Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231665)

Okay, it'll survive, but it's, a bummer.

My wife was walking to the car after her yoga class, and some fellow was trying to parallel park in front of her early As she w. alked up, he apparently. rently decided that there were two parking spots, not one, and decided to back into our spot.

Tell me how this happens, but somehow he ended up more or less broadsiding our car. He hit the side of the car BEHIND the driver door, right in front of the back wheel. It didn't affect anything mechanical, but now it's got a big ol' dent in it, and my bigger worry is that it scraped up the paint.

This car's paint is very unusual. BMW didn't go to market with it, so it's not a normal BMW color. It looks like some places sell touch-up paint, but will it match on a big swath of the fender? Or am I going to have to repaint the whole car? It's 12 years old, so I'd suspect that there's some fading.

I would really hate to repaint the whole car.

Originally Posted by SPchief (Post 9231670)

I'm guessing you'll have to repaint. This time go with neon orange

Originally Posted by aturnis (Post 9231675)

It depends. If he paint itself is a pretty good match, then a talented paint man can match it really well. I have a silver car, one of her harder colors to match. Dude nailed my rear bumper work. Talk with Sauto...

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup (Post 9231679)

With that much age you would probably have to repaint the entire car. But since it is Apricot in color a person would probably be glad for this opportunity.

Originally Posted by HemiEd (Post 9231714)

It is strictly up to you how particular you are. It is all about compromise and how perfect you want it.

A first rate body shop will make it look very nice by painting the panel and blending it.

Originally Posted by HemiEd (Post 9231714)

It is strictly up to you how particular you are. It is all about compromise and how perfect you want it.

A first rate body shop will make it look very nice by painting the panel and blending it.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231756)

A bit of apricotade where life gave me apricots is that it looks like he missed the driver's door and only nailed the quarter panel. So at least on that part it's not a disaster if the paint's not a perfect match.

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO (Post 9231760)

Yes it will be. It's going to have to be very close or it's going to be obvious. If it was just the front or the rear, something that a body line breaks up, it wouldn't matter as much
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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231765)

How close can you get on a 12 year-old car? I'm kind of afraid of the answer.

Originally Posted by cdcox (Post 9231774)

Wow, my new Mazda 3 had a similar brush with death Thursday night. Some drug addicts came around the corner, the wheel came off their car and it (the wheel) hit my front bumper. No damage, amazingly.

So there was something to the end of the 13th Baktun after all. Evidently the Mayans for saw the formation of Sandbox Simulations and knew that on this date (within 24 hours) both of the founder's motor vehicles would be threatened by ridiculously careless people.

There were a couple of other pointers to this event that we should have seen this coming. My previous vehicle was a bright yellow Ford F-150; so we both had exceptional taste in motor vehicle color. And my tire event had been foreshadowed by a similar event a couple years earlier http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?p=7032496

Spooky.

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO (Post 9231777)

If the person taking the picture and mixing the paint know what they are doing you can get really close.

A good body shop will know what to do. They won't use the original paint code. They will probably picture the door which will be the closest spot in terms of fade etc.
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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231791)

Ah, so they match the faded paint and not the original paint? I had no idea.

So would you paint the whole car or just the quarter panel or just the damaged part? It's not as if a ton of paint came off - it's just scrapes and a few small areas maybe the size of a dime where the paint was scratched off.

Originally Posted by cdcox (Post 9231774)

Wow, my new Mazda 3 had a similar brush with death Thursday night. Some drug addicts came around the corner, the wheel came off their car and it (the wheel) hit my front bumper. No damage, amazingly.

So there was something to the end of the 13th Baktun after all. Evidently the Mayans for saw the formation of Sandbox Simulations and knew that on this date (within 24 hours) both of the founder's motor vehicles would be threatened by ridiculously careless people.

There were a couple of other pointers to this event that we should have seen this coming. My previous vehicle was a bright yellow Ford F-150; so we both had exceptional taste in motor vehicle color. And my tire event had been foreshadowed by a similar event a couple years earlier http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?p=7032496

Spooky.

Originally Posted by Phobia (Post 9231809)

Yeah, I was just thinking about that other incident. It might seem as though you are likely to die eventually through some incident with a Goodyear. But I would suggest that you may live life around tires with reckless abandon. You've survived your share of tire-related accidents so you're safe now.

