I bought my wife a toyota sprinter in silver 148.000kms was bought in a hurry and at night because her bluebird broke down that morning, anyhow now she has had a good look she is complaining about dents and paint patchups on car so thought would it be worth repainting?
franc123,
Aug 22, 5:18pm
Extremely unlikely unless you can do a good DIY job on it. At best it might be worth getting a pro touch up of the worst areas if you think it might add value to it.
myrns,
Aug 22, 5:29pm
Not worried about adding value wife just wants a tidier car. Another thought was to find another silver bonnet $50 rear bumber $80 and left hand door $60 (already checked pick a parts prices) but being silver doubt the silver would match, if it did car would be sorted for her.
justwotever,
Aug 22, 6:10pm
Cost me 10 thousand to paint my 1966 oldsmoilbe coup
mals69,
Aug 22, 6:27pm
Yeah like a paint job going to add any real value to a car with 148k on the clock, if was me would shoot to super cheap buy some matching paint, find a spot with no wind, newspaper , masking tape , and tidy it up that way. Just going to throw good money at a car that does not warrant it. Whats it going to be worth when it reaches 160k ? 200k ? Proverbial 5/8th of FA !
myrns,
Aug 22, 6:37pm
My wife would be lucky to do 7000kms a year so if I paint it and car looks good for the next 5 years its all good. I worked in a furniture spray shop years ago and was pretty good at that so could be worth having a go myself.
mals69,
Aug 22, 6:47pm
No doubt handy with the gun :) amazing what they sell these days to the general public to help do a good job
trogedon,
Aug 22, 6:52pm
I resprayed my car for a bit under $200 (undercoat and topcoat) but did it all myself and got a really good deal on the paint. With a litre(+ hardeners and thinners) each of undercoat, topcoat(colour matched) and clear you could do those three panels.
lookoutas,
Aug 22, 11:26pm
Jeez you're lucky. I know a guy who had 700 hours spent on his paint job. Times that by even $70/hr, and you have 49K for the labour!
kazbanz,
Aug 22, 11:37pm
Primer $100 Silver paint $200 Clear coat $100 Spray gun hire $150 Masking tape.sandpaper bog etc $100 your time?
sw20,
Aug 22, 11:58pm
I had my bonnet, roof, rear hatch, drivers door and fuel flap quarter panel painted and rust removed from the hatch and under fuel flap for $1000 a couple of weeks back.
myrns,
Aug 23, 12:03am
Thats good value. who did that for you?
lookoutas,
Aug 23, 1:44am
To give you an accurate quote on what the stingiest of Insurance Co's would allow to paint the three items. (That's IAG) It would be $610.70. Plus a couple of blends at $52 each. (If we have photos of the blends masked out)
Don't forget the dents need fixing with a piece of string - first.
budgel,
Aug 23, 2:17am
Could you please explain what that means.
elect70,
Aug 23, 7:55pm
Anyone used that super Cheap paint ? is it any good ,is it acrylic lacquer?
lookoutas,
Aug 23, 8:01pm
It means "I wouldn't have a bloody clue how much it will cost!"
kazbanz,
Aug 23, 10:53pm
I dunno how good it is but its far from "super cheap" Ive bought some to touch up old cheapie bumper corners.
grangies,
Aug 25, 9:57pm
The super cheap paint is Lyndar and it's actual true Basecoat for a 2K system. I have been told the paint is the Metalux brand and relabelled Lyndar for the Super Cheap Auto shops. Lyndar is a combination of the names Lyndsay and Darlene, who own L J Smits ( which is a major paint sales company)
trogedon,
Aug 25, 10:38pm
Like JANOLA
attitudedesignz,
Aug 28, 1:18pm
My old man and Darlene know each other from when they were both in Canada.
Made for nice discounts when I used to buy from GPI lol.
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