What color should I wrap my car?

[b6a4sreca]

Title says it all. I'm coming to you guys for advice so I don't pick a color that would go badly with the B6 sedan. Thanks for any suggestions!

[MacFady]

Instead of having thousands of people pick from thousands of colors for you, why don't you tell us five you are thinking about. Or better yet, just look through peoples opinions in the threads where this question has already been asked such as
This
or
This

[ZipMeUpJ]

color choice is subjective.

[xhackerekx]

black wrap with white sculls

[Molotov]

Pink. But seriously. Pick 5 colors, create a poll and post some pictures of your car.

[ShogunR32]

Frost white

[SaabtoAudi]

Blurple

[gmudan]

Matte blue and grey are already done here, how about matte silver?

Or a lighter silver

[FromS60toB61.8t]

try this if you cant decide on one color

[Toronto5.5]

^lmao

[ffgo24]

Wow... That's just awful!

[sc08 lab]

What ever colour get it satin as it looks amazing. Someone has just wrapped his a5 in satin blue and looks top banana, although maybe try a pastel satin blue.


59 3.0 Quattro TDI, S Line, Special Edition, all the toys, remapped and VAGCOM'd.

[Spike00513]

Not satin. Gloss. In any color. Only reason you should have satin is if you're trying to show off (it's a B6 A4, what's there to show off?) or blend in with the shadows on nighttime batman missions. Atleast IMO. I hate satin/matte on cars, whether it be the new BMW paint, or vinyl wrap...It's an Audi, and a passenger car. Not an F/A-18 fighter jet, Apache helicopter, or 5-ton truck...

Here's white, pick whatever color you want. I'd prefer something lighter to minimize interior heating in the sun.

In your profile pic, the silver B6 looks good. Why waste money on wrapping it? Vinyl wrap is typically used on race cars for sponsors/advertisements...Or for when a re-spray is too expensive..

[Furly]

Matte colors will make your car look plastidipped.
I would go with a nice blue or red.

Your interior color will play a huge roll in what will look good as an exterior color.

[b6a4sreca]

Not satin. Gloss. In any color. Only reason you should have satin is if you're trying to show off (it's a B6 A4, what's there to show off?) or blend in with the shadows on nighttime batman missions. Atleast IMO. I hate satin/matte on cars, whether it be the new BMW paint, or vinyl wrap...It's an Audi, and a passenger car. Not an F/A-18 fighter jet, Apache helicopter, or 5-ton truck...

Here's white, pick whatever color you want. I'd prefer something lighter to minimize interior heating in the sun.

In your profile pic, the silver B6 looks good. Why waste money on wrapping it? Vinyl wrap is typically used on race cars for sponsors/advertisements...Or for when a re-spray is too expensive..

Thanks for the advice, but I recently did body work on the driver side front fender, an the front and rear door. Tried to respray myself and the color matched paint did not match. Don't know if it was mixed wrong or oem paint is faded but ik it wasn't my dad as he worked in a body shop for years. So basically I'm looking for a cheaper way to have a nice looking car ( I am a junior in high school ) so I'm on a tight budget. As I aquire more money I will definitely take your advice! Thanks again
-Sam

[b6a4sreca]

Matte colors will make your car look plastidipped.
I would go with a nice blue or red.

Your interior color will play a huge roll in what will look good as an exterior color.

I have black interior so I feel like black vinyl would be a bit too much heat.

[ionicswing]

Why do people really wrap? seems to me paint is much more vibrant and crafted.

