Going to be painting my car

Black or candy apple red?

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What are you going to do in the jambs and the engine bay if you go with the red?



Removing doors, hood, trunk, sunroof, and engine (99% dont remove the engine is the original color is black) is seriously time consuming and expensive.



In addition, if you do a color change, you have to change the title and registration.



Unless it is for a show car, I'd avoid a color change like the plague.
 
Well, I did plan on taking putting the car in a show, but nothing serious, just for fun. As far as the doorjams etc I i Do a repaint I will be painting them too but Im not taking out the engine, or the carpet in the car etc. Since it is a old car, I doubt that its gonna effect its resale value.

But if I do black its gonna be much cheaper, much easier to do(do not have to do the doorjams) as compared to candy

Maybe I could go with a black like on the new BMW 6 series, its kinda metallic.
 
compromise-- go with the black cherry---------:2thumbs:









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ramtough said:
flat black ;everything flat black would look real sharp.
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When I sanded the car down all the way, it look liked like an undercover cop car, especially with the black rims lol. But hopefully I will get it painted in january since some loser hit my car and ran off, so now i gotta get that fixed.
 
Bigpoppa3346 said:
That candy color is gorgeous, but it would look hideous on an old Lexus. Black for me.
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Same here. Every time I see someone do a color change, it never looks good an ends up destroying the vehicle. It's such a major paint in the butt to do all the jambs properly. They are almost as much work as the exterior surfaces. Throwing a candy in the mix will surely make things even harder.
 
David Fermani said:
Same here. Every time I see someone do a color change, it never looks good an ends up destroying the vehicle. It's such a major paint in the butt to do all the jambs properly. They are almost as much work as the exterior surfaces. Throwing a candy in the mix will surely make things even harder.
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Thats true, so the color that I have decided on is going to be a Pearl Black, its simple and it will look clean on that car. Any Candy will atrract too much attention, something I am not looking for when Im driving late at night.
 
1 good thing about cars painted in pearl is that the jambs usually don't get done in 3 stage (pearl). That in itself could save you lots of work.
 
Thats one of the main reasons why I didnt change the color of the car, didnt want to go through with painting the door jams, inside of the trunk, hood etc . Cant wait to get this paint job out the way...all i gotta do now is wetsand th whole car lol
 
I like the idea of pearl black. I talked a kid out of black with metal flake into the pearl black. I should have it in the shop in a few weeks.
 
David Fermani said:
1 good thing about cars painted in pearl is that the jambs usually don't get done in 3 stage (pearl)..
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Huh, I learn something every day! My only experiences (at least that comes to mind :think: ) with pearls are with Audis, and they *do* do the jambs with the pearl stage (at least on the ones I've seen).



roadmaster_Tx- Glad to hear you decided to go that route :xyxthumbs
 
Accumulator said:
Huh, I learn something every day! My only experiences (at least that comes to mind :think: ) with pearls are with Audis, and they *do* do the jambs with the pearl stage (at least on the ones I've seen).
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You're probably right. Some jambs can be of the same shade/color, but *maybe* not 3 stage? OTOH I have noticed some areas (jambs/inner panels) of some parts of some cars that the factory doesn't break up with 3 stage. Is the underside of your hood 3 staged/pearl?
 
David Fermani said:
You're probably right. Some jambs can be of the same shade/color, but *maybe* not 3 stage? OTOH I have noticed some areas (jambs/inner panels) of some parts of some cars that the factory doesn't break up with 3 stage. Is the underside of your hood 3 staged/pearl?
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The jambs I remember (Audi Pearl White) were pearlescent and cleared. Ditto for the painted sections of the doors.



*LOTS* of areas on these cars aren't cleared, areas like the inner fenders under the hood and in the wheelwells. But *IIRC* they still had the pearl layer. This is all from memory, been a while since we had a pearl white one around (the two we have in service are silver and I haven't gotten around to checking out the new Andora Red project car...I *think* it's a pearl but it's too abused for me to tell right now).



I'm also going by memory on the underside of the hood as both of ours were repainted (Audis live tough lives in my household :o ) and I made sure the undersides were as nice as the top-sides.



It's kinda weird what pieces are/aren't finished properly on these cars. With these things being painted by machines on automated lines, one could probably take a good guess as to which parts are done which way...given some thought about how they're put together.
 
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