So I got hit by hail the size of golf *****. The car looks bad. The insurance company gave me $6000, yes $6000!!

Now, I will have the car painted. It is Montego Blue and it has bronze Volk wheels.

Would you:

A: repaint it Montego Blue

B: Paint it black

C: Paint it in other color.


Mind you that the engine bay will be untouched cause the motor still runs.

I am leaning towards black. THe wheels are Volk CE28N in bronze.

 

I'd get the hail damaged fixed...

And a color change can cost you more than $6k depending.

 

the black would look good with those wheels...but painting it back the montego blue also looks good with bronze wheels...and you dont have to go and change your title to say your car is black

 

where was that one mentioned?

 

LOL, reparing the car is a given...do you think I was just going to repaint it over the dents, LOL. I got a fat check cause the hood was going to be replaced, the wing also, the front fenders, the sunroof, the tail lights, LOL, only the motors was left intact, hahaha. That aside, reparing the car and painting it without having to replace parts will cost around $2500. I

 

cym

 

Oh, I forgot to mention. The interior is black, except for the carpet. I am looking to replace that too.

 

Fix the car to original condition and go on vacation with what's left over.

 

montego blue never looks good... go black

 

such a nice color...

I'm also a sucker for MB...

i wonder why...

 

CYM or keep it MB

 

Silverstone Metallic...HAHA

 

tgm or ibm

 

6000 might be a little short i feel like if that much stuff was damaged?

 

Post some pics of the damage

 

how does the montego blue compare to the royal shaphire blue of the toyota supras
I always liked that blue

 

its very, very different.

 

are you doing the repairs yourself? 6k just doesn't sound that much for body and paint work.

 

Montego Blue is a very dark blue/green color.

Innocent Blue Mica(of the 99spec FDs) is more compairable to RSP. IBM > RSP.

 

I took it to several body shops for an estimate, I did not go for the cheapest, but not for the most expensive.

It is all dings, and only the taillights and wing were broken, the rest are just like if a shopping cart hit it, several hundred times, LOL. The hood took the most of it, as did the passenger side.

THe only reason the insurance company gave me so much is because they go by dealership rates and would prefer to replace rather than fix.

The honestly thought it was going to be somewhere around $3000 total, but it came out to $6000. I will take some pics.

 

How bout those pics?

 

You can have it fixed, but its going to take a body shop a long *** time to go around and pound/fill/sand right every dent if it is as extensive as you say it is and then you have nice body filler spots all over the car as opposed to fresh panels. Insurance companies are not stupid.. if they thought they could get away with giving you just enough to cover repairs as opposed to new panels they would have.


On second thought if you think 2500 is going to get you everything fixed and a new paint job i do not even want to see the end product... around here 2500 will get you a decent, at best, same color repaint .. and that is not including any extensive body work which it sounds like you need.

Not trying to come off sounding like an ***, but good work is not cheap in the body world and i personally have friends who went the "ill get this done cheap and pocket some cash itll look fine" route and wound up less than happy with what they got.

 

Good point. I am going to keep it the same color.

 

if you change the color of your car you have to have it changed on your title