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Got rear ended in the morning

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luckyg817

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What's up guys. So about 6:30 this morning I woke up to my car alarm going off. Turns out my neighbor backed into my car while backing out of his driveway. Most of the damage was in the trunk lid and he scuffed the bumper pretty good in one spot. Total damage according to the shop I went to get a quote with was about $1300 for a new trunk lid, paint and labor. Haven't talked to the adjuster yet but it is on my to do list today. I talked to the shop about painting some stuff that i've been wanting to get done and figured now would be the perfect opportunity to do so. For those of you that have seen pics of my car, i'm going for a green and black theme. I have the SE lip kit in the unpainted flat black that it comes in and my hood vinyl wrapped flat black. If the adjuster dishes out more than the $1300 that they quoted me, I want to use that towards painting the lip kit and the hood. I'm wanting opinions on what to do. I considered color matching everything to the metallic green but then I was like well it might look too bland. Should I have the lip kit and hood painted a glossy black or flat black? Color match the hood and paint the lip kit glossy/ flat black and paint the roof black to match? What do yall think? Here are a couple of pics of the damage and of the car for reference to the color scheme.









 


If you want the panels a different color, get it gloss...having some pieces flat and others gloss makes the flat panels look like they're in primer. Personally, Id get all the panels color matched, and the accent pieces gloss black. To me, having the hood a different color makes it look like you picked up a hood from the JY to replace a damaged one and you haven't been able to afford to get it painted yet...
 


Go with Gloss!

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I think you should do Gloss Black in the center of the lip (where the grilles are) and do the rest of the lip, the hood, and the roof color matched.
 


Color match all the body panels, then things like the lip, rear diffuser, grills gloss black to get that pop you're looking for...And yeah - do what hardgainer is showing you...lol
 
Yeah I think i'm going to color match the hood and have the front lip, side skirts and rear diffuser painted gloss black. I can't make up my mind if I want to paint the roof black yet so i'm going to wrap it in gloss black and see how it looks. It'll be cheaper than paint and if I don't like it, I can just peel it off. Oh and yea definitely gloss black on the grills. Thinking powder coat though, good idea?
 
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