To paint or not to paint.
 

I recently had someone smash the front of my car. I had a body shop estimate of 1200.00 to fix. When my fiancée took my car to a wash, a gentleman at the car wash fixed the dent for under 100.00 bucks. What was noticeably missing was the fog light cover. I ordered the piece and am wondering, is this something I can paint myself with a primer coat, base and top coat or am I better off taking it to a body shop? The plastic comes in black and my Honda Pilot color is Bali Blue.

paint them both black with plasti-dip or use vinyl wrap

@lowlife9... Why would I do that? If the car is blue, why would i paint them both black. What is plastic dip/ vinyl wrap.

because on most cars the fog light housings are matte black to match the rest of the black trim and painting them with matte black plasti-dip will be cheap and easy. if you don't know what plasti-dip or vinyl wrap is google it.

Thank you for the plastidip info. I googled as well as you tubed and it does look like a great alternative. Unfortunately, I would need to match the other fog cover which is a pearlized blue. Both housings are blue as well. So grateful for the info.:)

the beauty of plasti-dip is you can paint the housings while there still on the car taping is optional. people paint there lamborghini's, bentley's and ferrari's with plasti-dip then peel it off when they want a different color.

Unproper paint finish
 

hello Honda people,

Check out these images. I wanted to do a self repair for a scratch on the rear door. After applying the primer spray, I used the paint spray for the same color code, and then a clear coat spray. The result went unespectedly dissapointing, since the final color and finished texture were by far equal to the original.

any possible fixing suggestions? :confused:

thanks!!

if you don't use OEM honda paint it never really matches,and even if you use OEM paint it still wont match perfectly because the oem paint has dulled from sunlight. body shops will offer to color match the paint for this very reason for an extra fee. if you want it perfect your going to have to go to a reputable body shop.