g23crawler

My buddy who owns a hot rod shop will be painting my new widebody front fenders, bumper and new hood. I am going to have him repaint the rear fenders because the first person I chose did a low quality job. At this point i'm considering having him just do the doors and rear bumper for a full color change.. My only worry is taking off the rockers for him to paint, iv heard they are glued on. Do I have to have them painted on the car? Besides the rockers mirrors and deck lid am I over looking anything? Headlights roof and pillar will stay black regardless of what color I choose.

rkj427

rockers are indeed glued and should remain on............. he can paint inside the door jambs with the rockers intact as well....................... good luck on color choice decision.................

Cockroach

I'm not a fan of panel shooting parts, especially metallic. I have with great success but like painting panels bolted on and lined up.

ruxvette

This would look great...



Or, if you just can't decide...

g23crawler

I really would like to have everything pulled off the actual car before painting, you guys are funny...
I have always been a huge fan of the crystal red tintcoat, would like to do something similar..

Nice95gle

Although meant as a joke. This paint job is very difficult and time consuming to accomplish. That's providing this is not photoshopped.

But with that said. To the OP...don't do this

wayback

Just a word of warning.......any tintcoat colors will show ALL stone chips. All they need is to scratch the tinted clearcoat and the color change makes them visible. My 06 was Monterey Red and looked worse at the end of 1 year than my 07 looks now.

Solid colors hide shallow clear coat chips much better.

But good luck with the repaint whatever the color.

My body shop had difficulty removing the side mirrors so the ended up painting them on the car. I swiveled the mirror in and checked, yep they even painted the underside.

g23crawler

Thanks way, something to consider. The main reason im thinking about doing a full color change is because of my ocd with black... I spend more time cleaning it then driving it..

rkj427

been there, done that with my baser coupe................. now my daily driver is a black Charger.....................

one thing to consider G is the investment of money.................

may be cheaper to find another, even a (slap me for sayin' it) GS for less than the total you will have spent to change yours to a widebody and color change...................... something to consider........

g23crawler

Yup, debated that too.... Less work and time invested if I bought one already done. But where I live sales tax to license a vehicle is 7.5% that on a 30k car gets pricey. I will basically only pay material cost... (only reason im considering doing it in the first place)

windyC6

Leaving panels on is the best way to paint....provided someone is willing to do what it takes to mask and cover everything that doesn't need painting. Thats a chore to do it right. But when panels are painted while off then you have to wear gloves that won't allow you to bite off all your finger nails while hoping something doesn't get damaged while re-assembling.....

HammerheadTed

Exactly! I removed front, rear and hood. Messed up the hood getting it home and had to be done again. Used a lot of tape putting things together to prevent scratching.

g23crawler

Valid points, I just figured it would be easier for him to have me bring him the panels. Besides the doors the rest of the car unbolts in about an hour if that? I can have a fender off in 5-10 minuets. versus him spending a day to properly mask off the car?

ruxvette

If you like CRM check out 2017 Mazda Soul Red Metallic. Just saw one on the street and, in the sun, it is stunning.

g23crawler

This is my goal...

lightbulb

I know two owners of two high end body shops where I live and both have told me they would never paint a panel on a car if it could come off. Too much time time taping and there is always a chance of overspray no matter how much you tape. I have seen their work in panel painting off the car and it is nothing short of spectacular. Dead on matches to oem shade, tint, orange peel, color etc..to the panel next to it.

AORoads

Taking off, or painting panels on the car reminds me of the long debates about blending paint vs. matching paint colors.

Whatever way you go, good luck with it. Painting is really a skill and an art. Like the Rye NY poster, I happen to know one shop that gave up doing whole cars because it was less profitable than doing "repair-painting" for high end cars. That's even WITH California's high-price charges for high-end, whole-car, custom paint jobs.

1968swbbigblock

The corvette is panel painted at the factory so I see no issue with doing it that way.
When you get into trouble with panel painting is when you don't mix enough paint to spray all the panels at once.
The goal should be to spray all of the panels at once, if you use tintcoat that should include your base and top coats as the base now plays an imporatant roll in how the tint lays and reflects

v8rx7com

here is a picture of the only part of my car that wasn't removed when I did a color change





The factory painted these cars in pieces.

So ..... Here is my car in pieces




These cars come apart fairly easy ...... but the reassembly takes time ..... Since you are taking everything off the car ....it takes time to re-adjust the panels to get the panel gaps right .... and the door are a little tricky to rehang and get the gaps right ..... not to mention you are doing all this with fresh paint

here are doors fresh out of the paint booth:




Here's a picture of the car reassembled:

Cherokee Nation

The most expensive super cars are painted with all panels ON,except the glass.I'm gonna get my 08 repainted oem black at a top end shop and they remove all lights and emblems.The problem when you remove all panels then, reinstalling them you will have to check all gaps and take the change of paint damage.Good Luck...BTW..Experts will take all the time needed to tape a car that is having a $$$$$$ paint job.