Negotiate new paint for new car

My wife commented that if she could get a Mazda3 5 door in the Spirited Green Metallic color from the Mazda2, that's the car she'd want.

Has anyone ever heard of negotiating a dealer re-paint as part of the purchase for a new car? I was mulling this idea over, and it almost seems like a better idea to go as low as I can on the new car purchase and then have it resprayed by a reputable local shop in the color I want.

Thoughts?

A respray, especially a color change, will kill FMV for insurance or resale purposes, if that matters.

Can you custom order one?

In reply to bludroptop:

I /seriously/ doubt I can custom order one. We're talking a Mazda, not an Audi. It is worth asking, though. Thanks for the idea.

Changing the paint color would be ungodly expensive if you want it to vaguely resemble a new car afterwards.

And it will never be right.

The odds of getting a truly professional paint job, I would think, are pretty slim these days.

I can't imagine that would be easy. Even if they were build and painted in the same factory I am pretty sure the manufacturing process would not handle a special order like that.

You can forget about that rust-through warranty too.

I have priced a dealer body shop strip and repaint...

5 digits proceed the decimal point.

Just wrap the thing for 1-2K.

Or buy the 2

In reply to John Brown:

Five digits? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, considering a fender/bumper collision repair on the Jeep wound up costing close to $5k.

The two is too small. This thing will be the family hauler and grocery getter. We'll see what happens in the next year or so, color-wise. The current palette is just as boring as can be- we need a nice, highly visible, bright, unnatural color and she hates red.

We're also not limited to the 3, but the selection of sporty 5 door cars in that price range seems to be shrinking. I hope they get the Focus 5 door over here soon, Ford often has some wacky paint available.

Crazy women. Tell her to pick a different color.

In reply to 1988RedT2:

Or buy something used. Economy type cars with wacky paint have the resale value of used beer.

1988RedT2 wrote: Crazy women. Tell her to pick a different color.

But then it won't match those cute shoes she saw in the window of the boutique down the street that she absolutely has to have.

It would be easier and cheaper to get a new wife.

My first wife, in picking out our first new car, chose one on the lot that had already been sold. And refused to budge.

Imagine what kind of great deal I was able to negotiate on that car (which we did end up with)... ;-(

Eventually I also discovered that it was indeed easier (but not cheaper) to get rid of her.

On painting new cars, the history on my 308 suggests that it was repainted by the NYC Ferrari dealer before being sold new... went from a practically unsaleable white to a red over black "Boxer" paint scheme... the hottest thing available on a Ferrari circa 1978.

Well, yes and no. Rare, yes. Desirable not really. (I also had one of the only 9 remaining Mary Kay factory pink Northstar Allantes... same situation... very rare (19 total), not really desirable... after the Allante group castigated me for not taking it back pink as the other 9 were, I offered it to any of them for what I had in it... well below average market at the time... but no takers.

Since I had no intentions of respraying the 308 in either white or red/black, I went with the equally rare grigio met (basically gunmetal grey) which is much more desirable...

In reply to Schmidlap:

She wears combat boots. That's not an issue

We're both looking for something really visible. If we could get eyebite yellow or traffic cone orange, she'd be fine with that as well. She just likes the green best because it reminds her of an Emerald Tiger beetle.

Brett_Murphy wrote: She wears combat boots. We're both looking for something really visible.

Ok, she's kicking your butt.

YOU want something "really visible" so she will stop kicking your butt.

If she can't figure out that she can't get everything she wants when she wants it, you're gonna continue with her kicking your butt.

If you can't help her in realizing this, she'll always be kicking your butt.

See where this is heading?

In reply to oldsaw:

Alright, that made me smile.

I don't mind her kicking my butt, I'm a big softie when it comes to her and my kids. She won't mind if she doesn't get a green 3, but If this had been something fairly inexpensive and easy to do, I'd have done it in a heartbeat. After all, she doesn't complain when I have four non-working cars cluttering up the driveway and garage, so it's only fair to indulge her very rare automotive requests, right?

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Since we're not concerned with resale value, I might just have the painted anyhow.

Velocity Red. Arguably the best red EVER (yes, it ranks up there with the 8c red) and quite visible. Has an excellent microflake to it, and a bit of a gold pearl. SUPER deep... I could stare at that paint for hours.

mndsm wrote: Velocity Red. Arguably the best red EVER (yes, it ranks up there with the 8c red) and quite visible. Has an excellent microflake to it, and a bit of a gold pearl. SUPER deep... I could stare at that paint for hours.

And this is why I had my NA painted that color.

Powar wrote:

mndsm wrote: Velocity Red. Arguably the best red EVER (yes, it ranks up there with the 8c red) and quite visible. Has an excellent microflake to it, and a bit of a gold pearl. SUPER deep... I could stare at that paint for hours.

And this is why I had my NA painted that color.

You have an NA painted Velo Red? I am jealous.

Green-tinted glasses?

mndsm wrote:

Powar wrote:

mndsm wrote: Velocity Red. Arguably the best red EVER (yes, it ranks up there with the 8c red) and quite visible. Has an excellent microflake to it, and a bit of a gold pearl. SUPER deep... I could stare at that paint for hours.

And this is why I had my NA painted that color.

You have an NA painted Velo Red? I am jealous.

I do. Check my Garage on here.