I see a car and I want it painted black...

Robdav

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Hi all,

A friend of mine recently took her Blue Focus RS and got it re-painted Black.

It really looks good and cost in the region of about £5.5k all told to get the job done.

Anyway I was asked if, when they re-painted the car, would they remove the original paint, or leave it on. As I'm not sure what would normally happen I've come to ask you lot.

She is telling me that in a few places she can see some blue paint.

OK so the question is: would normal procedure be to strip the car back to metal and then build the paint back up from there, or just paint over the top of the original colour?

For £5.5K I would have expected it to be stripped and painted....:confused:
 
Stripping paint isn't straight forward, and to do so perfectly would require the car to be stripped in entirety then dipped.... definitely not a 5k job on a new car!

They would made the body work "perfect", keyed the old paint, then sprayed over the top. 5K is top end for this type of work, so it should be a pretty perfect job.
 
I cant believe anyone would waste the money doing that.

But anyway where is it she can still see blue paint?
 
Tute said:
I think it'll have been wrapped rather than painted?
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well you can respray over the top of the existing paint.

its normally sanded well back with new primer coats put on top meaning that you wouldn't see blue original paint unless its been bodged.

Need a photo really to tell if somebody has either

A) painted it badly

or

B) wrapped it badly.

You dont normally "remove" the existing paint as such. Just rub it over with sand paper so much it doesnt look anything like what it does when new. Then layer undercoats etc.. on top of that

You could strip the car down to its bare parts, then send it to a media blasters to strip it back to bare metal, but you wont get a complete respray including that for 5k.
 
the blue bits are under the bonnet and where the metal strut that holds the bonnet up has rubbed the black paint away.

the car looks awesome in black, far better than the lime green one that the chavy bint across the road has!
 
Robdav said:
the blue bits are under the bonnet and where the metal strut that holds the bonnet up has rubbed the black paint away.

the car looks awesome in black, far better than the lime green one that the chavy bint across the road has!
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there should be bonnet stops to prevent rubbing and to position the bonnet correctly

make sure they are there / put back.

doesn't sound like a great job, but you don't need to take it back to metal just prep the original paint so the new stuff has a key
 
If you spray over and then change your mind, won't you have to get it all sanded back down and resprayed the original colour?
 
Ah Green, Blue and White, I thought it was Green, Blue and Black they came in :p

That said, £5500 and the inevitable hit on the resale value of the car, that's a lot of money just to have a black car.
 
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Spend a grand and wrap it black then, what she has done is a bit mad :)
 
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