for everyone that knows anyhting about painting

[jared ajlouny]

i have a 98 taocma now and i just got a new tailgate for it which is black. my truck is dark green. how much should it cost to paint it dark green with me doing all the prep work?? the lowest i could get any shop is 200 , is this right??? i thought it would be under 100, its east to paint a tailgat that is already prepped, u just have to spray it a few times . even maaco wanted 300!!!!

 

[draft]

200 sounds right for a quality job. Yes, I mean quality.

 

[jared ajlouny]

so ur saying it should cost that much even though i do all the prep??? these shops werent even quality shops, i couldnt even get ahold of the main one...and whats with maacos 300?

 

[Glacier991]

The basecoat clearcoat paint alone will run $100... $200 is in the ballpark.

 

[jared ajlouny]

where do you get paint from?? the dealer? if so i might be able to get it for less

 

[unclemeat]

You can get the paint from an auto paint store. Check your local phone book. We repaint my explorer this past winter, "Old Explorer Gets New Paint". My first time, I think the information will help you.

 

[Mbrooks420]

As Draft posted, quality paint work is costly. It all depends on what you want. If you want a cheapo spray I'm sure you could find a place to do it for 100. It will probably chip, and peel, especially being a tail gate. You doing the prep work is frowned on by the paint shops, and they likely won't want to give you any kind of warranty.

 

[draft]

Let them by all means do the prep work. This gives them full range to not warrant any work because, like Mbrooks said in a way, if it peels or gives away, they will straight up blame it on your prep work and you will walk away empty handed in the end. You can buy paint from PaintScratch.com, but again, you want a shop to color match it, new paint mixed by the color code doesn't have age included. Shops should be able to grab a sample of your existing paint, get it made, and then spray, and buff/polish it to match.

I'm paying $550 this coming weekend to get my entire front bumper/airdam smoothed to glass, prep'd, painted, and clearcoated, as well my new grille shell (prep, paint, clear). It's not that much of an area, like you're tailgate, but it's quality work. Don't make the mistake I did and go cheap the first time, cause right now, I'm paying almost 300% more than what it costed the first time around (which is why I'm getting things reshot and redone). I won't have my front end for about a week - a full cure is about 3-5 days, which he wants to do, make sure you keep that in mind.

 

[jared ajlouny]

dang, i should try to find someone with a black tacoma and a green tailgate and just switch. i wisdh things were that easy. i feel bad repaining this tailgate casue the black paint is PERFECT! and about the drying time, i have another tailgate that i can throw on, or i dont even need one.

 

[Monkeybone]

I used to paint myself and 200 bucks is pretty reasonable. It takes more than just a few sprays. You have to coat it, then sand it, then coat it, then sand it, then clear coat it. You get what you pay for.