FTO AUSTRALIA

ft04me wrote:yeah well chris was like a close mate to me...

do you think you could ask them how muh it cost for a full body respray in the same colour??
i wanna get an idea of how much i need to save up

thanks kim!

Depends on how much body work you need to do ... Little dents, high spots and low spots etc.

But you would be lookingat a couple of thousand ... My guy did a bare metal resprayon his 180sx, shaved some arts off the boot, custom paint, and fitted a kit for 5k ... My Evo/GSR needed a bare metal,body straight, fitting of kit, high spots, low spots and a air bit of work .., Got it all done for about 9k ...

where is this place??

its in austral...

Richy wrote:where is this place??

A fair way away .. Down past Woolongong ... Was there on Saturday ... Dropped off my spoiler to be painted... Will prolly be there again this Sat for them to fit it .... Well that is if they had time to spray ...

A fair way away .. Down past Woolongong ... Was there on Saturday ... Dropped off my spoiler to be painted... Will prolly be there again this Sat for them to fit it .... Well that is if they had time to spray ...

thanks for the info.... its so far far away...

Richy wrote:

A fair way away .. Down past Woolongong ... Was there on Saturday ... Dropped off my spoiler to be painted... Will prolly be there again this Sat for them to fit it .... Well that is if they had time to spray ...

thanks for the info.... its so far far away...

Yeah, but if you see the quality job they did on my car, you would go that far... And it was all done in under a month ...

far?? lol it depends on where your comming from u clown!!


oh thought u might like to know after my roof was stripped i then found out its needs welding too, previous owners must have done a bodgy paint job on the roof to start out with grrrr........

DRM34R wrote:far?? lol it depends on where your comming from you clown!!


oh thought you might like to know after my roof was stripped i then found out its needs welding too, previous owners must have done a bodgy paint job on the roof to start out with grrrr........

I found a few things like that on the Evo/GSR ... In some parts it looked straight and all good, but when it was back to bare metal, you could see all the dodgy stuff done in the past ... Few dents on the roof that were just bogged up too ... Guy that did the car said the previous spray painter should have been shot ...

Worse thing was, that in some parts (around the windows and stuff) you could peel off the paint, and see the original car colour ... So I am guessing prep work was not the previous spray painters forte ... Which is why we went back to bare metal ...

i went n seen the car today n noticed tiny tiny holes on the roof n supposidly its a common thing on imported cars, the roof can get pretty wrecked in certain spots when in the container. so to get the dents out they drill into the roof and pull up so therefor the previous owner had just bogged it up without fixin the problem the right way...
heres a few picks so far. i dont think ive ever put up photos before but i had a huge dent in the front ride hand wheel arch, the boot and the rear right side of the car n thats all fixed up now!

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hmm well its good to know that is gettin fixed the right way...

i wanna pre-paint my car soo bad...!

when will it be ready kim?.. cant wait to see it..

by the way when u getting your license back..coz me and a few mates are thinking of cruising soon..thought u mite be interested...

OMG! kim! lol your car , arn't you scared! haha

My God! i cant wait to see it turn out

Its going to look awersom!

So far so good! lol

That previous repair work looks like it was to fix the roof lining rust/glue problem that so many of us have. Oh well, be good to get that sorted.

what a bucket of rust! you can call it 'iron oxide'

Kim How much is it costing you For the paint Job ?

i get my licence back on 6th august....he rekons i should have the car back by then providing he has no hassles with the roof when he strips the interior...
i walked in the backyard n i didnt recognise it lol im like yuck put it back together!!
at the moment im looking at $3500...

Interesting , it is expensive , im hoping its done well and looks good.

For that price you can get a lot done hun

yeah its not too bad considerin all the repairs hes had to do...most places quoted me between 5k and 7k n that wasnt with most of the repairs so yeah should b pretty gooooooood!!

Sweet cheering , thats an awersom price then.

Can t wait for it to be back on the road in campbelltown lol

i went down today n finally decided on the paint...i decided black with the gold pearl wasnt as good as i thought ig would have been. it was too yellow/green in the sun.
we played around with different pearls n decided to go black with a lilac pearl...turned out good on a panal so it should be done by thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sounding good...be sure to shoot some pics for us..