Accident

[Champ]

Talked to the shop today, car came out of paint this morning and I'm told it looks great!

I get to keep my old bumper  

Get to pick it up on Monday probably.

[TheIntrepid]

Insist on picking it up tonight or tomorrow!

[Champ]

Insist on picking it up tonight or tomorrow!

Na I'm not really in a hurry to bring it home just to sit in my garage.  It's snowing now also so I want to wait for a mostly clear day so I don't need to wash it when I get back.

[heelntoe]

awesome!
my car's repaint didn't turn out so well. you can clearly tell the door was repainted with mine. i hope a good wash and wax might cure it.

[Champ]

Got my car back!!!

It looks VERY nice.  I am totally amazed at how the dent repair guys pull out stuff.

Paint is BRILLIANT and looks amazing.  Now I need my hood repainted   You can totally see all the chips now and general fading from being 8 years old.

They gave me my old bumper back too that's $300-$400 at least!  ....maybe put that towards some HP...

[Champ]

[CJ]

Any pictures of the before?

[Champ]

Any pictures of the before?

Sadly no.  But it wasn't as bad as the $ amount would have you believe.  The front bumper was the biggest part of the bill, at almost $1,500 after paint.

Rest of the car was mostly scraped.  Front fender was dented and replaced.

[Champ]

Also, since they gave me my bumper back that was in my car today.  I also stopped to pick up my bike from the shop.

Nothing like having a fun little coupe that will easily load it's own front bumper and a bicycle without using the front seat at all.

Try that in a G35 / 3 series / A4!

[Raza]

I'll give you $10 for your car.  It's damaged goods now.  A car never feels the same after an accident.

[Champ]

I'll give you $10 for your car.  It's damaged goods now.  A car never feels the same after an accident.

Oh believe me it felt good.

40k and we have a deal.

[Raza]

Oh believe me it felt good.

40k and we have a deal.

Forty thousand pennies?  Done.

[Champ]

Going this Saturday to Milwaukee, WI (~5.25 hours) to have the stripe repainted by the original guy.

Pretty pumped up to see the car going back to original.  Also curious to see how this guy can do such a good job by hand.

[CALL_911]

Try that in a G35 / 3 series / A4!

[Champ]

Did you forget my car isn't a wagon?

[CALL_911]

Did you forget my car isn't a wagon?

You just said to try to load that stuff in a 3-series/A4/G35. So I found the next best alternative.

[Champ]

You just said to try to load that stuff in a 3-series/A4/G35. So I found the next best alternative.

How about this:

Try to load that stuff in a G35/3 series/ A-S5 coupe!

[CALL_911]

How about this:

Try to load that stuff in a G35/3 series/ A-S5 coupe!

[S204STi]

I love your car man...

Looks like solid paint work.

[Champ]

I love your car man...

Looks like solid paint work.

Thanks dude

We'll see how the new paint holds up to 10 hours on the highway.  It's been curing now for about a month without seeing the road so hopefully should do pretty well.

[Raza]

How did it go?

[Champ]

Just got back late last night!  Had to drive through a white-out blizzard on the way home through Madison, it was nuts.




So when I bought my car it came with a hand painted yellow pinstripe which I loved.  The body shop said they could repaint it with masking tape marking off the areas.  I wanted to have the original guy do it for me so I talked to him and setup the date.

I was skeptical that anyone could paint a pinstripe as perfect as the one that was on the car by hand.  Sure enough this guy proved it was possible.



These are the brushes he uses, $40 each.



He literally eyed it up, then just walked down the car.  The kicker is he DID IT TWICE since it needed two coats because the blue was showing through the yellow.  He does it in one shot with no stops at body panels.



Then he signed it for me.  A few of you guys saw the original signature: "Sid did it" so I had him do a little personalization.



The crazy part is the signature is smaller than the stripe.



He just did it with the very tip of his brush.



Nuts.

[CJ]

Awesome!

[J86]

that looks really cool.  Im actually a big fan of pinstripes, done correctly!

[Champ]

that looks really cool.  Im actually a big fan of pinstripes, done correctly!

This is about as "correct" as you can get 

[J86]

I'd agree with you!  Do you have a shot of the whole car with the stripe on it?

[Champ]

I'd agree with you!  Do you have a shot of the whole car with the stripe on it?

Not the new stripe, but it is essentially the same as the old one (well, exactly the same).  So here is a picture of the old one:



I still haven't washed it and when we drove back it was through a blizzard, so it's pretty dirty now.

[Cookie Monster]

Where is the signature located? Under the gas cap? That's really cool!

[Champ]

Where is the signature located? Under the gas cap? That's really cool!

Yea, passenger side.

[J86]

Oooh, dats nice!