DBR Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 right guys.../ girls, i have a silver uk suup an personnaly i find the colour a bit boring, i am thinking of a full respray, but into a stock colour (black,storm blue, red), or maybe the gunmetal grey some of the imports come in (luuuuvvvly colour!!!, by far the nicest i think!) Firstly will a respary into another UK colour devalue the car in a big way??, secondaly how much would a full respray cost, windows out, shuts, engine bay etc.... £2000 ish?? or any colour suggestions welcome (not a fan of the outragious in ur face colours thoguh) cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Gunmetal grey looks great on a Supra and not too many around either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I think most people say ~£1800 for same colour respray and >£2200 for a different colour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD3000GT Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Gunmetal Grey mate... Use GVN in west London and you will be able to keep an eye on the work as well as the fact they lnow EXACTLY what they are doing tell them Chris sent you and you will be looked after. http://www.gvncoachworks.com They have 4 supras there right now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_J Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Gun Metal Grey! Looks so cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guru Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I would say a metallic/pearl black or I have seen a supra which was the lightest yellow possible but it had a white flip to it. That coupled with lots of CF and it looked the nutz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attilauk Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 spray it Red it gives your car at least 50bhp extra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra100 Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Spray it black matie...... extra special tip. Ask the painter to put glass beads through it, you'll love it to death and spot it a mile away........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBR Posted October 20, 2005 Author Share Posted October 20, 2005 ur thoughts are much the same as mine peeps gunmetal grey or black is the way to go!!, is that price of £2200 to paint the enginge bay too??? i think at the end of the day its all gonna boil down to how much the car will devalue?? i think spraying the car will keep more value if sprayed in a colour it origionally came in...i think?? rather than the gunmetal that uk's wernt available in what ya reckon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 ur thoughts are much the same as mine peeps gunmetal grey or black is the way to go!!, is that price of £2200 to paint the enginge bay too??? Probably not. I guess that'd be more like £3,000. I meant 'upwards of £2200' really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I reckon if you change the colour it will effect the value, or at least the amount of folks who would buy the car. Doesn't matter if you change it to another stock colour either. Gunmetal or black are both good choices although black is a right bugger to keep clean. Gunmetal on the other hand is a great colour for that, it never looks dirty even when it really is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD3000GT Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Changing the colour if documented and done RIGHT should have no impacts on the price of the car... BUT it has to be done right.. Your looking at £3000 for complete including engine bay down to the crossmembers at GVN Also if going from silver to gunmetal you dont really need to change any documentation on vehicle colour or anything.. You wont even notice the small areas deep inside the engine bay that cant be reached with paint that are still silver.... The only thig that will be incorrect is the chassis colour code.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I reckon if you change the colour it will effect the value, or at least the amount of folks who would buy the car. Doesn't matter if you change it to another stock colour either. I agree.. and am trying to explain this to the tart. As soon as we saw a 'Ruby Red' one, everyone's (including my) first comment was "that's not a stock colour.. serious alarm bells" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Having owned a black, gunmetal and now RSP Blue Supra I can honestly say that I changed my mind which colour I liked best on a daily basis, depending on the light, and how clean the cars were. The black looks great after a polish. The blue looks brill in different light as it's kind of bluey purple and changes. Gunmetal I liked, but is generally a very common colour on other cars now. Actually I think it was called Moonstone Green or something? It was a facelift car so maybe they changed the paint names. You could kind of make out a slight green tinge in the pigment in certain light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bromy Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 There are two shades in the gunmetal grey type colour, gunmetal (not sure of code) and quicksilver(1B9), second what jake says about gunmetal never looking dirty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bromy Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Gunmetal (6NO) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black cat Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 candy pink with 20" chrome.................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supralookin Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I agree.. and am trying to explain this to the tart. As soon as we saw a 'Ruby Red' one, everyone's (including my) first comment was "that's not a stock colour.. serious alarm bells" My car's goin in the BS from black to saphire pearl blue, shud look nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 There are two shades in the gunmetal grey type colour, gunmetal (not sure of code) and quicksilver(1B9) I think the Gunmetal colour is much nicer than the oily looking quicksilver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supragold Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I'm with gunmetal too and as said before if its done well it won't change the value of the car at all. It might just make it easier to sell if you ever want to because it'll look nicer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopite Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I considered the gunmetal and green stock colours, as well as RSP. Depends how you want the car to look - you got any kit goin on too? Jake won't thank me for saying it, but have his Rage Thunderstorm (i think?) colour is a lot better than gunmetal too, thought about anythin like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 but he doesn't want a brown car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I like the MG XPower grey. Same kind of colour. I very nearly bought Jakes white VVTi last xmas and got Envy to respray it that colour...alas funds didn't allow in the end (thankfully for me given the problems he had with the faulty pipe leading to engine failure!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprachargedtt Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 pink with 20" chrome.................. Hasnt that already been done??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBR Posted October 20, 2005 Author Share Posted October 20, 2005 well blackcat i did think about the pink with chromes:limp: i think gunmetal is what im gonna do:yes: , car should look crisp, what needs to be done for the engine bay to be sprayed (ie what needs to come out). thanks trd3000 i will contact gvn when come round to getting the spray done, i take it you have used them befor?? (need a really good place cos obviously i want to get a fualtless job done) im still a bit curiuos about the value dropping cos when i think about it, if i was buying i would be very worried about a car that has had a full respray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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