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the paintwork is quite tatty and i think it'd make the car look a million times better for the summer months coming up 
£2000-£2500. i want everything matching. 
best start getting some moneys together then! I was quoted around £1600 for a spray in a similar colour or £2k+ for a total colour change. That was an independent near to me. 'rubbing down' and prep work was done yourself? . Looks like huge bill for respray . for refresh my Mr 2 ( same colour carrabian blue) 600 quid ... most places worth paying will charge upwards of £40 an hour for labour.. for £600 you'll get a car scotched down, masked up and blown over if you're lucky (unlucky?) that's it. The overspray will be free of charge but the door shuts, engine bay, spare wheel well etc definitely won't be touched. You can't compare that with a proper respray where the materials alone will be more than £600 . Thats right . But if dont change colour and U need just refresh , not need spray hidden place right ? Otherwise U pay 2k+ . I didn't realise quite how bad until I had it up on some ramps a few months back. There was obvious 'drip' patterns lower down the bumpers. Also where the paint has flaked from stonechips there's an almost fresh looking original paint layer below. Clearly a cheap job. Also, as mentioned above there is bubbling starting to show. Maybe someone can do a gentle rub down and a re-laquer to bring the existing paint of your car back better? I was more interested in the money saved on labour disassembling the parts and rubbing down, which is surely the most time consuming part of a spray job when done properly 
SID wrote:oh yeah
The older the paint the less protection it gives.'readily available' amount of decent shells you can get its almost false economy to strip down your own car, prepare it all, respray it and put it back together. leaving you with a shell you can sell to someone planning the same project or scrap the shell when your all done.- as with anything - and if you fcük up the prepping, it's hardly likely the paint shop will be happy to put their name to it when it comes out poorly, or they simply won't paint it at all....the guy who is painting my car is taking £700 quid, I've seen his work and it's outstanding, he did a metallic silver legacy for a friend (a refresh in the same colour as original) and you couldn't tell it was resprayed, 
sheppy wrote:painting is well over priced, i can understand the big bodyshops with huge overheads, but the self employed guys charging a fortune is nonsense, it should be 1k max for a refresh.
£50 an hour labour.. youre talking two full days MINIMUM for prep and paint on a straightforward blow over with no major dents or any rust repairs so thats 14 hours labour @ £50/hr = 700 then theres probably £200 worth of paint and consumables depending on the colour and size of the car so realistically if youre paying £700 for a blow over then either the guy is working for pennies or he's cutting corners and using the cheapest paints and consumables. I.e removing glass, lights, bumpers etc etc the cost spirals. doesn't mean that people doing it properly are conmen."resale" tart up for 4-500 but thats going to be a quick scotch down, mask most of the bits the paint shouldn't be on and one quick coat of paint, the standard "taxi" respray, some people would be happy with that, I certainly wouldn't."the self employed guys charging a fortune" as i stated. having done my own respray it cost nowhere near £200 for paint and stuff (it it was top quality paint from ARK, the local paint place, and as for labour, it took nowhere near 30 hours, it also included a good few coats and extra drying time because we had to mask off the roof as the car was going 2 tone. (purely because we didn't have the correct tooling to remove and replace glass) but i'm sure it'd only take another few hours, the car was finished in 2 days, or 20 hours(ish) and we are by far professionals, i'm sure a pro with somehwere to bake the car could have done it in much less time.. but just because someone is self employed or a small business doesn't mean they should work for free. Out of what they charge you they'll have to pay rent, rates, cover their holiday/sick downtime etc.. bodyshops are no more a "rip off" than any other business... I've never seen a rich car painter or mechanic, and I used to be one.. the money is terrible. . for reference I paid £300 to get my toms kit painted.. not fitted, just painted.. thats the going rate.(im assuming you weren't alone as you said "we") 20 hours.. so 40 man hours if there were two of you? Assuming a pro working alome works 3 times as fast thats still nearly £700 in labour alone.(also a boring subject, FYI) it's still a time served profession that deserves a fair wage, inline with other skills like plumbing, electricians etc.... try to find a plumber that will work for less than £50 an hour!!! Assuming most peoples current shells are straight and just want respraying why would you want to? I'd pay to paint it any day but more likely just take my time and have a stab at it myself.Rob85 wrote:
£50/h ? Maybe in central London . C'mon . charge my 700 for all , I know wasnt full strip - just refresh colour + side skirt and 4 doors change colour . Believe me was good job ! /h . So even 3 days per 8h = 480 plus paint 250 = 730 to 750 .