[Waspjr]

Wrap and dip is for the faint at heart. Just dive in and make the car how u want.
And I would recommend a poter cable random orbital polisher and a set of pads you would be amazed what will come back to life. Even use 1500 2000 grit then polish just my opinion tho good luck :)

[Spike00513]

Thanks for the advice, but I recently did body work on the driver side front fender, an the front and rear door. Tried to respray myself and the color matched paint did not match. Don't know if it was mixed wrong or oem paint is faded but ik it wasn't my dad as he worked in a body shop for years. So basically I'm looking for a cheaper way to have a nice looking car ( I am a junior in high school ) so I'm on a tight budget. As I aquire more money I will definitely take your advice! Thanks again
-Sam

I didn't know this. Then it completely makes sense to want to vinyl wrap it, and I don't think it matters whether its satin or gloss, whatever cheapest. Since anything is better than exposed bodywork. I thought you were the type of guy who can afford a BMW M5, yet wraps it in satin purple. Lots of those idiots in my area. They live in shitty houses just so they can afford having a "stance-bro hellaflushed out" high performance German car, that they end up selling after a year or two since they can't afford maintenance and it was a dumb car to begin with anyway, such as an E60 M5 (E39 is better..)


Was it cheaper to do body work, than to buy used parts from a junkyard? I imagine you'd be able score the front and rear door shells and fender (for one side of the car) for $100-$300 in silver. Maybe pricing would be better if you found a local fellow enthusiast, as they're usually more negotiable than salesman such as junkyard employees.

There's a junkyard near me that wants $300 for good condition B6S4 door shells (all 4), with door blades included. If you sell the door blades, you'd have paid around 0$ for the shells. You'd have to re-use your old blades though.

I believe AZ'er Iamshayan wrapped his b6 in satin grey himself, not sure if details on that (such as price for materials, difficulty of install) is available here. And Jubei___ (whatever the numbers are that come after "Jubei") did his in satin blue.

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I wonder if it would be cheaper to Plasti-dip it. Some guy named Fonzi or something made a business out of it, called DipYourCar, in which he sells a kit big enough to do your car. Kind of pricey though, and I believe he's profiting as a middleman considering he made a business out of it. The money he gets from it has to come out of somebodys pocket, and its the consumers. So maybe you can cut him out of the deal, and figure out how to do it all yourself.

Such as a harbor freight spray gun, with 5gal bucket of plasti-dip sprayed through it or something. Not to say that it works like that, I have no idea. But I think it might be better to do something like that, rather than buy 20 cans from Home Depot ($100, find somebody with a military ID to buy it for 10% discount) and take forever to do it. But if it's possible, why not. There's also a glossifier plasti-dip spray. Lots of color choices too. Yellow, blue, black, white, red, yellow, gunmetal, etc..

Supposedly, its paint-safe and removable. However, there was an FRS-guy who plasti-dipped a superman emblem on his hood, and after peeling it, the hood had a superman stain or something in the paint..Not sure if he ever got rid of it

[Waspjr]

Ouch ^

[NathanGrayW]

It kind of looks cool...

[NathanGrayW]

I didn't know this. Then it completely makes sense to want to vinyl wrap it, and I don't think it matters whether its satin or gloss, whatever cheapest. Since anything is better than exposed bodywork. I thought you were the type of guy who can afford a BMW M5, yet wraps it in satin purple. Lots of those idiots in my area. They live in shitty houses just so they can afford having a "stance-bro hellaflushed out" high performance German car, that they end up selling after a year or two since they can't afford maintenance and it was a dumb car to begin with anyway, such as an E60 M5 (E39 is better..)


Was it cheaper to do body work, than to buy used parts from a junkyard? I imagine you'd be able score the front and rear door shells and fender (for one side of the car) for $100-$300 in silver. Maybe pricing would be better if you found a local fellow enthusiast, as they're usually more negotiable than salesman such as junkyard employees.

There's a junkyard near me that wants $300 for good condition B6S4 door shells (all 4), with door blades included. If you sell the door blades, you'd have paid around 0$ for the shells. You'd have to re-use your old blades though.

I believe AZ'er Iamshayan wrapped his b6 in satin grey himself, not sure if details on that (such as price for materials, difficulty of install) is available here. And Jubei___ (whatever the numbers are that come after "Jubei") did his in satin blue.

