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How much is new paint worth?

I'm not saying there aren't decent deals out there.... guys must work for chump-change tho sometimes... just pointing out how pricey quality materials can run....

heck, you can find guys willing to shoot centari enamel at a 1/4 the price... personally, I had enough of that garbage in the 80's..

that's a stress painter's learn to live with early, "well, here goes $500 in coats, hope I don't f*ck it up!" :haha:
 
Yea man.... 3k is the going rate, for low-to-mid range paint.
Unless you get Maaco. :haha:

I know PPG gets ridiculous..... :eek1:
Like $6,800 in materials, ridiculous.
 
I was really hoping you guys would tell me that they were sky high and I was getting rooked. Sounds like they were fair bids and I'm just going to have to start setting money aside. I would really love to try this myself, but I have a small garage, 15 gal compressor and very limited time. The logical side of me knows that letting a pro shop do it is the right way to go and go ahead and spend the money. If the results are good, I won't regret it.
 
The short answer to how much is new paint worth in my case is:

More than any of the vehicles I own!..:doah:

I gave up trying to have anything with a showroom finish...too often it gets damaged soon after spending thousands to perfect it,and you cant park it anywhere without worrying about it ever again,you obcess over it constantly..

I ended up painting a few of my vehicles myself,but the results were pleasing mostly to me only,I am not that great at bondo work,and HATE sanding,so it showed in my results..but mostly I just wanted them to be all one color and not a spotted primer leapord,and to protect them from rusting any worse..(the only vehicle I have owned that looks good and has factory paint is my Contour,its remarkable how well the paint has held up on it being 18 years old..

I painted my 81 van Ford Blue with paint from a Family & Farm center that was only 25 bucks a gallon,probably a lot like Rustoleum or a straight enamel from an auto paint store...it came out OK,it was a ballbuster to prep though,it felt as big as a house when it came time to sand it,and I decided a electric orbital sander was good enough for the roof and most of the flat surfaces,I could not run a DA air sander here for several reasons..I got some "curtains" in the paint and decided to just leave them.I wet sanded out later and did a touch up after 6 months..

The paint held up well,but is now flattening out and chalky from sitting...it'll still buff out though..too bad the steet metal is holy again in places now...

I just cant see putting a show winning paint job on a 4x4 I will haul wood with and plow,I'd be afraid i'd scratch it,and to use the truck "as" a truck..
To each his own though...me,I'd rather spend the 3 grand under the hood and between the frame rails..
 
Well, I agree that it's no use to spend a ton of money on a truck that's used as a truck. However this one admittedly will be slightly pampered from here on out. I beat on it for about 10 years even as a daily driver at times, blew a few axles, tinkered with lift, tires, etc and somehow it survived through it all.

After realizing that it's in pretty good shape and rust-free, I spent the last 18 months or so getting it ready for its golden years. I wanted to do a few mods and things kinda snow-balled. It is in the garage right now sitting on new CUCV tons with crossover steering, custom driveshafts, a mild 350 TBI, new 700R4, and the old reliable (so far for me) NP208. It will be a well-built......ummmmm......poser truck? But it will be purty. Doesn't mean it will never go off road again. Just nothing all that challenging. Expedition wheeling.

I have all the respect in the world for some of the badass trail rigs on here, but that's just not where I'm going with it. It's an uncut, undented, unrusted truck with 102K miles on it and I've decided to preserve it. So, for me, apparently that means I'm going to have to spend some money on paint.
 
If I lived down south and had a nice rust free truck,I'd be wanting to do the same thing..

Up here its a losing battle trying to keep anything looking "nice" for long,especially if it gets used as a truck at all...paint outlasts the sheet metal up here most of the time...:(
 
This is a car from a local board..I saw this car yesterday. Car looks amazing in person. ****ing. Amazing. I'm hoping to take my coupe there this spring.

When I asked the owner about the paint job when he unveiled it:

It is a Maaco Job and for the money I paid it looks pretty good! They quoted me 18 hours of body work and prep time before paint, then a sealer coat after the body work, then a base clear paint job including all the jams and engine bay. For the money I don't think anyone else would have done it. I took it there with EVERYTHING off of it, NO motor, trans, trim, molding, weatherstrip, brake master cylinder, etc. I repainted all of the window trim myself too, just trim paint from duplicolor. If you make it easy for them it will turn out just fine. If you take it there fully assembled, good luck.
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Guy here in town had his '85 SWB in the local shop to get a color change. Went from black to solid bright yellow. Had the truck color sanded and buffed out when completed and the end result of the whole job cost him $5K.

