Saturday, March 13, 2010

About how much would it cost to get my car painted red? Nothing special. Just a new coat.?

Starting out at around $200 for ';Earl Sheib'; paint hjob, - (that is a ';cheapie';,- where they mask trim instead of taking it off). It depends on city, and how much competition, - right now in my area MAACO is advertising for $279, -- the ';cheapie generally uses the same paint, etc.,- but it is not a ';quality ';problem, it is fact that no matter how well it is cleaned up, there is a small amount of dust/dirt trapped right at edge of masking (becasue of adhesive on tape). Depending on where you live, and how much snow,ice, and mud you regularly drive through, - after a period of time the paint will start to peel away from edges of trim! Check locally, and see how many cars seem to have this problem, (and if possible ask when they had it painted)! Cheapie paint jobs are common in used car business,because they can present car with really nice looking paint, and no scratches (or dings)... but 2-3 years down the road, the paint starts peeling back and it doesn't look too good anymore!





For instance if your car is white and you have it painted red, it will look awful whan the paint starts peeling back! Buit if it is same color as before, - and you keep it clean and polished, it probably will be real hard to see unless you get real close and check it out!





The ';good paint job'; at same place will run about $250-350 more, but will probably still be looking good 4-5 years later! Of course, you need to remember if you plan on getting rid of it in a couple years, then ';cheapie'; paint problems arrive on next owner, - not you!





And of course the ';super'; quality paint job will run you maybe $1000 or more, - but it will be painted so well, - that you can't open doors and look in inner areas of door openings and see old color anywhere, most people won't be able to tell (if that is the origional color), unless they look at the information tag on firewall, -( which has origional paint numbers on it)!About how much would it cost to get my car painted red? Nothing special. Just a new coat.?
well you can't just paint over the old paint you have to have it sanded down and then primed and painted and then a clear coat ,So at least a couple of 100.00.About how much would it cost to get my car painted red? Nothing special. Just a new coat.?
This will blow your mind: http://rollyourcar.com/default.aspx





There's been a few guys thats done this. Its cheap and a LOT of work due to all the sanding required.

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