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Originally Posted by zman246
I dunno man... Just last week I priced out PPG paint for a side job I'm doing. Just for a gallon of clear coat it was over 200 bucks. That doesn't even include the activator or reducer for the clear coat plus you've got to buy the basecoat and in my case primer and sealer. Its a lot of money 
If you can get the labor for free then you're going to get a hell of a deal... A lot of the cost of a paint job is the labor. You say not every paint job costs 2k? Well look at it this way- lets say you spend $900 on quality name brand materials and paint that wont go bad after a few years. That leaves $1100 divided by $68 per hour = 16 hours. Thats just two days to disassemble, sand down, scuff up, mask off, spray, and reassemble. You've got to cut corners somewhere. Some of you might be happy with a cheap paint job and thats fine if thats what you want but the higher the price, the better the work and the longer it will last. |
Yea some of their stuff is PRICEY....he prob did get a nice discount or used a diff paint...our teacher was pretty cool with us doing stuff too...he wasn't a stickler on us paying every penny.
As for the quality work...believe me i know. Some guys i know paint their cars without taking everything off....i just laugh cause i know it will peel within a year or two. That's what the jackwagons at this shop did to my other car (before i had knowledge on how to do body work)....they left my fenders on when they cleared and it started peeling....pissed me off. Anyways...i totally get what your saying. You get what you pay for. I was just kind of pointing out to the guy who started the thread and to you that it was cheap because they don't charge for labor....just the materials. Pretty sweet deal...a lot of guys in our class cut corners...just amazes me that people do that...you dont want the paint job to last/look good? lol