Complete Paint Job

[VeeDubGTI16v]

paint isn't that much, i just bought enough paint and laquer to do my whole car inside and out for £180 (primer not included though). i'm not even sure that was trade price?

i can see labour being the killer, takes f'ing ages 

[A7 UFO]

depends on what paint you buy of course.  A pearl effect paint is going to cost more.

[VeeDubGTI16v]

i suppose, the above was metallic with 2pac laquer, so middle of the road i would have thought

dont encourage pearl effect!

[MrBounce]

9 years ago a standard non-metallic paint for my Mini was £60 per litre plus VAT. Chromaflair for the roof was £200 per litre plus VAT 

[danny_p]

don't proper spray shops have to waterbased paint that needs an oven now whitch bumps up the cost even more.

[Chris-White]

I was just quoted £1100 to do my corrado if i delivered it completely stripped, ie no glass, no interior, no lights / aerial.

That doesnt include the engine bay and doesnt include any door shuts / interior bits. I would also have to put it all back together.
Any welding and dent removal required would be extra on top of that price.

[danny_p]

I've decided to paint my car the expensive way and do it myself, 

1st step was to get workshop good enough to paint in,  ( theres some piccys on here somewhere )  then we bought a sh!t corsa to play on

after striping it down,  sanding filling, sanding filling and primeing then sealing, took ages    the paint and laquer went on in about 1 1/2 hours,  then you have to put all the trim back.  we spent about 4 days on the corsa we recon to do it properly will take  a week,   

going to set aside about 50 hours each to paint mine,   thats colour change but engine bay and underside going white

[Stu.750]

£15

 15 cans of matt black from poundland

[Gloves88]

£15

 15 cans of matt black from poundland

Come on man...lets be realistic here, you're going to need at least 20 cans if you want to do the engine bay and boot as well