err.. why did it take 11 months to prep/paint a car?

dude... if i went at my car with a sanding block and i was only given 5 strokes maximum per day... I think I could beat his record for the longest time ever to do a paint job.

Well our cars have a pretty big surface area... I have never bothered to check on how much it would cost to paint our cars.. but my guess would be around 2-3k... for a good job. And more if you are getting complete resurfacing and like 8 coats of clearcoat.

 

4 grand for a solid color? That guy is fuckin crazy. It better be solid 24k gold or something...

 

4 grand for a backyard paint job by a friend that took 11 months....jeezus c. What a crock, A single factory color paint job using the best paints on the market would only cost only about 900 in paint materials, and at best 2 full weeks of labor.

I've been painting my Stealth Twin Turbo for the past 4 weeks (I spray paint on Friday and Saturdays, then reassemble for driving to work during week on Sunday) I spent about 3 weeks sanding it prior to spraying any paint, then have spent approx 8 days laying on the color and clear coats. I would have been done the first weekend if I was only doing one color.

I've been using House of Kolor paints which are one of the best automotive custom paints, and it is quite expensive ...like 50 bucks a quart for basecoats, 19.00 for 8 oz of kandy koncentrates which make about a half gallon of unreduced kandy and have done tons of custom work such as ghost flames, metalflake (kameleon) and airbrush accents, and total cost for materials so far is only about 1600.00 and that includes two paint guns, and two airbrushes.

You are getting ripped off. I got 4 estimates from custom shops and all of them came to about the same total, within 300 of each other, totalling at about 3700. But the down time was only 2 weeks at all of the shops. What is with the 11 months? I don't care how many awards the guy has, it shouldn't have taken more than a month at the longest, and any extra time should have made the job cheaper since he wasn't working on it continuously. Jeez, take the car to factobake and get a single color job done in 3 days for 500 bucks. Is better to get a cheaper job done than have to live 11 months without a car.

Lord Warlock
ps if you want to see my results in a month, go to the turkey rod run thread and take a look at the linked pictures.

 

$350 to repaint my car black... Maacos hehe

sanding, clear coat, 3 coats of paint, protective coat - $350

i know they suck but i talked to the guy and they actually did a great job and it's held up for 8 months now

 

Yeah, you need to get some new friends.

My car had tons of body work, they totally rebuilt the rear quarter panel (HUGE dent), totally stripped and fixed both bumpers, and fixed about 4 other minor "indentations"... plus totally smoothed the entire body... plus painted my stock wheels, plus painted my helmet...

I paid less than what you are.

Plus my car is Pearl so it's a lot more work (and more difficult to spray correctly).

 

I got a complete paint job also. 3 coats of House of Kolor base nd 4 coats of Dupont clear coat.

It took them 3 weeks to knock it out and I paid, for the paint job alone, $2300.

11 months I could sand it down with a toothbrush and repaint it with nail polish in less time.

 

hey mitsu, which maaco did u go to, what did u tell him. i might wanna go there.....

 

It took him a year to paint your car.

Take more than that to pay him back. ;-)

 

hey mitsu, which maaco did u go to, what did u tell him. i might wanna go there.....

i took it to the one in Dover, NJ on route 46

i simply told the guy that i asked around and maacos has a horrible reputation. i said that i was scared bringing my car there and i wanted the paint job to last and look nice. he said no problem, he'll make sure of it, and if anything happens i can bring it back for them to fix

the reason it was $350 was b/c there was a deal going on that month for half price so normally the paint job i got would be $700

so far it's lasted, shines very nice, and i get compliments all the time

if you want i can give you the guy's number and i'll talk to him too and see if he can give you the same deal

 

Yeah I heard a story of a guy that brought his truck into maaco to get painted and he left a hammer in the bed of the truck. They painted right over it.

