rick10

bodyshop i charging me 1100 to change the bumper , paint the whole car including the trims and fix a couple of dents i have

I decided to just painted the same colour ...as much as i want the orange i just dont have the money to pay for a full paint job (inside and outside) .. thanks for the advise guys .. i still would like to see someone painting it that colour i think it looks sick

T-MacK

Ask them to spray extra coats of clear coat on it for you.

rick10

what would that do ?? just curious

I ll ask them but he is already charging me cheaper than everybody else so i m not sure if he ll do it...

1PhatCX

the orange looks good but it definately needs to be jammed and respray the engine bay, imo the silver looks too plain. and its not a show car so it only needs a couple layers of clear, if its a good bodyshop they'll generally put a couple coats on it

rick10

just curious what would a couple of clear coats do ... make it more shiny??

cr8tive_leo

Clear coat protects the paint.

When you polish your car you are not polishing the paint, you are buffing the clear away to make it look flawless. So the thicker the clear, the more protection the paint has, and the longer it will last, you can buff and polish and wax to your hearts content.

MPR

There are 100000000000000 silver cars on the road, and a good percentage are 4 door civics.

I'd go with the orange for originality, and I like the colour.

rick10

i agree with you ... But to be honest i would have to pay twice as much just to get it orange plus all the paper work

I m actually planning on keeping this car for 1 or 2 years max. I m actually trying to save up some money to get a 2010 camaro (hopefully) or something better

I dont think you see that many silver cars with brand new paint from that year ....

I ll talk to my bodyshop and see if he can add more clear coats...

I was all for orange until i found out that my bodyshop does not want to paint just the outside and leave the inside silver ... Also if i ever want to sale the car it would be hard to get someone to buy a car that is half paint

rick10

now i m not sure if anyone here can recomend some kind of variation of that silver. I dont want anything darker but something maybe a silver a little more unique

rick10

BTW the orange colour on that honda its actually OEM.. For some reason canada never got that choice of colour. But i was reading that in the philipines the honda sir was available in orange

1PhatCX

not sure about any paint codes/ variations for the silver but something you can do is ask him to put some metal flake or pearl in the paint, just something to make it a little different from the rest

jdm ek4

Silver with Orange metal flakes!!!!!!!!!! lol

rick10

I found some variations of silver... I tried to find civics but i found other models where you can tell the colour difference a little better

here are the ones i found

Silver Pearl

rick10

Satin Silver

rick10

Ice Silver






They are all kind of nice in their own way... I personally like the satin silver in the first civic above. However i m not sure how he got it to look that way... In the post he put it was a respray.. however the second accord does not look as nice ..