hi guys im about to respray my celica as the paint work is tatty and the bodykit still in black. i was origionally going to go dark gunmetal similar to a porcshe boxter but after looking into it its going to be too much work in the time frame i have. so i looked into keeping it silver but adding a dusting of chromaflair so i catches the sun with different colors. just something a bit different.
Opinions?

how much are you being quoted for your spray job?

I got quoted 5k to 10k!

Admittedly the guys are utterly awsome but i will never pay that so i am going ahead and doing mine and my brothers cars

at a shop ive been quoted 1.5k for a full in and out respray a different color i would expect 2k for a full respray.
im getting it done by a frieand so im not getting charged labour just parts about 300 qwid

jesus, well i will see what i can do with mine then, going to be messaging them again, ive done alot of spraying in my time but i dont have anywhere to do a full car anymore, panels, yes, whole car not till at least end of this month.

Will see what they say again!

have you ever used the chromafliar stuff ? im debating what to do about it.
im having to rent a booth off a friend for the guy to spray in as hes an expro im gona get some piks as i prep n spray it
id go down to different spray shops around your area and get prices when they are looking at it you may be suprised

I like the sound of a quick lick of silver, not my personal taste, the chromflair though.whats driving you down that route then? even 1.5k seems cheap for a re-spray where I am, sounds like you definatly have a good deal there like

well im going back tomorrow to speak to the main man and see what he can do, im going for lapis blue house of kolor

ne wonder that house of kolor stuff is expensive. me mate had his saxo done in purple and he said it was expensive. yeah my plan is to keep the standard silver as a base then in the light it should pop with the different colors. let me know how you get on.

again between 5 and 10k. not good, refuse to pay that.

we worked out the paint would cost just inder £1000 which is fine, so i will get the paint, get myself some new guns and then im going to spray both my brothers and my own cars, i refuse to pay out near £10,000

Dale - is this price from two different garages?

What have you asked them to quote on?

For a full bare metal respray I would imagine around that amount of money.

Next year I am planning on having my car resprayed, the intention is to keep the same colour and just do the outside but with the glass taken out to get a really nice finish.

I am hoping to keep the cost of that at or under £3k I will do as much of the stripping as possible myself to try and keep the cost down.

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same garage.

I want the lapiz blue over the top of my silver, it is easily do-able.

Was going on for 5k for a same colour.

Admittedly their work is utterly superb but that amount of money is just insane.

3k and i would of done so, 10k, no chance

Is it not the case that a large proportion of the cost is the time/labour to carry out the prep work? If you can do the prep yourself I'm sure you'd cut the cost dramatically.

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1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST205WRC JDM 269bhp @ 0.9bar
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four Special GT 590bhp @ 1.8bar
1989 Van Diemen RF88/89 Formula Ford 1600
2008 Nissan Patrol GU 3.0L ZD30DDTi 154bhp

indeed but even when i offered to take the parts off, i.e the TRD kit etc the end result was " I cant give you a definative price until we take the car apart and go from there."


Not much good to me that when really and truely you want a figure before you start, i think they are used to people with classic cars and lots and i mean lots of money which is fair enough but i think its madness really but hey ho, i will just buy two new Devibliss GTi guns and do it that way if they wont knock the price down, they even wouldn't budge if we took two cars in at once!

Shame as i wanted them to paint it but who can justify 10k on a car paint job that isnt a show and shine car.

Shame they were so inflexible, but sounds like you made the right decision to take your business elsewhere/do it yourself.

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Don
GT4DC Chairman
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST205WRC JDM 269bhp @ 0.9bar
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four Special GT 590bhp @ 1.8bar
1989 Van Diemen RF88/89 Formula Ford 1600
2008 Nissan Patrol GU 3.0L ZD30DDTi 154bhp