

paid £10,000 for the 1 i bought back in 2005 and it was the biggest let down ever, i should of left it as a car i always wanted and never owned 1 because now i hate them lol

[craig]

and yet it looks no better than an £800 respray

You can tell that by looking at a picture of the shell, taken with an iphone4s and uploaded onto a car forum?

[Ryan S]

and yet it looks no better than an £800 respray

You can tell that by looking at a picture of the shell, taken with an iphone4s and uploaded onto a car forum?

well yours is no better than when they came out the factory, and I've seen a brand new black mr2 before and I've obviously seen my own Mr2.

[Ryan S]

your right mate there ugly boring and crap to drive tbh i only done it to swing a profit lol

i used to own a diamond white k reg escort cosworth they were my fave car and wanted 1 since i was 14 and seen my first 1

paid £10,000 for the 1 i bought back in 2005 and it was the biggest let down ever, i should of left it as a car i always wanted and never owned 1 because now i hate them lol

my friends was 450bhp before he sold it, they are an odd car, everyone seems to make a profit on them, he made a few £k on his too

[alan_uk]

your right mate there ugly boring and crap to drive tbh i only done it to swing a profit lol

i used to own a diamond white k reg escort cosworth they were my fave car and wanted 1 since i was 14 and seen my first 1

paid £10,000 for the 1 i bought back in 2005 and it was the biggest let down ever, i should of left it as a car i always wanted and never owned 1 because now i hate them lol

my friends was 450bhp before he sold it, they are an odd car, everyone seems to make a profit on them, he made a few £k on his too

i lost a grand on mine haha sold it for £9000 :O

[Ryan S]

your right mate there ugly boring and crap to drive tbh i only done it to swing a profit lol

i used to own a diamond white k reg escort cosworth they were my fave car and wanted 1 since i was 14 and seen my first 1

paid £10,000 for the 1 i bought back in 2005 and it was the biggest let down ever, i should of left it as a car i always wanted and never owned 1 because now i hate them lol

my friends was 450bhp before he sold it, they are an odd car, everyone seems to make a profit on them, he made a few £k on his too

i lost a grand on mine haha sold it for £9000 :O

you got pics of your own re-spray Alan? Or have I missed the thread?

[alan_uk]

i havnt done it yet mate it goes in friday

but here is my impreza i done in nissan bayside blue

when i bought it was a standard uk turbo2000 in a sorry state but i wanted a w reg 1 lol







when i finished it had a full sti close deck block forged build running 343bhp 352 ft lb at safe boost 1.4 bar

this was also a 3 stage pearl

[alan_uk]

i put abw wide arches on it and canards before it sold but i lost the pics of them painted



looked better in the sun though

[craig]

and yet it looks no better than an £800 respray

You can tell that by looking at a picture of the shell, taken with an iphone4s and uploaded onto a car forum?

well yours is no better than when they came out the factory, and I've seen a brand new black mr2 before and I've obviously seen my own Mr2.

On the contrary dear Shepster. Mine isn’t factory 202 Astral black, and wasn’t painted by a 1994 robot.

[Ryan S]

wow man! fantastic job!! yeah modern paint on older stuff really brings them up to date I think, that colour is awesome man!!!

[Ryan S]

You can tell that by looking at a picture of the shell, taken with an iphone4s and uploaded onto a car forum?

well yours is no better than when they came out the factory, and I've seen a brand new black mr2 before and I've obviously seen my own Mr2.

On the contrary dear Shepster. Mine isn’t factory 202 Astral black, and wasn’t painted by a 1994 robot.

no, by a measely human instead

[alan_uk]

thanks mate

im currently looking for a colour for my mr2 as dont think i want to keep it super red as its sooooo boring lol

ive been looking at the blue the new seat's come in also the new mazda 2 pearl blue

and also a colour im really liking at the minute is a metallic mint green which is this

[alan_uk]

this is the blue

[Ryan S]

thanks mate

im currently looking for a colour for my mr2 as dont think i want to keep it super red as its sooooo boring lol

ive been looking at the blue the new seat's come in also the new mazda 2 pearl blue

and also a colour im really liking at the minute is a metallic mint green which is this

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ohhhh, that's a bold move man, it's very tricky choosing for an mr2 as they can end up looking naff, I was very specific about the liquid yellow when doing mine, if it wasn't that colour it'd have been a full colour change, probably some kind of red. I've seen an orange mr2 and it was hideous, again with green, I personally didn't think it worked, I think Toyota did well with the factory colours at the time, as for modern colours, renault are doing some pretty narly stuff just now

EDIT: just caught your last post as I replied, that blue would work very well I think!!!

[alan_uk]

yea i agree they can look very very tacky if you get it wrong

was going to opt for safe white lol but i done that with my rev2 went from black to ford frozen white and dont really want to repeat that

so its all a bit up in the air lol i am swaying more towards the blue myself tbh