Where to get White Stripes to fix my baby?

[ArlyDude]

Hello everyone, this must be a record. After owning my baby for less than a day, I managed to give her a boo boo.

On my way back from Louisiana the weather was total [******]. It rained from the time I started my drive back home to PA and pretty much never stopped precipitating. I say precipitating because the rain changed over to sleet and freezing rain around Tennessee and that changed over to Snow around Roanoke Va. I made it to Carlisle PA and was about 100 miles away from home. I had to pull off the interstate while it was snowing and get gas. I was eager to get home and get done with my 20some hour drive home. While I pulled onto the offramp I was slowing down and for no reason my car just started a 360 spin, at about 90 degrees my car hit the gaurd rail head on and continued the other 270 degrees. I was going about 20mph. When it was all over i ended up parallel to the guard rail. The only damage I did was scraped the front facia and took the one white stripe down to the blue paint. I was mad, but I knew I probably would have continued my way home if that didn't happen and that was God telling me to stop there or I would have done more damage to my car and myself.

So now I need about 3 feet of white stripe and a good paint shop to fix her. Any suggestions? Can I just get someone to fix the stripe with paint? I will post some pictures tomorrow when I take them. Thank you.

Also, what is a good estimate on what it would be to sand and repaint my whole front bumper? Thanks.

 

[2000GTS]

I am also curious about where to get these. I want to repaint my front bumper due to rock chips. Their not bad, but I was thinking of doing the 3M clear bra and wanted the bumper perfect before it went on.

I'm sure a body shop could match the paint, but I don't want the stipe painted when the rest is vinyl. For the stripe to be a perfect match does it have to be factory? The stip is silver.

Bill

 

[ArlyDude]

Also, I am afraid if I put a new stripe on, the stripe on the hood is like 8 years old and might be faded a little. I want the color to be PERFECT! Will the new stripe match it well? I'm sure many people had this done before.

 

[Lee00blacksilverGTS]

If you are in Pa, there is a guy in New Jersey that has a great reputation, his name escapes me for the moment but others may recall, I know Bill Pemberton from Woodhouse knows him. And we have a guy here in Maryland that does incredible tape work, looks just like paint. His name on the board is 1meansnake.

 

[PaViper]

Where are you from, you said you were about 100 miles from home in Carlisle. The white I would think would be easy to match, most Vipers don't sit outside 24/7 so the fading shouldn't be an issue on the white.

 

[94RT10Ohio]

Hello everyone, this must be a record. After owning my baby for less than a day, I managed to give her a boo boo.

On my way back from Louisiana the weather was total [******]. It rained from the time I started my drive back home to PA and pretty much never stopped precipitating. I say precipitating because the rain changed over to sleet and freezing rain around Tennessee and that changed over to Snow around Roanoke Va. I made it to Carlisle PA and was about 100 miles away from home. I had to pull off the interstate while it was snowing and get gas. I was eager to get home and get done with my 20some hour drive home. While I pulled onto the offramp I was slowing down and for no reason my car just started a 360 spin, at about 90 degrees my car hit the gaurd rail head on and continued the other 270 degrees. I was going about 20mph. When it was all over i ended up parallel to the guard rail. The only damage I did was scraped the front facia and took the one white stripe down to the blue paint. I was mad, but I knew I probably would have continued my way home if that didn't happen and that was God telling me to stop there or I would have done more damage to my car and myself.

So now I need about 3 feet of white stripe and a good paint shop to fix her. Any suggestions? Can I just get someone to fix the stripe with paint? I will post some pictures tomorrow when I take them. Thank you.

Also, what is a good estimate on what it would be to sand and repaint my whole front bumper? Thanks.

Sorry to hear about that. I bet it is not a record as I have heard many horror stories from new owners thinking hit the gas with the wheel turned, I can correct the spin. They suddenly realize they can not, and this is usually on dry pavement. I bought mine from WI in December and put it on a trailer.

 

[EA6BPilot]

I had my front facia replaced and repainted when I hit a dog going to work (the dog lived believe it or not). The factory red was an easy match, but they had to color match the silver. A good paint shop will make sure the colors match, regardless of age, so you should be ok. My car is a 98 with 45,000 miles at the time of the accident, so she is no garage queen. The cost of the job (including labor to remove and replace) was around $500. If you took it off and brought it in, you might get away with around $300-$400.

 

[tim721]

Lee, are you thinking of Chris Barone?

 

[Lee00blacksilverGTS]

Bingo! That's the guy, do you have his contact information?

 

[ArlyDude]

I live in Tamaqua, 15 miles south of Hazleton.

 

[PaViper]

There is a Viper owner up your way with a body shop, he has done some work for a few of the guys here in the Harrisburg area, (Ed, Lauri for sure). His name is Dan, (Dans Auto Body). Maybe Ed can hook you up.

 

[ArlyDude]

Uht ooo, better get Maaco!

Lol?

I was thinking about them. They painted another car of mine.