Colour change/respray

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Upatdawn

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2,182 posts

147 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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For a basic respray to white, not door jams, just exterior, what would you guess it would cost?


bodywork is good


its as big as a Mondeo


belleair302

6,835 posts

206 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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Depends where you are based and how good a finish you require. I would think for a good job upwards of £2,500 plus VAT.

Upatdawn

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2,182 posts

147 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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belleair302 said:
Depends where you are based and how good a finish you require. I would think for a good job upwards of £2,500 plus VAT.
i dont


lol


its only to plate as a taxi

ajprice

27,318 posts

195 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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Vinyl wrap?

Upatdawn

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2,182 posts

147 months

Wednesday 9th July 2014
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ajprice said:
Vinyl wrap?
£1000 or (with door shuts) £1500 and a 4 day job

TPS

1,860 posts

212 months

Thursday 10th July 2014
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Upwards of £1500 for a respray,£3000 area would be respray including door shuts

I can not see anyone doing it for less when you factor in labour, materials and paint.
If you are expecting a £500/£600 respray I think you will be hard pushed to find it.

dbfan

183 posts

122 months

Thursday 10th July 2014
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Twenty odd years ago, lad at college asked me how much a respray would be for his 318 (I think - it may have been a bigger engine) from metallic grey to black. I said that, even as a poor amateur (as I was), I would look for at least £500. He went to a mate that sprayed taxis and got it done for £90! You wouldn't believe how many variations there are in black! He had at least five different shades (and levels of shine) as the feller had used up all his left over paint from other jobs!

After the rest of us had had our laugh, we admitted that, as a dark grey car, it looked great - as a black one, it looked dire. A fortnight later, the lad fitted a body kit. I say fitted - there was some of it touching the car - and it was yet another shade or two of black! He must have knocked a nought off the value of the car.

If OP wants cheap, perhaps some sand paper, a tin of cheapo brilliant white and a 2" brush would do the trick! My brother in law did that with a Maxi many years ago and it looked OK - at night.

Upatdawn

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2,182 posts

147 months

Thursday 10th July 2014
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A local shop who fixed my last car after a scrape said wait till everyones away in Spain in a few weeks and they will do it for £650 cash, they have nothing booked in

Refined Detail

369 posts

179 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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Roller, tin of 2 pack, job done for that sort of budget!

dbfan

183 posts

122 months

Saturday 12th July 2014
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I watched Wheeler Dealers (on Quest) the other night, Edd was rubbing down a Sprite and said he's saved £600 by doing that bit himself! IIRC, the respray was £1500.

SV8Predator

2,102 posts

164 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Upatdawn said:
A local shop who fixed my last car after a scrape said wait till everyones away in Spain in a few weeks and they will do it for £650 cash, they have nothing booked in
If you know the price, what are you asking on here for?


Squiggs

1,520 posts

154 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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dbfan said:
I watched Wheeler Dealers (on Quest) the other night, Edd was rubbing down a Sprite and said he's saved £600 by doing that bit himself! IIRC, the respray was £1500.
There's not many sprayers that will take on others prep - reasons:
If the prep isn't good enough should the sprayer simply apply paint regardless of the end finish?
If the prep materials and spraying materials aren't compatible, don't work together, re-act or fail at a later stage who gets the blame?

dbfan

183 posts

122 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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Squiggs said:
There's not many sprayers that will take on others prep - reasons:
If the prep isn't good enough should the sprayer simply apply paint regardless of the end finish?
If the prep materials and spraying materials aren't compatible, don't work together, re-act or fail at a later stage who gets the blame?
Fair enough - I would say something similar, I learnt the lesson many years ago on a "rush job" for a neighbour who needed a door painting to match his Volvo 245 that was going to be a wedding car the next day! The family got into the car while I was finishing off the trim!

My point was that it cost £1500 for a respray and the car was already prepared. So, in theory, a full job would have been £2100.

kds keltec

1,365 posts

189 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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A sprite is not the same size as a modern car,
Also is far easier to take apart (removing mouldings, trim, bumpers, windows etc) than a modern car.

example a BMW Z4 we recently carried out a full repsray on was far easier and quicker than the Golf R32 that was resprayed, basically alot less things and parts to remove to repaint properly.
More importantly NO roof to repaint on Z4 wink

golf can be found here (not showing the fully stripped car, EG we got photos showing wings and bonnet off then replaced on car to paint outer faces)
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...



In fact the ferrari Enzo was easier than both cars to strip, only real issue is the price of some of the components that we removed (rear clam 32k bare, headlights 8k each).

Here is the enzo with a post answering cost of respray question by Ph member so relavant to this thread

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...


what i am getting to is time is money and one car full repaint can be totally different to another car when both are being currectly fully striped.

The very old designed cars are far simplier.
My old TVR tuscan had a full colour change the total cost was cheaper than you would expect, this was done to how easy they are to paint with the lack of ANY mouldings , clips , trims etc.

size comes into it due to prep work of course is going to be longer on larger car.

HTH Kelly

Edited by kds keltec on Monday 21st July 09:33


Edited by kds keltec on Monday 21st July 09:33