Paint Job Prices

[RetroSBK]

Hell, the paint jobs on our bikes start at $6k... I had a scuff n shoot done with paint I supplied for $2500.

My painter and I are going to redo the whole thing this winter, and he told me to bring 17k cash, and I had to help do the work takin it apart and getting it ready...

If I could get my truck painted for 5k, id be stoked!

Will

[retselgerg]

Well you guys are getting nice work a local around where I live charges 1500 for what he calls his "show finish" and i have been to alot of car shows and i must say his work is as good as i have ever seen but im not car show judge and that is before material, and that doesnt include major body repair prices,

[73737373]

Unless the paint is just just totally shot, (or you want to change colors) I'd recommend wet sanding and buffing the factory color. Will save you a boatload of time and $$ and will look terrific....better than most, if not all, repaints. Quality paint jobs are very labor intensive, hence expensive, so do as much as you can yourself. I'm not an expert at it, but would venture to guess that I can prep a vehicle better than most professional body shops. The faster they turn them, the more $$ they make, so they will take shortcuts. When you do it yourself, you're more apt to make sure the taping is perfect or you have sanded all the way to the edges. And if you do have it painted at a body shop, make sure the guy spraying is not fat and out of shape, because he won't bend over and shoot the body from an underside angle. You'll wind up having rough spots under the rockers, cab corners and along the lower edge of the fenders and bed where the body starts to curve under the truck.

[71 longbed]

for the paint i wanted i was told about 1,000 for just the paint

[CUSTOM-10]

I had quotes all the way from 2500 up to 9500. Seems as though some shops won't touch a vehicle unless they can do an all out job on it cause they don't want any poor advertising on four wheels. My truck is a driver so there was no way I was going to fork out the big loot. Trick is to find a shop that will do a nice job for you with out treating the project like it was a show truck.(unless thats what you want). Up here in my neck of the woods those shops are few and far between cause most shops want to concentrate there efforts on insurance claims were they can charge our one and only insurance company (the provincial gov.) $650 for a plastic bumper trim piece repair on a 2007 honda. I paid 3000 and got a decent job 4 years ago my truck was really straight and did not need alot of body work. I did the rockers and cab corners myself and then took it in...don't buy any jobber panels from asia...the radius's were all wrong and it took alot of messing around to get them close. I think goodmark is selling some good one's...they may come from asia but they are using the correct die and jig setup with they purchased from GM