SilviaGTO

My car is what.. 12 years old? It needs a new paint job.

At the most im going to have it for a couple more years, if it runs that long..
should I just get one of those paint job deals from maaco, some place like that, or should I just shell out the cash and get a decent paint job?

CLpower

get a decent paint job, the maaco jobs will hurt your resale value. A good color change should cost you a MIN of 2K

Crazy Bimmer

Somtimes a good detail will help your finish of the car. How bad is it? Rust spots.. clear coat gone?

SilviaGTO

oh I dont want a color change, It just needs a new paint job

and there isnt going to be a resale value.. its a mitsubishi.. when this car dies, ill make more money parting it out to the other 3000gt owners trying to fix their broken car

SilviaGTO

no rust.. clear coat is gone on the front bumper, back of the car has a lot of oxidation, i managed to get A LOT of it out, but theres still a lot..
paint bubbled up and is chipping off the rear bumper.. a lot of scratches from lord knows what happened to this car in the 10 years before I had it

GreenMonster

Rach, If you're not going to have it for more then a couple of years, I would just drive it as is, and then part it out... Doesn't make sense to me to repaint a car that destined to be parted out...

Take the money you would spend on painting it, and save it for the next new shiney car you buy

Is it really that bad that you can't live with it ??

SakiGT

Save up for your Magnum girlie

One weekend of TLC and the paint should be decent enough for another 6 months...

SilviaGTO

its paid off, so im going to use it until it dies.

but it is a mitsu and it has 148k miles.. so im not sure if it will live more than a couple years.

bah screw it. i guess ill save up for another car.

GreenMonster

I had a similar dilemma with my last car... (ford tbird)... 110K miles, tranny going south, needed some body work, but it was paid off. I milked it w/o putting much money into it for another 26K miles. I had to do front rotors, brakes and a couple of other minor things, but somehow the tranny held together even tho' I would get a wierd vibration when it was going into or out of overdrive...

Worked out great, since I had about 3 years w/o car payments to save up for the downpayment on my CLS...

SilviaGTO

replaced:
brakes, struts, springs
head gasket
valve stems
tranny
2 starters
alternator
window regulator
evaporator coil for the ac is broken, havent fixed it.

oh and i need a new wheel and tire, but thats not a mitsu problem

i know ive fixed more on the car i just cant think of it


but on a side note: the 3000gt is my favorite car and i love the car to death