How much for a respray

[matt172]

Just spotted this in the classifieds www.pistonheads.com/sales/101678.htm
so how much would you be looking for a full respray?

[mxdi]

I heard it was £3000?

[longers]

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=303711&f=13&h=0

Dunno if your both looking at the same car...?

[matt172]

yep, that must be the same car

[mark r skinner]

Get Justin to polish it?

[matt172]

mark r skinner said:

Get Justin to polish it?

think it needs a bit more than just polish unless you want it silver

[mxdi]

Would be lovely to be given a car that you need to choose a colour for, I know just the one........

[matt172]

mxdi said:

Would be lovely to be given a car that you need to choose a colour for, I know just the one........

me too think it might be slightly more than 3k though

[mxdi]

what were you thinking of?

[mxdi]

THIS is my ideal colour.
(with black alloys)
www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/91921.htm

[matt172]

mxdi said:

THIS is my ideal colour.
(with black alloys)
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/91921.

I like this one too
www.pistonheads.com/sales/86398.htm

[mark r skinner]

matt172 said:

mark r skinner said:

Get Justin to polish it?

think it needs a bit more than just polish unless you want it silver

You`d be surprised.

[matt172]

mark r skinner said:

matt172 said:

mark r skinner said:

Get Justin to polish it?

think it needs a bit more than just polish unless you want it silver

You`d be surprised.

you're right I would am interested to know how you'd do it, not sure you can polish paint back onto a car if you look at the 2nd picture, that faded area is the silver paint showing through, rosso pearl is renouned for being bad when it comes to fading

[mark r skinner]

I can`t really tell from those pics, Matt. What I do know is, polish made a huge difference to my Cerb. (pearl blue) I think it stood outside and covered in crap for several months.

[matt172]

mark r skinner said:

I can`t really tell from those pics, Matt. What I do know is, polish made a huge difference to my Cerb. (pearl blue) I think it stood outside and covered in crap for several months.

rosso pearl is silver and then oversprayed with the red, on picture 2, you can see silver over both wings and onto the bonnet, this is where the red as worn, you can;t polish it out, all you'll get is silver

[mark r skinner]

Well I`d say that was the reflection of the sky? Perhaps I`m wrong, but how`s the paint "worn away" on a 10-y-o car? Anyway, I`d reckon the paintwork should be low on the list of priorities when looking at TVRs.

[matt172]

mark r skinner said:

Well I`d say that was the reflection of the sky? Perhaps I`m wrong, but how`s the paint "worn away" on a 10-y-o car? Anyway, I`d reckon the paintwork should be low on the list of priorities when looking at TVRs.

I don't know the exact reason why it does it, maybe I need to ask somewho's got that colour, but its not a reflection. Thats why the car is so cheap because it needs a full respray.
And yes you're right its very low on the priority list, but if a respray was going to cost 10grand then it wouldn't even be worth looking at the car, sounds like the channel islands is the place to live if you want a street legal no cats car though

[matt172]

just found this in one of the tvr gossip threads

rosso pearl is in effect a silver car with a red ink added to the laquer, once it has seen sunlight it is nearly impossible to match. and someone else has said that the red ink is a separate layer and then laquered don't matter now anyway, its been sold

Edited by matt172 on Thursday 21st September 12:54

[mark r skinner]

Matt, YHM.

[pupp]

The other thing to remember with Tiv pearl paints is that they are sourced from RM, a continental supplier, and not every body shop can handle the system. A lot of 'matching' problems arise from people using other systems to try and match RM cars, which is rarely successful.