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New Paint Job?

New Paint Job?

Postby si1verbu1et » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:21 pm

hey guys, the paint on the hood of my solara is fading, and visible white lines have appeared. its like cancer and it is spreading down the sides of the hood. it looks really bad and i dont know if i should paint it. any advice?
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Postby geminimouse » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:36 pm

switch to a carbon fiber hood :D
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Postby BradOwens » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:37 pm

if u like ur OEM hood then just paint it. but if ur tired of the same old hood get a CF one
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Postby Whatever » Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:22 am

geminimouse wrote:switch to a carbon fiber hood :D

good idea
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Postby Astro » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:10 am

Whatever wrote:
geminimouse wrote:switch to a carbon fiber hood :D

good idea


I'd do that too! :D
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Postby cdeez » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:27 am

--1LOKEDOUTSLE-- wrote:
*PoshPizzie* wrote:I know someone (cough... Milton... cough) with an extra hood laying around... I think it might just happen to be silver...

LOL, might be silver or it might be Black!!!! Something like that.....


i highly doubt that...lol...
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Postby 1st Gen Sol » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:29 am

I'd go with the carbon fiber hood...... 8)
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Re: New Paint Job?

Postby cdeez » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:31 am

si1verbu1et wrote:hey guys, the paint on the hood of my solara is fading, and visible white lines have appeared. its like cancer and it is spreading down the sides of the hood. it looks really bad and i dont know if i should paint it. any advice?


just paint it...go to 1day paint..they should do a pretty good job on just a hood. it should be no more than $200 bucks.
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Postby SleeperSolara » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:45 am

Yeha carbon Fiber hood, and pain the line near the center.
Like this: Image
It would look nice.
I was goin to do that when iwrecked my car, but my body shop guy said nope only OEM :evil: :evil: :evil: .
Wich i could've gotten carbon fiber hood instead of OEM.
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Postby SolaraGuy22 » Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:35 pm

SleeperSolara wrote:Yeha carbon Fiber hood, and pain the line near the center.
Like this: Image
It would look nice.
I was goin to do that when iwrecked my car, but my body shop guy said nope only OEM :evil: :evil: :evil: .
Wich i could've gotten carbon fiber hood instead of OEM.


Everytime I see that design I think of the Nextel I95 phone. Am I the only one who thinks that?

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Postby TRD_solaRa » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:38 pm

SolaraGuy22 wrote:
SleeperSolara wrote:Yeha carbon Fiber hood, and pain the line near the center.
Like this: Image
It would look nice.
I was goin to do that when iwrecked my car, but my body shop guy said nope only OEM :evil: :evil: :evil: .
Wich i could've gotten carbon fiber hood instead of OEM.


Everytime I see that design I think of the Nextel I95 phone. Am I the only one who thinks that?

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wha? most likely . . .

anywayz, if you got the money to back it up i would go with the carbon hood and if you still some extra cash paint it too. shootz
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Postby TRAFFICBLOWS » Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:04 pm

how much should a full paint job cost?? what do i need to know about shopping around to get one??

besides a nice keying and dent on passenger door, my paint is fading, too... the side view mirrors are fading bad- different plastic i think. plus the cheap ass fake chrome coating on the front grill is peeling off. what should be done about that?
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Postby Yanks0114 » Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:29 pm

A good full paint job is around $3000.

A maaco job would be $500-1000
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