Just went to macco and the bill would be $3200

[yucatec]

how much does it normally cost for a decent paint job, including door jambs and everything, plus prep work?

Dear Panthers,
My CP is outside in the weather & our dirt road is salted.
Five years ago it cost me $2000 for paint (no clear coat), removal of wood grain and fairly minor dings at the best body shop in Staunton Virginia. I've been back twice, once for minor deer damage (insurance) once for rust, dings & weather stripping ($800) and I'm going back this month for more rust and more weather stripping -5 -600?.

My body shop guy told me that if he was to paint the whole car - no dings, no rust, no vinyl removal, he'd have to charge $2500 today. Good paint has got expensive. He's very good, isn't making a killing and so long as I keep this car, that's (part of) the price for having a reliable long distance driver.

I put 15 K on my wagon in 2006. I've spent about $2000 on it this year and I'll spend that much again in 2007. Plans this year: I'll be driving from Va to Ct, Il,Wisc, ND. Ma, Nc, SC and Ga. I will travel fast, safely, reliably and comfortably at 23 mpg with my MP3's playing through the car stereo, guided by my GPS with 4 full sized sheepdogs in the wayback.



What kind of a car could I buy for payments of $166 a month?

DOnald McCaig

[mrltd]

Even a decent job on my wagon will be about 7K...

Do most of it yourself, get some experience... Or spend less $$ and time and find a cleaner wagon to mod.

[DuceAnAHalf]

A gallon of middle range paint, runs about $450 with reducer and clear coat. That mixes out to 2 gallons.

[DarkKnight]

Mang... You can do body work youself... All of it.. Do like Scott Said.. Get a decent dander, and a Air compressor... Hell i Saw a Write up on how to make your owen Air Compressor By Scott Gadget, and Epi..


Buy you some paint.. I had a link for auto paint kits for like 200 bucks.. which included evrything you needed and sum.. So im sure you can find it..

Any ways.. Sand that fucker down to the bare meteal.. PRIME it.. Hell prime it agine if you want..

Fig if you want to learn to do some welding.. Hire a welder whatever.. Or. Use Bondo shit.. Do that... Then Paint...

If your doors or panels are far beyond repair of bondo, or welding... Or you just dont fill like fing with it... Go to the yard find another wagg. Take them parts and put on yours...

:-? Im preety sure all of it is bolted on..

Anyways. The compressor is for a air brush.. If the compresor dosent have Water seporator on it. Go buy one. Be sure ure Air brush's PSI is up to par with your air compressor as well....


Last but not least.. Paint it..


Exterior is easy mang.. Interior is a bicth...


D.K.


If i can think of any other means of you being able to umm... ( thinks of a good term... ) Umm :-?Honky Enginer :-D Ill post it.. Need help. Give a Holare..

[Mercmarquis]

You dont need to take the car down to bare metal before you prime. Also using an airbrush would take forever to paint a car lol I suggest using a paint gun.

Hey mang you got it backwards. Its supposed to be..... interior is easy, exterior is a bitch.

You really can do alot of bodywork yourself tho, just take your sweet ass time and dont cheap out if you dont want it to look like shit.

[83countrysquire]

guys i need to know how to make my compessor better I have a small craftsman 5 gallon and than i think a 12-17 gallon one that would be better for my da but it throws the fuse but I would like a bigger compessor how can I make my own I have a a small air brush compessor

[Lincolnmania]

5 gallon not enough to run a sander.......need a min of a 5hp 30 gal compressor

[Nathan in MI]

What is this homemade air compressor of which DK speaks?

[DarkKnight]

Heres a link i found for the homemade air compressor. :-D

http://www.grandmarq.net/vb/showthread.php?t=12417&highlight=Compresor

I wanna do the straight four one myself, just gotta find a donare Engine )/



I also thought of one more thing ), if you cant afford the "Car Paint" And still want a half way decent looking paint job, You can use RUstolium... Be for warned though, you will have to do it agine... Maybey in 5 years? But still ) And dont be to cheap and do the spray cans... Thats just raunchy. O yea, and i did mean Paint gun )...

[83countrysquire]

where can i get a 30 gallon tank. hey guys using my wii to type this :]]

[gadget73]

Find a dead compressor somewhere, or buy one. They do sell tanks specifically designed for high pressure air use. You need a fair amount of CFM to run a DA sander. A basic cheapo compressor is never going to keep up.

[87_crown_vic]

i was planning on having my tudor painted black. i was gonna sand, prime and use rattle cans of black for the jams since it is a small enuf area.

[DarkKnight]

83 hows it going mang :-D

[83countrysquire]

this weekend i m getting 5 doors and a fender and rear quaters half the work is done than just install its all from an 89 it should work no wood or rust

[murphmobile2]

If i wanted the car to look half way decent so naturaly i said no. So heres the new plan get new hood fenders and doors from a crown vic (they should fit right)b/c most of the estimate was from the wholes in side mt doors from the wood trim

Yea, I took mine to Maaco, they fucked up. Paint in a few spots ran... now the paint is peeling in areas.

Certain Maaco's do a good job, others don't. For example, the one I took my Vic to, I did their paint job right under the top of the line one. Paint ran and is peeling in spots. Took my Beretta to a different place, and had the Industrial ($300) bottom of the line paint job done, and it turned out amazing. Even looks better than the Vic did when I got it back. So I'd research where you take it to first.

So here's the options I'd go with. Do your own body work, then get the Industrial job done...

OR... just rattle can that thing flat black, make it a monster!!