Originally Posted by Phobia (Post 9231809)

Yeah, I was just thinking about that other incident. It might seem as though you are likely to die eventually through some incident with a Goodyear. But I would suggest that you may live life around tires with reckless abandon. You've survived your share of tire-related accidents so you're safe now.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231815)

I predict that someday they'll find cdcox dead in a tire swing, having strangled on the rope.

Originally Posted by bevischief (Post 9231848)

How old is the car and how long do you plan on keeping it?

Originally Posted by whoman69 (Post 9231850)

Kevin you can afford a BMW but want to go cheap on a paint job?

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231857)

12 years, and not sure. I like it and it's in perfect condition other than a big dent in the side, but at some point it seems like we should get a newer car and I'm not sure if we'd keep this as a second car or not. Right now we make $50 a month renting the garage space and we really don't need two cars.

Originally Posted by bevischief (Post 9231876)

Take the insurance money and run.

Originally Posted by bevischief (Post 9231885)

I have a 300,000 miles Toyota truck with 3 accidents and still driving it as a everyday driver. Took the money and ran.

Originally Posted by bevischief (Post 9231885)

I have a 300,000 miles Toyota truck with 3 accidents and still driving it as a everyday driver. Took the money and ran.

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning (Post 9231888)

This is karma coming for you both because the draft wasn't held in appropriate time.

Originally Posted by HemiEd (Post 9231729)

You are going to pay out the wazoo, but call your local beemer dealer and ask what body shop they use. You won't be disappointed.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231889)

Yeah, but that's a truck. Dents on a truck add character. Dents on a roadster look like you couldn't make the turn.

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning (Post 9231678)

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning (Post 9231678)

Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 9231970)

Should be something more along the lines of a Peach Bellini.

Originally Posted by alanm (Post 9231926)

It shouldn't cost him a cent. It's the other guy's insurance that will be footing the bill.

Originally Posted by threebag02 (Post 9232342)

I know this chick and she can suck the paint off of anything.

Originally Posted by bevischief (Post 9231876)

Take the insurance money and run.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231710)

I'm afraid I'm going to have to repaint it, because even if a patch would work I'll be paranoid about what will happen three years from now.

It's not like this car will ever be a massively valuable collector car, but my father the purist hates repainting cars and always said it'll impact its value. Since it is a non-production color, repainting it is not desirable to me.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9231665)

Okay, it'll survive, but it's a bummer.

My wife was walking to the car after her yoga class, and some fellow was trying to parallel park in front of her. As she walked up, he apparently decided that there were two parking spots, not one, and decided to back into our spot.

Tell me how this happens, but somehow he ended up more or less broadsiding our car. He hit the side of the car BEHIND the driver door, right in front of the back wheel. It didn't affect anything mechanical, but now it's got a big ol' dent in it, and my bigger worry is that it scraped up the paint.

This car's paint is very unusual. BMW didn't go to market with it, so it's not a normal BMW color. It looks like some places sell touch-up paint, but will it match on a big swath of the fender? Or am I going to have to repaint the whole car? It's 12 years old, so I'd suspect that there's some fading.

I would really hate to repaint the whole car.

Originally Posted by mikey23545 (Post 9232841)

I'd rather see you paint an apricot like a BMW than paint a BMW like an apricot.

Originally Posted by whoman69 (Post 9231850)

Kevin you can afford a BMW but want to go cheap on a paint job?

Originally Posted by mikey23545 (Post 9232839)

That's hard to believe.

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup (Post 9232620)

Well I guess I don't understand the purist comment since the car has already been painted. It didn't come from the factory with that paint color or scheme. So in essence this would be the 3rd paint job not the 2cd. The value from deviating from an original paint job has already been deducted.

Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 9233098)

Wait a minute...your only car is a Z3? What the hell do you drive when it snows?

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 9233088)

It's kind of odd, but BMW did something unusual with the Z3s. They produced them in several standard colors, but then they also had some other colors that were tested and sold in very small quantities, or maybe they were special orders. Apparently you could also get the car from the factory in a custom color. I don't know the whole story, so I could be misunderstanding something.

This site shows the general palette: http://www.zroadster.net/tim/colors/index.html

It shows 12 standard colors and 9 retired colors that I don't think we're standard. Then it shows 6 additional limited colors, 12 rare colors (of which apricot is one), and 12 individual colors, which may have been custom orders. They're all factory paint jobs, but range from apparently one vehicle in production up to thousands.

As an aside, I'm pretty sure that my car is the one in the apricot photos. It's got the same top and interior, and the same upgraded wheels.

Originally Posted by threebag02 (Post 9231673)

El Jefe might have some insight to the repaint.