repainting car: what colors cost?

OrangeMustangGt

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I am prolly gonna get my car repainted, since ill have a new hood, body kit, and fender after im done. What are the costs for say black, and yellow, or blue....are teh differences a difference in cost? thanks!

 

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I know that red and orange are pretty expensive, any candy color is expensive, pearls are expensive, I'm lucky my car is white.

 

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Are you going to be doing the painting or is a shop? I tried to have my car repainted black. For a shop to do it it was any where from $4,000 to $6,000. That was for the best paint and repaint any where it was green (inside the engine bay and door panel, etc.) That was more than I was looking to spend. Anyways I love my green. I am just going to have it buffed out next.

 

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Well any color will have a base and clearcoat. If it's metallic (like laser red) it will have a 3rd coat. So the cost is not so much the color itself, but more of what's involved with applying the given color.

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If you want cheap, take it to Maaco. A quality paint job that involves changing colors, going from one extreme to the next, takes 10's of hours of work, and the prices can climb quickly. If they do a quality job, i.e. nice paint, paint the door jambs, inner fenders, and all the places where it is painted from the factory, it could cost somewhere around 6-7 grand and it's going to go up from there depending on how extreme you go. The bad part is that they only have about 500 bucks in parts/material.

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well, the darker the color (meaning "color") the more expensive it is, basically because more pigmint is used... Vibrant Red I believe, is the most expensive color to own... whereas white is really the cheapest... your green would probably be about $50 for a pint or two, depending on the mood of the guy, and if he was doing the painting too... my uncle sold me 1 pint of vibrant red for $60 w/ primer and all the stuff to paint my side mirrors... cheap price really... he coulda charged 4 times as much for the stuff!

 

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soooo, would it be more money to paint my car black, or yellow?, or should i just get all my body parts green again for the price, although i figured it would cost almost as much for them to go green cause they have to fade it in, see im getting a full body kit, hood, and fender that needs to be painted, lol almost the whole car

 

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does macco do a good job?

 

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GreenMustangGt said:

does macco do a good job?

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Some people are VERY happy with the results considering how cheap it is, but I have also heard some people say they got what they paid for. So I guess it is a hit and miss situation.

 

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huh... ok thanks

 

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well what do you want. theres single stage and 2 stage. single stage has the paint and clear all in one. 2 stage is seperate. 2 stage cost more. it also depends on the color you want and how far you want to go. i think the most expensive color for the mustangs besides mystic has to be lazer red because its a tri-coat. why? because you have to apply the metallics first then apply a transparent red over the metallics. then the clear over top. took about 3 coats of the transparent red. ask how i konw my brother is a professional painter and he did my whole car. i wanted to go with candy apple red but after finding out that my cars paint was so faded, and the lazer red is really close to candy apple, why bother.

$6000-$7000? wow. that's alot. especially considering thats in US dollars. its normally half that in canadian where i live. shop around. thats the best thing to do.

i personally like the forest green color.

 

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yeah, i sorta like black more, see i would LOVE yellow, but that wont be cheap i bet. After im done ill need so much painted on my car, it might not be a whole lot more to just have it painted black, see the green has mettalic junk in it so it sorta looks blue at angles, and i bet that paint is more money than black, which i like anyways...sooo thats where i am!

 

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Macco sucks..one of my friends got a paint job from their and 5 months later the paint peeled off....lol