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Old 02-21-2011 | 04:52 PM
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Painting Your RX8

I'm looking to paint my Rx, however the prices in Canada to paint the car are around 5-6000k. What are the prices in your area? ( if you know ) so maybe I can road trip it one day, check out the city and have my car painted in the mean time.
Old 02-21-2011 | 05:44 PM
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what colour you going with ??
Old 02-21-2011 | 06:07 PM
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It all depends on what you are looking for.

mako under 1k

a good paint job 3-5k

show quality 10k +

The biggest cost in painting a car is not the supplies (i.e. type of paint color even though prices do vary) but the overall labor put into the car. The result of the paint job will be decided not when its being painted but how much pre work goes in to it and how much work is done after the paint has been laid.

Very expensive to get done for a full car repaint done right
Old 02-21-2011 | 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Rotary-RX8
what colour you going with ??
I actually want it to be black no offence to all the sunlight silvers out there.. but i am sooo sick of silver, never agian in my life will I have a silver car lol. even white would be nice.. I have the speed kit on, and i think Black would just look awesome. see Maaco here wanted 4k,
Old 02-23-2011 | 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Speed_8
I actually want it to be black no offence to all the sunlight silvers out there.. but i am sooo sick of silver, never agian in my life will I have a silver car lol. even white would be nice.. I have the speed kit on, and i think Black would just look awesome. see Maaco here wanted 4k,
:o how can you be sick of silver?! In my opinion, thats the only colour I would go with for an RX-8, black is nice but silver really stands out. For you question there is a custom car shop in Toronto called Connery's Customs. Heres the link for the shop http://connerycustompaint.com/

Hope you get what you want!
Old 02-23-2011 | 11:59 PM
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on black its harder to see the curves of the car. But black is a good color still
Old 02-24-2011 | 03:40 AM
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And isn't that the best part of the RX-8? the amazing curves of those fenders, MMMMMMMM
Old 02-24-2011 | 08:53 PM
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My Matte Black Paint sure shows off the curves well..
Old 02-24-2011 | 10:35 PM
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On white, you'll see all the curves and details
Old 02-24-2011 | 11:40 PM
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yea white is nice too , makes the car seem bigger aswell... a nice blue aswell, as you can see im undecided lol, but i have some paint chips upfront from rocks ect.. and would just like a change.
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