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Technical => Exteriors and Interiors => Topic started by: Dano on August 27, 2008, 12:26:47 AM
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Have you had any quotes regarding, panel, paint, rust removal, trim, anything???? so that we can all compare .......
Think I'm going to get a quote to complete my panel and paint ...tooo many hrs for me(kinda over not having any life, mining doesn't help) and I think I'm being too fussy, need to get it on the road and don't want to rush/ spoil it
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i really think this could be a good idea , maybe a sticky somewhere, if people who have been there and done it. Others could use as a guide to help plan and budget
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Which ever way you choose to go just remember -The finish starts with the beginning.Some very sage words from 3M when they took me under their wing,
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Dano,
Go and see :
Tom
Big Jobber Panel & Paint
Wangara
(Paramount Drive From memory)
He did a bare metal panel paint and rust removal on our HK sedan 5 years ago and has done a heap of other work since.
He is right into all older cars/vans and will listen to what your are looking for.
You can see his work in progress and his drive cars are always awesome, HR van, EK ute
We have always found him reasonably priced.
Regards
Rhett
PS I will text you his number to get the address and see when he is in the shop.
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$10,000 for a showroom finish, from bare metal. You should be able to find someone who will do a
pretty good finish for $8,000 - $9,000, this would be about average.
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I've been out of the game for a while but full restoration on anything would probably set you back minimum $20,000, paint could be another 10 + on top of that depending on type/colour etc
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That's a pretty close estimate Busy. I'm in that process at the moment. Currently looking at the following:
Bead-blast to bare metal, plasma cote and etch prime $K5-6
Re-bog, skimcote, blocksand and prime etc $K4-5
Show paint finish etc $K15-17
So all up looking at between $K25-30
Oh joy.
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I know if i were to have had my beddie done at shop prices through Racepaint i would be looking at 40K - it helps when one of your best mates happens to own said 'Racepaint'. At the end of the day, if you want quality, you pay for quality.
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geez i had no idea paint would be so much, i know theres more to it than just paint
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Had my van professionally painted in 2007 for just under $9K, sorry I didn't take inflation into account.
It didn't require much panel work, but if I had been quoted those sort of above figures, I wouldn't still own it.
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geez i had no idea paint would be so much, i know theres more to it than just paint
The primer I'm using on my van is $100 a litre (plus the hardener), well it's not really the primer, it's the etch primer, the primer (which is cheaper) goes on top of this
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Gee, my first Bedford was painted for under $600.00, I belonged to a club called West City Vans, and we rented a space under some shops in Glengarry Road in west Auckland NZ, we primed it, wet sanded it, 2 coats of 1k lacquer and then 4 coats of clear, started Friday night, drove it out Sunday night finished. Yes those were the days… owned the van for 5 years and sold it looking as good as the day it was painted, minus 1 coat of clear. lol
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Some of the prices that people pay these days for paint and body work really amaze me, I can under stand if you want perfection and painted a dark colour, but the average paint job can be done for $4000, providing the van is straight and no rust, I used to do full resprays for $2000 back in the 80s, and still did all right, my paint will cost $600, but can not put a price on the labour because the airbrush work is going to take quit a while, it will be my last one so there's no rush
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Some years ago a mate of mine got a van and wanted to be a courier, had to paint the van black (company colour), was a jappa van, so told him to bring it over friday night after work. He wasn't to fussed it not being dead straight as it would get knocked around but did want a few dents knocked out.
Was just the two of us, I put him to work stripping everything off and then sanding while I fixed the worse dents ...
Long story short, he drove out sunday evening with black van and to this day he swears he'll never prep another car/van for paint. I don't know what he was on about, his fingers only just bled a little (he didn't believe me about masking tape on fingers - wet sanding chews your finger prints off).
time wise, you spend more time stripping it, sanding and putting it back together, painting only takes an hour or two