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I wonder if it would be cheaper to Plasti-dip it. Some guy named Fonzi or something made a business out of it, called DipYourCar, in which he sells a kit big enough to do your car. Kind of pricey though, and I believe he's profiting as a middleman considering he made a business out of it. The money he gets from it has to come out of somebodys pocket, and its the consumers. So maybe you can cut him out of the deal, and figure out how to do it all yourself.

Such as a harbor freight spray gun, with 5gal bucket of plasti-dip sprayed through it or something. Not to say that it works like that, I have no idea. But I think it might be better to do something like that, rather than buy 20 cans from Home Depot ($100, find somebody with a military ID to buy it for 10% discount) and take forever to do it. But if it's possible, why not. There's also a glossifier plasti-dip spray. Lots of color choices too. Yellow, blue, black, white, red, yellow, gunmetal, etc..

Supposedly, its paint-safe and removable. However, there was an FRS-guy who plasti-dipped a superman emblem on his hood, and after peeling it, the hood had a superman stain or something in the paint..Not sure if he ever got rid of it

It'll cost about $400 to plastipdip your car the first time.
That includes 4 gallons and the sprayer.
After that, it'll only be $200 if you want to redo it.
I'm not sure on the price on wrapping your car, but it's probably around the same. But its a lot harder, and takes a lot more time. + you need more tools.
Compare those to a $2000+ for a quality respray, and it's definitely worth it. Especially if your a kid in high school, or someone going through college.

[PreciseD]

A quality wrap is about 3-5 grand. I real respray is between 7-12 grand. Plasti Dip can be had for 30% less than dipyourcar if you know where to look.

Personally I think Spike hit the nail on the head about picking up used parts from a yard to replace the "fixed" ones.

Let's face the facts. These cars are being driven by high schoolers now (no offense OP) and just not worth a full wrap or respray unless you absolutely love the car and will keep it longer than 4 years or so.

[b6a4sreca]

I didn't know this. Then it completely makes sense to want to vinyl wrap it, and I don't think it matters whether its satin or gloss, whatever cheapest. Since anything is better than exposed bodywork. I thought you were the type of guy who can afford a BMW M5, yet wraps it in satin purple. Lots of those idiots in my area. They live in shitty houses just so they can afford having a "stance-bro hellaflushed out" high performance German car, that they end up selling after a year or two since they can't afford maintenance and it was a dumb car to begin with anyway, such as an E60 M5 (E39 is better..)


Was it cheaper to do body work, than to buy used parts from a junkyard? I imagine you'd be able score the front and rear door shells and fender (for one side of the car) for $100-$300 in silver. Maybe pricing would be better if you found a local fellow enthusiast, as they're usually more negotiable than salesman such as junkyard employees.

There's a junkyard near me that wants $300 for good condition B6S4 door shells (all 4), with door blades included. If you sell the door blades, you'd have paid around 0$ for the shells. You'd have to re-use your old blades though.

I believe AZ'er Iamshayan wrapped his b6 in satin grey himself, not sure if details on that (such as price for materials, difficulty of install) is available here. And Jubei___ (whatever the numbers are that come after "Jubei") did his in satin blue.

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I wonder if it would be cheaper to Plasti-dip it. Some guy named Fonzi or something made a business out of it, called DipYourCar, in which he sells a kit big enough to do your car. Kind of pricey though, and I believe he's profiting as a middleman considering he made a business out of it. The money he gets from it has to come out of somebodys pocket, and its the consumers. So maybe you can cut him out of the deal, and figure out how to do it all yourself.

Such as a harbor freight spray gun, with 5gal bucket of plasti-dip sprayed through it or something. Not to say that it works like that, I have no idea. But I think it might be better to do something like that, rather than buy 20 cans from Home Depot ($100, find somebody with a military ID to buy it for 10% discount) and take forever to do it. But if it's possible, why not. There's also a glossifier plasti-dip spray. Lots of color choices too. Yellow, blue, black, white, red, yellow, gunmetal, etc..

