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Colour Change Resprays: The Complete Guide

Changing your car's colour is one of the most satisfying transformations you can make — and more involved than a like-for-like respray.

More than the outer panels

To do it properly, the areas that show when you open a door, the boot or the bonnet — shuts, jambs and edges — all need painting in the new colour too. Otherwise the old colour peeks through. That extra work is the biggest reason a colour change costs more.

Choosing your colour

We'll help you settle on a shade and finish — solid, metallic or pearl — and match it precisely. View samples in daylight, because colours behave very differently outdoors.

The DVLA bit

If you change your car's colour you must tell the DVLA so your V5C logbook is updated. It's straightforward, but important — and worth telling your insurer too, as it's a modification.

See it before you commit

Come down to our Grimsby workshop, look at samples with us and talk it through before anything's sprayed.

Audi S3 — deep metallic blue bonnet refinish
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Audi S3 — deep metallic blue bonnet refinish

A full bonnet refinish in Audi's deep metallic blue — one of the colours that shows every flaw in prep and every mismatch in colour. Under the booth…

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