Anyone have their RS repainted?
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Curious if anyone has had their 997.1 or .2 repainted and if so can you share a few pics. My white .2 perfomance wise is an absolute dream but the color has always bothered me. Never really considered selling it so figure I might as well not have to deal with the color longer term. BTW not concerned about resale whatsoever.
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You could wrap the car........much cheaper, not permanent, and won't hurt the future value of the car.
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Yeah I thought of wrapping but have heard people with issues on uneven wear and bubbles in the summer from heat plus on the RS I still would need to deal with the rather hideous red/orange accessories i.e.mirrors, wheels, splitter inserts ,etc... Was thinking as an alternative to just leave it white and then replace all the accessories. Similar to this:
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I've had a few cars painted over the years. I would never change the base color. Too difficult to get all the paint where you need it, especially when you open the doors, hood and trunk. In fact, if I could avoid paint all together, I would. I agree with those who suggest to wrap it. I've been very surprised by the elegant wrap jobs I've seen on many of the Cup cars. I would have thought they were paint, but it turns out all of them were wraps.
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Curious if anyone has had their 997.1 or .2 repainted and if so can you share a few pics. My white .2 perfomance wise is an absolute dream but the color has always bothered me. Never really considered selling it so figure I might as well not have to deal with the color longer term. BTW not concerned about resale whatsoever.
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u can repaint it. but to do it right, you need to remove engine, wiring, tranny, suspension, glass, rubber and every single nut and bolt. i have seen it done right. a mid level job is right about $100,000 USD. it's in much better condition than oem paint.
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I have a shop that performs restorations and to do a color change we would take it to the bare tub and start over. Which is just crazy talk on a modern 911.
Nothing more lame then seeing a different color in the engine bay etc....
And i am a sucker for keeping color codes matching the trim tags no matter how ulgy the color!
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i aim for quarter a million for concourse paint. the interior single stage paint of my stripper's interior, excluding door, only the tub and only the cabin portion is well over $6,000. if you want to paint something paint it right.
moral of story, dont paint anything unless you have a very very large bank account.