Supposedly, its paint-safe and removable. However, there was an FRS-guy who plasti-dipped a superman emblem on his hood, and after peeling it, the hood had a superman stain or something in the paint..Not sure if he ever got rid of it

Thank you for the idea! I will definitely have to look into that!

[b6a4sreca]

No offense taken :p lol and I have to drive this bitch hopefully for another 5 years at the least, and even if I have to work for a few years to afford that I might just do that because I really just want my car to be nice and be a neck snapper! Ik that will take a whole lot of work but I've got time. Thanks for all your help!

[b6a4sreca]

I didn't know this. Then it completely makes sense to want to vinyl wrap it, and I don't think it matters whether its satin or gloss, whatever cheapest. Since anything is better than exposed bodywork. I thought you were the type of guy who can afford a BMW M5, yet wraps it in satin purple. Lots of those idiots in my area. They live in shitty houses just so they can afford having a "stance-bro hellaflushed out" high performance German car, that they end up selling after a year or two since they can't afford maintenance and it was a dumb car to begin with anyway, such as an E60 M5 (E39 is better..)


Was it cheaper to do body work, than to buy used parts from a junkyard? I imagine you'd be able score the front and rear door shells and fender (for one side of the car) for $100-$300 in silver. Maybe pricing would be better if you found a local fellow enthusiast, as they're usually more negotiable than salesman such as junkyard employees.

There's a junkyard near me that wants $300 for good condition B6S4 door shells (all 4), with door blades included. If you sell the door blades, you'd have paid around 0$ for the shells. You'd have to re-use your old blades though.

I believe AZ'er Iamshayan wrapped his b6 in satin grey himself, not sure if details on that (such as price for materials, difficulty of install) is available here. And Jubei___ (whatever the numbers are that come after "Jubei") did his in satin blue.

----------------------

I wonder if it would be cheaper to Plasti-dip it. Some guy named Fonzi or something made a business out of it, called DipYourCar, in which he sells a kit big enough to do your car. Kind of pricey though, and I believe he's profiting as a middleman considering he made a business out of it. The money he gets from it has to come out of somebodys pocket, and its the consumers. So maybe you can cut him out of the deal, and figure out how to do it all yourself.

Such as a harbor freight spray gun, with 5gal bucket of plasti-dip sprayed through it or something. Not to say that it works like that, I have no idea. But I think it might be better to do something like that, rather than buy 20 cans from Home Depot ($100, find somebody with a military ID to buy it for 10% discount) and take forever to do it. But if it's possible, why not. There's also a glossifier plasti-dip spray. Lots of color choices too. Yellow, blue, black, white, red, yellow, gunmetal, etc..

Supposedly, its paint-safe and removable. However, there was an FRS-guy who plasti-dipped a superman emblem on his hood, and after peeling it, the hood had a superman stain or something in the paint..Not sure if he ever got rid of it

And to answer your question about the body work, I probably could've found cheap parts at the scrap yard but my dad wanted to teach me how to do body work so I guess you can't put a price on spending time with your dad working on your car ;)

[FromS60toB61.8t]

buying parts from junk yards doesnt always work especially with silver cars.

there are 5-6 different shades and different metalic flakes in the light silver metalic paint code, getting a perfect match is near impossible.

only saying this from personal experience because i purchased a new door and fender that were both off of a silver car and both were completely different colors. Still ended up having to get them painted and blended in with the rest of the car (4 pannels in total had to get painted)

If you want to completely change the color of your car id suggest wrap ($2-3k) or if youre on a budget plasti-dip ($200-$600) price depending on if you use the metalizer, glossifier, pearlizer, etc.

I'm personally fixing all of the dents/scratches on my car currently and going to be plasti-dipping it.

Getting it professionally painted a new color will run around $6-$12k depending on color of choice. But if you go this route they have to strip your car down to bare frame if you want it done right (more chances of stuff breaking as well).

