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New Paint job
- Thread starter Greccoroman
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But Ben says they aren't that bad!!
sure if you are looking for a cheaper paint job to sell a car or one for a few years ... mine is going to last alot longer then that ....
well it seems that the better way to have approached this is to have stated up front that you work at a body shop and said that repainting oem is cheaper then custom or other types of paint. But instead you state as solid fact that it shold only cost 2k to have a car repainted.
Well when I was shopping around for prices I went to about 5 different shops and I was always quoted around 4k for a repaint. Only place I found with prices listed on line for anything less was at Macco and there was no ****ing way I was letting macco paint my car ...
Maybe things are just cheaper in my area, or because I know people I get a better deal. Maaco sucks, yes, but if you are desperate and do all the right prep work, they can do a decent job. 4k is really steep sounding, maybe that's just to me. If a car is flawless and you just want a respray, it really shouldn't be all that expensive. Yet, when they need to do alot of sanding, dent repair, and a lot of R+R then of course it goes up. At 85 bucks an hour for a paint tech, I really wouldn't be suprised. Paint alone is 600 dollars, and the cost to get rid of it is somewhere around 300. Don't forget to pay a regular body tech 35 bucks an hour, and then still make a profit.. yeah it's gonna be pricey. Still, 2-3k is the max I would expect to pay to just respray.
That's also true. A good bodyshop will repaint and it will look great, no swirl marks, and probably have a lifetime warranty.sure if you are looking for a cheaper paint job to sell a car or one for a few years ... mine is going to last alot longer then that ....
Maybe things are just cheaper in my area, or because I know people I get a better deal. Maaco sucks, yes, but if you are desperate and do all the right prep work, they can do a decent job. 4k is really steep sounding, maybe that's just to me. If a car is flawless and you just want a respray, it really shouldn't be all that expensive. Yet, when they need to do alot of sanding, dent repair, and a lot of R+R then of course it goes up. At 85 bucks an hour for a paint tech, I really wouldn't be suprised. Paint alone is 600 dollars, and the cost to get rid of it is somewhere around 300. Don't forget to pay a regular body tech 35 bucks an hour, and then still make a profit.. yeah it's gonna be pricey. Still, 2-3k is the max I would expect to pay to just respray.
that makes sense ... I had the hood roof and trunk stripped on my car, there was existing paint damage down to the metal. the shop smoothed out every panel on the car. Yes they could have just preped the car and painted but they didn't. They found dents and uneven surfaces that I had never seen on the car before. Just about every panels had some filling done. Now as you know that adds up. They ended up having the car for 3 weeks because of a paint ordering issue. They spent some serious time sanding the car.
Also there is a reason they have people come to them from half way across the US to have there cobra kit cars painted, why they where painting a GT40 replica that would be selling for 125K. I don't feel ripped off and the number of compliments I have received have been unbelievable. Check em out : http://www.conncustomcar.com/about.htm
And I don't think I live that far from you anyway ... I forget the shop but there was one up in the Chicopee area that quoted me 5k but said they would match the other 4k offers I have been getting since I was honest when the guy asked if I had been pricing around.
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