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Subanez · 09-19-2004, 11:02 AM

Has anyone out there totally re-painted their Boxster with a different color? The Boxster I picked up will need some minor body work done to it (delivered with some bad nicks and dents), and I was thinking about repainting in black, instead of the silver.

Good/bad idea, in terms of ease/problems? If anyone has done it, I am also curious as to how much you've paid to have it done.

I just love a black car. :-)

09-19-2004, 11:38 AM

I have a black boxster and i telephoned porsche and asked how much for a flash over using the same colour.

they said it would be £4900 + VAT which takes the total price to £5750

Thats about $10,000 which is CRAZY!

So i telephoned a paint shop that sprays high performance cars and they want £4000 includding VAT which is much cheaper than Porsche..

anyways the point of this is... i wont be having this done... my car is no where near that bad i just thought if it was like £1500 or something i would go for it..

Also thats the prices for the UK and to get a basic flash over, i guess the price would be higher for a complete colour change but it might de value your boxster...

also black is very hard to keep clean and does show marks easy but when its polished up on a red hot day its all worth it... also blacked out windows look really good on a black car also the red calipers really set the wheels off...

Subanez · 09-19-2004, 11:46 AM

Crap, man, that's more than I was thinking. I'll do some homework and start talking to high-performance paint shops around here, but I was hoping for $3-4K. Perhaps I'm dreaming.

TO2IMAGE · 09-19-2004, 12:04 PM

i am repainting mine from artic silver to porsche 914 blue 1973 model look at my pics.as we speak i have my doors offf shooting the jambs. total cost 498.00 supplies

Alienz · 09-20-2004, 04:52 PM

It is harder to repiant with a different color. I'm thinking of repianting the same color too. Subanez, please let me know if you find a good shop around here.

RandallNeighbour · 09-20-2004, 06:10 PM

subanez, I've found that EVERYTHING is twice the price in the UK...

I talked to a local body and paint shop here in Houston a while back and they said they'd do a proper paint job on a Porsche for around 4,000.

Proper means removing the door panels and anything else that needs removing to do it right. It's not just a "tape off the rubber bits and glass and start spraying."

To totally change the color of a car, it can cost a lot... they really should take a lot of the car apart to spray in the areas that few people see. Those few would be the mechanics telling the future buyer that it was repainted poorly

09-21-2004, 12:36 AM

yes thats correct, the reason the price is high as whoever does the work needs to sand the whole car down to the bare body. remove all the pannels. They told me it would be in for about 2 weeks...

Subanez · 09-21-2004, 08:56 AM

No worries. After I bought the car and had it checked out for the third time, I actually discovered that the car had been in an accident, and half the body panels replaced (rather poorly, I might add...the lines aren't QUITE perfect). So the car itself has been repainted in parts, but where it was redone, its chipping and peeling, and looks like a hack job of it.

That's why I decided to just try and get the entire thing painted again, and my color of choosing would be black. Thanks for all the feedback, I'm still investigating. I'll be in Mississippi, and there's not much for Porsche people down there.