Paint Question..., so expensive...why? Options

[Raek]

ok, so i'm going around getting quotes from a bunch of diff places.

i'd like to get my whole car resprayed. i only have a couple of TINY areas that need bodywork, but the rest of the car is smooth and such...

my passenger side from the bumper to the end of the front door has really small cracks up the whoooole side. it loks like it's UNDER the paint...which sucks, cause the clear coat is still nice and shiny.

there's rust by the 3rd break light, so that MOS DEF needs repair...

and, that's the major stuff.

the other stuff is just wear and tear from 5 years of driving. the underside has plenty of rock chips. the front bumper, fenders and hood have more than plenty of rock chips...

now...places are quoting me 2500 - 3000 bucks to do the whole car. why?

i'm seeing some of you guys saying that it's only like 1000 - 1500 bucks to do it.

wtf?

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QUOTE (Pvc99gT @ Jun 28, 2003 - 12:25 AM)

yea dude. 3k sounds right for a really really good paint job now heres what i mean by a really good paint job. strip the entire car. take everything that isnt a part of the body that is being painted off of the car. this includes all the lights, wheather stripping, the GLASS, and the small parts like the side mirrors( they get painted separately) have it like that, then have it painted with a European Paintsystem (only way to go for quality) multiple coats of paint and clearcoat. reassemble the whole car. i dunno is that a good deal? anyway yea it just sounds like u need touch ups not a full paintjob. and yea a good paintjob will be expensive!

nah, about 8K will get the car stripped, most places dont even bother to do any more than just spot sanding let alone strip the car, you just mask it off and spray. and in actuality, the more coats you do the worse the paint job will chip. less is more, if you gauge a factory paint job off the line it is like .13 (this is just off the top of my head) microns thick, aftermarket paint jobs usually come out to about .3 something microns thick or more, in my case when i was painting, .5 microns, oh well... atleast i was just painting pannels and not my car.