Well said and beautiful color choice. I am not familiar with the technical issues/costs of having a full range of colors to choose from but I am sure it could be a profit center if TM chose to make it one.
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New Paint Colors?
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Well said and beautiful color choice. I am not familiar with the technical issues/costs of having a full range of colors to choose from but I am sure it could be a profit center if TM chose to make it one.
roblab
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What they did was to take the body and to-be-painted parts to a paint shop, paint them, and return them for factory assembly. That's the key: no one has to dis-assemble the car to re-paint it, no parts need be destroyed, paint is under windows, pano roofs (why not rooves??!), etc. The actual paint is not the issue.
A paint robot could be programmed, primed, etc., or the parts could be taken to another area to be painted *by hand*, at the factory, even. As it is, the robots are programmed for each of the 10 or so colors. Robots are not bright enough to be able to paint any color, evidently, but humans are. Yes, another paint line, but easily doable, and unless they give us the same colors for the MX and ME as on the MS, they will be doing a lot of switching or adding paint robots.
I think it could be doable, and desirable, and profitable.
A $$$$$ question....I'll make it stultifyingly boring, but for a reason:
If we envision a current situation with Fremont Paint Room set up for X number of paint colors, then how much would it cost to add, for example, dsm363's "static paint room" plus rearrange the production sequence to satisfy those who desire different colors? I don't know the answer, but let's call is $X. And if Y are the number of vehicles per unit time (call it "one year") that undergo this special treatment, then the additional cost per vehicle, if borne ONLY BY THOSE VEHICLES, would be $X/Y - minus a bit of a time factor because in fairness the cost of the fixed unit would be amortized over much longer than one year.
At any rate, of most important concern is to compare that $X/Y by how much it takes Mr. I NeedToBeDifferent to take his own Tesla over to ReallyFantasticAutoPaintJobs R Us and have them paint his new car. Can it really be the case that Tesla Motors can compete with this? I'm going to suspect not.
...and I have lust in my heart for that gorgeous bronze-gold color shown earlier here......
If we envision a current situation with Fremont Paint Room set up for X number of paint colors, then how much would it cost to add, for example, dsm363's "static paint room" plus rearrange the production sequence to satisfy those who desire different colors? I don't know the answer, but let's call is $X. And if Y are the number of vehicles per unit time (call it "one year") that undergo this special treatment, then the additional cost per vehicle, if borne ONLY BY THOSE VEHICLES, would be $X/Y - minus a bit of a time factor because in fairness the cost of the fixed unit would be amortized over much longer than one year.
At any rate, of most important concern is to compare that $X/Y by how much it takes Mr. I NeedToBeDifferent to take his own Tesla over to ReallyFantasticAutoPaintJobs R Us and have them paint his new car. Can it really be the case that Tesla Motors can compete with this? I'm going to suspect not.
...and I have lust in my heart for that gorgeous bronze-gold color shown earlier here......
SCW-Greg
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I would love to see a metallic black.
Maintaining a swirl and water spot free finish on my black takes very careful attention, something that none of the colors easily show.
James Anders
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roblab
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When I got my car painted custom at the factory, I had looked around for other ways to get the job done. I didn't check PaintJobsRUs, because I've seen his work. When people who did really nice paint jobs told me that they have to ruin trim and moulding, break windows, spend hours un building and re building your car to do it right, the price was just about exactly what Tesla charged for factory paint.
If Tesla decides to re do factory paint, I for one will be happy. They need a better choice of blue and green and brown. There are a lot of us who care. And there are a lot of us who can see the difference between PaintRUS and Tesla Factory. Some don't care, and they can get it done somewhere else for less. You get what you pay for.
We have a paint shop near here, "Miracle". We say, "If it looks good, It's a Miracle".
travwill
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I think a few:
1. A true bright "BMW Titanium Silver" like color would be cool.
2. And just please keep the bright white! Like that (hehehe).
Driving to work yesterday I really looked at cars passing around me (as I drove my rental car waiting here for my MS to delivery). Seems like most cars lately are blank, dark grey, dark silver, and all those serious colors. I really didn't seen a ton of white anymore on the freeway. Saw the dark reds/maroons a few times. All that seems to be the most common right now. Blue, green, brown, no so much, followed by white lately.
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jcaspar
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They should have a program like Dodge's 1 of 1 program for the Viper. Choose a standard color of one of 8,000 custom colors for both body and stripes.
Dodge Viper, 1 of 1
I have never seen a car manufaturer offer something similar straight from the factory. It seems as a 10 or 15k$ option they could at least break even.
Dodge Viper, 1 of 1
I have never seen a car manufaturer offer something similar straight from the factory. It seems as a 10 or 15k$ option they could at least break even.
roblab
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I was watching TV the other day and there was a bit about KIA, you know, the luxury car maker. They were showing that they paint EVERY car as custom. Whichever color the computer says for VIN # xxxxx, the computer cleans and primes the computerized spray arms, and car xxxxx is yellow, the next is black, the next blue. You evidently DON'T need a separate paint room or paint line. Every car gets whatever color, and the computer changes the colors and fixes the spray lines.
Of course, Tesla could do this. Of course, it is probably cheaper to paint 10 cars in a row black, but when they increase the factory size to make 200,000 cars a year, you would think they could add a larger color choice. KIA paints about 200 cars an hour, and probably uses paint that Tesla wouldn't use, but it's still a computerized spray arm, or should be. (You think they are still using Miguel back there in the paint room?? Quien sabe.)
Of course, Tesla could do this. Of course, it is probably cheaper to paint 10 cars in a row black, but when they increase the factory size to make 200,000 cars a year, you would think they could add a larger color choice. KIA paints about 200 cars an hour, and probably uses paint that Tesla wouldn't use, but it's still a computerized spray arm, or should be. (You think they are still using Miguel back there in the paint room?? Quien sabe.)
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