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Final Winter Project 2020-2021
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<blockquote data-quote="Jr. Corvette" data-source="post: 252342" data-attributes="member: 1906"><p>Hey guys,</p><p></p><p>Well the good news is the body is painted. Bad news is they painted it the wrong color.... I asked for Porsche Agate Grey which if you google that color, every picture is of a metallic silver. Turns out there are two colors, Agate Grey and Agate Grey Metallic and they painted it the non metallic version which looks like glossy primer. Fortunately they hadn't painted the doors, hood, or miscellaneous parts yet but now they have to sand and repaint the body and T-Tops. Unfortunately it's going to cost me $2800 to fix this and the shop is taking no responsibility even though they never clarified that there were two types of Agate Grey and they never did a test spray out to confirm the color. Like how heck am I to know that there are two types of Agate Grey. I guess I should have given them the paint code for the Agate Grey that I wanted to ensure they didn't paint it a different type. </p><p></p><p>The only bright side to this is the body will be even smoother than it already is and won't have any little pinholes which the shop had spent a lot of time trying to eliminating as many as they could. Not to mention that even with this extra cost the paint job is still over $5000 cheaper than the other shop because of the deal the owner is giving me. </p><p></p><p>As a side note the car looks amazing! I love the way it turned out and all the modifications I did. I can't wait to bring it home and put on the custom wheels on it and the custom tail lights I made. </p><p></p><p>While I'm waiting for the car I modified the original grills by adding mesh to them to match the hood grill. I used a soldering iron to melt it in and then used some panel adhesive to further secure it. </p><p></p><p>Here are some pictures as it sits now as well as a comparison photo to the actual color it should have been.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jr. Corvette, post: 252342, member: 1906"] Hey guys, Well the good news is the body is painted. Bad news is they painted it the wrong color.... I asked for Porsche Agate Grey which if you google that color, every picture is of a metallic silver. Turns out there are two colors, Agate Grey and Agate Grey Metallic and they painted it the non metallic version which looks like glossy primer. Fortunately they hadn't painted the doors, hood, or miscellaneous parts yet but now they have to sand and repaint the body and T-Tops. Unfortunately it's going to cost me $2800 to fix this and the shop is taking no responsibility even though they never clarified that there were two types of Agate Grey and they never did a test spray out to confirm the color. Like how heck am I to know that there are two types of Agate Grey. I guess I should have given them the paint code for the Agate Grey that I wanted to ensure they didn't paint it a different type. The only bright side to this is the body will be even smoother than it already is and won't have any little pinholes which the shop had spent a lot of time trying to eliminating as many as they could. Not to mention that even with this extra cost the paint job is still over $5000 cheaper than the other shop because of the deal the owner is giving me. As a side note the car looks amazing! I love the way it turned out and all the modifications I did. I can't wait to bring it home and put on the custom wheels on it and the custom tail lights I made. While I'm waiting for the car I modified the original grills by adding mesh to them to match the hood grill. I used a soldering iron to melt it in and then used some panel adhesive to further secure it. Here are some pictures as it sits now as well as a comparison photo to the actual color it should have been. [/QUOTE]
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