anyone got picks of their bay painted black?

 

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Id say no one is gonna give u the answer ur looking for , start looking threw pic forums

 

searched cant really find anything

 

look at a black car.

 

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i don't need dumb comments

 

are you asking bc youre thinking of painting your non-black car's engine bay black?

 

my car is red i have the the paint real color matched paint to back it back red but its gonna be so hard to do it, thats why i'm probly go with semigloss black, i don't want to strip everything out of the bay just to paint it

 

so lemme get this straight, im a little confused, you are putting new red paint on the outside thats the same as it is now, but you dont want to have to try and paint the engine bay too??

 

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dude my car is red already nothing wrong with the paint. my engine bay was faded. i wanted to see pics of red cars with black engine bays or cars in general with black engine bays to decide if i wanted to paint it black or suck it up and use the red paint from paint scratch.com to paint the bay. got it

 

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dude my car is red already nothing wrong with the paint. my engine bay was faded. i wanted to see pics of red cars with black engine bays or cars in general with black engine bays to decide if i wanted to paint it black or suck it up and use the red paint from paint scratch.com to paint the bay. got it</TD></TR></TABLE>

well dont get all bitchy, but i would advise against painting it black, it looks like ****, plus it makes it look like the car has been repainted, thats usually why its done

 

well here, you can make your own assumptions, the del sol i just sold had it done when i bought it:

 

don'ts look bad.

guess my car will just look like ****

 

one bad thing about it is that engine bays typically get dirtier than the outside, and black will show dirt easier, so you will be cleaning it more often, or at least wiping it down

 

yeah i know, just don't know how to take the abs and all that stuff off just to paint it back red, black is less hassle

 

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thanks but kinda hard to see

 

mine's black. but so is the entire car. if you really want pictures I can post them up later.

 

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nah thanks but i kinda got a few ideas just looking around

 

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If you want the job done right, you're gonna have to even if you don't want to. I mean, if you're going to be ok with a half assed looking paint job in the engine bay....then ok. I understand that you may not know how to take everything out, but as they say, "that's how the ball bounces".

Do it right the first time so you'll have no regrets and later think " damn....I shoulda done this, I shoulda done that." Coz then....it's gonna be the "shoulda woulda, coulda, but didn't" situation.

 

The engine bay is always going to look somewhat faded, because it doesn't have a clearcoat like the outside of the car does. If your car is red now, and you're staying with red when you repaint, I HIGHLY advise leaving the bay red like it is now.

Another problem with black is that it would be harder to spot leaks and such if anything leaked onto the metal.