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July 2005
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Re: respray in the same colour?? price?
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Sat, 06 August 2005 02:05
 
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As Dale & BOCKA both said there is still quite a bit involved in a same colour respray. I'm a Panel Beater and i'll give you a basic rundown on how we used to do them.
* Front and rear screens, stay in, moulds come off.
* All door trims off, door handles & locks out, all moulds off, mirrors are removed.
* Bumpers are off and stripped of all lights, grille/mesh.
* Bonnet is stripped of all vents and scoops, washer jets etc.
* Boot lid is stripped of all spoilers, locks and badges, the spoiler is also stripped.
* All mouldings are removed from around door shuts and sill panels.
* tail lights are removed.
Once the car is stripped down, basically to a shell (except for the inside), then it gets rubbed down, with either wet & dry or a flatening paste, which dulld off the paint. Then the pain in the rear part. MASKING UP. everything gets masked up, so no overspray gets inside. All bars, spoilers, vents, scoops and door handles are stipped, rubbed down, and painted seperately from the rest of the car. Then once the car is done, it goes in, gets painted and dried in the boothe. Then it get cut and buffed (if needed) and then it gets put back together again, cleaned, washed and then polished. All finished. As far as time is concerned, you will be without a car for atleast a week.
Price will vary from place to place. Because you also want to play with the colour aswell, there will be a bit of cost here aswell. There is a lot of costs involved in doing this.
Some are: Boothe hire, materials used (e.g paint, clear, tape, thinners, prepsol, etc), and ofcourse labour. Then you have to buy your own Badges (if wanted).
I think you will be possibly be looking between anywhere from $2-3k upto as high as $7k. It's an expensive excerise. If i was you, i would take a good look at the car and your bank balance and ask yourself, does it really need a respray ?
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