When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
I'd almost bet you can't find any shop worth it's salt to even do it.
You can't imagine what's involved in changing the color of a Mercedes or any car for that matter. You going to take the motor out and paint the firewall?
It would have taken me about a year to do it right and now in 2021, around $10,000.
I managed body shops for 25 years and quit doing allover's 20 years ago.
I also drive a 2009 GL550.
I'd almost bet you can't find any shop worth it's salt to even do it.
You can't imagine what's involved in changing the color of a Mercedes or any car for that matter. You going to take the motor out and paint the firewall?
It would have taken me about a year to do it right and now in 2021, around $10,000.
I managed body shops for 25 years and quit doing allover's 20 years ago.
I also drive a 2009 GL550.
For what it's worth, if there is a color I'd leave the engine compartment, etc., it is white.
But there's no way I'd change a car color in any event.
As @Max Blast has written, I also would wrap it first, sometimes we have the idea but when the project is done you see that it wasn't amazing as in your thoughts.
A few years ago I was planning to wrap my GL500 in red, but never found a good professional to do it, and now, I am selling it.
You can do it and if done right that color would look good on it, however, at the least you'd have to do the door jams and the liftgate area. However, you'd destroy the value of the car, a car that is not very valuable to begin with. It would be a waste of money. I wouldn't. I'd save that money for the often needed suspension work.
Mercedes SLR McLaren 722 S Is Extremely Rare Example Modified by McLaren
Slideshow: A one-of-one U.S.-spec Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster became even rarer after a factory-backed transformation at McLaren's headquarters.
