To Colour code or not to colour code.. That is the question.

[Vish8895]

What do you mean normally? If you mean just one whole color, i got quoted £190 by the same people who quoted me £240 for dual color.

[cuprajake]

240 is expensive

The jobs not a quick one. The plastic needs a good 180 then plastic adhesions promoter followed by high build primer. Plus you can't bake plastics due to melting lol

[Vish8895]

Yeah thats pretty much the way he explained it! Decided against it for now at least :/. Will wait until it starts to bug me haha

[Reezie123]

I NEED TO DO THIS!... Not sure how it will look on Red! Gamble!

[Vish8895]

You're right! Red is a gamble! They guy who i spoke to explained to me that due to the material being plastic the colour match wont be great in most colours! And I see what he means, my car has body coloured bumper strips from factory and they look slightly different. Only to me though as i know. And i reckon it will be the same if you go red at the back, ive chosen to leave mine for now :/

[cuprajake]



On we did a few yrs back

[Simon_2.0t]

How much do you charge Jake?

Si

[Vish8895]

That does look sweet! Thats what i was gonna do to my grey golf, but after seeing a few colour coded in real life i noticed they werent always 100%! Due to the plastic again :(

[cuprajake]

Depends. Some plastics do through the colour off it tends to beheavy mmetallic colours really

We always do the top and bottom of the bumper for colour match

[Scottymon]

Another one for coding it.

[Veee-dubber]

Why dont you just plastidip it?

[Scottymon]

Think the skirts need doing too ala Ed.30 if you do, it's more balanced that way.

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Plastidip isn't a bad idea, at least you get a rough idea how it will be without a permanent alteration.

[Veee-dubber]

Rear bumper can be done to great effect with plastidip can even gloss it now.

[kahunajb]

Definitely need to do my rear valance leaving the bottom part black but cant decide whether to do the skirts as well. I'm not sure if it will make it look like a poor man's Edition 30. Thoughts?

Think it looks awesome on the candy white GTI with the side skirts black still but mine's laser blue.

Slightly off topic anyone know any decent body shops in the Leeds/West Yorkshire area?

[Callmedude]

That looks much better colour coded. It looks like it those cheap cars that they try to save some money by finishing with plastic and saving money by not painting.