Painting recommendations

[Qingdao]

All this talk of body work keeps reminding me of why I'm doing the paint/body myself. I mean $200 for being a middle man?!?! that's half of the money I have in paint alone. I know I won't have a SEMA ready paint job, but i'd say its a $1500-2000 job???


Paint and body is grueling, annoying, tedious, and slightly terrifying* work. So I guess that's why it comes with such an outrageous price tag.

* terrifying because if you do something wrong with the clear... you know you've gotta do it all again.

[Homeoboxter]

If you take the car to a good paint shop probably you`ll be charged for more than your car`s value, as pointed out above. And that`s not a rip off, that`s what it costs. But, perhaps you can find somebody on craigslist who can do it for a fraction of an official paint shop`s quote. A few years ago I had to have my motorbike repainted and went to a bike shop. They quoted me for $2500. Then I found this guy on Orange County CL who was working on cars and gave me o quote for $400. It was a bit sketchy, because I`ve never seen his shop, and he just disappeared with my vintage Honda parts worth way more than $500, but he probably didn`t know that. He eventually came back with the parts and he made a decent job. I know it`s risky, but maybe a bit less risky than taking the car to Tijuana...