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Repainting a Car

$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.
 
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
 
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.


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Man, why was I thinking cost was around 500 bucks. 😕
 
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.
 
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.
 
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. 😕
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Sure in 1941.

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

Keep looking.
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: dxkj
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
A complete, quality paint job is in the $5-6k range.
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How much do paint jobs cost the factory that build the cars?
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its alot easier then since it done on an assembly line, on a non assembled car, and done alot by machine
 
Originally posted by: dxkj
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
A complete, quality paint job is in the $5-6k range.
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How much do paint jobs cost the factory that build the cars?
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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.
 
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
 
Originally posted by: dxkj
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
A complete, quality paint job is in the $5-6k range.
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How much do paint jobs cost the factory that build the cars?
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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
 
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.
 
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
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don't worry about them because there to much hassel and you'll do more harm not knowing what your doing with touchup paint
 
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