Ferrari 355 colour change respray

[swig000]

I'm new A friend of mine recommended I join pistonheads so here I am.

Now I'm looking at a 355 that is very good value for money, but it's the wrong colour so I'm looking at respraying it red.

Now somebody recommended Asla Automotice I think it was and he looks very good but is really a bit expensive. I was hoping to get the car resprayed for about £3k. Anyway I was wondering if anyone could recommend some reputable companies to do it, preferably in Scotland but I don't really mind if it's not.

[3200gt]

Welcome to PH's,
Keep it the colour on the log book or face the hit at resale time.

[AyBee]

If you didn't want to go down the repaint route, you could always get it wrapped and then remove this when you come to sell?

[David911RSR]

AyBee said:

If you didn't want to go down the repaint route, you could always get it wrapped and then remove this when you come to sell?

This is the route I would go and i should cost approx 1k

[swig000]

3200gt said:

Welcome to PH's,
Keep it the colour on the log book or face the hit at resale time.

Thanks. Why would it affect the resale value? Is it because people will think it's been crashed? You have to let the DVLA know when you've changed the colour of a car anyway so would they not just send you a new V5 with tthe new colour on it? Then surely it wouldn't be noticeable? I would tell prospective buyers it's been resprayed anyway and then explain to them why I did it, I'm always honest when it comes to cars.

[swig000]

AyBee said:

If you didn't want to go down the repaint route, you could always get it wrapped and then remove this when you come to sell?

I'd rather have it resprayed. Those wrapps look ok, but never as good as proper paint.

[justin220]

I agree about the Resale part, I'd be put off buying a resprayed car. Not sure why.

How about a wrap?

[lanan]

Unless your going to take the car back to a bare shell. it will always look a dogs dinner. engine bay, door shuts etc
If you just can't live with the current colour get it wrapped or buy a red one.

[AndrewW-G]

swig000 said:

Now somebody recommended Asla Automotice I think it was and he looks very good but is really a bit expensive.

For the standard of workmanship you'll need if you ever fancy selling the car on, you'll find Alsa are actually very good value price wise.

[tony h]

alsa is top notch

[jleroux]

i had mine changed from giallo to grigio by Nick Cartwrights and you'd be hard pressed to tell it had been painted. the question begs though - why would you need to respray a car red when there's so many of them for sale? aren't like 90% of the cars on the market red or sommat?

Jonny
BaT

[Soovy]

Wrap it.

Google for Raccoon wraps.

[burriana]

Alsa Automotive is THE place to go. In the middle of nowhere like, but the man to do the job. Try asking the same question on the Ferrari sites such as clubscuderia.com and the UK forum of ferrarichat.com and you will get the same answer.

Personally, done right a colour change would not bother me. Any serious damage would be picked up in a proper PPI.

I was toying with changing mine from Rosso Corsa to Rosso Scuderia but it doesn't somehow seem worth the cost for just a different shade of the same colour.

[4rephill]

justin220 said:

I agree about the Resale part, I'd be put off buying a resprayed car. Not sure why.

How about a wrap?

It just puts that element of doubt in your mind that all might not be right with the car and that it could easily be hiding something not reported to the insurance bodies if a HPI check comes back clean (whether there is something to hide or not).

Too often you read stories of people who bought immaculate looking cars that were clear on all the HPI type registers, only to find out later that the cars been in some sort of accident in the past and it ends up costing them £££K's.

Also, I would have thought that the cost of having the respray done properly (as in stripped back to a bare shell) would negate any saving on the car in the first place.

Any corners cut on the respray would raise alarm bells to future buyers as would the lack of originality.

I'd say for a colour change, wrap it.

[Mr_C]

If you were going to spray it in a non-standard colour, like Lime Green or something, I could see the point for for what it's going to cost you (reckon on at least £5k for a decent respray) you may aswell just go and buy a red one!

[mr spectraflair]

Do people wrap perfectly good paint jobs? If i were to buy a car with a wrap, i'd be suspicious of the paintwork under it. I'd be happier buying a car in it's birthday suit (birthmarks'n'all).

[V8-S]

Even a half decent respray is £5k.
just add £5k to your budget, and get a good red car in the first place.
No matter, how well the colour change is done, there will always be the tell tale bits in the engine bay, door shuts, luggage cover etc.
Good luck anyway, and tell us what you decide.

[AyBee]

If you are going to recolour it, it may be worth fully documenting it with dated photos in order to show that there was nothing wrong with the car before you changed the colour you just fancied getting rid of the stone chips and changing it's colour....just a thought in order to put potential future buyers' minds at rest?

[4rephill]

mr spectraflair said:

Do people wrap perfectly good paint jobs? If i were to buy a car with a wrap, i'd be suspicious of the paintwork under it. I'd be happier buying a car in it's birthday suit (birthmarks'n'all).

They do if they fancy a change in colour that's cheaper and alot less hassle than than a respray. I've not had a car wrapped but have read that the paintwork is unaffected when the wrap is removed and that it can help protect the original paintwork from unavoidable driving marks such as stone chips.

A quirk with wrapping a car is that even though the car is then a different colour, you do not have to inform the DVLA as the original colour has not been changed. With a respray you have to inform the DVLA to update their databases!.

[944gav]

If Alsa Automotive do the colour change, Al sends you regular pictures of the work in progress which would put any potential purchasers minds at rest that there was nothing being hidden by the respray and that the work was of a first class standard. Have a search on his website or Club Scuderia for examples of his work. As mentioned above, when you look at the attention to detail, his prices are remarkably reasonable.