Need opinions on paint

Post by **nismofan14** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Here is my dilemma: A girl hit my car last week and I have decided to get the whole car painted. I have narrowed the choices down to silver metallic flake, charcoal aith just a little of blue and green pearl( bareley noticable but looks good), midnight black pearl, and last the factory pearl white. I can't decide and my friends opinions are not valued because they are into fast and the furious looking ****. They built an integra that looks like a cheap imitation of the one in the movie so I really don't value their opinions on the subject. Thanks for any advice.

Post by **Zydeco** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

silver

Website · Post by **daniel240** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

silver or charcoal, it will be easy to keep looking good!

Post by **Anand** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

black

Post by **nissanrcer240** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

i would like to see the charcoal color, but i would have to say the best color on an s14 is black, so go with the midnight black pearl, thats what i would do anyways

Post by **big jon's 240** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Black! Few things look finer than a clean, black paint job with a perfect body. Oh, and you need new friends!

Post by **Dano** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

SILVER!

-Dan

Post by **nametakennow** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Black if you keep it squeeky clean. I'm kinda partial to a blue too... if you don't wash it much, silver/charcoal.

Post by **Redfastbk** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

SILVER!! Black gets dirty easily and if you get a ding or chip on a black paint job it's like Pamela Lee wearing a skin tight red latex dress at a funeral. its gonna stand out!

Post by **PapaSmurf2k3** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

silver or black, with tint... really dark tint

Post by **Lepchitz1** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Black240 wrote:black

I will have to stick with my bud, and say black...check mine out on my sig...also check black240's. You will find that they are just plain "sexy".

Post by **nismofan14** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Well I wash and wax my car all the time now. Pearl white isn't very nice if it is dirty. So I don't have a problem with keepin it clean. Well I definetly have it down to three now: Black, Charcoal, and Silver. **** I have a hard time decicing....lol. Well I will wait for some more input, in the mean time I will have my guy mix up the 3 and see what they look like. Thanx for all the input so far. By the way, nice car Lepchitz1.

Post by **Onizuka** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

if the charcoal with hints of blue in green is the same as the paintjob i saw on a SVT Cobra, get that. It is the best looking paint on earth!

Post by **nismofan14** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

actually i have 2 versions of charcoal, one being the color you(JSpec) mentioned and the other is kinda gunmetal metallic with blue and green pearl- real shiny paint

Post by **astron** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

just remember that most reasonably priced paint jobs wont do stuff like your door jams, engine bay, etc. If you change the color you might want to plan for this. Of course if you're out to spend 2-3k on paint, have fun. And silver is cool

ast

Post by **nismofan14** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Lets just say the the paint job and repair will be done for very cheap. My friends uncle has been painting for 22 years and does exceptional work. For everything including materials i am having it done for $650 and I have to install a audio video setup in his truck. The only thing that isn't getting sprayed is the engine bay but i can fix that when I pull the motor for the turbo kit.

Post by **jmillheiser** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

i can see your dilemma. those are all nice colors on an sx.

Post by **SSal007** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

$650 for a full paint job with pearl is a steal!!! If he is painting the inside door panels with your engine bay its even more of a steal. By the way, get charcoal. Its clean, its hot during day and night, and it doesn't take so much of your time to keep it looking clean. Silver is a nice color but it only looks hot at night when it looks sort of like a gunmetal color. As for black, it is probably the cleanest color for the 240. But at night its hardly noticable, which is hot if you're racing and want your car to look evil, but other than that its not so appealing.

1997 Black 240sx LE-

Post by **nismofan14** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

well the silver looked like **** when he sprayed it for me so it is down to the black pearl or charcoal/gunmetal. Yes it is a steal for the paint job, it always pays to have good friends in various branches of the auto industry.

Post by **SilviaLuvr** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

black can't go wrong!

Post by **Daunt's Chick** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

nismofan14 wrote:actually i have 2 versions of charcoal, one being the color you(JSpec) mentioned and the other is kinda gunmetal metallic with blue and green pearl- real shiny paint

gunmetal metallic with blue and green would be pretty damn sexy... i would have to say that's it's a no contest win in my book

Website · Post by **daniel240** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

gunmetal for sure, after a while the black will look like sh**! Everything shows up in black, even the tiniest things show up so much more with black. and if you dont prepare the car perfect before its sprayed on, and you leave some spots that arent completely smooth, it will show up so much with black. $650 sounds really cheap for a paintjob, especially with jams too. a black paint job only looks good if its perfect, a cheap black paintjob will look like $hit, however if you go with charcoal, if there is a little mess up, which will probably happen, it wont be near as noticable. But whatever you want, its your car.

Post by **Lsnaple** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

black. how about you post a pic of the charcoal color though ? it may change some people's minds....

Post by **nismofan14** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

well he is mixing the gunmetal/charcoal tomorrow while I am in class. It is a custom color so getting a pic will be hard but I will do my best. The closest thing to it is on the cover of the Feb. edition of Super Street. There is a supra with sikkens gunmetal- gray metallic. You will have to look past all the stupid *** stickers and such.....lol. My color is something like that but darker and alot better looking. My color is something like the hyper black finish on enkei wheels, maybe not to that extent but that is the general idea.

Post by **Lsnaple** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

ok ill check that out at work tonight.

Post by **nismofan14** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Well I looked at the black vs. the charcoal today. The black really didn't look that good. Plus i wanted house of color midnight black pearl......then I realized that the rest of my tuition is due soon. So i have decided to go with the gummetal/charcoal metallic. It is a beautiful color, kinda hard to picture but i will post a pic as soon as it gets done.Thanx for all the input.

Post by **240canuck** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

I love my factory Champagne color I got on my 92 s13 with tan interior (vary rare) but for a S14 black looks the best just needs lots of attention. If I repaint it will be Champagne all over again.

Has anyone ever seen another S13 240sx with a tan interior. When I was searchign for mine I only saw one with tan, the one I own.every single one I saw was either grey or leather never tan. And looked at about 30 different 240's when I was searching and every 240 I see on the street I always look for the tan interior and never saw one. I've also noticed the champagne exterior is very rare I've only seen maybe 5-6 ever and they were mostly 89-90 style.

Post by **Lsnaple** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

ive seen the green 240s with the ****/puke-brown color. i don think ive seen a tan one.how about a pic. if i repaint or change the interior, its gonna be all black.

Post by **180crafter** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Sorry to be a thread jacker, but does anyone know what color the TVR Tuscan White-blue pearl thingy is? That is the color I want to paint my car, and I need the paint code and the color name for my body shop to get it. Thanks in advance.

Check out the color on the TVR website. go to http://www.tvr-eng.co.uk and then hit virtual showroom and then build your own. Choose the Tuscan and then choose the second color. Let me know what you think.

Website · Post by **Bandit240** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:43 am

Im about to repaint Red. The guy next door has his own booth all i ahve to do is buy paint and he will help me paint Red. Its going back to red but under the lower body line (the 1'' line on the lower part of the body) is gona be black all the way down. Two tone red/black

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