hey guys i just got my car painted at earl scheib and for the cost it turned out decently well. heres some pics

 

pretty nice color

 

what color is that?

 

ah, so that's how my FC's gonna look with the lip and skirts. nice outcome breh.

 

nice

 

 

Thanks, the color i got at earl schieb was called Smoked Gray Metallic. i really wanted to get Shadow Silver Metallic from the JDM FCs but this was the closest they had. all in all i think they did a pretty good job.

 

o yea the lip is carbon fiber, and i asked them to paint over that too. too bad they wouldnt paint the mirrors, somthing about it being plastic or somthing.

 

how much did that run you if you dont mind me asking?

 

Did they do the dorr jams and everything or just the body

 

Most FC mirrors were painted from the factory. Are the painters retarded?

 

no idea, and they kinda look like plastic to me so i dont know, i just told you guys what they told me

 

the total for everyone was exacltly 1000 after taxes, but that was including body work. they had to do like 3-4 big dents on the car

 

they didnt do any of the door jambs, basically just the exterior of the car. they also painted the hatch, which was pretty messed up so thats cool.

 

Thats not that bad of a price, looks good. Now lets see how long the paint holds up ; )

 

well, it comes with a 3 year warantee, so i guess when 3 years is up, im just gonna make every part of the paint or chip. that way i get a new paint job hahahaha

 

Unfortunately the 3 year warranty is pro-rated. I had a Scheib job on an FB several years ago and swore I'd never do that again. They got overspray on rubber door seals, my license tag, muffler, etc. I painted my FB myself two years ago and plan to do my FC this fall. Love those roll-on garage jobs!

Your car does look nice from the pics so I hope perhaps they did better on yours than mine in the past.

 

wow that sucks, theres actually some chipping. but they said they'll redo the messed up parts. i plan on taking it back after sevenstock, i figure that theres gonna be rock chips and whatnot on the way there so i might as well have em do everything at once. btw i feel like an idiot for asking this, but whats pro rated mean?

 

Basically as the time clock ticks, the "value" of the paint job decreases. So if you paid $1,000 bucks today for the paint job and you take it back in three years because it is flaking off or something, they'll repaint it but you might end up paying them $800 and they cover $200 (pulling some numbers out of the air but you get the drift). The longer the time period during the warranty, the less they cover on their tab. They don't explain that very much to the customer. You generally have to find out the hard way.

If you take decent care of the paint job, it should last okay, assuming they did a decent job prepping the car for paint. The quality of a paint job is tied up in the prep work.

 

This is exactly why i said well see how long it last. Prep is VERY important before paintin.

 

Looking good mang!

$1k for paint after taxes???? ****, paint jobs here in canada runs an average of $3g.

 

thanks, it was supposed to be 1k plus tax but the guy "cut me a deal" haha. i guess they dont got too much business right now. and this was a pretty low end paintjob actually. im glad everyone likes it though, my car was like 4 different colors after i got into the fender bender.

 

that kinda sucks for me then, considering it was a 1k paintjob including body work. i doubt the prep work was very good, but oh well my car is one color again!! hahaha