Actually if you are looking to do the whole car it is way more than 4-5 grand. I paid for the painted stripes and all the body panels and basically the whole top of the car for 4500 dollars. A near show quality paint job or something comparable to factory paint will cost more than it is worth IMO.

 

I cant see spending that much ona fancy color when you get blown for that type of money, I just have a hard time getting stuff painted i was freaked out getting my side skirts painted although they came out great , but im a very detail oriented person and i want it to be perfect,

Lime Green Stang = bad idea

 

Thanks, this is an extremely helpful thread.

 

Hey guys, question:

My car is torch red, and I like Red. But the paint has a lot of chips, orange peel, and a slight mismatch where my fenders were repainted. SO, I'm thinking about repainting the entire car. BUT I want to use a slightly different tone of red. more of a bright fire-engine red. I have one picked out, a paint color that Hyundai uses.

Will this be a problem? It will still be red, just not exactly the same shade of red. I never liked how the Torch Red was always a little red-orange in bright sunlight anyway.

 

I'd look into the plastidip kits. Probably cost a few hundred bucks. I've seen a few pull it off well but you need to lay it with a gun and not rattle cans. One of the recent issues from American Muscle had a car that was dipped. Looked pretty sweet.

 

For the love....

This thread is SEVEN years old. If you have questions about a situation / problem / question then you should start a new thread.

 

Not worth the cost of a proper repaint - however I will say even though everyone dogs maaco, when I was in highschool and had an older car whose paint was getting really bad I had maaco repaint it for a couple hundred dollars and they did an excellent job. It's been about 8 years since then and it still looks excellent, and I'm a detail fanatic. Maaco tends to get a lot of bad reviews but I believe each one is owned separately so your local one may be hit or miss.

but yeah for a car that's relatively new and has a healthy paint coat, I would not repaint it. Unless you spend a few grand as stated, you just can't beat factory paint - the way they bake it and everything. Besides your mineral gray looks pretty nice, if you can work around it they can be really sweet. I would never spend extra money to get grabber orange or lime green, your's looks way better imo.

 

You get what you pay for. If you want a great looking almost factory job, expect to shell at at least $3K. Changing colors will cost you considerbly more because of the labor involved. I was told painting a car black is a hard one to do because it shows all the inperfections of not only the paint job but the car's condition too.

 

I would love to have my car painted Synergy Green. Maybe after I get the blower I might look into repainting the car.

 

I was quoted $4,000 to re-paint using the same color and $1,800 to paint my stripes. Changing colors would be way more than that. I don't have any major body work that needs to be done either. that would obviously add as well.