I gotta take closer look at your car one of these days. I saw you before paint on the 101 last time.
Looks like I got the wrong COLOR!!!!
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The question is.....should I pay to have it repainted???? I told the shop the color and they painted it wrong. They say it is the right color. I think their vendor messed up.
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I'm sure you get a wrong color, but do not change it!!! looks exelent pretty good & clean, you get the vin number by the SL R230 to prepare th paint? pretty similar 
looks good to me don't repaint it
Post some comparative pictures Before/after paint.. also, what brand are your trunk little lip? looks pretty cool
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looks good to me don't repaint itPost some comparative pictures Before/after paint.. also, what brand are your trunk little lip? looks pretty cool
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The bumper light will be painted. If I keep the color, I might paint the spoiler and the pillars. The carbon fiber clashes. Or just paint the spoiler and leave the pillars black....... I the shop tomorrow morning. I might just have them paint it the color I wanted. Fun drive again from San Jose all the way SF. Also I like it without the front plate. The I took the trunk badges off and am painting the star black, also took off the "sport" from the front fenders.
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I'm sure you get a wrong color, but do not change it!!! looks exelent pretty good & clean, you get the vin number by the SL R230 to prepare th paint? pretty similar looks good to me don't repaint it
Post some comparative pictures Before/after paint.. also, what brand are your trunk little lip? looks pretty cool
Fabio Daniel
looks good to me don't repaint itPost some comparative pictures Before/after paint.. also, what brand are your trunk little lip? looks pretty cool
Fabio Daniel
Here is a better pic of the car in the color I wanted.
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I paint for a living and I don't believe the color is wrong. The problem with paint shops is they look at one variable of the paint and that is wehat they shoot. When painting a whole car it doesn't matter if the color blends wiht the old to them. I personally like the way it looks as well. Almost the old FLIP/FLOP color scheme.
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I paint for a living and I don't believe the color is wrong. The problem with paint shops is they look at one variable of the paint and that is wehat they shoot. When painting a whole car it doesn't matter if the color blends wiht the old to them. I personally like the way it looks as well. Almost the old FLIP/FLOP color scheme.
That is what I was told today. That there are 3 versions of the color. I like it
It looks good
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I got the right color. I asked for some touch-up paint and saw the color code. It really looks good. In the pics it almost looks greenish. Live in person it is grey with a metalic or pearl blue in it. Finished product, even the bird likes it
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. It doesn't ride like a honda. The car drives very smooth.
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I think it looks good, too. It looks a lot better than the BMW Bavaria I used to own. I was getting it painted. At the time, metallic paints were not as good as they are now so I wanted as close to the original color but not in metallic. The owner of the paint shop and I looked at a bunch of chips and finally decided on one that we both thought would be good. I guess there wasn't enough light when we were looking because when it was finished, I probably had the only powder blue BMW Bavaria in the world!
