Colour change or stay the same???

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Machine monkey

Lifer
 In the shire Oxfordshire
A friend an i are are building a spray booth in a barn on his farm. We are also setting up a nice workshop but more on that in another thread another time. He has experience in the car body industry and is very handy with a spray gun :) So my car will be getting the paint refresh it very much needs. Now the dilemma i am having is silver? Or something else??

I dont mind silver and i think it shows the lines of a e85 off very well. The problem i have with it is that when i clean our red TT it looks amazing deep and reflects light and well just looks great in a way a silver car dose not seem to do?? Now red is out of the question i think. Now a imola red is beautiful but we have a red car already! I was thinking maybe going Interlargos Blue but there are lots of these around already great colour. But shall i go for something a bit different??? I dont like the lighter shads of blue it would have to be very dark.

Or do i just stay silver and save myself a few extra days work????
 
Matt,

The depth of shine etc is directly related to the quality of paint and lacquer. Your friend will tell you the same, the silver is dramatic in its own right and to change it would be huge amounts of work (inside doors, under the bonnet inside the boot and under the roof lines) so if your friend does a quality job the shine and depth will be outstanding.

Stay the same and enjoy the rejunevation of your great car.

:thumbsup:
 
I think some of the grey/silver shades work better than others on the Zed - the Sterling Grey takes some beating as does silver grey when it looks like aluminium - gives an impression of a light hand built special from the past. A rich dark grey would work well too. I don't especially like my Stratus Grey but in the right light it looks classy.

I would love to be able to be more individual with my Zed so going for a 'different' colour would appeal to me so. . .


Sepang bronze looks good so why not a lovely gold shade (like the old James Bond Corgi model colour?) - just a thought you did ask. . . :D

Good luck with it - looking forward to following this post. :thumbsup:

:driving: :thumbsup:
 
Fully aware of the extra work i and the quality of the work will be very good. Maybe not 100% perfect and certainly not the best. But it will be as good if not better then when new cars come out the factory!!
I just have never seen a silver car look as good as a say darker colour maybe that just a personal thing??

I love sepang but i dont think its for me or my car. And NO gold :rofl:

Maybe just a slightly darker silver something not in the BMW range. So that ity looks different in a less obvious way??
 
What about Matt Grey ( Sawe an M£ in this colour the other day and it looked stunning)

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evolongtermtests/256216/bmw_m3_competition.html

Estoril Blue - ( i know you didnt want light blue but its a stunning colour)

Or Matt Red - looks stunning

https://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewallmark/7173953819/

Ash
 
I am not a fan of the matt finish i couldn't handle not polishing and waxing it!!

Estoril and Maldives are to light. If i went blue it would have to be Interlargos or darker.

Neil just NO!! :rofl: Your orange car looks great but its not for me.
 
Machine monkey said:
...I really dont like white cars!! It would be rare though not many of them hear in the uk!
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Plenty of E89s in white, I could have taken my pick of maybe 20... I fear it's a colour fashion, white comes and goes but classy metallics will always be in favour.
 
reminds me of the classic line in american grafitti, " somewhere between puke green and piss yellow " :rofl: , a lot of work mm a c olour change without a big strip down is always a bit of o bodge as you cant get in places to prep and paint, a total repaint is a big opportunity tho and there are soooo many colours out there, go have fun choosing ! :thumbsup:
 
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