mesx7828

Painting a bodykit, want to know if anyone know's what type of paint to use? Don't know much about painting a car. Any special types of paint to use, etc?

mesx7828

Help!

turbonium959

I do not know much about the paint, but make sure that you get it primed and painted with paint that is specifically for the bumpers (plastic). And the clear coat of course. But if this won't help, do a search, maybe some one already askes about this?

redrims

Painting is extremely difficult (if you want to color match correctly). That is one job I would leave strictly for the professionals.

Even if you have the exact paint color as your car, your bumper can still end up being a shade lighter or darker than your car. IMO

Identity_X

if you're not sure that you can do it, take it to a shop. they shouldn't charge you that much for paint-matching a body kit.

Tweeaks

Yeah its really hard to find the exact color, because a lot of colors have different varients and the shade will come out different ( some cars have any where from 8-12 and sometimes more).
at the body shop i work at we would probably charge anywhere from $300-$400 we give good deals tho so you might have to pay a little bit more.Theres alot more that goes into painting then just the actual painting.

NegatiZE

Yeah, I'd take it to a body shop to have it painted and installed if you can. It would look a lot better than some hack jobs I've seen people do by themselves.

Hong Kong Fever

Spend the extra $$$ to get a professional to colour match your paint and install it for you...unless we all had civics, we could have used dupli-color's colour matched paints, unfortunately, we don't.

redrims