Color Change Options

[Stipt]

I'm looking for a complete color change for my car. Its white right now and I want it black and done like factory, so they ya know, have the trims and **** painted too. I went to two shops so far in my area and they said they would charge me around 4k for the color change. Does this sound about right? Thanks for the feedback

[exxtractor]

Dude I have a white celica also. No choice didn't have a lot of choice when I bought in in upsate NY. Trouble with rust recenty. I also wanted to do a color change to yellow or silver, but honestly you do get what you pay for. Let me give you some advice, once you change to color, you are going to take a serious hit when you try reselling the car. I've also been shopping a few places to get a quaot to paint the car and I am still undecided, expcet that I won't change the color. Unless you get a paint job where all the windows, trims, handles, rubber gaskets are removed there will be areas where when you open the doors, trunk, it will be obvious a color change was done. Also, if you go to macco or a shop that will mask the trim and windows instead of removing them, within 1 to 2 years you get "peelback". This is a thin edge near rubber and plastic where the pain flakes off. Now if you paint white on white not a big deal but if you go to a color change, you start getting white rings around your windows, lights etc. This will look terrible, and will cost money again to repaint or reblend. How do I know, my car was used when I bought it and was repainted. Looked great for a year then peelback started. Nearly 3 years later quite a bit of peelback. Now I'm guessing the company that did the work did a ****ty job so they could sell it and it was off their hands. Avoid Macco, and don't change the color of the car. Spend your money maybe on a body kit, or mods for the car.