Yes, VIN is intact on the doors itself, fender, bumpers, engine bay etc. They all match the car.

To the guy who had his post replaced, was your door fixed or replaced too? I would think it would be hard for the pillar to take damage, but not the door.

 

The car has 43K on it and its extremely clean for its age inside and out. I did have a friend who works in a body shop (paints and does body work) look at it. He crawled underneath and didnt see any marks on the seam, crumpled metal etc and looked at the finish and said it looked original and still looked like it had been painted by a robot.

 

I would trust your friend's opinion---a trained body man can tell if repairs were ever made (no matter how well they were done)
Sounds like the previous owner just wanted to clean up the look (dumb idea to do this though)

 

It does look pretty good, actually. Not that anyone would ever notice it.

 

Yeah, One other thing he said is that sebring silver is a very hard color to match. He said its almost impossible unless the paint is just right with the flakes and all. He actually said I should reconsider painting the silverstone HT I bought sebring. He said it would be hard to get it to match the car and said to go berlina black like the CR instead or sell it and get a mugen replica.

I will have another bodyshop check it out again. It just bothers me they are not there. I don't know how I missed it when I bought the car....

 

Dont worry about it, it looks 10x better without a bunch of text there anyways. I removed mine.

You already own the car, having different body shops look it over isnt going to change it. Go drive it

 

This is a fairly neurotic solution, but if you happen to have access to a paint thickness gauge, you could check the paint thickness on the jams. If it's well under 200 microns, it's most likely OEM. Bodyshops generally can't lay paint as thin as the factory robots.

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/580...int-thickness/

 

Thanks, maybe a bodyshop will have access to one or a detail shop.

 

LOL, True. I am in Iowa, not with all this snow on the road

 

mines were missing too and it turned out that both of the rear quarter panels were replaced...