While having set pricing for full body and paint jobs is nearly impossible, and each job may be a little different than the last, I have tried to come up with a series of options to meet many budgets. These are kinda packages to give you an idea of how much what you want, will cost.
Stage 1- This is pretty much just a scuff and shoot, and an excellent idea for somebody budget minded with a fairly straight car. I will sand and prep the entire car for paint including removal of minor scratches and chips in existing paint. The car then gets taped up and a quality urethane basecoat/clearcoat paint applied. Paint comes just as it's sprayed for $1000, or flaws wetsanded, adressed and polished for $1250. Spraying the door jambs adds $100.
Stage 2- This will get all your scratches and chips, as well as little dents and and dings smoothed out, repair areas filler primed, simple trim removed, entire car sanded and prepped for paint. The car then gets taped up and a quality urethane basecoat/clearcoat paint applied to the car including the door jambs. The paint then gets wetsanded and polished. This package runs $1500.
Stage 3- This gets you everything included in Stage 2, but also includes a sealer coat before paint which will give your new paint longer durabilty, as well as keep back any issues with the existing paint underneath. This will also give you a bit more thorough of a job as I will spend a few more labor hours massaging all the contours and removing trim. This package is $2000.
Stage 4- This is more along the lines of a paint job somebody might want if they were going to be showing the car a bunch or wanted a superior quality job. I would start by stripping most of the existing paint, filler priming and block sanding the entire car, sealing, painting, wetsanding and polishing. It eliminates any possibilty of future failure due to the existing paint on the car and will get all the surfaces super smooth, creating an excellent foundation for a paint job using the latest technology. Again, this is something that would get even more love than Stage 3 by the way of MANY extra labor hours, much more attention to detail, and more disassembly before paint. This package costs $3000.
Stage 5- This is the Ultimate. This gets you everything in Stage 4, but after I clearcoat the car and it cures, I go back and wetsand the clear and spray 2-3 more coats of clear before final wetsanding and polishing. This gives the clear a LOT more depth. With the step up in package there is a step up in care and attention to detail which at this point would about be best described as downright anal. I will also take care of all the little details. Things like spraying fresh undercoat on the car so bottom looks looks new instead of caked with 20 years of dirt. Black trim will also be refinished with a nice satin black to match how it looked when new. Plastic lenses will be restored, wheels might be refinished, engine bay refinished, etc.. This would be about $4000.
The above prices listed are with all labor and materials included, but based on using an economical paint line. It's good quality paint and I wouldn't use it if it wasn't. I can get about 90% of all OEM paint codes from about any car since the 70's for that price. Some codes are specialty ones that require pearls and such and can sometimes cost a bit more. Of course, if you want any sort of custom paints or high dollar paints like PPG, House of Kolors, or DuPont, the paint cost may go up substantially higher. For instance I might get enough base and clear of the economical stuff for $400. Some more expensive base/clears might get up to more like $1400.
Since I like to add options whenever possible, I'm willing to offer some of the aspects of these various Stages as add-ons to any package.Black trim refinishing- $75 for all trim on the whole car.
Undercar undercoat refinishing- $75
Engine bay refinishing- $100 on up
Extra wetsanding of first clear coat, addition of clear, and wetsanding and polising for that super deep clear look- $500
Of course, these are all prices for full jobs. I can also do minor paint and body spot repair.
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