Paint Colors?

[goose2190]

So some kid screwed up my hood way bad right after i finished pretty much a month straight of rust and rock chip repair and just getting my car ready for paint. So i can't get it painted until i find a new hood. Right now i just have a crappy black rattle can job. But I can't decide what color to paint once i finally get a new hood and can get a real paint job. I like the black but i've noticed it gets dirty like an hour after i wash it. I have black rims and all my lights except my headlights are tinted way dark so what color do you guys think i should get?

[99PreludeSh]

so wait....you want to paint your hood a different color than your car? And your car is black?

ORRRR you are wanting to repaint your entire car?

[goose2190]

It's all black now. And i'm probably going to wait and paint the whole thing unless i get a good idea for a different colored hood.

[goose2190]

Oh and if anyone knows where to get a cheap hood that would be awesome. I've already tried all the junkyards around here and no one ever has anything

[OEM~KaOs]

If your entire car is black, I can't see painting the hood a different color as a good thing - it would look tacky IMO... I would personally never PAINT my hood a different color, it would just look like a mis matched hood from a different car, lol.

I would say just wait until you got the money for a full outside paint job, and re paint the car whatever color it is - just keep in mind that if you want to paint your car a different color completely you have to paint the door jambs and engine bay and ALL of that stuff - which adds on quite a good chunk of change.

I could be wrong - Steph help me out a lil here - but I do know that a different color paint job then the original one of the car will run you quite alot more, I wanna say like $2k more because of all the extra painting such as door jambs and under hood, but Steph will know a better estimate.

[99PreludeSh]

Yes a different color might run you more with jambs and other necessary parts, or the color is a tri-coat color.

Still have to go through the same sanding process if you were to stay with the same color.

[mr_y82]

^good to know.

[OEM~KaOs]

Yes a different color might run you more with jambs and other necessary parts, or the color is a tri-coat color.

Still have to go through the same sanding process if you were to stay with the same color.

Which is what I said... :biggrin:

Fixed to make the sentence a bit more clear to people.