85fortheDrive

Okay, here's the situation...

Our 84S is proceeding through some renovations. Rob Budd did great work in leatherizing the seats and dash and I'm awaiting a Champagne steering wheel. With the interior approaching where we want it to be, I'm now starting to consider a paint job.

I read through Heinrich's post from earlier this year and am curious to get some input from the group.

I plan to stay with the same basic color (Zinmetallic). Assuming there is no body work to be done, what would you pay if you were me?

Also, if you know of reputable paint shops in the IL/WI area, I'd be glad to learn of them.

Thanks and Peace,
Tim

RyanPerrella

if i were you I would change colors. Get something wild, or something different. If you love that color then respray the same.

Paint prices will vary from $300-$5,000++++++++

With an 84 thats not worth a whole lot, but considering you spend a pretty penny already on some nice interior stuff, I would try and get a $1500-$2500 job if you can swing it. You dont want a one a day paint place, but you also may not want to spend $5000 for a really perfect job. The vaue of the car dosent really warrant that much for paint. IMHO

danglerb

It makes me nervous as hell, but the most valuable thing about my 83 is the very nice original paint, and I have my doubts that any 4 figure paint job would duplicate it.

Zinc metallic too.

Nicole

You will need about $2k in trim and rubber pieces alone. Then the good paint materials are not cheap, either. And you want a qualified person to do it. I'd say between $6k and $10k for the paint job, plus trim and rubber.

danglerb

Big chunk of that $2k rubber is around the doors and hatch isn't it, which at the age the originals are in must be a nice improvement.

docmirror

wow,,,uh, I mean wow! 2k for rubber trim? Has no one else ever heard of aftermarket? I checked and the door seal is $175. I can get it at any number of aftermarket houses for about $2/foot. Estimate 15 feet for each door and that's $30 per side. Same with tailgate, window lacing, etc. You may have to buy new quarter window seal, but more than likely that will either be saved by careful removal, or can be sourced aftermarket too.

As for the paint, I say around $2500-3000 should get you a fair deal if you don't change colors. Prepare to do much of the trim exchange yourself and that price can go down a lot.

killingmoon65

I'd like to get mine painted within the next year or two. I'll probably go the same original silver, but black does look awesome!

Bus

Good topic.

I'm a recipient of a small inheritance from my grandfather... and he really loved the 928. So I thought it only appropriate that it go into some paint work.

Half tempted to spend the 5k on a new outbuilding at the back of the property... then paint it in there myself! But I doubt I could do near the level of the pro, even though I used to work in this field 20 years ago... plus I'd be overly critical of any mistake.

I'm guessing in the end, I'll pull the front and rear bumpers, and strip the mirrors, lights, etc.. then have it flatbedded to a pro who can do the prep and paint.

Another question is do I keep the textured lower panel features. I like it, but it flaked off both doors along with the paint.

Mrmerlin

Hi if your going to repaint the car the first thig to do is remove the interior you might get away with leaving the headliner but all the other parts should come out, seat, dash, door panels , quarter windows , nose and tail bodywork to fully strip and replace the body seals, if your paint is anywhere in good condition or can be buffed out then i would leave it stock as has been stated before the factory paint is hard to beat even if its 20 years old. If your going for a respray then i would recomment that the paint be removed and then the panels prepared correctly then painted all in all a whole lot of work but worth it if your going to keep the car, otherwise you could always sell your car and buy one that has a better factory paint job

ceedee

yikes... it seems like every word in your post is worth about 500bucks, at least that is what the paintjob seems to add up to.
again, thank you so much for your advise yesterday

Mrmerlin

I had an 79 that i repainted it was the lite blue color, when i took it to the bodyshop to mark off where the dents were I put masking tape on the dents, it had some lite hail damage on the hood and fenders after a day of sitting I was there with the bodyman and he happened to pull off one of the pieces of tape and the paint lifted completly off to the bare aluminum , so pulled another piece off and the same thing happened........So now I am thinking wow so much for a scuff and spray... it turns out the car had been repainted and they used lacquor primer on the car without preparing the aluminum parts and they did not remove the front or rear body covers so they got thicker as well. To make a long story short I wound up using a razor blade to strip the hood doors and fenders it was pretty easy to do we then completly stripped the rest of the car down to grinding off the lower body chad along the rocker panels and rei applying that coating and using zinc chromate on the alu parts and then using epoxy primer and block sanding then anothter coat of epoxy primer then wet sanding then Glasurit base coat clear with a hi build clear to say that the paint was anything less than show car perfect would be an understatment, but it took a whole lot of timeand sanding to do the job right but everyone that saw the car after thought it was brand new. I should have removed the interior as even thos we masked it off and covered it with cloth it still had overspray on many peices, so I am done with my rant Goodluck on your respray by the way paint supplies back in 1990 were about 950.00 i gallon of epoxy primer, 1 qt of sealer, 1 gallon of basecoat and 1 gallon of hi build clear plus all of the rest of the hardeners and thinners, we used Glasurit and went with the original color, Stan

Mrmerlin

Hi just one more bit my 88 show car still has original paint and I have only buffed at and waxed it a few times I know it has a slightly better paint job than most of the other p cars since it was made for a show but the paint if taken care of will still shine well

Shark Attack

if you are going to make it the same color.... I dont see a big deal... no door jams or under hood.... you shoudl be able to have it done for under 2k..... but i guess its like everyoine is saying... how far do you want to go? how good do you want it to be? If you want it to look like it was just off the showroom floor... i would think 5-6K would gettr done.

Oscar M

I did my 911 not too long ago and it looks like material prices have gone up a bit since 1990. I used a two stage PPG product...nice, but certainly not cheap. The color I chose was 2005 Carrera GT silver. Want pics?

-Oscar

RicerSchnitzzle

Maaco or Factobake. $399 and you out the door. Do your own taping first. It'll look like a $5K paint job...from 50 feet...

With the work you have put into the interior, I would do it right the first time. Worry less about hitting a certain price than a certain quality. Look around for examples of a shops work, then negotiate the price. Plenty of shops overprice to fit a certain niche market, even though they could do it for far less. Yet the quality is only average. Other guys who own their own small shop, but are hands on for every car, turn out awesome jobs for less money.

It's like buying art. A Michael Angelo is not worth a lot because of it's original price, it's because Michael did it. Find a modern day Michael and pay less.

Again most important thing is to see a couple cars they have done. most good shops will have reference cars available to see. When I had my '70 MachI Mustang painted, the shop gave me a better deal if when promissed to allow people to check it out occassionally. You only get what you pay for if you know what you're paying for.