Has anyone with an RA painted their roof? For example, I've seen some evos on these forums with cf hood, cf trunk, and painted black or black vinyl roof to match. I was wondering if any RA owners have done that?

 

I have been toying with the idea of painting my roof black just due the fact it has so many scratches (previous owner must have constanly drug stuff across the top. Scion TC and Audi A3' s have the top painted black along with new M3's. It probably wouldn't look too bad.

 

yeah my roof has some pretty bad scratches too. how durable is vinyl?

 

Quality vinyl is pretty strong, and its not too expensive.
I'd suggest that rather then spending a lot more money to paint
and in the event you don't like it, you can just peel it off.

 

Will vinly mess up the paint underneath at all?

 

Sounds interesting. I've always admired the tC's black top esp with tinted windows..mmm

 

no, technically it protects it, so when u remove it, the rest of your paint will be lighter then whats under the vinyl haha

 

im thinkin about doin this as well

 

where can we get those vinyls? any site?

 

I think any sign shop can do it for you and most likely install it. Just make sure you don't get the cheap vinyl and opt for the more expensive stuff.

I don't think you'll be able to tell the fade difference in the bumper unless you leave it on for a couple of years...

 

Does anyone have an estimate of what they think this would cost? I would guess maybe $150-$200 to have a roof covered.

 

did anyone listen to me? if you leave it on for more then a year, and then take it off, it will perminately be a different color then the rest of the car.

 

I don't think it will be that big of a difference because I removed the badges from my car (which i later put back on when i thought I was going to sell it) and they had been on for over 2 years and never have had the car repainted. No fading, and on top of that my trunk sits in the sun all the time because the parking lot I park on is slanted and the front of my car is always pointed down.

Though it would have been pretty cool to have a ghosting affect of "lancer" on my car...

 

ams makes a cf roof thats pretty sick. its $1200 tho lol

 

ok well dont listen to me, i only had decals all over my car and removed them a year later and still 2 years later have reminance of it on my car. i guess i dont know what im talking about.