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Painting ute....
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Painting ute....
hey lads, ive been thinking of getting my 75series ute painted inside and out but the first few quotes ive gotten are between $4000 and $4500 does this seem fair? i cant imagine it being that much!! Any feedback would be greatfull
Seems about right... One of the shops i deal with did a customers 75 in a nice deep blue charged him $8k show quality. If you didn't want it to be as nice and didn't care about under the bonnet and door jams a shop should do it for 2-3k I reckon. Or why not do it yourself.
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Re: Painting ute....
Depends on what sort of job you want done..cleanskin wrote:hey lads, ive been thinking of getting my 75series ute painted inside and out but the first few quotes ive gotten are between $4000 and $4500 does this seem fair? i cant imagine it being that much!! Any feedback would be greatfull
As others have said, theres shit load of hours in prepping it correctly.
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Re: Painting ute....
Being in the trade myself I can tell you that is about right. As others have said the labour on painting a car is where the money is. In your case your referring to painting a 75 series which usually has rust in them from factory because the paint work is really thin from factory. This is why most of the commercial vehicle type Landcruisers such as the Landcruiser Utes, Hiluxs etc always seem to have a lot of rusty chips all over them and even in the roof.cleanskin wrote:hey lads, ive been thinking of getting my 75series ute painted inside and out but the first few quotes ive gotten are between $4000 and $4500 does this seem fair? i cant imagine it being that much!! Any feedback would be greatfull
So in the labour costs on your car I'd say there is a fair bit of paint stripping and little rust pits that need fixing and is very very time consuming too.
Cheers Mick.
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I used to own a panel shop and jobs started at $2000 for a (usedcar/keep my car on the road) repaint tidy up. So for a job that you'd be happy to put your name to and warrant I'd suggest $4-5 k is about right a color change would be more.
I used to own a panel shop and jobs started at $2000 for a (usedcar/keep my car on the road) repaint tidy up. So for a job that you'd be happy to put your name to and warrant I'd suggest $4-5 k is about right a color change would be more.
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just be carefull if you go the cut and polish route , because as mick said the paint on toyota commercials is fairly thin. get a detailer you trust or a panel shop to do it because if some hack who doesnt know what they are doing does it they will cut though all the panel edges.And ask them to brush touch up any marks chips etc it will finish it properly.
if it still has the original toyota paint and its in reasonable knick it sould cut up quite well.
cheers andrew
if it still has the original toyota paint and its in reasonable knick it sould cut up quite well.
cheers andrew
85 high roof 1.3, 6.5 tc, air lockers,ruf and 34 swampers. yep its an ugly pos.
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