Couple off weeks ago i decided to drive the fd to work. Got 5 min down the road and was stoped at a stop light with two cars behind me a land rover and a expidition. A guy drivind a yukon fell asleep hit the ford going 45 the for hit the land rover and the land rover hit me scratched my paint abouve the license plate and put stress cracks in my paint. If i had factory paint it would be a cheap fix but my paint cant be matched so the insurance company has to paint my car im going with the same color here are some pix of it b4 the accident. Sucks to get hit but hey i get a free 5 tousand paint job out of it [/IMG]

 

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nice, but for 5k try to have them shave off the rivets on your sideskirts

 

naw i like the rivets

 

 

not a bad choice in color, but i agree with the rivets. they're killin that thing

 

Agree, rivits look like ****. Have them glass them in.

 

Looks like the "chrome" spray paint you get at the hardware store.

 

Rivets =

 

im feeling the rivets too, say keepem

 

what color is that??

 

the whole idea of custom is doing stuff to your car that you like not what other people like you know ? the fact that no one has rivets on there bodykit is just the reason to keep them plus they look good in person. beside everywere i go its all hondas and acuras who the **** is gonna talk **** bout my car i could have a horn like a rhino coming out the hood and they still could say ****

 

its platnium gray metallic but it has been tinted like 7 or 8 times

 

Looks like some kind of gunmetal w/ birdshit green flakes. Kinda ghetto if you ask me.

 

i see it has Rx7club.com's Official bodykit on it. :-D

 

I see your reasoning, but there is a reason why you don't see rivets protruding through side skirts on most rides...its because it looks ****** ugly. When I was in the show scene awhile back, I had a lot of friends who were judges, and anytime they see a car that has rivets showing like yours, they wouldn't even bother judging it. But thats just the show scene, and it is your ride, so whatever. It honestly looks like a half *** body work with a nice paint job, juss my $0.02

 

I highly doubt they are going to paint your whole car. No body shop is going to say they cant match paint that is in that condition. They could get in serious trouble, ie- insurance fraud. They just don't repaint whole cars for rear end damage. Hell, really for anything. BTW, I could match that flake in my garage. Any shop that says they cant match that is full of ****.

I have tried this twice, didn't work either time. Lastime, some ********** keyed the entire side of my FD, from headlight to taillight, so deep that it needed body work. State Farm refused to paint the whole car, the ******* blended up the rear pillars. You really can't tell but still, those ******* should have done the whole thing.

 

already been to the body shop had a headlight cover painted and they could not match the paint they not sayin they cant match the paint THEY CANT MATCH THE PAINT there is no color code its a custom mix and the insurace company is cool with it

 

Wife says: "looks like an oil puddle".

Yeah, I hate to criticize, but for $5k... man I'd like to have a $5k paintjob - in factory black!

 

looks nice man

 

You do realize that any experienced and competant painter can match the paint even though it has no color code right....

 

im not a dumb *** i been customizing cars since i was 16 i used to have an 89 lincon with a 5.0 in it that was 7 colors camelion paint then i got a jeep cherokie that was black with gold metal flake and 20s on it ( when 20s were cool, b4 they were comercial) so i know the paint color can be matched it has been matched but its hard to get the same amount of metaillic in the paint thats the problem

 

never said you were a dumbass, any color can be matched.... swirl marks and all

 

Guys, I hate to say it but sometimes shops can't match the paint and the entire car needs to be repainted.

A couple of my friends got complete paint jobs on their cars for relatively minor damage.

Depends on the color, age, etc of the paint.

 

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