How much should it cost to paint C/K hood?

[GM Guy]

I was wondering roughly how much everyone thinks it should cost to have a C/K hood painted.

The hood started life on a C/K rig, was taken off at a junkyard, painted for a customer, customer never showed up, hood sold at shop owner's father's estate auction.

I bought it for $5 It is in perfect shape. It has a good condition insulation blanket. It started life white, and when it painted for the no-show, it had the top and edges painted green, and there was a slight bit of overspray onto the blanket. the rest of the underside was left OEM summit white.

The same shop that sold it quoted $300 for a repaint (surely sanded and primed and the whole works, as he is a perfectionist)

I was wondering if i could get it done cheaper. I would be taking the blanket off before sending it in. I basically want it back to summit white, and i want it sanded, primed (top and edges only if cheaper). I do not want it to be simply painted over.

Is this just me complaining, or is this price high? Can it be done cheaper?

Sorry for the long post. any help appreciated, thanks!

 

[packratt]

Heck Maaco is only like 199 to paint an entire car. Pay a visit to some of your local small privately owned body shops and talk to the owners. You might get lucky and get one that will do that little job for cash at a good discount.

 

[JiFaire]

Can it be done cheaper?

That depends... brush or roller?



Seriously, I agree with Packratt... if you pull the blanket yourself, better yet do the rest of the sanding/prep yourself, you should be able to get somebody to splash it for $100, especially if they can do it as part of another paint job - find somebody else getting the same paint you want.

New regs on water-based solvents and paints are messing with the pricing structures, though; prices to fix the door of my wife's Civic ranged from $300 to $950 at 4 sifferent shops.

 

[packratt]

Yes but they were doing some blending with your wife's Civic. That effects the price.

 

[JiFaire]

Yes but they were doing some blending with your wife's Civic. That effects the price.

Yeah, I know... just couldn't get over the price differences between shops.

 

[DEERE3594]

I always pull that insulation at throw it away. Thats just me ):h What color do you want it? The affects the price alot around here. Also what kind of paint? Dimont, Limco, Dupont ect? (I reckon I spelled all of them wrong):h)

 

[dentpusha]

imo 300$ is about what it cost to do it RIGHT,but it being white i think you could go with a cheaper painter.

 

[GM Guy]

basically, i want a nice finish with no visible problems, decent coverage, etc. Dupont, sherwin williams, PPG, or GM are preferred (I think those are the best, aren't they?)

But I want it white, so i think it can be done cheaper.

And JiFaire, that is because it is a Honda, LOL!):h

 

[JiFaire]

Ever painted a vehicle? IMHO, painting white is the hardest single colour to do... well.

Anybody can do it poorly.

 

[GM Guy]

Ever painted a vehicle? IMHO, painting white is the hardest single colour to do... well.

Anybody can do it poorly.

Krylon overhauled many combine fuel tanks, and it takes a bit to get coverage right to make it not look like shit. Old man just slaps some paint on to keep fuel cool (luckily tanks are white to start with!), or no rust. only thing he puts effort into painting is truck rims.):h

I have not done any offical good paint jobs at all though!):h

What would be the best for sanding it down? orbital sander and finer grit paper? is there any special paper for body work?

 

[cbrew2001]

$5.00 for the hood, $300.00 for the paint = $305.00 for complete job parts and labor total. I believe thats very reasonable and would throw my business to the place that gave me a very good price on the hood and help him out. It could payoff more in the future, if you need any touch up work done. Thats just me, if you feel the man a perfectionist thats who I want doing my work. JMO
Edit: I wish I had a place like that around here.

 

[DEERE3594]

Ever painted a vehicle? IMHO, painting white is the hardest single colour to do... well.

Anybody can do it poorly.

Matalic silver

 

[radar1053]

Matalic silver

Where I grew up that was called Mexican Chrome!
Paint that silver

 

[big block 88]

Dupont is easy to spray do it yourself in a garage it will come out good, if you can use a spray can you can use a spray gun just practice on some shiny card board to get your pattern down, and shoot the hood flat use a 2 stage base clear and it will look great you can get a quart of each for about 50 bucks if you know any paint shops goin to a paint store will be considerably moer. Make a trip to NE KS and I will do it for you I beleive have a gallon of GM white layin around, but I wont be home till April.

 

[Max Attitude]

$5.00 for the hood, $300.00 for the paint = $305.00 for complete job parts and labor total. I believe thats very reasonable and would throw my business to the place that gave me a very good price on the hood and help him out. It could payoff more in the future, if you need any touch up work done. Thats just me, if you feel the man a perfectionist thats who I want doing my work. JMO
Edit: I wish I had a place like that around here.

I agree.

 

[big block 88]

Ever painted a vehicle? IMHO, painting white is the hardest single colour to do... well.

Anybody can do it poorly.

Never had a problem with white but I have screwed up a black truck and had to pay to get it fixed, silver si the single worst color to paint it will never match perfect, I have tried and tried, I painted my 88 in the gararge over the weekend but had over a month of prep work.

 

[saratoga]

$305 total for a body panel prepped and painted to match is a good deal IMO. I remember paying a friend's body guy $200 to paint one of the fenders on my 97 dually after I hit a pole with it. That was just for paint... I took it off, repaired and prepped it myself.

 

[GM Guy]

Thanks for all the responses, I guess it is just sticker shock, as i have never had any body work done, so i guess i will bite the bullet and go with this guy.

The guy is the son of my dad's late good friend. guy has a beetle project, completed and did awesome on a General Lee Clone, and he had a 454SS in high school, and has a different one now that he has about $5K dumped into a super hi-perf. motor. fancy aluminum nascar style heads, etc. and what i have seen, he does great work, so i'll give him some business.

It is hard to fight cheapness, but this guy is well deserving of my $. A tad high priced, but IMHO, he is a perfectionist, so this is the safest bet.

 

[gregn96cuda]

I just paid $200 for a perfect black hood for my truck. When I told my body guy that I could get it for $200 he said it would cost twice that much to fix the paint on my hood. I got lucky finding the color I needed.