Ballpark figure on painting Front & Rear bumpers and hood

[MustangLife]

I was just wondering if anyone had a ballpark figure on how much it would cost to get a front and rear bumper painted along with the hood on a Mustang GT. Its a standard Dark Shadow Gray paint. I haven't been to a body shop in 7-10 years so this is out of my range. I just want to make sure I know an average price before a body shop tries to tell me a ridiculous price you know.

Also I was thinking on maybe using the Ford dealer since I do have a Metallic paint job. Metallics I know are sometimes hard to match, so I figure the paint mixer at the Ford dealer has probaly mixed up alot more DSG colors than the guy at the paint everything shop.

Thanks
Josh

 

[nosmatt]

doubt the dealer can do any better than anyone else, a color is a color bro. they will pull up the formula, mix, and do a sprayout, compare to your car, tint as neccisary.


anyway, to paint a hood, and blend fenders for colormatch, remove front rockers and any fender nameplates figure 700-1000 depending on the shops labor rate, and what other work is needed (i.e. fixing chips, remove/replacing nameplates vs remove and reuse etc).

for bumpers, to remove, small repair, repait, and reinstall, looking about 500 per bumper, or ~900 for the pair do to overlap.

this is if the bumpers are in good shape. if they have alot of paint cracking and whatnot, that figure could go up a bit, say 1200-1500.
If you do the hood, and bumpers at the same time, could be as low as 2k, or as high as 3k, i do not know why you want them painted, so it is hard to be very accurate. Also note, the labor rates where I am at for body and paint labor are $60.00 an hour, places like Orange County CA are closer to 36-38 bucks an hour, and that makes a large difference in the total cost on labor intensive jobs, you may get lucky in your neck of the woods.


Good Luck!

 

[MustangLife]

Paint started chipping around where the hood scoop meets the hood and got bigger. Front and Rear bumpers someones backed into on 2 seperate occasions either in my apartment complex or in a parking lot. Thats why I want them painted. There not bad, hood will only need sanding. Front bumper will only need to be sanded, the rear bumper needs 15-30 min. of work with a flexible bondo. Maybe 1/8 in depth on the spot.

Thanks bro