Whats a reasonable price 4 a respray

[Lewy]

A Mk2 Ive just painted, the £800 at you talk of doesn't even come close to what has been spent on paint, materials. sundry items and a new OE wing, let alone labour etc, good bodywork is horrendously expensive!

Thom

Do tell....

[beechymonza]

He says he gonnaa av it about 6 weeks,
Which suits me down 2 the ground,
But i can see where you are coming from about the quality,
He has assured me it will be like brand new at the end, An i ay gotta pay him until its done,

[Thom89]

A Mk2 Ive just painted, the £800 at you talk of doesn't even come close to what has been spent on paint, materials. sundry items and a new OE wing, let alone labour etc, good bodywork is horrendously expensive!

Thom

Do tell....

 

Thom

[dubber36]

leaves roughy £400 to do the job.  in other words 2 days worth of work, unless he's doing it on the side but those jobs tend to go wrong 

2 days??? There's more than a weeks work there.

No bodyshop, mate or otherwise would work all week for £400.

[danny_p]

i never said it was 2 days worth of work. i said there was about enough cash for 2 days worth of work as in that altho it probaly should be a weeks worth of work it's highly unlikely it'll get it

[Sam]

A Mk2 Ive just painted, the £800 at you talk of doesn't even come close to what has been spent on paint, materials. sundry items and a new OE wing, let alone labour etc, good bodywork is horrendously expensive!

Thom

Do tell....

 

Thom

Shiney   

[dubber36]

i never said it was 2 days worth of work. i said there was about enough cash for 2 days worth of work as in that altho it probaly should be a weeks worth of work it's highly unlikely it'll get it

I know. That's what I was getting at too.

[clipperjay]

I've always stuck to a rule of thumb £250-£300 per pannel (four doors being two pannels, two wings one pannel ) so I would expect top job to be around  £1,700 upwards I've not paid more than £2K But mates rates I would have thought about 1K upwards? 

[Wayne]

I've always stuck to a rule of thumb £250-£300 per pannel (four doors being two pannels, two wings one pannel ) so I would expect top job to be around  £1,700 upwards I've not paid more than £2K But mates rates I would have thought about 1K upwards? 

I would say your about right price wise, I paid £120 for my front bumper to be painted and they are a top notch bodyshop, for a good quality respray you have got to be looking at least £1500 +

The thing with a cheap job is how good will it look in 12mths time.

[clipperjay]

TBH fair I had seals and some rust sorted out which took time included in my 2K
If I had the perfect car I would have sand blasted it first, just to get rid of old paint and have as fresh coat on bare metal! Thats not cheap.
I found that if the lazy arse sprayer hasn't patted or sanded off well you get a reaction under the old paint under the new one.
Paint costs hardly anything (unless candi) its the prep thats 95% of labour you pay for!