Anyone ever paint their E55?
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Anyone ever paint their E55?
Has anyone ever painted their E55? If this had to be done, it would be done right, removing paint to bare metal, and paiting door jams, under hood, everything.
I am a big red car guy, and MB Mars Red would look insane on the W211 AMG body imo. Anyone in this industry know what something like that might run? Could someone do a photoshop on Trizzle's pic as black DPE's would sit just perfect:
![](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q261/chawkins2000/untitled19.jpg)
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I am a big red car guy, and MB Mars Red would look insane on the W211 AMG body imo. Anyone in this industry know what something like that might run? Could someone do a photoshop on Trizzle's pic as black DPE's would sit just perfect:
![](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q261/chawkins2000/untitled19.jpg)
![](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q261/chawkins2000/untitled21.jpg)
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Last edited by chawkins2001; 02-10-2011 at 08:58 AM.
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I'd love to paint my car...but you would be out of your mind to ask for a shop to strip the entire car down to bare metal to repaint it...especially since it's completely useless to do so since it doesn't make it "better". I can only imagine the bill would also be double the amount of a regular WELL DONE paint job. I should know, I've painted cars ( not entire cars, but large portions of them ).
A good paint job like the one you're asking for ( without the bare metal stripping, but painting door jams and what not ) would be about $3K-$4K depending on where you live.
To bring it down to bare metal and repaint the entire thing would cost in excess of $8K..the materials used alone would rake up the costs considerably ( you need A LOT more primer and A LOT of paint stripper ), I wouldn't know though since I doubt anyone has ever done such a thing except on high end exotic cars or classic cars.
A good paint job like the one you're asking for ( without the bare metal stripping, but painting door jams and what not ) would be about $3K-$4K depending on where you live.
To bring it down to bare metal and repaint the entire thing would cost in excess of $8K..the materials used alone would rake up the costs considerably ( you need A LOT more primer and A LOT of paint stripper ), I wouldn't know though since I doubt anyone has ever done such a thing except on high end exotic cars or classic cars.
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I would say vinyl as well, I'm quite certain it will be significantly cheaper than a complete paint job (at least locally I know it is)
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Here's a black SL65 that was wrapped in red
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IMHO there is nothing better than the factory job on Benzes... Remember most of our cars sans earlier 2003's came with the ceramic paint. Check your door jam for the "C" after the paint code. I dont know of any shops that currently replicate that type of paint.
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I'd love to paint my car...but you would be out of your mind to ask for a shop to strip the entire car down to bare metal to repaint it...especially since it's completely useless to do so since it doesn't make it "better". I can only imagine the bill would also be double the amount of a regular WELL DONE paint job. I should know, I've painted cars ( not entire cars, but large portions of them ).
A good paint job like the one you're asking for ( without the bare metal stripping, but painting door jams and what not ) would be about $3K-$4K depending on where you live.
To bring it down to bare metal and repaint the entire thing would cost in excess of $8K..the materials used alone would rake up the costs considerably ( you need A LOT more primer and A LOT of paint stripper ), I wouldn't know though since I doubt anyone has ever done such a thing except on high end exotic cars or classic cars.
A good paint job like the one you're asking for ( without the bare metal stripping, but painting door jams and what not ) would be about $3K-$4K depending on where you live.
To bring it down to bare metal and repaint the entire thing would cost in excess of $8K..the materials used alone would rake up the costs considerably ( you need A LOT more primer and A LOT of paint stripper ), I wouldn't know though since I doubt anyone has ever done such a thing except on high end exotic cars or classic cars.
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I think I am going to go for it guys, I did some research and these guys have handled some really nice luxury cars and did all the W Hotels interior decor:
http://www.adnormous.com/
They are local here and quoted me $3500 for the entire wrap, minus the roof and windows.
Now my only question is, should I go with Mars Red color code which they can do and he also recomended STEALTH MATTE BLACK
I am going to have black rims thrown back on the car if I go Mars Red. They said it would only take two days
I think Mars Red would pop so hard.
http://www.adnormous.com/
They are local here and quoted me $3500 for the entire wrap, minus the roof and windows.
Now my only question is, should I go with Mars Red color code which they can do and he also recomended STEALTH MATTE BLACK
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I think I am going to go for it guys, I did some research and these guys have handled some really nice luxury cars and did all the W Hotels interior decor:
http://www.adnormous.com/
They are local here and quoted me $3500 for the entire wrap, minus the roof and windows.
Now my only question is, should I go with Mars Red color code which they can do and he also recomended STEALTH MATTE BLACK
I am going to have black rims thrown back on the car if I go Mars Red. They said it would only take two days
I think Mars Red would pop so hard.
http://www.adnormous.com/
They are local here and quoted me $3500 for the entire wrap, minus the roof and windows.
Now my only question is, should I go with Mars Red color code which they can do and he also recomended STEALTH MATTE BLACK
![Smilie](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Already did it, it was fun for a minute..
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This is a close to what I could imagine it to be, you think it would be good to do all the chrome trip in gloss black or DI NOC CF like my roof, what about the grill, CF DI NOC like the C63 below? We also have chrome trim on our door handles, do that all red, CF or Gloss black:
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Actual Mars Red on a C63
![](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q261/chawkins2000/untitled186.jpg)
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Actual Mars Red on a C63
![](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q261/chawkins2000/untitled186.jpg)
![](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q261/chawkins2000/untitled188.jpg)
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Last edited by chawkins2001; 02-11-2011 at 09:14 AM.
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I only suggested the Matte red because you were debating between Mars Red and Matte Black. I agree that a daily driver should not be matte. A friend of mine had a gallardo matte black and it was a disaster to up keep and maintain. Now there are alot of new products out to help. Regardless it is pretty played out.
If you were going to do anything along the lines of matte wrap do a full CARBON FIBER WRAP, that would look pretty sick, you can carbon fiber wrap the wheels too!
But it seems your heart is with Mars Red. If you must , do the wrap.
Just please do not paint your car, I dont care if you get a wizzard to do it. It will never be the same, in so many ways.
If you were going to do anything along the lines of matte wrap do a full CARBON FIBER WRAP, that would look pretty sick, you can carbon fiber wrap the wheels too!
But it seems your heart is with Mars Red. If you must , do the wrap.
Just please do not paint your car, I dont care if you get a wizzard to do it. It will never be the same, in so many ways.