So after a few days of thinking about it ive decided to share whats happening to my car with everyone here

on april 2nd while going to school i had a small accident. After calling the cops and doing all that bs, i went ahead and stopped at a shop near my fiances house. To my surprise the shop was the one that painted the car to the chameleon color (not the tribals). So after the shop telling me the paint job i had atm was a 6k paintjob and it was going to be hard to rematch the paint. I went ahead and filled the insurance claim. Got enough money to repair what would of worked if my car had the original color, But it wasnt so the shop had to place a supplement that the insurance took 3 weeks to approve for some reason .

Now that everything is in good standing the shop gave me some options. I could repaint the whole car any color i want or repaint with the chameleon color (1400~ for a quart of paint) and get rid of the tribals. So after some thinking i decided to repaint the whole car (for the reason of the thread i will not disclose the new color until its done lol).
My reason for repainting the whole car was that the paint wasnt perfect anymore (5yrs old ~) and had details such as door dings,rock chips, clear coat was coming off in some parts(not to bad but enough to bug me) and thats because the paint was neglected by the previous owner, but then again you cant beat a fresh coat of paint lol. So after looks at books of paint i got what i liked and eveything started rolling as of monday 11th. So atm thats where im sitting and just waiting until the car is done but im already loosing my patience after driving a civic, sentra and a 2015 elantra(rental car) i miss the power already. But nothing else i can do but wait.

So enough talking and lets get to the pics of the progress











Pics from today, as you can see i will be getting rid of the holes for the license plate and be buying a tow hook and bracket from powell

 

Holy **** man that's wicket man ...can't waite to see her done ...good ****.

 

It is lol never would of expected a complete paint job for the damage i got. The lady that hit me didnt even get a ticket lol

 

Hannah's she will be paying more for insurance now lol.

 

Lol yeah it all came down to the price of my old paint now that sucker was expensive

 

Good deal for you there
Hope you went with pearl white

 

Yeah it was a pretty good deal for me in the end jist wish it wouldnt of taken so long. Hmm pearl white would be a nice look for sure is that the color you would paint it?

 

In a perfect world id probably do flat pearl white with gloss black rims
Id also do bright white with a black body kit

 

That sounds really nice actually

 

I always liked dark paints just for the deep shine but it's harder to keep clean

 

I'd like to see a Balt in synergy green like the Camaro ss. Body work looks great

 

Yeah i liked the deep purple i had but yeah keeping clean was a pain in the butt specially here where its always windy

 

Ahh thats a nice choice i liked that color on the camaro, but in a cobalt idk lol

 

Viper blue is nice with metal flake.

 

I like the blue that comes on the stingray

 

yay no more tribals

 

you guys will miss them

 

I'll be checking for this, man. Hope you get it looking pristine again.

 

Im sure almost everyone will like it since you cant always please everyone lol

 

I hope i get my car tomorrow cant wait. if not Wednesday should be the day unless they got behind (hope not fingers crossed)

 

Can't waite for pics.

 

Im going to stop at the shop tomorrow and see whats the day ill get it back

 

Nice...let her dry right lol.

 

Lol yeah i might just leave it till Wednesday just to make sure it has time to dry or ill take it home and put it inside my garage for another day but at least i woukd be able to drive it also depends on weather

 

Please tell me they took the bumpers and lips off instead of painting them on the car. as well as removing parts instead of masking. Masking parts is what gives you a shitty paint job.