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Whole thing, or otherwise it won't match. | 16 | 50.00% | |
You can patch it. No problem. | 3 | 9.38% | |
I plan to make an apricot joke in this thread. | 16 | 50.00% | |
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12-22-2012, 11:34 AM | Topic Starter |
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The Mayan Prophecy Comes True For My Apricot BMW.
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. |
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12-22-2012, 11:37 AM | #2 |
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It's okay. Maybe you can buy a Miata with pink and purple peace symbols and dove graphics all over it next time.
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12-22-2012, 11:37 AM | #3 |
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I'm guessing you'll have to repaint. This time go with neon orange
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12-22-2012, 11:39 AM | #4 |
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El Jefe might have some insight to the repaint.
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Step up to a Bentley. I know there is one for sell somewhere.
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Should be something more along the lines of a Peach Bellini.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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