Paint job prices - eye opening...

[Al]

You can keep the dust down by hosing down the floor with water and keeping it damp all around where you are painting.

[Mr.Phreak]

Yeah, that idea would suck. I'd need to make a frame to support it all, and then cover 5 sides of a box big enough to hold a car and have me walk around all sides of it. Thats quite a lot of plastic and steel.

Seen people use cheap gazebo's or those portable car port setups

[Mr Ree]

^Exactly.

Its alot easier than it sounds, especially if you are resourceful.

It can be done for very cheap, when compared to the time and money spent trying to fix errors in a paint job, or paying someone else to do it.

[tuff86]

Just an update, i ended up seeing 4ageboi's mate and he moulded the rear wide guards on and removed all imperfections on the body, he also modified the vertex kit so it actually fitted decently - its a lightning motorsports kit so needed quite a bit of work to fit nice. He then prepped the whole car including inside the doors and boot and sprayed it in 2 pot greyish blue from the toyota catalogue, the grand total came to 4k and the finish is exceptional, quite stoked.

[Tagged]

until someone buys my kidney which is going on trademe

always wanted a kidney as a pet. They make good food too after growing up a bit Thats right im Asian~~


ok im just trolling....

[Dell'Orto]

$4k is a good price for all the work that looked to be involved in your car, plus the finish looks very good

[bzrspeed]

This car was painted for $900 New Zealand with 2009 exchange rates

[Shrike]

ive just brought a decent compressor and guns once i have the gazebo and a heater in my garage ill be set (btw my levin will be professionally painted by a mate in a booth because im padantic) so any car other then my levin ill have a go spraying also happy for anyone on here to do touch ups if they provide paint and a box :p

[bzrspeed]

This paint job was about $1400 New Zealand. The difference is the labor. New Zealand labor is very expensive compared to else where and companies make more markup

[tuff86]

Yeah Dell'orto i thought that was a very reasonable price, i trailered it and all the fibreglass bits there and returned in 8 weeks to find my car all chubby and very shiny, the finish is far better than any manufacturers job, he broke it down to 2k for all the panel work (there was quite alot to do like glassing the back guards on etc) and 2k for the paint which was done in his booth at work, that also included 2 other dudes in there rubbing each layer back to get it super smooth

[rollaholic]

This paint job was about $1400 New Zealand. The difference is the labor. New Zealand labor is very expensive compared to else where and companies make more markup

its all relative eh. its not like you see many panel beaters getting round in ferraris.

[Grrrrrrr!]

its all relative eh. its not like you see many panel beaters getting round in ferraris.

Last time i saw Owen Evans he was driving a C63 AMG.. not quite a ferrari, but not bad for a panelbeater

[Al]

This paint job was about $1400 New Zealand. The difference is the labor. New Zealand labor is very expensive compared to else where and companies make more markup

its all relative eh. its not like you see many panel beaters getting round in ferraris.

You know the wrong panel shop operators.