Hardtop respray

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Bug

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I bought a hardtop recently and need to get it resprayed (unless anyone out there want's to swap my Stirling Grey for a Silver Grey :) ).

What's the concensus on the rear window and the side window rubbers, is it worth removing them or does the bodyshop just mask them up?

Anyone had any good experiences (steady now!) with a bodyshop in Surrey area please?

Cheers
Dave
 
I've not sprayed one up but would be tempted to remove the lining, separate off the spoiler and just mask in the window. Too risky to remove and refit it with heater wiring etc and given your colours are fairly close.
 
you can wrap it in another color and give it a special touch... i think this would become cheaper than a respray 8)
 
ranski said:
krusty said:
Bug said:
I bought a hardtop recently and need to get it resprayed
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Because?
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I guess as he said it was the wrong colour?
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Well, I was looking into this because I was trying to find a low km silver Coupé... and there are ... in total ... 3 coupes for sale in the whole of NSW ... none of them silver ... so I thought of buying a different colour, and re-spraying. Made some enquiries to panel beaters ... and aside from being very expensive if done properly ... was also advised that is not at all a good idea ... in fact it is a very bad idea:

First, you never get the adhesion of the original paint ... because they can't use the same high temperatures ... because the car now has wires etc in it ... whereas when it is done NEW ... it is just an empty shell.

Second, they have to strip off the existing paint - which is messy ... the engine bay has to be removed to spray the inside ... messy ...

In brief: it's a very bad idea. I was told: "Buy the colour you want, or learn to live with it."
 
krusty said:
Well, I was looking into this because I was trying to find a low km silver Coupé... and there are ... in total ... 3 coupes for sale in the whole of NSW ... none of them silver ... so I thought of buying a different colour, and re-spraying. Made some enquiries to panel beaters ... and aside from being very expensive if done properly ... was also advised that is not at all a good idea ... in fact it is a very bad idea:

First, you never get the adhesion of the original paint ... because they can't use the same high temperatures ... because the car now has wires etc in it ... whereas when it is done NEW ... it is just an empty shell.

Second, they have to strip off the existing paint - which is messy ... the engine bay has to be removed to spray the inside ... messy ...

In brief: it's a very bad idea. I was told: "Buy the colour you want, or learn to live with it."
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I think you are missing what the OP wants doing, he is not lookin gto repsray the whole car but only the optional Hardtop available for roadsters, many of us have purchased the wrong colour (if cheap enough) only to have them sprayed .

OP when mine was resprayed I believe he masked off the rear window and removed the spoiler but have no idea on what he did with the headlining, I paid about £230 a couple of years for the respray.
 
Thanks for the input everyone, I'll remove the headlining and get the body shop to mask the rest.

Cheers
Dave
 
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