Respray

[subtle modder]

I paid almost 2k to have two sides, a bonnet and a bumper painted. And I can still pick flaws with it if I felt like it.

If someone quoted me £500 for a paint job, I'd literally laugh in their face.

and my point exactly, you paid £2k almost for that s**t half a job? price has NOTHING TO DO with quality 75% of the time

 

[vroomtshh]

and my point exactly, you paid £2k almost for that s**t half a job? price has NOTHING TO DO with quality 75% of the time

I don;t think you really got my point. I paid that, and I could give you my car for 24 hours and you couldn;t find a flaw in it. I could, but I spend more time with the car than I do with my girlfriend.

I've had paintwork done from £50 to nearly £5k. And if you think you can get a quality full respray for £500, your a dreamer, or happy with substandard work.

 

[Chapster5]

I've recently just had my front bumper, rear bumper, side skirts, bonnet, boot lid, door, rear quarter, air intake thing (between the bonnet and front bumper), and my wings sprayed by a friend he said I pay for paint and materials he will do the labor for free. Cost me £110 and the job is flawless :/ Depends where you go and the quality of that persons work imho. Everyone paints differently

 

[Gally]

i gave an honest oppinion of what i used to charge AND was in trade for 2 and half years, not just sitting behind my keybourd dreaming up figures, theres 2 types of paint jobs

2 and a half years? Wow!

 

[vroomtshh]

2 and a half years? Wow!

I've spent more than 2 and a half years hanging around paintshops waiting for my car to be done :lolup:

 

[Gally]

2 and a half years? That's half an apprenticeship.

 

[Final Maxim]

full apprenticeship is 3yrs, just fyi!

 

[Silent_Scone]

Yeah the old north/south devide, you pay through the roof for most stuff BUT were onabout average prices and theyre surely cant be that much difference in labour price where bodywork is concerned?

Give me a unit with a booth again and id do it any day, the ONLY reason i gave it up is my little lad was on way and i got offered my old job as a warehouse supervisor back, ie solid reliable income with far less hours, certainly nothing to do with not wanting to do it anymore, quite miss it tbh

There is unfortunately, it's all overheads! Some areas more than others granted. Good painters are like gold dust these days tbh.

 

[Gally]

Not in Scotland. Jeeez what can you learn in 3 years!

 

[Final Maxim]

thats cause you're all knuckle dragging, slow learning, retarded mother f*****s.

 

[Gally]

Good painters are like gold dust these days tbh.

I'd agree with that. Our place is very lucky, tight unit of 4 guys who have stayed here for years. Hard to find!

thats cause you're all knuckle dragging, slow learning, retarded mother f**kers.

Or we like to do things right.

 

[midge]

With out trying to be rude how comes the course is 5 years?

 

[subtle modder]

I don;t think you really got my point. I paid that, and I could give you my car for 24 hours and you couldn;t find a flaw in it. I could, but I spend more time with the car than I do with my girlfriend.

I've had paintwork done from £50 to nearly £5k. And if you think you can get a quality full respray for £500, your a dreamer, or happy with substandard work.

r a

NO no no i agreed you wont get a full hit for £500, i said £1200-£1300 was a reasonable amount for a paint and prep job

I've recently just had my front bumper, rear bumper, side skirts, bonnet, boot lid, door, rear quarter, air intake thing (between the bonnet and front bumper), and my wings sprayed by a friend he said I pay for paint and materials he will do the labor for free. Cost me £110 and the job is flawless :/ Depends where you go and the quality of that persons work imho. Everyone paints differently

Thats a VERY good mate, hold onto him for dear life :star:

2 and a half years? Wow!

4 years and 7 months training being a warehouse supervisor in mean time and then 2 and half years running my own business 6-7 days a week, is this not enough :S sorry if this isnt enough :dapprove: thats finnishing early due to finnishing test peieces early and all tests full marks, distinctions in all parts and best in class for the whole period, 4 days a week not this poncy 1 day a week that most aprentices get to do, and thats while doing 30 hours a week of nights work.

There is unfortunately, it's all overheads! Some areas more than others granted. Good painters are like gold dust these days tbh.

Theyre rare thats for sure, tbqh its an underpaid area of work, my guns alone cost enough, My Deltaylo base's guns, Sata 3000 fine metalics and laquers gun and my devilbliss primer gun come to just shy of a grand and that was trade, add in the cost the replacement cups on the sata gun and the new filters every month or so on that and the Deltaylo's and its alot to earn back just that, and when you think more than half the aprentices ive spoke to had to either pay all their tools cost or atleast 60% its madness when they will only get back a small percentage of the cost of the job.

