ZeroPSI

A guy I know from around here has a pretty nice Mazda Protoge and recently bought a limited run carbon fiber hood for it and took the car to our local Mazda dealership to get part of the hood and his new grille painted to the way he liked it.

He went in and HANDED them this photo he printed off to show them how he would like it painted:


Yesterday he goes to pick up the car, and this is what they give him:





At least they matched the color.

zeroday

looks like a huge bug deflector

zeroday

its gonna be tough to get the paint off that CF without refinishing the cf surface.

Shiffy

I don't see anything wrong with it

1killercls

One hell of a CAI on that thing!

fuckleberry

man that's one hell of a fuckup

curls

Umm, the guy must be a retard not to want to know the EXACT color that he is asking for... for a custom job like that, you'd better either REALLY trust the paint shop to do it exactly as the picture looks, or, do the legwork yourself and tell them "this area here I want in $$### color, and everything else in $$### color".

ZeroPSI

The whole car didn't get painted, just the hood.

Crazy Bimmer

at killer

Did he pay for it?

fuzzy02CLS

iTrader: (2)

If there were black strips over the roof & trunk it wouldn't look too bad.

I hope they are going to fix it.

dallison

hell, it wouldnt have moved from the dealer til it was done right, that's my rule of thumb

cob3683

I wouldn't have left till they fixed the problem. That looks like shit

Besides, modding a Protege is ghey

97BlackAckCL

iTrader: (6)

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At least it's steelers colors, go steelers

CLpower

too funny, but i've seen regular bodyshops do the exact same thing to people, but curls is right.

ZeroPSI

Shitty thing is, its one of 10 carbon hoods ever made for the MSP.

9 are on cars, one is left, so hopefully the dealership will buy and fix for him.

srika

Whiskers

Looks fine to me, but Im dyslexic.....

Sarlacc

Psssh, good luck fighting that battle.

zeroday

the more i look at it the more it looks like some bigass gaudy bug guard

F23A4

SakiGT

He should have marked the area with tape like it was going in for surgery.

Oh my god. I wouldve just cried.

CL Platano

That is horrible..It looks bad I would of flipped and talked to the manager

slayer202

thats pretty gay, I guess if you have them just paint the rest of it, it won't look that bad

demolition_x

idk how they could have f'ed up that. i would be pissed. but yet it doesn't look terrible. but he shouldn't have accepted it.

Shoofin

That's one heck of a f- up...But it doesn't look that bad

spdy0001

The one in the picture doesn't look like the paint is matched very well.

Oh and I just threw up a little bit when l saw his hood

stangg172004

its wrid how color combinations make a car look more rice, like the first pick looks fine but the way they actually did it sucks ass. And i would not have left the dealer untill they fixed it or payed for it, total crap job...

ZeroPSI

The dealer was actually able to fix it, and not ahrd the carbon fiber weave at all!

CCColtsicehockey

Wow thats amazing but it still doesnt look like the one in the picture first posted. he still needs to get a yellow candy color over the carbon fiber so it has yellow tint to it.

ZeroPSI

The first picture is a photoshop.

The color is the actual Mazdaspeed Yellow.

CCColtsicehockey

ok but it still in the picture looks like both parts of the hood are painted. just one is painted with a pearl yellow clear coat.

92NSX

sorry but just not feelin' it for the color combo