You paint it the color you want. No one else's opinion really matters. Your best bet is to take care of the paint you have and save yourself the expense of a repaint.

 

Won't cost me anything but labor and I'm doing the labor. But I guess it's more of a question to let people express themselves if you will. Maybe someone mentions something I hadn't given thought to. Who knows.

 

I've had thoughts of building one by swapping out every body panel for one in a different color - just because.

 

That idea sounds cool. Would look like a lego brick build of some kind maybe. Would be cool to dress up like a lego person too. But that might be going to far...or not far enough

 

.. or look like a Rubik's Cube

... or a Periodic Table of Elements wrap

 

if the current paint is in good shape, consider vinyl wrapping, it can be peeled off if you change your mind later and there are some pretty amazing vinyl finishes that you cant do with painting like gold chrome etc

 

Sunset Orange in a minute, given a magic wand! Short of that, just go on tending the MM paint on my 2005, bought from the original owner 6 yrs ago with 65k miles, 109k now. I'm gray, guess my car can be too.

 

I have an EX, not a SC, but I have been thinking of wrapping the metal panels in a light matte gray so the E looks like a big boxy Nintendo and hits everyone hard in the nostalgia feels. Obviously, this means darker window tint too if possible. In general, I think an E would look good in any matte neutral color. I'd stay away from the flashy paint/vunyl, E is not a flashy ride

 

I would absolutely go for a colour that was never produced, a) simply because of the uniqueness and the fact that going to the trouble of painting the car seems worthy of making it more special than a typical colour on an E, but b) because Honda never made the car in a forest green (something like Clover on the old Civics and CR-V) and I sure would love to have mine in a similar hue

 

The factory Element Beige has been growing on me lately.
Also Nighthawk Black Pearl is a favorite of mine. I had a 01 ITR in NHBP and loved it.
So I got the roof my WRB STI painted NHBP with a lil extra pearl in it...

 

I recently purchased an 08 Element SC, Rootbeer Metallic. So I plan on repainting it sometime within the next couple years. For now, what I have done is polish all panels and bring back dull paint to life. Came out really great. So I was either thinking of one of two things:

1. Refinish it the same color, would be easier to do as interior jambs would not need to be resprayed.
or
2. Do a color change, more work but can be done, just more time consuming and i really only have the element as a daily driver.

If you had a chance to change color on your Element with interior jambs painted as well, what color would you choose? Personally, I'm thinking a solid gray color, maybe viper blue, maybe also altering wheel center color as well. So I'm just wondering what other people would go with.

This is an awesome vehicle so far and am looking forward to driving it for a long time to come.

Rootbeer Metallic is one of the best Factory Element colors. (My 3rd all time favorite Element color.)

Rare too!

My vote is keep it the color it already is!

Besides, like you said, painting all the door jambs, and doing it right, is a serious time consuming pain!

 

Hi,

Just thinking maybe some ideas for colors might come from a 1950's Custom Car. A Google search brought up some beautiful examples of retro colors. Another idea is the "Weathered" look, I think that is really cool, beachy, surf style, and just plain awesome.

 

A vinyl wrapped weathered look, wannahonda! I just might have to check into that myself!

 

Maybe something like this weathered vinyl wrapped stang

 

or maybe a riveted metal look

 

I think a fake patina would be really cool. I will say, I have a rootbeer SC and had it painted the same color a year or so ago. If I could change the color it would be silver.

 

What an awesome question! I can think of so many different color options.
Some colors that come to mind are:

1) painting it like a lowrider im SoCal native so I grew up around the

2) another Cali thing an element painted like a woody

3) some type of a fake patina like
Copper Rust
Gunmetal gray

I could go on and on I do a bit of playing with paints myself just not on cars.
I say “ Go Wild”
You only live once as far as I know and if we do live more than once you can always repaint it! Lol!

 

What an awesome question! I can think of so many different color options.
Some colors that come to mind are:

1) painting it like a lowrider im SoCal native so I grew up around the

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2) another Cali thing an element painted like a woody

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3) some type of a fake patina like
Copper Rust
Gunmetal gray

I could go on and on I do a bit of playing with paints myself just not on cars.
I say “ Go Wild”
You only live once as far as I know and if we do live more than once you can always repaint it! Lol!

That Woody looks awesome!

And Automotive Enthusiast take note: It looks like it started off life as a Rootbeer Metallic SC!

 

If I can do mines I go with the integra type r yellow

 

Curious what the price range is to restore paint? My factory NHBP paint has sun faded blemishes and scratches.

 

Is that "Hello Officer! Yellow"?