If you don't mind me asking, who quoted you that price?
I'm just outside of Chgo (Streamwood) myself and am looking for a new painter as my painter retired and closed his shop
Priming instead of painting?
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I'm just outside of Chgo (Streamwood) myself and am looking for a new painter as my painter retired and closed his shop
Around here that's like a Maco price. Let me clarify yes they advertise $199 for paint but then they charge you for everything they can think of until your ready to walk out then act like your getting a deal to get your money when I first moved back to Jersey from pa I took a job painting there until I found something better I did an over all paint job with a pressure pot every 15 minutes it was insane! Only cleaned the pot once a day whatever color you just finished painting ends up in the first coat of the next car.
On a lighter note if they use a catalyst the primer is 2k and not porous
Here its $3500 for mask, primer an paint BC. Body work extra. Bastards !
If you ever want to leave a primer by itself an Epoxy Primer is the choice ! It hardens to the point of a pain to sand an it repels water.
My 86 l paint using a black epoxy an it was outside since last fall with no change. Kind of like the color ! Lol.
Other types of primers are porous an draw water/paint in. This is the reason why there easy to sand also.
If you ever want to leave a primer by itself an Epoxy Primer is the choice ! It hardens to the point of a pain to sand an it repels water.
My 86 l paint using a black epoxy an it was outside since last fall with no change. Kind of like the color ! Lol.
Other types of primers are porous an draw water/paint in. This is the reason why there easy to sand also.
If you are going with the stock silver over black paint scheme, then prime it or have it primed with grey epoxy primer. It holds up very well for a very long time. It will protect the metal from the weather. Do you have a good sized compressor? You could prime it yourself. A decent gun is not that expensive. A gallon of epoxy and the activator (shop line - PPG's private label) will run you a little less than $200. You would still need tape, paper, sand paper, etc.
My brother's car has been in epoxy since 2009 and he has driven it (as a hobby car) in epoxy for the last few years. Here is what it looked like before it went to the painter.....
Johnny's body shop in Tinley Park. That price was for it to be for when he was slow over the winter. I picked up the car in January and originally planned to give it to him after a few weeks but I needed it longer to get it running good and by that time he was swamped and said he would let me know now when he was ready for it but now I want to give it to him in the fall to do all the body work and make it look good.
Most shops do the same to get them threw the winter.
Is it mostly at the bottom ? If so just throw an epoxy stripe around the bottom to get you threw.
You can get epoxy in Aerosol but its thinner an takes twice the coats. Not great but it would work.
Is it mostly at the bottom ? If so just throw an epoxy stripe around the bottom to get you threw.
You can get epoxy in Aerosol but its thinner an takes twice the coats. Not great but it would work.
Thanks, I'm not going to be ready for paint till the fall/winter myself. Let's keep in touch, maybe we can get him to do better on 2 cars.
Yes sir I do. I have a lot of myself in it. Hours and hours of research on the LS swap. Weeks of wiring. A soul annihilating amount of sanding and scraping. 10 years on and off. It will always be special to me.
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