john.schuber

iTrader: (3)

Bird **** ate through my clear so I'm going to have to get the hood re-sprayed. What would you consider a good price for paint the stock hood with the same mitsubishi paint? I Got quoted fire hundred and thought that was a little high.

19DB794

iTrader: (33)

Are you sure you wanna use oem paint? Im also going to repaint my hood and front bumper not because of bird **** but because of rock chips and im debating whether to use oem paint or not because alot of people think that mitsu paint sucks.

Spish

iTrader: (8)

I was actually thinking about re-spraying my hood too, rocks really do a number on the hood for some reason. I had a Civic with the same amount of miles and only 1 rock chip, my IX has about 25 or so. Mitsu paint

john.schuber

iTrader: (3)

yes i've heard mitsubishi paint sucks but what else r u going to do. If you don't use oem and spray the hood it's not going to match the body. Especially when its a special metallic paint with some purple in the black. I hope i'm wrong this is only an assumption. My friend said he would re-spray it for 250 that includes paint as well. Is that a solid deal?

19DB794

iTrader: (33)

Yea my evo has almost 14k miles and the front bumper and hood have a bunch of rock chips. Im repainting both of them soon and then getting the 3m clear mask installed on the hood and bumper. Also im sure a good bodyshop can match the paint considering I bought touch up paint from paintscratch.com and it matches perfectly.

john.schuber

iTrader: (3)

O Yeah I've heard great things about that website. Maybe I should just get the pain their than huh?

19DB794

iTrader: (33)

Its up to you but so far ive had no problems with the paint from paintscratch.com matching the factory paint but like I said before a quality body shop would probably get you the same results. Id like to see if anyone with a GG Evo ever had any panels repainted without using the oem paint to see if it matches good or not.

rickay726

iTrader: (9)

haha i also want to do that paint chips are Bi*ch! also my back right side is a little scrathed up tp

AWDBus

iTrader: (9)

I just had my whole car repainted due to a hail storm. My body guy used PPG to match the color. He told me there were 5 different colors for that car. Base, more blue, more sliver, and a few others I cannot remember. But that was just for the 04 silver.

Chemwarrior

iTrader: (14)

If you are concerned about using crappy OEM paint then just get a bunch of clear coats over the paint for that extra protection. That way you still get matching paint and you also get the extra padding from rocks.