Thinking about getting my car painted.
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Thinking about getting my car painted.
Well my car is in need of a paint job. Its black right now but i want to paint it SOM. about how much do you guys think it'll cost me to get it painted. just looking for like a ball park figure. im trying to save up for it.
thanks guys
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The other posters are pretty close. If you use good materials you will have close to $1200 in material. It depends on how detailed you want the color change. To do it right you need to disassemble everything. Thats where the rest of the money comes in. Lots and lots of labor.
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The other posters are pretty close. If you use good materials you will have close to $1200 in material. It depends on how detailed you want the color change. To do it right you need to disassemble everything. Thats where the rest of the money comes in. Lots and lots of labor.
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then find a color that would work with black jams/engine compartment... for example, back in the day I had a 5.0 that was factory Navy Blue - I painted it Porsche Iris Blue which is essentially Navy with a hint of purple... so no need to touch the jams.
otherwise, just find a SOM car
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i agree 7-8k for quality, it the cost of labor and material, what we do isnt easy, and you pay for quality, cant stress that enough and why leave the jambs and engine compartment black??
if your doing a color change paint everything, leaving it black to me your half assing a paint job i dunno what the cool abbreviation means but it would look like ****
that my professional opinion
if your doing a color change paint everything, leaving it black to me your half assing a paint job i dunno what the cool abbreviation means but it would look like ****
that my professional opinion
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a lot of people leave the engine bays black. its kind of like on a lot of the old cars that have it but it looks good on some of the newer cars. i think leaving the jambs and all that black is pretty half assed though. just save up the money for a nice paint job so that your not regretting anythig later.