Respray price?

[sketchy63]

Got a 5 door mk2 golf, and ideally it needs a respray, i can do all the prepping work myself, but was just wondering how much of a chunk it would take out of my student loan? :p

The cars Tornado Red, and would be keeping this colour, Thanks

[Gti_Jamo]

Any proffesional respray would cost about a grand I would think but if your doing all the prep work yourself it would keeps cost down as there is a lot of time involved. Basically all you would be paying for is the labour for the sprayer, the paint and the booth hours.

[Seanl]

Best off asking if the spray shop you have in mind if they will do the work after you prep. Think alot of them will not guarantee any work where they have had no input in what is the most important factor in any respray.

[Thom89]

A Grand 
And self prepare should mean, put the price up!!
Absolute minimum for a decent job should start at 2.5 to 3k, anything less, and your talking about a blow over with corners cut... everywhere!

Thom

[Gti_Jamo]

I've seen top jobs done for a grand if all prep work is done...but it also depends how competent the prepper is. I guess its about who you know and how good they are. Also his car is a solid colour which also keeps costs way down.

[sketchy63]

Thanks for the help, think its gonna have to wait for a while untill i get more money coming in

[Mikester]

If its staying the same colour then the costs will be cut by not having to paint the door shuts, insides etc. Even still you are looking at 2k for a good job.

[danny_p]

about the dafest thing going to spend your student loan on.... 

a grand will get you bodge done by someone who isnt very good who hasent got any work on.

the easy bit is spraying the car the prep is where all the time and hard work is.    i decided i'm going to spray my car myself tbh sending it to a bodyshop would be cheeper when you realise whats involved 

decided to have practice on a scrapper thought i'd preped it  that took about a day,  duffed a coat of primer on it and realised that my prep work was CRAP,  another day 1 1/2 of filling and sanding,  then another coat of primer  just to sand most of it off again as it was still crap  followed by more sandign and filling 4 days later  it didn't look sh!t,   then you put base coat on  and realise you should have done even more prep.

al in all a week later  we stood back looked at what we'd acheved  and decided  it was managable considering we didn't know what we were doing when started  but was crap compared to what it should be,   after another 3 trial runs  just about got half an idea of what is actualy required in prep.

[old school]

Hmmm I'm in the trade been doing it for years and prices do vary SO! much. For a proper job you would be looking from about 2-3 grand. But remember this if your going to prep it your self this is the most important stage. When you look at a good paint job its the prep your looking at the top coat is just the colour. When my jobs are in primer I spirit wipe the panels to give them a shine to check how straight everything is because when I paint it that is what I'm going to see.

The easiest part of any paint job is actually putting the top coat on