With out trying to be rude how comes the course is 5 years?

Course can be upto 7 years tbh, you can spend two years learning water based paints alone and different application methods for them, ill be honest i did 6 months of it and realised i was never gonna use them in my own environment, each to their own

 

[Alex5]

To be fair , if I had a cheap clio and wanted a respray, I would pay £550 any day over the 2k.. Even just outer body and a average job , 2k is a lot oof money, may as well just buy a new car

 

[CrippsCorner]

To be honest this is turning into a 'Look how much I'm prepared to spend on a paint job' thread... pretty silly. Bargains can be had, as others as backed me up on. I was completely satisfied with my £550 paint job, it seems other people either don't believe it, or are getting annoyed by it, lol. Get over it guys

 

[Daniel]

Or some people are happy driving around in a car that looks like it was painted by a dog with a brush taped to its ear?

Each to their own.

 

[v16daf]

I knew a lad in college years ago who used white house paint and a brush to paint his 205, don't think he was all there though! Lol

 

[subtle modder]

To be honest this is turning into a 'Look how much I'm prepared to spend on a paint job' thread... pretty silly. Bargains can be had, as others as backed me up on. I was completely satisfied with my £550 paint job, it seems other people either don't believe it, or are getting annoyed by it, lol. Get over it guys

Agreed tbh, question was answered in many ways and tbf if lucky like chapster above then could certainly be done cheaper

Check previous work of theirs.
Ask what theyre gonna do for the money.
Are they willing to guarantee it.
When can they get you in? if its next day.. well.. be wary :quiet:
Always go 2 or 3 places for quotes AND oppinions moreso
NEVER just go off a "mates brothers girlfriends brother's" recomendation, you dont know them, they dont have to look at your car, and they dont have to pay the money

end of it really

Wayne

 

[CrippsCorner]

Or some people are happy driving around in a car that looks like it was painted by a dog with a brush taped to its ear?

Each to their own.

Prove it? It was fine... I was working at various boatyards when he sprayed my car, and ended up helping the guy get a contract spraying boats at Port Medway Marina some where worth over £250,000 would they really let someone that was s**t at their job do that?

 

[AUTOCRASH]

nothing! with you on this Gally! ive been doing this for 26 years! you never know everything and always learning!
£500 for a respray? or is that the paint and matirials?

Not in Scotland. Jeeez what can you learn in 3 years!

 

[CrippsCorner]

£550 was repair of front bumper (spilt after hitting a tree @ 3mph, don't ask!) repair of rear bumper (had dropped and cracked a bit where it attaches to main body) complete outside respray (in case Daniel gets funny) although that did include inside the doors and boot... in Subaru WR blue. Which obviously wasn't a standard colour on a Honda CRX, although it had been previously painted a blue/purple pearl by the previous owner. All paint and materials including in price

 

[Silent_Scone]

That's cheap. What did it look like.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Excuse most of the modifications, this was around 8 years. I've grown up since the bodykit phase but here's a few months after the spray job...

 

[MartinR]

Don't mean to rude but lol that is the worst car i have ever seen!!!^^^^^ bet you are glad to be rid of it

 

[danzman1991]

Yeah, I spent £14t86543 on my paint job, wouldn't pay any less, I'm super rich iirc tbh

 

[CrippsCorner]

Don't mean to rude but lol that is the worst car i have ever seen!!!^^^^^ bet you are glad to be rid of it

It was fun when I was 20 and bodykits were all the rage! But don't get me wrong, I wouldn't go there again... I bought it like that btw, apart from the wheels. The only kit a CRX should have is a Mugen one :evil:

 

[subtle modder]

TBF Kayzee that looks damn smart, i wouldnt mind driving that round myself at all, Martin182 i cant see what your onabout, it looks nice for what is likely to be a lower amount of money, and you clearly havent been car shows and seen the tripe that shows up on these owners club stands, and paintjob for that money looks respectable, you can see the prep is undesirable by the reflection in centre of rear bumper BUT it was cheap and tbf that lad that did it didnt earn that much out of it and if youd spent £4k on a paintjob most people that would look at that particular car most likely wouldnt appreciate it.

Wayne