Repaint/Panel beat
Hey hey.
Im buying my mum's calais VX , its meant to be a purple/blue but over the years due to the sun it's serverly faded. Also my mum hasnt been the most cautious of drives and there's quite a few dings and scratches/scrapes around the car. She had an offer of $1200 for someone to come out and respray everything (dont know what she was doing about the dents), but would there be somewhere in brisbane that would do it all for a good price? Or can anyone recommend someone they've used?
Thanks.
Last edited by Callum14; 20-07-2011 at 10:21 PM. Reason: Edited cus its not an S2
captain halfajob
Oh no by all means that's fine. But as i said I dont know alot about it, and I was woundering if it is a good price. Im a complete novice when it comes to this so I dont know its thats great good or bad.
From examining your post i assume that's quite good for a respray? I'm just weiging up my options.
hard to say if its a good price or not without pictures....
Unless this person is doing the respray as a favour or applying massive mates rates to your mum because she knows them well then you can almost guarantee that a $1200 full respray is going to be dodgy as hell.
Like most things in life you get what you pay for, if you want the respray done on the cheap cheap then it's going to be nasty.
Doing all the prep sanding and stripping the car back can always save you alot of cash though, as this process takes a long time and the panel beater is going to charge you for all the hours he spends doing this.
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captain halfajob
if you are not too fussed at the finish, 1200 is a reasonable price.
Aslong as it looks better than it does ill be happy haha, Once i get a new front and back bumper thats most of the scratches gone (after paint ofcourse). just need to have 1 or 2 dent's popped out and cleaned up.
captain halfajob
there are places that do 900 buck spray jobs... at least then itll get done in a booth.
Totally depends on the quality you want. If its a full respray, $1200 is too cheap. That wont even cover the labour for decent preparation, so for that you will get a few coats of paint over a hastily rubbed back car. If the paint looks like crap now though, a poor quality respray might be better than none at all. Your call.
Hmmm I guess :/
Well I have a few pics of the car in question... FYI my mum made all the scratches and den't. alot of the paint damage is from bat poo which my mum left sitting.
looks like most of the damage is very shallow. I'd consider trying to rub the whole car back with 800 grit and removing the scratches and stains without going through the base colour as much as possible. Make sure you keep rubbing until the paint is dead flat with no shine at all. The less work there is for the painter, the cheaper the job will be. Then pay someone who isnt dodgy the $1200 to do a proper job on the paint over an already prepared car...
or paint it yourselfits not hard, just hard work. Plenty of advice here on how to do that.
maybe the mother is giving out free bj's to the paintersOriginally Posted by sircruisealotVS
LOL probs, jk idk ill have to look into it C: yeah the scratches aren't deep its just one down the side and the front.
Just washed it. most of it's come up nicely, apart from where the polish has faded. and the scratches.. but the glass is clean for once
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Give it a good polish, a lot of those little scratches will probably buff out, and even if it doesn't get all of them out completely, it'll have a better shine to it than it does now.
if they are just little scratches, pick up some 'maguires scratch-x' from supercheap, its good stuff...
Im definetly getting a car cover when I paint it... Im not going to pay for it to be ruined again xD and yeah Ill get some of that polish from super cheap C:
thanks..
Does anyone know someone who is able to give me a quote??
Found some place. i think its 'the touch up guys' they do plastic welding/repaint so on.. Ill get a quote from them
Called up some place at west and and he said $5000+ O.o
And he would do a great job
Ask an accredited panelbeater/spraypainter how much to apply 3 coats of clear over a car thats already been rubbed back, and is ready to mask and spray. You will save a fortune.
Rub the whole car back with 800 grit, till every mm of the paint is flat and has no shine at all. You can work a little deeper where the scratches are, but make sure you don't go through the blue, you want to leave the base coat and just put new clear back over the top of it.
Or.. you could spray it yourself too..
In the process of doing it myself. what would be required? I was thinking I'll try to cut and polish the entitre thing with an electric buffer, maybe it just needs a good polish, but i dunno.
I'd certainly try buffing it first, it might come up well enough and save you the respray. Buy one of those big circular 2 handed polishers from SCA or somewhere and shine it up, you may be surprised by the results.
If its still not good enough, then all you need to get it all ready for spraying is some prepsol ( wax and grease remover ) a bunch of 120 and 800 grit wet and dry sandpaper, a bucket of warm water, a cloth and a lot of commitment. You could use a sanding block or even an orbital sander if you want, I personally don't.
Give the car a good going over with prepsol first.. wax on, wax off
Use the bucket of warm water to wet your paper with - unless you actually like having cold wet hands in winter lol. The cloth is to wipe off your work area regularly so you can see what you are doing. When the water gets cold, get more warm water.. clean water is better to work with
Start with 120 grit, getting all of the shine off the car, and working a little deeper where scratches are. Never concentrate completely on the scratch.. you need to sand the whole area where the scratch is, not just rub a low spot into the paint at the point where the scratch is. Slow and steady does it.. wax on, wax off
If you start getting through to the blue basecoat, you'll see the colour change on your sandpaper and in the wet paste created by the sanding. Don't go further than this point if you can avoid it, most scratches are confined to the clear top coat on your car as far as i can see, and if the blue is ok then you will only need new clear over the top.
Once you have done the whole car with 120 grit and you are happy that the scratches are gone, and the paint has absolutely no shine left to it - do the whole thing again with 800 grit.
Give it a good wash, water only, no soap.. and its ready for the spraypainter. From the spraypainters point of view, you've done the hard work and they can finish the job in an afternoon if they are happy with your prep work. That saves you an absolute fortune in labour, and you can then afford a really nice top coat for your $1200.
Then you just need to decide if you want to paint it yourself too, and save another grand. Spraying the new clear over the top is the easiest part of the whole job.
Last edited by DAKSTER; 26-07-2011 at 06:31 PM.
Okay thanks for that C: Im feeling slightly more confident, even so I may be able to do it myself depending on how the sanding goes, We'll see I was looking at one of These, Price seems okay, don't know how it will preform but for that price.
Just be careful with one of those, because you can put too much pressure on the leading edges and cut through a lot more paint at once than you realise. I was thinking something more like THIS polisher from SCA.. half the price, and less likelihood of you polishing too deep. It wont get into some of the more awkward places of course, but you can hand polish those.
Yeah I was looking for one of them
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