911Thrasher

Black Carrera RS, paint is original...but loads of stonechips.
It's not bad, but on black it shows...20years

Wondering whether to get the front end resprayed...or leave the battle scars?What's the general consensus?

BeachBoy

best of both worlds IMO:
not resprayed and no chips.

It's probably as expensive as a respray, but respray is not as good when reselling I would think.

bigunit_271078

If it was mine i would get the front resprayed and then paintshield applied to protect it. As long as its clear that it had nothing to do with damage to the car I can't see how this would be a negative going forward. A lot of this is to do with me hating stone chips though. It aggravates my OCD haha

boots

Re paint,mines been done now,lets the car down ...20 plus years of rs life is a hard life!!

vagluv

I had the same problem and had mine sprayed. Not an rs, so that could play a part in the decision for you. If youre having it done I would try to have it done in single stage paint if the rest of the car still is. Just to keep it original.

Earlydays

I would leave it original with all the "battle scars"...some people will pay a premium for a rare car (like the RS) that has the original patina.....

TONY AIR C2S

I would leave it original. If you can't stand the chips, document before, during, and after shots of work. just my 2 cents

onceover

Are you concerned about reselling the vehicle later?

I'd get it resprayed personally

Mr.Alex

Pics before judgment, I've seen some chipped fronts, and some almost two-tone fronts, so its hard to tell. Like others said, it depends on what your goals are, but I would get them touched up with 100% matching paint and then have the car detailed well.

Personally I'm waiting till the car really, really needs a re-spray, otherwise, with a detail it satisfies my hooning needs.

mooty

it's an RS
leave it be.
clearly you drove it, bravo!

Ruf964

proper touch ups can be done without a respray and look very nice. then armor shield it for the future. my .02

Zingari

I'd respray. Having had a very original 993 that showed all minor blemishes when I got my 964 and had a lot of work done including new paint the difference was night and day! If you document the paint job then no reason to not go forward as your are not hiding anything.

I thought about having paint shield or such like applied but as I unrest and they use a petrol based adhesive they cannot be removed without causing damage to the paint underneath. I had a similar problem with the rear arch guards. When they were peeled off to replace them they brought the top layer of lacquer off.

digger

I did this with my 993C2S it only had 21k miles immaculate otherwise. The people looking at it expected perfection so decision made. Will be painting the 964 shortly to bring back to a decent level.
I would not have an issue painting an RS and documenting the process.

P-track

Leave it, the stonechips will return if you drive it properly. Original paint will never return...

SuperUser

I vote to leave it alone