92 accord paint price, lol wut.

[PR CB7]

$1300 will get you a full color change in florida

$5500 is ferrari prices man

[dysfunk]

If its going to be a race car, you could do a roller paint job. I definitely wouldn't spend much money on a paint job

[2doorhardcore]

Bro at the shop I work at here in Cali we charge 1200 to sand and spray it. That's not including dings and dents. Its also a three stage process for the most part... In most cases there is no need to take it down to bare metal. Removing the clear and a sealer over it would be fine.. As long as there is no rust or flaking.. But 5500 is on the high side.. 1500 to 2000 would be in the better price range...

[koslauj]

The cost of painting a car varies depending on shop and the amount of prep work. If the shop is charging 5K, are they remvoing dents, fixing any rust, sanding, prepping, and getting a very rare paint color/scheme? $5,500.00 for a paint job seems very high. As wha tmost of the others have said, it this isn't going to be a show qaulity car, 5.5K is very high, there are places that can do it for a fifth of that price. If qaulity isn't a concern, just go to Maaco and get it painted! Maybe 600 tops but be warned, thier paint jobs are no better than an amatuer with a spray gun. I would suggest doing it yourself, for all the prep work and paint you'll maybe spend $3-$400 dollars. My brother and i painted his 98 integra for well under $500. Came out pretty decent, by no means was it a professional looking paint job but for day to day use, it's fine. My reccomendation is to do it yourself. It's good experience to paint an entire car yourself. If it looks crap at the end, take it to a shop, at least you'll get a ball park price as to why the prices vary so much in painting a car.

[deevergote]

He said without repairs... so I assume that means no repairs of dents, rust, etc... Sounds like that's just prep and paint, and he'll be doing most of the prep himself.

As said, that's Ferrari prices right there! I love my CB7, but there's no way in hell I'm putting $5500 worth of paint on it.

[Accrdwgnguy]

The paint is the cheap part of that quote. Most body shops charge 45 - 60 an hour for labor, so imagine you are having them do everything for you; as in you drive a complete car into the shop, and drive it out complete with fresh paint, no dents, etc. You can see how the bill can get that high. The paint materials themselves only cost the shop a couple hundred dollars, they have a contract with a major paint supplier to stock it and pay wholesale bulk for the stuff.

If you aren't comfortable painting the car yourself, disassemble and prep the car for paint, then bring it to them. If you aren't comfortable with prepping the car, at least pull lights, windows and trim off the car, and bring it to the shop. If you find the right production body shop that doesn't mind doing side jobs (what business doesn't like money???) you can get a screaming deal. Of course look over the collision repair jobs going out the door to determine if this is the place you want to spend your money!

[cb7 calling]

Maaco is a pretty good paint job usually if you prep yourself. If you do your own sanding in my experience the job can look factory quality. I don't believe they sand at all which is the main reason the Maaco job may look thin or well hard to describe but I'm sure you've seen them before. I had my bumpers, hood, roof and trunk sprayed after sanding they look shiny and clean. My fenders and doors however where not sanded when sprayed by Maaco and they are too thin with paint to even wax/polish or anything to make them shine.
If your car has any rust you might as well fix the dings and rust yourself . If you mess up sand it off its not that big of a deal. You can use products designed to stop rust to help but short of cutting the rear fender off and welding a new one on our friend Rusty will return within 2 years no matter who fixes it. If you have rust on doors, front fenders anything removable get one from the junk yard that doesent have rust/dings before you paint. Don't forget to do stylish shaved antennae, moulding and custom foglamp enclosures if you are going to now is the time.

[deevergote]

Maaco will do any prep you pay them for. If you bring a beater in and say "I want the $200 paint job!", you'll get the $200 paint job.
You CAN drop $3000 at Maaco very easily, and the results will be good. Maaco doesn't use the best paint, and "real" shops can have much better quality paint... but as long as you find a Maaco with a good prep/paint guy, and a nanager/salesman that isn't 100% shady (the first guy that I dealt with was... didn't screw me, but he got fired for screwing many others.) you can get good results.

[evilbender]

maaco quoted me 500 for a stock paint job without any clear (granted me do the prep work). i had my 240 painted from them, lasted me for 4-5 years until painted over it.

maaco might have a bad rep but it all depends where you go and who paints your shit

6 months waxed

2 years

right before the new paint ... circa 2010

[jhoff]

I was thinking of painting the wagon on my own.
Might try it durring the summer. Just got to read up on it, really understand what goes into it yet.

[Fodoaccord]

it cost me 600 bucks a had a minor dent repair.but i had a re-spray of the same color so i didnt have the jams painted. for the same color with a clear coat it should cost about 1000 to 1200. if you take the car completely apart there are some advantages:
1) the paint shop wont break your (fill in your cuss word here)_____ like most do.
2) you get to know your cars parts better
3)cost
but then again you should pay a good amount for a paint job. take into consideration that its like a tattoo its permanent until you get it covered.

[91cbseven]

Agreed, I had a quote done for my truck and it was the bed and the whole outside for around the same price. I would knock down the paint to primer and do some touch up primer when you burn through. It seems impossible not to burn through somewhere. And if you hit it with primer don't grab the duplicolor, a good base will make all the difference. My first shot I didn't knock down the primer I sprayed and it looked like orange peel.

[Soufkackicustom]

I've got a car from our shop at the body shop....the quote was $35,000 for body work alone.....no paint......it's been there 9 months. Ive taken cars to macco....$400 later it's back. Lucky for me our two closest maccco's are really good. Iam not going to say you get what you pay for, because I know more than a few people who will do everything pretty reasonable ( 1 has magazine covers) just look around.

But for a race car.....sand that bitch and roll it.

[$oy-Cabrona87]

i did the prep my self with a lil help from my hubby but mostly me,
he just got in the way lol but any how i did the prepping and fixed
any dents that i could because they will charge an arm and a leg for
each dent they see. After prepping i took it to my local shop went with
a purple look for about 600 the paint still looks new i have it since 2011
very happy with it. just go to different shops and compare prices. The first
shop they also wanted to charge 5k i was like no thank you and left but it did
come with a life warranty so if it chipped or cracked you can always get it fixed,
i opted out : )

[iamninja28]

i got paint priced for my '93 CB7, the burnt orange paint they ran with the Fit ans Si's only cost me $400. And that includes prep, paint, gloss, and detailed finish.