As bronze wheels go-those are very good looking
Scout Color Poll #1
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Yes please. Oh I wonder how it would look black with matte bronze accents.
I was thinking. For me I will get any vehicle and color I want my wife won’t argue much. She isn’t a fan of the body designs but she hasn’t given them much though. However if a pretty purple was an option she would be all over it. Then I could order one of each! With this in mind why not a base white model and a wrapping department offing a lot of other color options that could please all our picky wives! And a wrapped vehicle offers a lot of other benefits as I understand it. Keep some good painted options some of us prefer that but wrapping is quite a flexible choice.
I’m just curious as I haven’t researched wrapping a car, what benefits does wrapping offer?
Maybe benefit is the wrong description but as I understand it, it is less costly to wrap than to offer many different paint options. Spraying a finish is quite expensive takes time and cutting and special equipment. A person can change the entire color of their vehicle with a wrap. Obviously the person wrapping has to know how but it is less involved than a paint job.
Thanks for the answer. That’s seems to be why Slate is going in that direction so they can hold costs down. However, Scout already has a state of the art paint shop in the works. They showed the interior in the June plant update.
I guess I just have a different view of wrapping. I grew up in the day of Earl Scheib commercials offering cheap paint jobs. I think of wrapping as the Earl Scheib of 2025. A great way to cover old faded paint on an old vehicle.
Just me, but I would be nervous wrapping my brand new car, even if it was just painted white. I have seen too many YouTube videos of people taking wraps off and there’s razor blade marks, etc.
Again, I hope everyone gets what they want, and maybe they will offer colored wraps in addition to PPF put on at the factory before purchase. I’m back to my motto, faith and patience.
Hope everyone has a great Saturday!!
Did you ever get an 'Earl The Pearl' paint job?
Tragically a friend who had a '37 Chevy Coupe did...
You had to do all the masking, even the tires, because they painted EVERYTHING that wasn't masked and he didn't understand that.
I helped him over a month taking it apart and stripping the paint off parts that should have been masked, chrome bumpers, grill, emblems, trim, hubcaps, wheels, door handles, and, and, and... LOL
So that $19.95 really wasn't worth it in the end...
No I never got one. I just saw the ads. I had no idea!
I’d be careful commenting about picky wives on this forum as we have a lot of female/mom/wives on the forum that are more than capable of deciding what they want. As for wraps, there’s no reason Scout can’t offer 10-12 paint colors and a buyer just get a wrap done after market. Doing it in house means SM has to maintain 20-30 wrap colors which means overhead, coordination and more post-build specialty staff which all increase costs. I purple wrap can be put over any color paint. Wraps are good for a specialty matte or luster finish as it’s easier to deal with than just high end paint but wraps do wear and tear and after a while they show visual wear much more than a standard paint job
There are just as many picky husbands the point is a few more color choices would be good. I’m with most I would rather have paint. Wraps was just an option I have seen used successfully and if it is significantly less expensive it might allow for more color choices. I don’t know just a thought. My three colors choices don’t seem terribly popular above so I hope we get past standard or traditional colors only as well.
I was stationed at ElToro back in the mid ‘80s. My roommate bought an x19 took it to the 99$ paint place. He wound up spending 750$ between body work and prime paint. But it was a good paint job. The 99$ was bare bones to get people in for the body work which apparently was the money maker at the time.
Edit to add this comment, it seems the days of paint jobs you look into and wonder how deep they go are over. I haven’t seen a paint job like that in a long long time. Color coats more transparent color coats with or with out flake, clear coats, buffer to a glass like finish. You look in and feel like you could just fall into it. I miss that paint job.
I was stationed at ElToro back in the mid ‘80s. My roommate bought an x19 took it to the 99$ paint place. He wound up spending 750$ between body work and prime paint. But it was a good paint job. The 99$ was bare bones to get people in for the body work which apparently was the money maker at the time.
Edit to add this comment, it seems the days of paint jobs you look into and wonder how deep they go are over. I haven’t seen a paint job like that in a long long time. Color coats more transparent color coats with or with out flake, clear coats, buffer to a glass like finish. You look in and feel like you could just fall into it. I miss that paint job.
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