TJ Hauske

I bought the car.. she is back to 95% haha.. did 4k miles in it this summer!! so glad I was able to save it.


crap.. sorry this post was meant to be attached to the red RS that went into a wall in cali earlier this year.

RAudi Driver

Glen, I'm not throwing shade at the seller or his car. I'm just putting myself in the shoes of a seller and if I'm selling a car, you better believe, it's going to be in the most perfect condition I can make it. Why leave money on the table, especially with a BAT auction. You know I'm just saying this to keep the market high for Pumpkins

RAudi Driver

Wonderdan

yea it’s a tough one…I get where the seller was going by not doing anything including leaving the scraped up splitter. However if he had replaced that front lip, resprayed and blended the underside of the bumper “with”proper prep not a single person would have made a comment… it’s not like anyone paint meters under there. But for some that just sounds like a pain in the *** for an extra 5-$10k resell on a $250k< car… the mileage is prob past perfect collector grade so I’m guessing most of buyers will look past it.

RAudi Driver

You can't paint meter plastic bumpers and a bumper refresh is about $1,200 nowadays on the high side. It would have been worth the time to get it done. What else has been neglected is what runs through mind.

Bxstr

Yes, heat can be used for some of the edges during application. Lots of people used to use heat during removal but steam is now the preferred method.

I think most of the time, a value hit is taken due to repaint on a metal surface, but most don't seem to care about bumpers, although on a super minty low mileage example I'm guessing people would prefer all original. My concern with a repaint on a front bumper is that most of us want PPF on them and when it comes time to remove that there's a great chance of pulling paint on a repainted panel than on factory paint.

Wonderdan

I forgot about that, I was also curious about price because I really like the RS euro bumper for sale that’s in the ren marketplace.

Not that it matters on my car since both front and back have been refreshed but I was contemplating if a Euro non-NA spec rear bumper might actually affect resell.

RAudi Driver

I don't think it will affect it at all. Kevin Upscale had one on his Silver GT3 and when I was looking to pick up that car, it was a plus in my book.

Wonderdan

Yea I think I'll add it to my list, I'm almost done bringing the car back to new so I'm unfortunately thinking of things I probably don't "need" like red center locks and euro bumper lol... the caliper refresh starts this weekend and thats the final check box before i put surface transforms on.

Upscale Audio

The Euro bumper does look good.

Wonderdan

Kinda like the 06' Ford GT... clearly part of the original design

RAudi Driver

Man I should have bought that car. Oh well, stuck with the pumpkin and I hate halloween.

Wonderdan

You guys post this $179k red already?

This has a similar spec to the BAT car, I do like the PCCB on red, also same price but not nearly the same miles.

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-...CALERTSEMLSRCH

RAudi Driver

Steel rotors on the yellow calipers. Probably question for another thread but if one can shod steelies on yellow calipers, will ceramics fit into red calipers? If the answer is no, then what happens when steels are in the yellow calipers. Do the pistons stick out more?

ABT_SLC

On .2 everything is interchangeable and the same except for yellow vs red caliper paint.