whtnblk.GT

A professional guy from a licensed store said he can have all of my lights painted except head lights for $160. Good deal?

Here is the store's website:

http://www.chainreactionaz.com/801.html

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

staggolee

All your lights meaning just tail lights and foglights or what?

pascal

For $160, I'll punch his lights out!
It's not hard to do, so put that 160 somewhere else on the car IMO.

whtnblk.GT

I mean tail lights, turn signal lights, rear bumper lights and fog lights.

People kept saying, "have it done by a professional, it's the best way to do..."

Batenswytch

Personally, if it were me, just walking in with no knowledge of the process, it sounds fair. Knowing what I do about the process: There isn't that much paint involved, but I am assuming you bring your car out, they remove and prep all the lights in question, paint, and reinstall them? Is that a 'you do nothing' price? If so, that's a lot of farking around for the guys at the shop to get all that done, so, materials, it wouldn't take that much, but in labor?

I would, however, check around with other reputable shops before I dropped that, just to make sure. If you get quoted a better price, go back to your 160 dollar shop, tell em Joe Schmo can do it for X, can you do it for that or better? I hate haggling, but I love the results... give it a go before you pay that. You'll feel better about it in the end!

whtnblk.GT

What I'm going to do is, take these lights to them, they will spray paint it, and then I will get them back and install these lights myself. I should get a better price if I do it this way, right?

pascal

Taking everything off is most of that job.
Prepping and spraying the parts is a 15 minutes affair.
They have to give you a better deal in that case...

whtnblk.GT

Ok, I'll have to talk to them then. Thanks.

tampa07gt

I paid around $100 taking it all off.

Batenswytch

Yeaahhh. If you're doing the biggest part of the labor, you need a better deal. I completely agree...