Repainting a Car

[AgentJean]

What's the average cost of getting a car fully repainted?
Lets say our average sedan.

 

[JonTheBaller]

$2000+ for a decent paint job. Most of the $$ is labor; prep work, pulling / re-attaching trim, painting door jams. It's time-consuming work.

 

[Falloutboy]

depends. are you changing the color if so for a quality job 4000+ if its the same color prolly could get get a decent job done for 2000ish.

my dad restores classic cars for a living and his paint bill is useually 3-4 grand and he does alot of the prepwork

 

[Eli]

Depends on the quality you want.

 

[AgentJean]

2000 beans eh
I think I'll keep car shopping then. I did found the "perfect" car but I detest the color white on cars. It's so.....plain.


EDIT.

Man, why was I thinking cost was around 500 bucks.

 

[lyssword]

maaco ?

 

[Mrfrog840]

Originally posted by: lyssword
maaco ?

ftw

 

[potato28]

U know anyone in the auto painting bussiness? Its usually around 200 bones tho...

 

[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: Mrfrog840

Originally posted by: lyssword
maaco ?

ftw

orangepeel ftw

 

[SVT Cobra]

Is it a car you plan to keep for a while? Or just something to drive (the fact you care about the color leads me to believe not so?)

Because maaco does offer their paint services cheap, although I doubt it is that good.

 

[mattocs]

I drive one place that says they will paint any car for $350....but you get what you pay for. The best bet is to just call a couple places that do auto painting and ask for a ballpark estimate on the kind of car you want to paint.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy

Originally posted by: Mrfrog840

Originally posted by: lyssword
maaco ?

ftw

orangepeel ftw

Colorsanding and polishing at home a month later ftw.

 

[ArJuN]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy

Originally posted by: Mrfrog840

Originally posted by: lyssword
maaco ?

ftw

orangepeel ftw

and ****** quality paints.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: AgentJean
2000 beans eh
I think I'll keep car shopping then. I did found the "perfect" car but I detest the color white on cars. It's so.....plain.


EDIT.

Man, why was I thinking cost was around 500 bucks.

Sure in 1941.

Don't buy a car thinking you'll get it repainted.

Keep looking.

 

[shortylickens]

I dunno, but get Titus to do it.
They're awesome.

 

[teckmaster]

this topic couldn't have come up at a better time as my car needs a complete paint job and I went and got a quote the other day. these guys are probably the best in the area and he qouted me $2200 to fix a couple small dents and repaint the car. I am thinking of changing the color and he told me that he would do it for $2700 total includes fixing the dent.

 

[Heisenberg]

A complete, quality paint job is in the $5-6k range.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
A complete, quality paint job is in the $5-6k range.

How much do paint jobs cost the factory that build the cars?

 

[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
A complete, quality paint job is in the $5-6k range.

How much do paint jobs cost the factory that build the cars?

its alot easier then since it done on an assembly line, on a non assembled car, and done alot by machine

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
A complete, quality paint job is in the $5-6k range.

How much do paint jobs cost the factory that build the cars?

I have no idea - I'm sure it's not anywhere near that since it's all assembly line/automated at the factory. The $5-6k number is what you can expect to pay at a good body shop.

 

[kalster]

what is the best way to get rid of minor scratches, stone chips on the car, there are very few of them and not really noticeable but I am really anal about them

I was thinking of getting some paint and doing it myself . I found this place that sells the exact color http://www.automotivetouchup.com/ I want

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
A complete, quality paint job is in the $5-6k range.

How much do paint jobs cost the factory that build the cars?

A lot less. The car is painted before it's assembled at the factory, which means they have essentially zero prep work.

The expense in painting a car is in the fact that it essentially has to be completely dis-assembled to be painted properly.

ZV

 

[RedPickle]

$50 if you know what you're doing

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/sho...t=0&Number=2331682&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1

 

[essasin]

Bad quality paintjob will cost you around 1k-2k

Complete paint job including the engine bay and all the stuff you dont really see 5k-8k

A show quality paint job which includes taking the whole car apart and sanding down to bare metal is 10k and up.

 

[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: kalster
what is the best way to get rid of minor scratches, stone chips on the car, there are very few of them and not really noticeable but I am really anal about them

I was thinking of getting some paint and doing it myself . I found this place that sells the exact color http://www.automotivetouchup.com/ I want

don't worry about them because there to much hassel and you'll do more harm not knowing what your doing with touchup paint