i do like a matt black car & ive been thinking about it for a while,

so whats the good points & bad points??

P.S. pics would be good!

 

Well you could always use it as a black board

 

You'll struggle to clean/polish it!

 

looks shit imo.

 

you will never get water marks off it!

 

The trick is to go more satin than matt.

Totally matt will show all greasy fingerprints and be a pig to keep clean.

 

You can clean matt black no problem, as long as you lacuer it. I painted a bike for someone matt black, the lacuer had 50% matting agent added, looked pretty cool, not sure about a whole car though.

 

Morning Ross!!!

 

Doug you have PM

 

pros: cheap, easy
cons: ridiculously done to death cliche now, almost as bad as rat look

 

Unless its a nail, or the car is going to get abused that much , that the body work will take a beating, I wouldn't bother.


Spend the cash and get a decent paint job.

 

thats mine
i liked matt black as its the only colour i liked for the car
it is hard to clean tho however scratches are easy to repair and i think it has a more agressive stance
each to theyre own tho

 

Go for stain black rather than matt black.

 

satin black, people think what they see is matt, but its not, matt is too grey,

and funny how people think its common or cliche, when ive not seen a matt black car on the road, or at a show, or even on a forum, for years really.

only time you really see satin black cars these days is the supercars etc people keep doing it to.

the craze of doing it to normal cars was years ago, not now, so crack on if you want.

 

Much the same opinion really apart from Dan Joyce's matt black 306 i saw the other day. That was just a quick aerosol job and from a distance it looks quite smart. Especially with a few stickers on it.

 

Pro: Its easy to do and wont show up brush/rolelr marks as much.

Con: It looks shit on a 'modern' vehicle. This is not my opinion, this is fact. If you don't agree - you're just plain wrong.

 

People in the house behind work for Honda??

 

My bonnet is done in this way, metallic panther black with a matt lacquer.
Supposedly something BMW and Merc will be doing??

My brothers VW Caddy is satin, looks well but marks easily

 

why not get the car wrapped. Cheaper and could return to standard when your bored of it.

 

lol
yes

 

explain what wrapped is??

 

1 of 2 things

either hit a tree at about 40mph and it will be wrapped

or

get a company to completley cover the paint work in a vinyl the colour or patteren of your choice about 1k

 

Vinyl wrap over the car. Wrap the car to any colour and style you want.

 

expensive tho for what it is i think

 

yes you can pay a grand. But it is cheaper than a respray, protect your paintwork underneath, can be removed in a jiffy and wont make you cry when you scratch it

 

Pro's cheap
Con's looks shit ..........

 

the pro of cheap is daft really.

its only cheap if you do it yourself.

but any paintjob is cheap if you do it yourself.

and most paintjobs jook shit when done yourself too.

see the real connection between paint and crap here people?

 

You seen one in the flesh then to make that comment?

 

Yes

 

Me too, the one i saw was fantastic, enough to make me want to have one done. The one you saw must have been a poor and old one.

 

No i just think it looked shit , totally pointless IMO but each to their own.

 

whats pointless about it, so its pointless respraying a car also in your opinion?

 

heard they dnt last long tho cos of bublin under arches and stuff?
id cry if i spent a grand on a sticker for it to be scratched lol
i love my cab in matt black but as said its a matter of opinion ive never seen a mk4 in matt black and wanted summit different

 

Spending all that money to have a car look like it's unfinished, the upkeep of the matt finish, resale as it won't appeal to alot of people who think it's been done with a can of plastikote from B&Q............

 

so its unique

 

So if i smeared my car is antelope droppings and drove about dressed as Mr.T that would be the coolest thing ever???? I don't doubt it's unique, all I am doing is expressing my PERSONAL opinion as this is indeed an internet forum and a post asking about the Pro's and Con's....

 

Really, I've charged people less than a grand and the job has been spot on.

 

This was a vinyl wrap, we didn't have it done, it was done when we bought it, didn't scratch easily, never bubbled, would reccomend it again.
pic from when we bought it



we did manage to scratch it in the end though

 

i wud pay u to do that pmsl
like i said its opinion
u got urs i got mine thats what makes us who we are