stuartbrs

Remove and prep as many parts as you can yourself.. the cheaper jobs cost cut by removing parts in a fairly barbaric way.. they will also not put the car back together correctly or use the correct fasterners. 18k seems a lot but then if they are meticulously reassembling the car then that time is easily chewed up by doing things properly and removing every single part in the correct way and not just masking things up and cutting wires.
Everytime Ive had a car at the body works Ive had to fix things when I got it back.

OTR18WHEELER

For what it's worth, ..
A friend of mine, that owns his own shop, declined to repaint my hood, let alone the whole car.
Reason being, he was doing me a favor.
He knew I would not be happy with the result...of a perfect hood, and a overall was out of my budget.

RennPartsDirect

This expense is exactly the reason why I plan on vinyl wrapping my '89. If the cars value skyrockets I to the $50K+ range then it makes sense to spend the money on a proper paint job but for now, no way. Like the others have said, do all the grunt and prep work yourself then have it sprayed and cleared and then do the wet sanding and polishing yourself once the paint is cured. Then you'd only be paying for the materials and a couple dozen hours of spray time...

S4ordie

The paint portion of the Turquoise Metallic car was about $14K. The body work (fixing the previous undisclosed front end damage, adding factory sunroof delete and rear quarter panels) almost double the cost of painting the car. I also had the car near totally disassembled. Every nut bolt, gasket, trim seal, door seals, etc., were replaced with new. Not your average, or even above average, paint job.

bureau13

Oh, I know you can get high dollar paint jobs. I just don't expect that from a place that usually does insurance jobs. No insurance company is paying $19K for paint that I know of. At the very least, I would have expected them to give him a range or something.

safulop

The shop I use for insurance work here has admitted to me that they normally charge more for customers paying out of pocket. They said that they get beaten up so badly by insurance companies cutting corners and refusing payment for this and that, they have to make up the difference in their "self-pay" side of the business.

EMan 928

I had Turq out today at the Detroit Grand Prix. There was a special Corral parking area just for Porsches. Had many people just in awe of the car. When I told them the body modifications that had been done, they couldn't believe it. The paint is just amazing. I think it is better than factory. A testament to the shop that did the work.

hlee96

All this talk about paint shop gauging disappoints me, since I plan to eventually repaint my '78 and maybe another car that I plan to acquire in the near future.

However, it also makes me appreciate more that my S4 had been repainted (ok, nice but not perfect) before my buying it last year.

S4ordie

The shop was an incredible place. Worked only on European cars, mostly new. The people who touched the car were masters of their craft. It is also important to know the car was sprayed with same glasurit paint used from the factory. No water based paint was used. I had to source that paint outside of California, in Arizona actually, and had to personally transport it across state lines. That paint hardens slowly but when cured, as all who still have good orginal paint on their cars can attest, is incredibly tough. Glad the Turq is bringing smiles and questions your way. It is definitely a one of one. Hard to imagine Magnus' car will receive as much detailed work as Turq did. Keep driving it.

safulop

Another problem that comes up with 928 bodywork is grossly overcharging for R&R procedures because they are clueless. A few years ago I had a bodyshop replace the side window seals with the new ones Roger sells and they did nothing but complain about how damn hard it was to do and charged me 8 hours of time.

DonaldBuswell

Materials are very expensive! Epoxy Primer alone will set you back nearly 300 dollars, another consideration is was the car Media Blasted, or will the car be? I have personally Media Blasted over 100+ cars in my professional work (drblast.com) I have not ever done a Porsche, but, the 74 Alfa Romeo GTV I'm currently working on had the same under body protection as are 928s have.
Labor will be the biggest expense, it takes a lot of hours to get a good paint job down, but preparation before is the biggest thing you must not compromise on. Getting that old paint off is demanded for proper re-paint.

Nicole

I didn't know you sold it! OMG - how could you, after putting all this effort into it?

Speedtoys

" have you seen any of there work"
Yes..they are good. As originally noted, they are shop-full of exotics from minor to major repair and paint. They are known.

Thanks!!

Speedtoys

" I just don't expect that from a place that usually does insurance jobs."


Which _again_ is not what I said.._I_ chose to send them MY insurance work.

bureau13

Ahh. I misunderstood that comment.