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down here for a base clear setup it cost $400
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$800 to $1000.
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Go get some paint mixed up at the auto paint place. They'll even put it in spray cans for you.
Or. Get a pint of paint, some hardener and reducer. It'll cost less than a hundred bucks. Put it in one of these.
Available at your local hardware store for about eight bucks. I did mine this way. It took two aerosol units to do. Almost twenty years later it's still as good as the day I applied it.
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If you did all the prep and I had to shoot the primer and bc/cc on the engine compartment and you supply the materials needed I would charge you $500.
Also why on earth would anyone want to shoot their compartment with single stage. With the far better results of bc/cc and the quality of todays paints I never shoot single stage on a car. Only on parts.
On the preval set up I would never try to paint an engine compartment or truck with one of those. Just get a small compressor and a touch up gun. Way better results and then you have the ability to paint everything. Using a preval you just can't get enough paint on the surface and you will have overspray lines.
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Painted my entire car(70 cuda fiberglass body) base coat, pearl coat, clear in one hour in my garage with my hvlp equipment no overspray and thats cleaning the gun out after each coat. About 700 dollers in paint(Dupont). What you are paying for is the painters overhead.He should take no more than 1/2 hour to paint. painting is 95% prep 5% paint. Taking stuff off or preping is one thing but to just paint no way its worth no 800 bucks. Still can't belive how easy it is with clear coat.
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Painted my entire car(70 cuda fiberglass body) base coat, pearl coat, clear in one hour in my garage with my hvlp equipment no overspray and thats cleaning the gun out after each coat. About 700 dollers in paint(Dupont). What you are paying for is the painters overhead.He should take no more than 1/2 hour to paint. painting is 95% prep 5% paint. Taking stuff off or preping is one thing but to just paint no way its worth no 800 bucks. Still can't belive how easy it is with clear coat.
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Price has nothing to do with the quality of the job. Living on the inflated charges from the insurance companys for so many years, they tend to over charge the regular guy. After 40 years in my trade i'm finialy up to 50 bucks an hour, it has to come out of the little guys pocket. Now when the guy says 1000 bucks, to me thats 20 hours and all the work was done he just needed to paint it. IMO thats being ripped off. 250 bucks would be tops.
