Respray or sell

[Simon 3.2M]

My car looks like this and I love it

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I want it to look like this as I love it more!!

Sell or respray mine?

[jamie_z4]

No. It'll affect resale value too much for an m car imo. Run of the mill z4 yes go for it but think it'll put a lot of people off going off what that one that was wrapped on here did a couple of years ago

Just sell up n buy a sepang one

[buzyg]

Have to agree with Jamie. Much as it's worth a great deal to know the history of your own car. You will lose a packet if you respray a different colour. Find your self a nice low mileage Sepang MR and use the money for the respray trade in for it. Might take a while but it makes more sense between these ears.

[Deepseaskateboard]

Wrap it?

[ben g]

Get Beedub to wrap it sepang at least you'll know it's been done properly and it won't affect resale value, as long as you remove the wrap first.

[Ed Doe]

As above - if you fancy a change, a wrap is an excellent idea, and cheaper than a respray.

Personally I wouldn't get hung up on resale values by changing it to how you want... just my tuppence worth

[GuidoK]

Are you planning to keep the car for a long time?
Then I'd go for a respray.
But do a good respray. (all seams/door inners etc)
I dont know what your primercoat colour is but I think the sepang ones is antracit.
If yours is lighter, it might look odd if you open the hood.

On the german forum I saw a z4 resprayed in marrakesh brown. That also looked pretty awesome.

[Mangozac]

Are you planning to keep the car for a long time?
Then I'd go for a respray.
But do a good respray. (all seams/door inners etc)
I dont know what your primercoat colour is but I think the sepang ones is antracit.
If yours is lighter, it might look odd if you open the hood.

On the german forum I saw a z4 resprayed in marrakesh brown. That also looked pretty awesome.

Silver Gray has a nice dark primer coat so the it would take a colour change fairly well.

There is a third option: a removable respray, kind of like a professional version of plasti-dip. You spray it on as a base layer, then the colour coat, then clear. Just peels off when you are ready and is maintained like normal paint. I've forgotten the name of the product I've seen used here in Australia.

[GuidoK]

Silver Gray has a nice dark primer coat so the it would take a colour change fairly well.

I ment more as contrast what you see when opening the bonnet.
So what colours the strut towers are etc.
If you have titansilver, its titansilver.
But if you have sterling grey, you have antracite.
Same goes of the darker blue colours (all antracite)
And I suspect that sepang also antracite has
But I think that z4m is stratusgrey? (hard to see in the picture but it looks darker than titansilber) Is the primer colour then stratusgrey or antracite?

So this silvergrey z4 has a white/siver basecoat (I think this is titansilver, code 354):


But this looks lighter than what the OP has


And this one has antracite:


From this car (either code A08 or 440 if I guestimate, probably A08):
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But sepang is a really nice colour.

I wouldnt worry about resell value.
With a respray all stonechips etc are gone so if a different colour is a negative, all stonechips gone is a positive.
I think a good respray has the best colourdepth, and I think paint has a longer lifespan than a wrap or removable respray.
But its also the most expensive. Do you know a sepang /m for sale in good condition (and can that match the shine and paint condition of a resprayed car?)

[Angelus666]

Why not, if done properly I don't see it as a negative...the paint will be better than 90% of those on offer so I'd say go for it if you can afford to spend the £4k+ on a decent job.

[john-e89]

Respray it. Take pics of the process etc. Life’s for living, and it’s not a 100k car.

Taz will buy it off you when the time comes anyway......

[R60BBA]

A respray is expensive and a non original paint job will almost certainly negatively affect the value of the car (lose lose).

If you’re considering a colour change, I would get it wrapped instead. Make sure your paint is top notch beforehand otherwise you may find issues when you return the car to standard.

However, seeing as you mentioned ‘sell’, what other cars are you considering?

[javis20]

That's a really easy car to wrap. Go with the wrap, since it can be undone. If you respray people with think it was in an accident and it will lose value.

[Mangozac]

Silver Gray has a nice dark primer coat so the it would take a colour change fairly well.

I ment more as contrast what you see when opening the bonnet.

Yeah I understood what you meant but may have worded my reply poorly. Based on your photos, the Silver Grey A08 has the anthracite primer coat colour in the engine bay.

[Simon 3.2M]

Thanks for the comments guys. I've not got my eye on another car, it's just that the sepang bronze with black wheels works for me - seems to give the car an aggressive, more purposeful stance.

The quandary I have is that my car is mechanically perfect, it's had new rod bearings, discs and pads, shims, poly RTAB's, vibratechnics, all oils and fluids, radiator, thermostat, TPS, updated navy etc etc and is having a new clutch next week. As we all know, the money invested will never been seen when sold apart from selling the Gruppe separately. I've only ever seen one sepang roadster for sale and that was a couple of years ago. Unless it's been meticulously maintained I could be doing a lot of the above jobs again but as mentioned earlier, a good respray is 3k plus. I'm not sure of the cost of wraps so I need to investigate that. Regarding the comment about the paint needing to be perfect beforehand, I saw a lovely Mat blue metallic wrapped R8 at the weekend however, on closer inspection the poor finish underneath stood out a mile so that's a factor too.