Paint Question..., so expensive...why? Options

[Raek]

ok, so i'm going around getting quotes from a bunch of diff places.

i'd like to get my whole car resprayed. i only have a couple of TINY areas that need bodywork, but the rest of the car is smooth and such...

my passenger side from the bumper to the end of the front door has really small cracks up the whoooole side. it loks like it's UNDER the paint...which sucks, cause the clear coat is still nice and shiny.

there's rust by the 3rd break light, so that MOS DEF needs repair...

and, that's the major stuff.

the other stuff is just wear and tear from 5 years of driving. the underside has plenty of rock chips. the front bumper, fenders and hood have more than plenty of rock chips...

now...places are quoting me 2500 - 3000 bucks to do the whole car. why?

i'm seeing some of you guys saying that it's only like 1000 - 1500 bucks to do it.

wtf?

[boosted_K2]

QUOTE (sinner96ST @ Jun 26, 2003 - 1:05 PM)

Correct me if i'm wrong about this, but I had a friend who worked at a body shop tell it to me. I guess when they create the cars themselves, they positively (or negatively) charge the paint, so that it literally STICKS to the car itself. They have booths like this at auto body places, and it costs a lot of money. You get what you pay for, but I do believe the prices you are getting are completely out of whack. I paid 9 grand for my car, and i'll be damned if a 1/3rd of that is going in to paint. I'd tell them to go **** themselves, and find a friend who knows a friend, etc.. or do it yourself. Whatever you do, don't go to maaco. I've never heard of anybody actually happy with their work.

90% of places dont have the ability to charge the paint, and that wouldnt work anyways unless you take the car down to bare metal because the current paint negates the magnetic effect. The electron paint guns are around 1.8K + a piece, more than any regular shop would pay for them. and yea, macco is a waste of time and money.