Pre-painted Body Kits
10-05-2006, 12:52 PM
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RE: Pre-painted Body Kits
Try www.atlantamustang.com they have prepainted parts. I believe you can also get prepainted stuff on the Roush site.
10-05-2006, 03:25 PM
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RE: Pre-painted Body Kits
Prepainted stuff is good but the only problem is trying to blend it to your car. There are some color discrepencies between paint buckets. In my opinion, have a good body shop paint your stuff for you so he can blend the color of the part to your car.
10-05-2006, 04:47 PM
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RE: Pre-painted Body Kits
05blueT is right. As a company that sales body parts hoods were exceptional tuff to paint and then send to customers because 1, even if we had the correct paint codes that wasn't a garentee it would match. And then of course hsipping the product. Several units I experimented in painting and then shipping to customers would often have a scratch or something from freight shipping and then the customer would be all ticked off. So as far as credability for a company it started to hurt because customers would us as fault for shipping scratches so in the long run it just wasn't worth painting nad then shippping. Considering most customers do not understand what it takes to install a body part, especally an aftermarket body part its just better for every customer whom is looking into purchasing a hood or kit to find a local body shop, get quoted and have the products sent there. Trying to nickle and dime everything will only tick you off in the long run.
I know that especally on the yellow mustangs its real tuff to colormatch many of the times.
I know that especally on the yellow mustangs its real tuff to colormatch many of the times.
10-05-2006, 06:17 PM
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RE: Pre-painted Body Kits
Nichepi is right about the color match. For instance on the Sonic Blue like mine, color code SN was slightly off when I had my first set of window louvers painted. When my car was hail damaged, my body shop guy searched the internet for the formula and found that someone else had a better matching formula than the factory one. He used that one and it was a perfect match. Cars do get sun bleached even if it is a little so chances are that your car will not be an exact match to the piece that you get prepainted.
10-06-2006, 01:48 PM
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RE: Pre-painted Body Kits
ORIGINAL: Gman13
Try www.atlantamustang.com they have prepainted parts. I believe you can also get prepainted stuff on the Roush site.
Try www.atlantamustang.com they have prepainted parts. I believe you can also get prepainted stuff on the Roush site.
I ordered my side scoops from them, painted. The color was just a tad off but in certain light you can't even tell. For the most part is was close enough, I wasn't sending them back.
10-06-2006, 02:21 PM
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RE: Pre-painted Body Kits
Thanks for the pictures. Thanks to everyone else for your comments. Got me to thinking if I want to trust pre painted stuff. I will try to find a good body shop here in southwest Houston to paint to match. Cuz I am planning on getting the boy racer kit from 3d carbon which will have quite a few mods to paint.[sm=goodidea.gif]
10-06-2006, 02:58 PM
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RE: Pre-painted Body Kits
I am in SugarLand, a city suburb of Houston. Grew up in Dallas, I know exactly where Arlington is - a little far for a body shop. Thanks for the input though. I need a real good one a little closer to home