Thread: How much for new Paint??

1500-3000 prolly

Call around to body shops and ask. Certain colors of paint can cost much more.

Originally Posted by Jbruce308

Yeah i just cant afford to spend a few grand after i spend the 1,000 on the hood spoiler and air dam. Yeah i for sure want a BC and CC just so i cant wetsand their flaws out later on if needed. What are there prices for the base and clear? any clue

i think like $550 or somthin i forget not to much its posted on there wall when you walk in

Again, Maaco uses crap quality paint material. I paid over $400 just for materials when we painted my Stealth, and in reality I got over $800 in material, I just had a huge hookup at the auto paint supply. That was even the "generic" paint.

If Maaco can do a base/clear job for $500 and still make money, then they are using crap quality material.

Originally Posted by Jbruce308

Im not a half bad painter, so what if i do all the prep work myself this summer and buy some decent quality automotive paint and do it myself with a HPLV gun. Im repainting it the same color which is white so im feeling i could do a pretty decent job. What do you think? Paint it myself or have a shop do it for a few grand.

HVLP* white is cheap and you can do it yourself for cheaper but dont under estimate maaco either if you do the body work you can take it to them to do a BC/CC or a single stage for cheaper

do all the prep work yourself and do the presidential @ maco prep work is the most important part of any paint job.

Originally Posted by papaspanky

do all the prep work yourself and do the presidential @ maco prep work is the most important part of any paint job.

Maaco is and always will be junk. When a shop charges less for a paint job than quality materials cost, that should tell you there is an issue.

love this guy, i remember these commercials from years ago.

Originally Posted by Jbruce308

and no i dont want a color change its the same color repainted

Ah... my bad broski.

$99.95 guaranteed not to fade for 4 years how many used car lots took there cars there.. lol

I've seen some Maaco paint jobs come out quite nice actually....

but maaco does have 3 options single stage, bc/cc, and i forget the other one

for 99.95 you got what you paid for, zero prep work, just paint, and out the door. looked like crap too.

worse than Macao if that's possible.

and macao does suck, they dont do prep work right at all, they cut every corner possible too. but then again what do you want for a 300 dollar paint job?