I wouldn't hesitate to pay $2K or $3K for a job today. I'd be paying that upfront immediately.
 
I can tell you what I know from my own recent experience:

When I first got it and drove it around to all the paint shops, NOBODY would do it...well...I say nobody...there was this restoration guy that quoted me $10,000 and he wanted 12 months to do it.

So, at that time I took the advice of every paint shop that didn't want to do it..."Why don't you do the body work yourself"?

So....

Now...after having done the body work and getting it in primer I set out again to look for a painter. I didn't want an Earl Scheib style job so I went talking to hot rodders and collectors...and parts stores...performance shops...etc...

First estimate: $8000 (No body work other than final sand)
Second estimate: $4500 (No body work)
Third estimate: Never connected with the guy...he was too shifty for me to deal with

Went to the established custom shops and paint shops...they all refused...said they had no idea what the quality of my work was or what I used, therefore they couldn't warranty the job and therefore wouldn't do it.

One of the guys wanted to shoot it in his barn...wanted cash...no receipts...and no documentation...I couldn't even prove I dropped it off at his place so I ran away from that.

Last ditch effort....I went to Maaco. Didn't really want to have it done there...until I got there. The body man came out and looked it over and they were very honest...I had missed some low spots and they didn't want to paint over them because they knew I wouldn't be happy with the results.

So, they spent a lot of time going over the details with me.

Maaco is a DuPont shop...so we discussed Chroma Premier products...Dupont's best paint line.

I had previously priced the paint myself at the Dupont store: $600/gallon each for base and $600 each for clear. Materials would have cost me near $2500.

Maaco's base coat/clear coat jobs start at $1599.00

They quoted me $3000 total. That was for the bodywork and the paint job!

They also explained that it wouldn't be done in a week...which you know from the thread it was in the paint shop a little over 90 days.

As you have seen in my pictures, I am pleased with the results...and when I think about all the other quotes and options, I am so glad I took it to Maaco...because the other places would have just sprayed paint on it without fixing the bodywork...and there would have been no warranty...no security. I knew by leaving it at Maaco it was well guarded and protected all the time.

Maybe we just got a good Maaco up here, I don't know, but for anything less than a high end showcar I wouldn't hesitate to take anything to this Maaco. Just don't buy the $300 paint job and expect the $1599 bc/cc.

They taped it off very well...didn't get a drop of paint on my new windshield seal or under my hood.

My only complaint with the job at all is the hood has several nibs or places where some gnats or dust specs landed...but they supposed went thick on the clear coat for me so I could color sand it.

They charge $250 per panel to cut and buff....for my Blazer that would have been 8 panels...near $2000 more or less if they gave me a break....I opted not to do that because they don't color sand...and I figured if I was going to do anything to the finish I would colorsand it....it's pretty good as it sits...the option is always there to color sand it if I get the urge.
 
I followed your thread and your kinda results are what I'm looking for. Soooo which Maaco? is it near B'ham?

Trucks looking great by the way!


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rebelgregory said:
I followed your thread and your kinda results are what I'm looking for. Soooo which Maaco? is it near B'ham?

Trucks looking great by the way!


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no, i live in north alabama almost at the tennessee line...so over 100 miles from Birmingham.
There is a Maaco in Decatur and in Huntsville but apparently not in the Birmingham area, I used the Huntsville location
 
ok.

After all the responses on this thread, I'm going to go ahead and get it painted at the shop that quoted me $2500. I'm sure that price will climb a little with every small dent they find, but better to just go ahead and bite the bullet.
 
rebelgregory said:
ok.

After all the responses on this thread, I'm going to go ahead and get it painted at the shop that quoted me $2500. I'm sure that price will climb a little with every small dent they find, but better to just go ahead and bite the bullet.
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yep...new shiny paint just makes the small dents show up better...at least you aren't changing colors like I did...
 
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