REAR ENDED! Opinions on New Paint?
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REAR ENDED! Opinions on New Paint?
Long Story Short.
Started Modifying my car. Got some Coilovers, installed them myself. Headers on, custom made chrome exhaust and the car looked amazing. Oh well, driving nice, slow and low on one of our busiest highways and a Van rear ends me. The impact was so crazy that my car slid and hit the car in front.
Since I installed the coilovers a night before the crash, I would not have any pictures of it lowered but here are some before and after pictures.
and after
Now the flat/matte/satin black you see was a wrap. Even if i fix that again, the colour would not match and i have to do the wrap again. So I'm thinking of painting the car. A beautiful colour that i have in mind right now is the 'Black Diamond' found on the Cadillac CTS-V
Or any other colours you guys have in mind?
Started Modifying my car. Got some Coilovers, installed them myself. Headers on, custom made chrome exhaust and the car looked amazing. Oh well, driving nice, slow and low on one of our busiest highways and a Van rear ends me. The impact was so crazy that my car slid and hit the car in front.
Since I installed the coilovers a night before the crash, I would not have any pictures of it lowered but here are some before and after pictures.
and after
Now the flat/matte/satin black you see was a wrap. Even if i fix that again, the colour would not match and i have to do the wrap again. So I'm thinking of painting the car. A beautiful colour that i have in mind right now is the 'Black Diamond' found on the Cadillac CTS-V
Or any other colours you guys have in mind?
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To give you guys an idea of how cheap are car parts in Dubai. A brand new OEM HID headlight assembly (green) costs $158. How much was tht on sewell lexus? I think around $500.
Parts from a scrapyard? even cheaper. A trunk in excellent shape would cost you $14 and I am not even kidding because a friend of mine bought it day before yesterday. Yes you got it right. All your totalled cars come down to dubai. If the damage is not much, they are repaired and sold. If its a lot the car is parted out and sold.
Something like this:
#12
Lead Lap
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Ho. Ly. Crap.
Yeah...here in the 'States that would be totalled. A $14 trunk? 2 months in a body shop plus parts for only $2,700?
Hell. If parts and labor were that cheap here in the US there would be a lot more work for people who do body repair. My GS was rear-ended and it wasn't even 1/2 as bad as yours. It cost $3,500 to repair. My rear quarters weren't even bent. It was just a trunk, tail lights and rear body panel replacement.
Yeah...here in the 'States that would be totalled. A $14 trunk? 2 months in a body shop plus parts for only $2,700?
Hell. If parts and labor were that cheap here in the US there would be a lot more work for people who do body repair. My GS was rear-ended and it wasn't even 1/2 as bad as yours. It cost $3,500 to repair. My rear quarters weren't even bent. It was just a trunk, tail lights and rear body panel replacement.
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even if the parts are so cheap how could that possibly not be totalled, labor alone has got to be more than the $2700 your quoting? the WHOLE left rear quarter would have to be cut out and reskinned which isnt a cheap or quick fix? i wouldnt be surprised if it had rear frame damage either. new trunk, new rear bumper,new crashbar,new taillights,emblems,exhaust,new wiring, and then hours and hours of labor
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Seriously, my ES was just bumped this summer, and after paint, new tail, rebar, paint on bumper & quarters was over 3,000$
A job like this in Canada would never happen as the labor times would bring this well into the 6k mark. But Dubai seems to be cheap for parts so I assume that labor at shops is just as cheap too?
But, get the Cadillac color, or any of their higher end car colors are ALWAYS nice. My buddy has a DTS in white with the three stage pearl and it pops in the sun, this would be the same, but even better since its black so you don't expect the crazy pearl to come out! Very nice color choice!
A job like this in Canada would never happen as the labor times would bring this well into the 6k mark. But Dubai seems to be cheap for parts so I assume that labor at shops is just as cheap too?
But, get the Cadillac color, or any of their higher end car colors are ALWAYS nice. My buddy has a DTS in white with the three stage pearl and it pops in the sun, this would be the same, but even better since its black so you don't expect the crazy pearl to come out! Very nice color choice!
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Its defiantly fixable.
If only parts where as cheap here in America.
I keep forgetting cars get exported all the time after being wrecked. They are considered scrap = in a different country they can take two cars and make one car and profit.
A friend of mine had a conversation with me about exporting wrecked Mercedes to Cambodia using his brothers shipping containers. Containers comes in with goods then needs to leave with goods = Profit
Would be nice to be the guy to purchase the wrecked Mercedes at auctions.
Either sit at a desk with a computer or live auctions in person spending someone elses money while you make a really nice wage.
If only parts where as cheap here in America.
I keep forgetting cars get exported all the time after being wrecked. They are considered scrap = in a different country they can take two cars and make one car and profit.
A friend of mine had a conversation with me about exporting wrecked Mercedes to Cambodia using his brothers shipping containers. Containers comes in with goods then needs to leave with goods = Profit
Would be nice to be the guy to purchase the wrecked Mercedes at auctions.
Either sit at a desk with a computer or live auctions in person spending someone elses money while you make a really nice wage.