McLaren 720S Custom Paint Job

[CyCy]

I must say, that is honestly the best looking paint I've ever seen on a 720S! I thought my Memphis Red car was the best colour out there. Clearly very, very wrong.

Whilst I appreciate this is a touch tongue in cheek, I do want to know if you'd be open to someone else wanting to have this done on their 720S? I've sold mine long since, and am thinking of picking another up in due course. I can't find the right car/color combination, and this thread has sparked my imagination, and I'd love to have this done on my car.

If you're okay with it, I'd love to drop you a PM to gauge what this cost!

Thanks!

[anonymous-user]

CyCy said:

I must say, that is honestly the best looking paint I've ever seen on a 720S! I thought my Memphis Red car was the best colour out there. Clearly very, very wrong.

Whilst I appreciate this is a touch tongue in cheek, I do want to know if you'd be open to someone else wanting to have this done on their 720S? I've sold mine long since, and am thinking of picking another up in due course. I can't find the right car/color combination, and this thread has sparked my imagination, and I'd love to have this done on my car.

If you're okay with it, I'd love to drop you a PM to gauge what this cost!

Thanks!

By all means feel free to do whatever you wish. The colour pigment was imported from the US from a company called Didspade. They have a lot to choose from. Mine is the Supershift colour Blue Iris Pearl > https://didspade.com/collections/supershifts®

I’ve been sworn to secrecy on the cost but do give Daniel Hall a call at Paint-Tec Bristol who did the respray. He is a fellow McLaren 570S owner and appreciates the marque and the need for a high quality flawless paint finish.

The logic behind having a respray is that the car will be in long-term ownership and at some point it will inevitably pick up some paint damage - I do approx 10K miles PA in the 720S (there was already paint damage which needed attention). The cost of a McLaren approved body shop respray will be very high so I thought why not bite-the-bullet now and go for a one-off custom respray which can be maintained at a lower cost than OEM.

I suspect this type of paint finish done through MSO would be at least £40K - mine was a fraction of this. The main cost is made up of labour flatting the paint to an orange-peel glass like finish, followed by reassembly of body panels back onto the tub (not an easy task). I guess costs could be reduced by having the bodywork painted in-situ, but I chose to have a full body off respray.

Paint-Tec > https://www.facebook.com/paint.tecbristol/

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 3rd August 12:21

[anonymous-user]

IMI A said:

Look at that! So special personalised to your own taste. Must be the only one no? Fantastic!

I’ve not seen or heard of a 720S having a full and permanent custom respray in the UK. Plenty have had the temporary Paint Protection Spray.

MSO have produced a Senna in a similar scheme.

[IMI A]

Amazing 11/10

[anonymous-user]

These bad boys are being fitted next week. My 720S initially came with Track Pack such as MSO harness bar and track telemetry software + cameras, but didn’t have the P1 style CF bucket racing seats. The addition of the seats should bring the car up to full track pack specs.

[Petrus1983]

Really impressive. Will you be putting it on the track?

[anonymous-user]

Petrus1983 said:

Really impressive. Will you be putting it on the track?

Possibly. I’m building up to it.

[Petrus1983]

MAC 720S said:

Petrus1983 said:

Really impressive. Will you be putting it on the track?

Possibly. I’m building up to it.

Amazing. If you're in the South/South West there's a very good track day service with brilliant instructors if it helps. (They have events all over too).

[Beefmeister]

On track is where for me the 720S really shines. Mainly because you can use all the performance but also because it’s so damn good, when you can cruise to the track in absolute comfort.

I presented an SCD vid at Anglesey where Ollie Webb took a 720S and a Pista around the track back to back. The 720S wouldn’t go into Track Mode (ah McLaren ) so was stuck in Sport and it still came within hundredths of a second of Ferrari’s track special. Both on ‘standard’ rubber. Seriously impressive.

[RBT0]

How could it be a track pack if w/o P1s? Did the first owner spec them out?

[anonymous-user]

RBT0 said:

How could it be a track pack if w/o P1s? Did the first owner spec them out?

McLaren Press Car. I guess they were deleted to make ingress/egress easier. One of those oddities when buying ex-McLaren owned cars. It had 1400 miles when I took ownership.

[RBT0]

MAC 720S said:

RBT0 said:

How could it be a track pack if w/o P1s? Did the first owner spec them out?

McLaren Press Car. I guess they were deleted to make ingress/egress easier. One of those oddities when buying ex-McLaren owned cars. It had 1400 miles when I took ownership.

Thank Mick.

Not sure as I’d have thought P1s do not compromise ingress/egress, maybe I am too used to them now or on superseries the carbon tub is different from sportseries.

Ros

[Beefmeister]

MAC 720S said:

McLaren Press Car. I guess they were deleted to make ingress/egress easier. One of those oddities when buying ex-McLaren owned cars. It had 1400 miles when I took ownership.

Or someone soiled the P1 seats on a demo lap and they replaced with whatever they had

[650spider]

mac, I was in McLaren Glasgow today and they had a 720 coupe in for a service that is one of only 2 cars painted in Glasgows very own custom colour called 'Clyde Blue'.

Its a blue / purple flip paint and based more on the blue than purple, so standing at rear arch it was blue and looking down the flank it was full on purple by the front arch.

It was pretty stunning.

They have only spec'd 2 cars in that; that 720 coupe and a 570.

Just a random piece of info for you.

No other Mac dealer is allowed the paint code.

[Leftfootwonder]

IMI A said:

Look at that! So special personalised to your own taste. Must be the only one no? Fantastic!

That really is stunning in the daylight. Bravo.

I do not understand all this, predominantly online-only, negativity toward McLaren. Joe Public loves them! Faults are well published although I know of many Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini owners with tales of woe (only need to search these forums for proof of that) yet somehow they don't suffer with this negativity. It's a very British thing to put down a British company/product/person which is very sad. The stuff McLaren are producing is mind blowing given they're relatively short existence. Assuming they can ride their current troubles, imagine what they'll be putting out in another 10 years!

[WilliamWaiver]

Leftfootwonder said:

That really is stunning in the daylight. Bravo.

I do not understand all this, predominantly online-only, negativity toward McLaren. Joe Public loves them! Faults are well published although I know of many Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini owners with tales of woe (only need to search these forums for proof of that) yet somehow they don't suffer with this negativity. It's a very British thing to put down a British company/product/person which is very sad. The stuff McLaren are producing is mind blowing given they're relatively short existence. Assuming they can ride their current troubles, imagine what they'll be putting out in another 10 years!

Perception and reality are 2 different things.
My lambo has had a host of small niggle faults, stuck fuel filler flap, tracker not working, Bluetooth mic not working etc... nothing major but if it had been a McLaren it would be all over the Internet and a rejection suggested.

I really dont get the criticism McLaren cars get other than the poor customer service and marketing from the dealer network and manufacturer.

The cars themselves are cutting edge and almost a generation on from the competition
Eg 765LT will thrash a 488 Pista and a F8 tributo which is just catching up with a 720S

[LotusJas]

WilliamWaiver said:

poor customer service and marketing from some of the dealer network.

EFA

Just pick a better dealer. Some are excellent.

I use Hatfield, who have been exceptional.

Woking HQ have been 100% perfect in all dealings with me too - I can't think of any better company to deal with, for any product, in my personal experience.

[CJ22]

Beautiful colour! A type of paint you don't see enough of these days in my opinion.

And from the pictures of the finish, it's also good to know of another top notch painter that's local.