what colour paint ?

[Ric 16v]

my brothers mate is doing a nova GTE up and is doing a full GSi conversion on it with a 2.0 16v or a 2.0 16v turbo engine in it and have found out he is going to be painting it ferrari yellow :evil: :evil: :evil: I was well pissed off coz I'm wanting to paint my car yellow FIRST but I'm still not 100% certain of what I want to do, would you get is re-sprayed original red or change it to yellow, opinions are welcome

[Matt Finary]

Lotus yellow :D

Matt :)

[mikeoxford]

lol what colour would you like sir

we have a choice of

red
yellow
yellow
yellow
yellow
yellow
yellow
yellow
yellow
yellow
yellow

methinks you like yellow!?

[mikeoxford]

erm anyway

lol sorry

yeah i dunno. i think sometimes very flat yellows look a bit like a post it note or summat.

go for something that isnt like that. i duno what the diferent yellows look like.

i think red looks nice too though - well i had to say that really didnt i as my car is erm, erm 341 different shades of the stuff :lol:

[?Marty?]

Yellow blended into red.

[mikeoxford]

red blended into yellow maybe...........?

[Ric 16v]

wouldn't that make it orange ? :roll: :roll: :roll: mmmmmmm an orange nova now theres an idea :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[mikeoxford]

only in the middle!

[mikeoxford]

ever seen martin hills 2.1 nova? he lives by me, that looks pretty different (three colours), quite smart too.

[Ben Ritchie]

i think you should do it yellow or maybe even do it gold.when do you see a gold nova? very different!!

Ben

[Ric 16v]

I went to get a quote for a re-spray today and said if you could give me a quote for a full re-spray including engine bay in LOTUS YELLOW and he said yellow, why yellow and I said coz I wanted to be different and he said the whole car would have to be stripped which would cost shed loads so I decided to go for the standard carmine red along with smooth tailgate modded arches for 17's 2 new doors etc, so if the price is right around ?2000-?2500 it will be going in to get a new lick of paint after all the shitty winter whether and will roll out the sweetest thing this side of china :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[mikeoxford]

seems a phat wedge for a coat of paint - ask ade i would

[Anton]

Does seem a very high price mate.

My flush boot was 100 quid second hand, then 75 to paint it - 6 coats of glacier white.

And that does seem very high if they are just doing the original colour.

When you say new doors, do you mean brand new? Its not really worth it to get new ones, I've got 2 mint doors in my garage that I paid 20 quid each for from my local scrappy.

But it is up 2 you mate.

Ant :P

[mikeoxford]

:lol: 2 extra doors in your garage!?

now thats called being prepared!

nova doors are bugg?rs for rust ent they :evil:

[Anton]

The doors I have on mine at the moment are bubbly in the corners rusting from the inside out. I'm waiting till next yr then they will be on :D

[Ric 16v]

he quoted me around ?300 for the tailgate to be smoothed, then to mod the arches would be about ?50 a corner then pain+prep would be around ?1000-?2000 and I'm getting the engine bay done aswell !!!!, the doors arn't brand new, got them second hand off my brothers mate and they are VERY clean, and when they get sprayed I'm gonna wax oil them underneath and inside which should prevent them from rusting

[Nova-Flair]

ouch 1-2k for original colour is well steep.......in fact its feckin vertical!

[mikeoxford]

i thought ollys car paint job was expensive, but seeing his car in the flesh - and it was red as well! - top job :D might have been the bucket loads of autoglym on it though but his car looked stunning at trax.