Thread: Blacked Out GTC!! I Need help from the L4P fam

Ok Ok Ok... First of all, This is not a Bentley Continental GTC, but it's what I can aford at the moment (Im only 19) KEEP READING PLEASE I WANT TO KNOW YOUR OPINION

Its an Opel Astra GTC (Gran Turismo Compact) 1.9 CDTI, with 150cv.

The story of this car I a bit intersting, the hole interior got stolen during this last summer. The car was fully compt insured. So the insurance company has paid for hole new interior.



This includes:
- Sat Nav Screen
- Air con control's
- Front Airbags
- front and back seats
- Right hand side front window (which the theaf's broke in order to get into the car)
- and other things...

during the hole summer I've been looking around and found all the things I needed. I've rebuilt the hole interior. But something that turned out to be really dificult to find where the seats, so I decided to buy a pair of Recaro's. They should arrive some time next week, because I've been waiting 5 weeks for them, according to my supplier Recaro does not have stock, all the seats are made under order.

So I ordered the Recaco Sportster CS with black dinamica (which is black synthetic suede)



Now the next step. HERE IS WERE I NEED THE HELP OF YOU GUYS!

Im going to re-spray the hole car. I've already painted the rims with a colour I mixed myself, which has 14 different colours in the mixture, like different pearls, gold, green, black, purple...etc. I finished the rims with a Matte clear coat.









My dought is that im not sure if to paint my car matte black or gloss metallic black. The main issue is that the car has some chrome accents, and I dont want to paint them black. So do you guys think that if I paint the car matte black the chrome would make it look wierd?
Also the headlight are painted in gloss piano black, how do guy's recon that would look like if the hole car had a matte finish?

PLEASE I WOULD APPRECIATE A LOT IF YOU GUYS GAVE YOUR OPINION PLEASE!

Here are some photos of the car. I am also going to stick the Luxury4play banner on the top of my windshield so that I can rep the 4 back in Madrid, Spain and London, UK.

















I will post more photos the moment the recaro's are intalled.

Thanks in advance to all of you that post your opinion and helps me out!!!

Well, i'm a big fan of the matte and satin finishes (my 2008 Ford Edge is satin dark charcoal grey),... so that would be my recommendation. I've seen matte vehicles with some chrome trim and it doesn't look that bad. Good job on the rebuild.

Ronix

A satin finish would look real good IMO

I wouldn't go straight black. mix a little bit of green or purple into it.

lame

matte black with trims in gloss black + OPC body kit and bigger rims

matte/flat paintjobs or wraps look weird if you can't pull it off

I have seen matte paints with chrome accents also, and it doesn't look bad.

Frist of all, thanks to all of you guys that answered and gave good advice, belive me its helped a lot deciding what to do!

Just got back from Uni in London, and saw my Astra with the Recaro's installed. Its looking really good!

Next step during christmas is to do the paint job. Im going to keep it a secret until its done so that the final result its a surprise!

Here are some photos of the seats:



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Those recaro seats are awsome, I bet they feel comfy and they sure look nice.

they are really comfortable more than I imagined at first.

Cheers!!