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Anyway, anyone else rocking a custom color now?
Double edged sword, the cars are 11 plus years old and more people on here have them, but a paint job can cost a good % of the value of the car.
If money was no object, mine would be canary yellow.
Yeah I just bought mine, 2002 Lexus GS300 with 63k miles on it, it has the graphite peal color on it, so I was thinking of just getting something similar to that it looked pretty sharp in its day, but definitely going to get a good paint job once its ready.
That is sick, not sure about the DRAPES LOL, but **** is bad ***. Im so worried that I will put the money into this 2002, even with only 63k miles, its still 14 years old, that I wont get the life out of it, be able to do the paint, get my sound system in it, rims, tires without a crap ton of work. My interior is phenomanal, it was barely driven, but have to do some things to it, alternator just replaced, the ABS issue and the steering wheel shaking at 55mph to 65 mph only lol, odd ball stuff. I LOVE MY BLACK 2007 SAAB V6 2.8 TURBO, so worried I went backwards here with the lexus, but fell in love with the first drive, the POTENTIAL of the looks, luxury and super low freaking miles, but get worried reading these forums lol. DEFINITELY WANT A GREAT PAINT JOB
Anyway, anyone else rocking a custom color now?
Double edged sword, the cars are 11 plus years old and more people on here have them, but a paint job can cost a good % of the value of the car.
If money was no object, mine would be canary yellow.
If you want to go with a completely different color than factory and want to ensure every little nook and cranny gets the new color, I wouldn't be surprised at a $10K job for excellent quality work.
I'd only do a custom color if I had zero intention of selling my car to anyone but an enthusiast, and even then, it would still be a sunk cost because the new owner wouldn't know how good the quality of the work was.
As a buyer, I'm less likely to touch a car repainted the same color as factory, never mind custom, unless I could see all the paperwork from the body shop that did the work. I've seen time and time again the results of how cheap body shops skimp on prep work and it makes me angry.
I also wouldn't do a custom color on a daily driver without wrapping the entire car in clear protective film because to hell with doing touch ups on something I paid five digits for. If I buy another GS400, the easiest thing for me to do would be to either get a black one or a champagne gold one (and mercifully take another boring beige car off the road because we're not stuck in the 1990s anymore), and have it painted either spectra blue mica or ultrasonic blue mica and keep it. For a respray to a dark color, black as a factory color might be a bit cheaper to work with since you could get away with not doing some obscure areas to 100%.
