How much does painting a 7 cost
10-09-03, 07:46 PM
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How much does painting a 7 cost
How much does a paint job cost on a Vert? I am not talking about a 500 dollar paint job at MAACO or even a top of the line paint job. I am just asking about a good or decent paint job that will last. How much did you guys pay?
10-09-03, 08:49 PM
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...94% correct.
$200 for the last pro job I got. I do it myself now...last real paint job I did cost me $45. The last job I did (flat black) cost $7.76 including lots of colordy chalk to decorate.
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i wanna paint my own car too, but i also wanna gut out my engine bay so i can paint it the same color as my body, is it hard to gut out the engine bay and remember where all the parts and wiring go?
10-09-03, 09:23 PM
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Depends on your mechanical ability. It is not hard at all to "gut" your car, but if you havevt worked on cars or pulled your engine I would be alot more careful and really take my time.
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Gutting your engine bay is easy. The tricky part is remembering where everything went...
Doing mine I pulled my engine and hard hoses, removed the big things that I could easily remember where they went (AFM, coils, rad., etc., etc.) and just painted the rest flat black.
Doing mine I pulled my engine and hard hoses, removed the big things that I could easily remember where they went (AFM, coils, rad., etc., etc.) and just painted the rest flat black.
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I painted mine in my garage. I did it the hard way: stripped to the bare metal, acid wipe, etching 'vinyl wash' primer, Tec base surfacer sealer, and 7 coats of acrylic enamel topcoat with no clearcoat. Paint cost: roughly $500. And then there was the month of 25 hours of work per week doing all the sanding . . this was after I had all my bodywork finished.
Yep, it was a great primer (pun intended) for the workload I have in college now as an engineering student.
Yep, it was a great primer (pun intended) for the workload I have in college now as an engineering student.
10-09-03, 09:50 PM
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Re: How much does painting a 7 cost
Originally posted by ucsdca
How much does a paint job cost on a Vert? I am not talking about a 500 dollar paint job at MAACO or even a top of the line paint job. I am just asking about a good or decent paint job that will last. How much did you guys pay?
How much does a paint job cost on a Vert? I am not talking about a 500 dollar paint job at MAACO or even a top of the line paint job. I am just asking about a good or decent paint job that will last. How much did you guys pay?
10-10-03, 03:30 AM
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My Miata as about $1500. The paint job is beautiful, too. But the RX is a quite larger car. I'll probably have to get mine painted when I get it, so I'm interested in this, too.
Here's the Miata, BTW:
Here's the Miata, BTW:
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about 1000-2000 at most, think about what the fc is worth.
I would never pay 4k for a paint job. The paint job can only be so good. I was told 2k for my fd.
I would never pay 4k for a paint job. The paint job can only be so good. I was told 2k for my fd.
10-10-03, 11:55 AM
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Originally posted by 93redFD
about 1000-2000 at most, think about what the fc is worth.
I would never pay 4k for a paint job. The paint job can only be so good. I was told 2k for my fd.
about 1000-2000 at most, think about what the fc is worth.
I would never pay 4k for a paint job. The paint job can only be so good. I was told 2k for my fd.
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