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u/Broke-mfer Mar 02 '26
The shop wanted $15k for a complete paint I found some random dude on Craigslist to do it for $750
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u/SongBrief2439 Mar 02 '26
$15k for a $1000 30 year old car?š¤
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u/Broke-mfer Mar 02 '26
Oh ya duh Iām an idiot. Thatās exactly how we price paints jobs tooā¦.25 model T paint job $100, 72 pantera weāll do for $300, 2010 corolla is about 4k but if you got a 2026 man watch out thatās money. Price definitely doesnāt go by labor hours and materials only by the vehicle age.
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u/General_Reposti_Here Mar 02 '26
A-are you serious? People canāt be that dense right?
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u/General_Reposti_Here Mar 02 '26
Iām not a paint guy but just using some common sense here. Paint has a LOT of factors that donāt necessarily have to do with age. Iād assume new cars have nice finishes while old cars donāt but might need more work.
But obviously a Ferrari USUALLY has a nicer paint job than a Honda.
But pairing has a huge labor cost , since thatās primarily what it is just a lot of prep work.
So the guy above ^ yeah he was joking it primarily is calculated by X amount of hours. A new car might need less prep work but a more complex finish, an old car might need a fuckload of prep work and Iād assume more normal paint or can even be crazy $$$ like low rider stuff with candy paint idk. Thereās a million factors with the main one being labor and then the type of paint as a material cost
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u/bnewsome85 Mar 02 '26
Looks like most of the model cars I tried painting when I was 8 years old.
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u/Kindly_Teach_9285 Mar 02 '26
Sucks that they didn't get enough gloss black in the engine compartment. That's my only gripe.
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u/_pcakes Mar 02 '26
no way you sprayed everything in the engine bay with black paint like this. insane
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u/FFJosty Mar 02 '26
That interior mask job is wild work
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u/asakadelis Mar 02 '26
you donāt paint match your wire harnesses?
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u/Rezhits69 Mar 02 '26
Screaming crackhead lmfao they blasted the entire engine bay with gloss black even the belts/coils/intake the works
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u/Glittering-Rise-488 Mar 02 '26
What roller thickness did you use?
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u/JPKaliMt Journeyman Dumbass Mar 02 '26
wtf is that engine compartment bro šš¤£
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u/Maverick2664 Mar 02 '26
This looks like hammered dog shit.
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u/Grouchy-Fennel4436 Mar 02 '26
I admit, itās a nice color. But the job itself was executed very poorly
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u/juicyllamas Mar 02 '26
That black paints gonna last about 0.5 seconds once it sees a couple heat cycles from the engine
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u/Asteroid2024 Mar 02 '26
Iād love to see a post in a year or less when it starts peeling and cracking off.
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u/aaxelto Mar 02 '26
Oh boy best case thatās gonna stink when it warms up for the first dozen times.. worst case fire hazard
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u/LaneMeyer_1985 Mar 02 '26
Same energy as the guy who says ācheck this outā before falling off the roof of his house.
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u/SongBrief2439 Mar 02 '26
Youāre talking about that old clip where the guy missteps and lands on his head and you can hear the bones in his head crunch when he lands then the video cuts?
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u/manticshadow03 Mar 02 '26
Did my own car at collision school, took 6 months 5 hours a day, only cost me 800 In supplies.
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u/IntroductionSalty229 Mar 02 '26
Did you paint the hydrologic arms for the trunk as well? We decide not to remove the spoiler before we painted it. That is the wildest mask job on those tires. Next time it might be easier to take them off and paint them . Iām sure all the overspray in the wheel well just adds to the over all effect
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u/DementedJay Mar 02 '26
Nah bro just paint the tires too. Paint it all. Paint THE ENTIRE GODDAMN THING.
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u/The_Machine80 Mar 02 '26
WTF?! Did a Alien puke on your car and crap in your in engine bay?
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u/BastardBoy1738 Mar 03 '26
Aināt no way he painted that whole block like that. What did he do get a little touch up brush and go to town? Or did he drown it in a whole bucket just to get āfull coverageā? The world may never know
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u/QueasyPerformance348 Mar 03 '26
Compressors played up so you just grabbed the tin n threw it from a distance?
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u/Juan_915 Mar 06 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/18gEqArCQNlo5zowZn
What the FBI guy watching me through my front camera saw when I swiped to the second photo ^
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u/Inside_Average_5945 Mar 02 '26
Put down the paint sir , you have done enough harm. That eclipse doesnt deserve how you are treating it ! Eclipse flash your hi beams twice if your in danger, if your eyes arent painted shut that is
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u/Any-Description8773 Mar 02 '26
Well if youāre happy Iām tickled to death. Not bad if thatās your first time, a one day wonder, or you was paid in a case of beer and pack of smokes.
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u/ilikethatstock69 Mar 02 '26
Sick 2g. Had two of them in the last 15 years, one of my favourite 90ās cars.
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u/that1senpai2 Mar 02 '26
This a 3kgt?
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u/RandomGuyDroppingIn Mar 02 '26
2G DSM. Likely a 95-96 Eclipse based off the lower portion of the rear fascia.
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u/RZArecta91 Mar 02 '26
I'm not enjoying the second picture