Maaco is a franchise so not all of them are that bad, it depends on who owns and runs it. There is a Maaco here in Salt Lake that is supposed to be the best one in america. There is a company here called exotic imports that has ferraris and lambos for sale, and they take their cars to this Maaco to get painted.

I have painted my cars in the past, and I really don't want to do it again. I'll probably get mine repainted at Maaco. My car is pearl white though, so how good do you think they can do it? I'd love to paint it an exotic yellow, but then there is the extra cost for the door jambs and anything under the hood. I wouldn't have them paint EVERYTHING under the hood, just the underside of the hood itself and some little things along the edges of the engine bay that are easy to paint without removing lots of things.

 

if you want i can give you the guy's number and i'll talk to him too and see if he can give you the same deal

Hook me up also! I need my eclipse repainted. If I can get it done for $1K or less, I will be really happy.

 

DAMN, local guy around here has an awesome rep!!! Told me $1,600 for a full repaint, counting paint, two racing stripes, all dings and dents taken out, EVERYTHING! Even doing both sides of the hood cuz I did a front conv. and the hood is red and needed it to be green!!! You've been owned!!!

 

hook me up at dover maaco, maybe if a few of us go we can get that price. thnx pm me when u do, thnx

 

Yeah I heard a story of a guy that brought his truck into maaco to get painted and he left a hammer in the bed of the truck. They painted right over it.

lol....

I love that wood-spec rear in your sig---can you make a custom one for my car, ummmm.... and a single shot exhaust cutout please, driver side.... What kind of wood are u using? just little worried for it to catch on fire from all the backfiring..... Let me know ASAP. I have cash in hand!!:bigok:

 

Yeah I heard a story of a guy that brought his truck into maaco to get painted and he left a hammer in the bed of the truck. They painted right over it.

lol....

I love that wood-spec rear in your sig---can you make a custom one for my car, ummmm.... and a single shot exhaust cutout please, driver side.... What kind of wood are u using? just little worried for it to catch on fire from all the backfiring..... Let me know ASAP. I have cash in hand!!:bigok:

 

lol....

I love that wood-spec rear in your sig---can you make a custom one for my car, ummmm.... and a single shot exhaust cutout please, driver side.... What kind of wood are u using? just little worried for it to catch on fire from all the backfiring..... Let me know ASAP. I have cash in hand!!:bigok:

Hehe, thanks. Its just 1/2" plywood. There's two threads on it, just search for them. I have the front bumper left to do, and its gonna be good. Sure I'll make you one, I should start a wood body kit business.

 

4 large sounds a bit high for same color --- however ---- the $400 paint jobs do NOT have all the parts and trim removed so it can be done correctly. Just painting with all parts in place is ok for a drive by paint job --- a 50/50 job can be done with spray cans, you look at it driving by from 50 feet at 50 mph A 100/50 can be done with house paint and a roller, but if you want a 0/0 job plan on several grand at least

Jim Berry

 

It took him a year to paint your car.

Take more than that to pay him back. ;-)

Thats kinda the plan, I was telling my sister that I was going to send him a dollar a day in the mail until its payed off. My car is the same color as yours. Looks awesome everywhere but the HOOD HAS F'N ACNE. Which it developed a week after I got it back.

Lord Warlock-It wasn't a backyard job he actually own a shop. But your right it is outrageous.

So I don't know you think I should jkeep prolonging payments like I have? My Dad went in to talk to the guy about going to the Miami boatshow and I guess the guy bitched to my dad about. He was even insinuating (sp) that my dad give him some money! When my dad told me that I got pretty stinking mad. Of course my dad didn't give him any money, I'm 23yrs old and this dude thinks my dad is going to pay for my paintjob?! My dad is on my side though, we're not sure what we are going to do.

 

I'd pay him 2k and that's all. And at that price he should fix the blistering on the hood. You did not agree at a price before the work was done? How? Or a period of time for him to work and finish it? I can understand a month, but a year?

