Full respray for £399 - Too good to be true?

[Rfcg]

Advert on our local radio recently for a full car respray for £399, regardless of the size of the car. This seems really cheap compared to other companies, but I can't help wondering why it is so cheap, if it's at the expense of quality etc, or if it is low to attract new customers.

Any thoughts or anyone used rather before?

www.econospray.co.uk

[andrewparker]

Well I just had a small scrape on the bumper of my Golf resprayed for £378... so yeah, it's seems unbelievably cheap. Labour alone should cost many times more than that.

[Patrick Bateman]

I suspect 'you get what you pay for' holds true here.

[Rubin215]

You get what you pay for.

A decent place couldn't even prep the car for that.

[V8RX7]

Any full respray under £1000 is highly unlikely to be a satisfactory job - many over £1000 are poor.

Materials alone for modern metallic paints are around £250.

Which leaves one day to prep and spray it.

[andye30m3]

I'm fairly sure the materials to paint my old M3 was nearly a £1k

[Muzzer79]

£399 probably wouldn't buy the paint for a decent re-spray, never mind get the whole job done.

[neilbauer]

They show the civic as a respray and same picture for plastidip!

[V8RX7]

TooLateForAName said:

I suspect that the fact that they plastidip cars may be related.

That would make sense - price wise but their website seems clear:

"We offer a colour change permanent paint respray for only £399"

[steveo3002]

couple of hours prep and a get what you pay for paint up with the cheapest paint they can get

[Benjy911]

Looks like most of them have even had trim pieces included in the price!

[retrorider]

Buy cheap,buy twice...

[DaveCWK]

If you prepare the car yourself, remove window seals etc then there is no technical reason why you can't get an excellent result for that. £400 will easily cover the cost of materials and the time of a skilled painter albeit one who is willing to work for what we in the UK would consider a very modest sum.

In other parts of the world where labour is cheap that is a pretty standard price for a respray. Same finish. Same paint. Same preparation.

[V8RX7]

DaveCWK said:

In other parts of the world where labour is cheap that is a pretty standard price for a respray. Same finish. Same paint. Same preparation.

But they don't have to pay £350k for a house, £40k rent and 10k rates etc

[irocfan]

if it seems to be too good to be true it usually is...

I was going to say it's likely to be what was known as a blow job - but seeing as they're claiming colour change? In this country? Unless you're doing all the prep work yourself it's a scam

[Troubleatmill]

I'll do it for £397.

If it is less than £2K minimum - it will be arse gravy.
Many good resprays are in excess of £4-5K plus.
So yeah - it will be crap.

I say - go for it - and post photos. We need a laugh at someone's expense- so why not yours?


A fool and their money....


(Seriously fella- don't do it )

[jonah35]

May be ok.

[Chicane-UK]

Looks like they're using Plastidip. So it's not a proper respray in that any rust or whatever will still be there, and they're just spraying over it.

Problem with plastidip is that you can tell it's not proper paint and is only any good really if you want a flat or matt colour. Even their shiny ones you can tell there's something "not right" about it.

But if the car is scabby and you're happy with a matt paint job, you can't go too wrong - and you can peel it off if you hate it!

[ferrariF50lover]

Are you lot sure? There are new cars, brand spanking new cars, fabricated from scratch in far flung places and shipped direct to your local dealership, inclusive of tax and other charges, for sale in the UK today for, what, seven grand.

There are people here claiming that 70% the cost of a new car is paint, which, when R&D runs into the tens or hundreds of millions, is patently not true.

What's the craic?

[With these feet]

From what Ive seen of these coatings you dont need to mask off surrounding panels, just peel excess off once dried. Masking a respray takes quite a while, if its just a quick run around with a blade then it saves a lot of time. Still crazy cheap - if I vinyl a race car the vinyl will cost that, not including the labour to fit it!