I might be getting a front end respray done soon and the thought occurred if it wasn't that much more (wishful thinking) would I consider changing the whole colour. It's Iris blue and I obviously think thats the best colour but wouldn't Riviera blue or the Gulf blue (with or without the orange) look petty cool. Speaking of orange how about blood orange. I maybe getting carried away but lets be honest the "residual safe" greys and dark colours aren't really relevent on a ten year old and I'm keeping mine anyway. Your thoughts!!!
What looks best?
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Alan Woods
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If you aren't concerned about residuals I think Speed Yellow, or - brace yourselves folks - White looks awesome on a 993.
OK, how about getting it 'foiled' (?) instead of resprayed. If you want to know what I am talking about check out April's GT Purely Porsche.
There are two examples : The green 997 Carrera S Ruf is actually a black car covered in green film, and similarly, the chequered-flag-blended-into-yellow coloured Cayenne by Cargraphic on p.13. is also a black car covered in foil.
Apparently the custom colour scheme for the Cayenne cost £2800 to design and apply, so simple solid colour for a 993 could work out much cheaper.
The advantages of using foil vs. respray seem to be:
1. much cheaper.
2. does not devalue a car in a way that a respray might.
3. it is reversible, just peel it off if you want to revert back to old colour, or pick a new colour.
4. protects original paintwork (if u still care)
If Ruf displayed this car at the Essen motor show, and Cargraphic is using their Cayenne at DTM events for the next year, the finish must stand up to scruitiny - at least for solid colours, not sure about metallics.
I don't know who does these foils, but if I wanted to change the colour of my car I think this might be the approach I'd take (or at least I'd seriously look into it), unless I was doing a ground up restoration of an old car.
There are two examples : The green 997 Carrera S Ruf is actually a black car covered in green film, and similarly, the chequered-flag-blended-into-yellow coloured Cayenne by Cargraphic on p.13. is also a black car covered in foil.
Apparently the custom colour scheme for the Cayenne cost £2800 to design and apply, so simple solid colour for a 993 could work out much cheaper.
The advantages of using foil vs. respray seem to be:
1. much cheaper.
2. does not devalue a car in a way that a respray might.
3. it is reversible, just peel it off if you want to revert back to old colour, or pick a new colour.
4. protects original paintwork (if u still care)
If Ruf displayed this car at the Essen motor show, and Cargraphic is using their Cayenne at DTM events for the next year, the finish must stand up to scruitiny - at least for solid colours, not sure about metallics.
I don't know who does these foils, but if I wanted to change the colour of my car I think this might be the approach I'd take (or at least I'd seriously look into it), unless I was doing a ground up restoration of an old car.
Those are exactly the kind of things I'd find out, if I were to consider it. I don't know how durable it is, forexample does the colour start to fade after a year ? How do they deal with the issue of the edges ? If you leave it on for too long, does it become impossible to remove ?
Re detaching at high speed, I am pretty certain that the German TuV (inspection authority) would never allow it to be used, not even for a day, if there was even the slightest chance that the film could detach itself at speed.
It's a mad idea, but I would not dismiss it out of hand
Re detaching at high speed, I am pretty certain that the German TuV (inspection authority) would never allow it to be used, not even for a day, if there was even the slightest chance that the film could detach itself at speed.
It's a mad idea, but I would not dismiss it out of hand
I've surfed the web for a bit, and I think the process is called vehicle 'wrapping'. You often see it on Smart cars, taxi's and vans, but instead of a full vehicle wrap with advertising slogans, you'd just want a full wrap in a solid colour and maybe with those stripes you were considering. If you google 'car wrapping' a number of UK vendors pop up, such as www.totally-dynamic.co.uk, www.chameleondesigns.co.uk and www.AdsOnCars.com to name a few.
Seems to be made of vinyl, takes a few days to apply, cost around £1500, last 3-5 yrs, easily removable for at least 5 years, but if you have stone chips / paint imperfections etc, be careful because when you pull off the wrap after a few years it might take off some of your loose paint with it.
Go on, check it out ! You know you want to.[
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Seems to be made of vinyl, takes a few days to apply, cost around £1500, last 3-5 yrs, easily removable for at least 5 years, but if you have stone chips / paint imperfections etc, be careful because when you pull off the wrap after a few years it might take off some of your loose paint with it.
Go on, check it out ! You know you want to.[
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pae
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I'd forgotten about these foils, or stickers. Took a taxi in Bremen a couple of years ago and the driver was explaining that his car was NOT painted the colour I thought it was, complete body stickers. You wouldn't know until he showed the 'un-stickered' interior areas where the original body colour was. Impossible to tell unless you looked in the hidden areas.
Reason being that all official taxi's are one colour in Bremen (and not a particularly attractive one) so no-one buys a car in that colour. They buy it in a colour that will re-sell in a couple of years time and then 'sticker it' to this beige colour. When it's time to sell you have a lovely coloured Passat/Merc/MPV etc with 'as new' paintwork.
It is very, very good, and indistinguishable without doing a full hands-and-knees inspection of the vehicle.
Phil
Reason being that all official taxi's are one colour in Bremen (and not a particularly attractive one) so no-one buys a car in that colour. They buy it in a colour that will re-sell in a couple of years time and then 'sticker it' to this beige colour. When it's time to sell you have a lovely coloured Passat/Merc/MPV etc with 'as new' paintwork.
It is very, very good, and indistinguishable without doing a full hands-and-knees inspection of the vehicle.
Phil
Alex Postan
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Sad but true - I actually like this
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Me too
Alan Woods
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....I can see this descending into a which white is best... GP/Alpine/Glacier... (of course only two of those came on the 993 unless it was colour-to-sample)[
]Still think white on a 993 looks amazing, but not a 964 for some reason [&:] maybe it's because you rarely see white 993's?
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