Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior Cost of Painting Hoodscoop?

the first time i had my hoodscoop painted was for $100 canadian cash. quality paint job. i just bought a carbon fiber hood and want to repaint my scoop silver. is $100 canadian cash a reasonable price or is it too much? thanks

So you're decided on Carbon Fiber eh ?

thats a pretty good price. i heard they usually cost around 100 american

cool thanks.

yeah i decided on the carbon fiber hood because a fantastic deal came up that i couldn't refuse. rims are in the near future i hope.

about how much does it cost to repaint a whole carbon fiber hood? and how much in american dollars is it? (i dont know the conversion for canadian dollars to american)?

why would you want to repaint a carbon fiber hood? You can't repaint it, you couldn't even paint it, it's Carbon Fiber.

don't know...but i'm not intending to paint my carbon fiber hood if that was what you were referring to.

by the way...you can paint anything. lamborghini's are made completely of carbon-fiber. so are the mclaren f1's...just a note...sorry

i was just thinking if someone wanted a carbon fiber hood, but wanted to keep the color of the car uniform...

don't like the carbon fiber look? i didn't like it to begin with...but it grew on me.
the purpose of a carbon fiber hood, besides looks, is that it is very light. painting overtop of it would add more weight. so the price you pay for the hood itself, and then painting it, would be futile in my opinon.

yea, so if you paint over the Carbon Fiber hood, then it just covers the Carbon Fiber????? Do people do that just to reduce weight cause the stock hood is so heavy compared to Carbon Fiber hoods?

didnt realize car paint weighed that much...

you have a carbon fiber hood. its much lighter than the stock hood. people buy the carbon fiber hood for the looks, and the reduction in weight. so its all good.

you have a carbon fiber hood. you don't like the look of it, so you decide to paint over it. not sure, but i believe at least 3 coats of paint is needed. the paint probably won't add the weight to the carbon fiber hood equalling the stock hood, but it will significantly add weight which thus renders the carbon fiber hood pointless...imo.