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Partial respray of a 30yr old car...

unklerosco · 2005-11-09 17:11:06

Picking my merc up on sat, it has a few bits of rust around the doors.. Repairing these is easy but they're gonna have to be respray'd. I don't want to have to do the whole car as it'd cost a bomb, i haven't seen the paint work yet(cars in the uk) but from pics it looks to be okay... Is there any bodyshops that specialise…

09-11-2005 5:11pm

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Picking my merc up on sat, it has a few bits of rust around the doors.. Repairing these is easy but they're gonna have to be respray'd. I don't want to have to do the whole car as it'd cost a bomb, i haven't seen the paint work yet(cars in the uk) but from pics it looks to be okay...

Is there any bodyshops that specialise in doing this sort of work, I know i wont get a perfect match but i want as damn close as is possible..

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#2 09-11-2005 11:21pm

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The trick is to get the colour matched properly first as metallic paints don't generally fade.

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#3 10-11-2005 4:07pm

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i thought all paints faded over time, even a small amount of time??

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#4 10-11-2005 4:13pm

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As did i...

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#5 10-11-2005 10:18pm

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Solid colours, white's or red's or black's, fade very much so but, in my experience anyway, metallic's don't really fade due to the lacquer coating.

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#6 11-11-2005 4:02am

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after 30yrs of rain, heat, cold, washing and the sun im sure the paint aint the same...

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