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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 01:35 PM
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i'm going to paint my car a dark grey color, what type of paint and what brands are good?

thanks in advance
 
Old Oct 18, 2007 | 07:50 PM
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wut i would do is find a car on the road that has the same color i want. then go to the dealer and ask them for the color code or idk maybe u can buy the color directly from the dealer. if u cant buy from the dealer get the code and take it to the paint shop they should have it
 
Old Oct 18, 2007 | 07:54 PM
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Have apaint shop do it to the color you like!
 
Old Oct 18, 2007 | 08:04 PM
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I'd do a BMW or VW smoke silver/graphite grey (thats the color I want to paint my car!)

As stated by ballinboy, just find a car with the color grey you like and get the code for it from the dealer (check with BMW, their paints all look insanely good)
 
Old Oct 18, 2007 | 08:25 PM
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i think i have found the color i want, its called "phantom grey pearl" or i was thinking about gunmetal but i haven't seen a car painted with that
 
Old Oct 18, 2007 | 09:14 PM
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late model mustangs have a nice looking charcol/dark grey color
 
Old Oct 19, 2007 | 04:17 PM
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charcoal would look dece
 
Old Oct 21, 2007 | 10:46 PM
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im also painting my car on saturday and i cant decide between black or gun metal..
im getting my paint job completely free so its going to be free of cost either way...
i want something that not everybody has thats why im thinking of the gun metal because everyone has black and i just want it to be my own... my car was previously blue..
any opinions...?
 
Old Oct 21, 2007 | 11:43 PM
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ok well since this has to do with painting im not going to start a new topic... i was wondering, my 96 civic is silver, and i want to paint that annoying black stripe along the body. How would I go about matching the exact colour? do i have to take it to a shop or is this something i can easily do myself? thanks in advance

oh one more thing, my car was egged the other night by some punk kids, i heard thats bad for the paint?? i cleaned it off right away
 
Old Oct 22, 2007 | 04:20 AM
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92B16 i think gun metal would look pretty awesome.
 

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