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Originally Posted by psykik
Anyone know how much a respray would cost on a NHB type S gt 57 reg.
Fed up with the weak paint and chips, scratches every week. Shame cos it shouldnt be happening to a new car. But so long as the cost isnt prohibitive, i might go down this route.
Would a respray be the best solution to strengthen the paint job Honda should have done right in the first place? |
Just thinking about this, your talking about scratches on a
NHB. My sister had a metalic (actually pearl) black VW Polo new shape and it scratched and showed marks like nobodys business, infact I am yet to see a black metalic or pearl car that doens't have scratches or swirls showing especially in the sunshine or very strong light. Unless you get to detail your car at the dealers then its never going to be scratch free from day one.
I have mentioned in another post that one thing people seem to be forgetting when commenting on the stone chips they seem to have collected on the bonnet (mainly) is have you actually looked at how steep the bonnet on the Civic is in comparison to A other cars on the road and B other cars you may have owned before? Think about it if a stone comes bouncing off the road at say 70 mph then and your headed for it in a Civic then it will hit the bonnet, if however you were in a 3 series for talking sake then the likely hood is that the stone would hit the grill or the bumper because the bonnet is much more horizontal than ours!
I don't think it would matter what Honda did to the paint, the fact of the matter is the bonnet is steep its at the perfect angle for stones that get kicked up and bounce up onto it and the hard or soft paint will not stop these chips from appearing!