Is it ever worth respraying a 997 in a non-original colour?
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I want a cream-coloured 997 Targa - go on, laugh.
Anyone any idea how much it costs to respray a 911?
Obv, it's not available in cream as standard.
Every time I see an affordable 997 in the spec I want, it's usually in clone silver. No disrespect to you silver-lovers, but we will all want to make our cars our own and I want to cover mine in cream, so help me God.
Would a decent respray severely knock the value? Maybe people will just assume it's been crashed?
Anyone any idea how much it costs to respray a 911?
Obv, it's not available in cream as standard.
Every time I see an affordable 997 in the spec I want, it's usually in clone silver. No disrespect to you silver-lovers, but we will all want to make our cars our own and I want to cover mine in cream, so help me God.
Would a decent respray severely knock the value? Maybe people will just assume it's been crashed?
Aside resale value issues, which may even be neutral, you will have "depreciated" the car from your own standpoint by the amount it costs you to actually paint it.
A colour change is generally very expensive because you have to spray the insides of the opening panels, door openings, etc etc.
A colour change is generally very expensive because you have to spray the insides of the opening panels, door openings, etc etc.
Only you can make that call. A proper respray is going to be expensive and leave the car with a paint job that is still sub par compared to what the paint job the car came with factory. Sure the paint can be mirror smooth, with none of the orange peel that factory paint too often has but there will be to the knowledgeable car buyer obvious signs the car was repainted and in this case it is safer to walk away than gamble on the paint job being very very good and not due to something bad having happened to the car.
This repaint can only diminish the car's resale value to the majority of prospective buyers.
The question then becomes will there come a buyer who will overlook that and buy the car for a market price just to have a car in granted what is a very nice color? Unlikely. Highly unlikely.
But if you really want the car in that color, and can accept the fact that unless you are willing to suffer added depreciation of the car plus the considerable expense of the respray which is just in some ways just money down the drain (although of course you end up with the car the color you want) the car will be the one you own to your dying day, then go ahead.
This repaint can only diminish the car's resale value to the majority of prospective buyers.
The question then becomes will there come a buyer who will overlook that and buy the car for a market price just to have a car in granted what is a very nice color? Unlikely. Highly unlikely.
But if you really want the car in that color, and can accept the fact that unless you are willing to suffer added depreciation of the car plus the considerable expense of the respray which is just in some ways just money down the drain (although of course you end up with the car the color you want) the car will be the one you own to your dying day, then go ahead.
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
Oomph lovely thing that is!
It is isn't it?It seems to me that when the cars are newer colors like that seem a hard sell. I'm sure when that was traded in the "buyer" knocked the price down for the color. Everyone wants a safe color. But after the years roll by the cars with the unsafe colors, the non-mainstream colors, become simply eye catching gorgeous and more desirable for it.
I do remember a pic someone posted a few years ago of a ship with a load of UK bound Porsches with several Cream White models.
The missus has a Pepper White Mini and I think it's OK with the black roof and bonnet stripes - not sure I'd want it in a 911, though the glass roof on a Targa might break it up a bit.
The missus has a Pepper White Mini and I think it's OK with the black roof and bonnet stripes - not sure I'd want it in a 911, though the glass roof on a Targa might break it up a bit.
jasdun said:
I want a cream-coloured 997 Targa - go on, laugh.
Anyone any idea how much it costs to respray a 911?
Obv, it's not available in cream as standard.
Every time I see an affordable 997 in the spec I want, it's usually in clone silver. No disrespect to you silver-lovers, but we will all want to make our cars our own and I want to cover mine in cream, so help me God.
Would a decent respray severely knock the value? Maybe people will just assume it's been crashed?
Saw a cream Gen2 997 Targa 4 on the M40 last Sunday, very nice indeed.Anyone any idea how much it costs to respray a 911?
Obv, it's not available in cream as standard.
Every time I see an affordable 997 in the spec I want, it's usually in clone silver. No disrespect to you silver-lovers, but we will all want to make our cars our own and I want to cover mine in cream, so help me God.
Would a decent respray severely knock the value? Maybe people will just assume it's been crashed?
They are out there.
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