LW

 

yea the price I can understand it is very high but some people charge a lot depending on the kind of job they do but taking a year to do a paint job that is really crazy. as Lord Warlock did you come up with that price before you did the job? Also obviously if the paint is starting to have problems already this paint job definitely wasn't worth $4k I think you should have a talk with this guy.

 

I'll put it this way: One of my quotes for PEARL coat, from a VERY reputable shop in the area, was for $4800...

And it was totally guaranteed. For THREE YEARS.

Guarantee? Yep.

First of all, I could go in once a year for a professional buffing to get rid of small scratches. Free.

Any rock chips repaired FREE. For 3 years!

Any imperfections/cracks/bubbles, etc. that come out within 3 years... FIXED FREE.

And of course they said, "when we are done, you go over the car with a fine-toothed comb. If you see even the SLIGHTEST imperfection, we'll fix it immediately, FREE, no questions asked.


I know a guy that got a paint job done there and they weren't lying. He found 2 pin-prick sized imperfections, way down under his bumper, and showed them... the next day they were GONE and FIXED. His paint doesn't have any rock chips, even though he drives it every day (he's convinced it's the paint protecting from chips!).

Now that I look back, I should have gotten that paint job...

But the point is, that was a PEARL coat, only $800 more than this dude wanted to charge you, (and included all of the body work I needed), and also has this warranty.

You should get him to fix those imperfections, at least! Tell him "I got a $2000 paint job, I'm done paying, unless you fix this, and this, and this, and this."

 

my car cost 800 to :

Lower it
repaint the whole car - 3 stage pearl white
replace both side skirts
bang out, all and any dents and dings


and it took him 4 days. car looks great, cept for the key job someone did to the pass. and the shit on the bottom of the bumper from the fuckin speed bumps at school. Bastards. The guy was a friend of mine, so thats why I got it done so cheap, and fast. But 4 grand, for a single color REPAINT, that took almost a year. Kick him in the balls, and spit in that guys face. He's ripping you off.

Matt


edit: shop warrenty'd the paint from any abnormal chiping, pealing, bubbling or anything for the life of the car. He also used PPG paint.

 

Well every time I went there the jackass wasn't working on it, I would ask him when he was going to work on it he would say "well I got this car and this car to do, then I'll do yours." I stopped in there twice a week sometimes more for almost a year just to see that he was blowing me off. I was so pissed off. now the guy is being a dick to me. I'm thinking about stopping over there tomarow, and telling him I'm not giving him another dime until he fixes the hood. As far as the price, he never wrote me a quote he just told me it shouldn't be any more than 3,000. WHich I even thought that was high. So when he told me $4,000 I was like freaked out and he said theree was alot more body work to do than he thought. At that point I just wanted my car back.

 

Mitsu dealer bodyshop in Houston quoted me $2500 for original factory paint and finish(all trim removed)and a gaurantee of 3 years. This is a pearl finish as well.

4K is absurd, oh yeah, they told me 2 weeks to do the job. This is from a DEALER!!

You're getting ripped, shoulda had a contract, something in writing.

 

Holy hell it's time for new friends. My dad's friend paints at home, and has painted MANY cars. He does it on the side, and loves doing it. He has painted a few $75,000 street rods. He will be painting my car here soon (of course for free). When he does someone's car, he usually gets it done in a month. He does it for $1200. He is one of those gifted painters, he can get a body PERFECTLY straight. His son (only 16) drives a 72 Chevelle, and it is painted a deep hunter green. It is absolutely amazing. He has $5000 invested in it (since him and my father do their own work together), and he had an offer at a local car show for $14,000, just because of how flawless the body was. He doesn't beleive in using bondo either. Anyways, the moral of the story is, that guy is not much of a friend. $4000 is a joke. I'd laugh in his face, maybe slap him around with my dick, wait for him to take you to Judge Judy (he's obviously trash, if he expects you to pay him), and then explain how loooong it took him. Then laugh in his face when he doesn't get his money.