[EastTNPharmD]

I have seen several plasti-dip blue cars lately and I don't really care for the matte finish it has. To me that finish would be much better in a silver or possibly gun metal type. Now I only know of 1 vinyl wrapped car that I have seen and it was black and I want to wrap my black car now cause his looks better then mine. Now I have very limited experience in this, but this is what I have seen. On a side note saw a green a4 today, it was a Kelly/hunter/Shelby green and it was probably my favorite a4 I have seen in a while.

[b6a4sreca]

Narrowed it down to matte black, matte blue metallic, or dark gray. Which would you choose for your car?

[gmudan]

Dark grey

[Spike00513]

I'd do the grey. IMO, the black is too tacky, and the blue stands out too much.

buying parts from junk yards doesnt always work especially with silver cars.

there are 5-6 different shades and different metalic flakes in the light silver metalic paint code, getting a perfect match is near impossible.

only saying this from personal experience because i purchased a new door and fender that were both off of a silver car and both were completely different colors. Still ended up having to get them painted and blended in with the rest of the car (4 pannels in total had to get painted).

^Was this for your B6?

AFAIK, Dolphin Grey Pearl effect (LX7Z paint code) is going to match up to any other Dolphin grey pearl effect (LX7Z)...as long as the part hasn't had its color/shade changed from sittin in the sun for 100 years, to be installed on a car that has been garaged its whole life..

[EastTNPharmD]

I really like that matte grey.

[Pr0ph3t]

I would choose grey.

[getslideways]

Can't decide on a paint color? There's an App for that...

[FromS60toB61.8t]

I'd do the grey. IMO, the black is too tacky, and the blue stands out too much.



^Was this for your B6?

AFAIK, Dolphin Grey Pearl effect (LX7Z paint code) is going to match up to any other Dolphin grey pearl effect (LX7Z)...as long as the part hasn't had its color/shade changed from sittin in the sun for 100 years, to be installed on a car that has been garaged its whole life..

was on my mkiv golf but i also did some work on my b6 and had paint matched with the correct shade and the front bumper/pass fender/door and part of the hood are slightly darker silver than the rest of the car.

i thought OP's car was light silver metallic so my mistake if its DG. Most dark colors (i.e black, DG, blue, etc) match up nicely. Ive seen one case where a DG car got re-sprayed and the new paint came out much more bronze than DG.

Narrowed it down to matte black, matte blue metallic, or dark gray. Which would you choose for your car?

out of the 3 I'd do the dark grey.

Im dipping my car soon as well and my original choices were Matte: Dark grey metalic, white pearl metalic, candy red, orange pearl

ive narrowed my choices down to matte candy red or matte pearl white metallic

my reasoning for my choices:
White: Because white looks amazing
Red: Yellow DRL's and Fogs + Red/Black interior already so that color combo would look pretty sweet

[sc08 lab]

Brakes finally done. Stage one was upgrading to Mtec black edition, dimpled and grooved discs with Textar pads for less brake dust.

Although I needed to sort the calipers as they looked like Rolph Harris had been at em.
so I spent two days and long evenings de-rusting then painting with Hammerite gloss black high temp paint.

After leaving them for 24hrs to dry properly I got on with adding Quattro decals, which I then spent one evening making them straight and central, then another day and night covering with clear high temp lacquer from a can.

Then after about eight coats with an hour or so in between each ' light' layer and using a whole can of lacquer they were smooth, then left over night to dry.

Finally I put the wheels on and they transform the look so much, being subtle yet classy and no more brake dust.

One thing I did learn, I rushed doing the back left and put the lacquer on after leaving the gloss paint to dry for only a couple hours, this made the paint bobble so I had to repaint and leave over night for it to harden properly. Once this was done I was just a case of spraying very thin coats of lacquer so it didn't run and after a week of work, hey presto.

Next new wheels.

S-Line , Special Edition, 3.0l Quattro TDI, 3g MMI HDD, stage 1, de-badged, S5 mirrors, flat bottom wheel and VAGCOM'd.