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Estimated cost to paint a Scrambler

jeepmonkster

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I know this will be a little tough to give a good answer to. BUT! I had a paint shop look at my 81 scrambler which needs painting. I have done some welding in of holes and it needs sanded, old decals removed etc. other that that it is straight, not rust. Any Idea of what it should cost to paint one. I got quoted $4300 .
 
hard to find a paint shop that will do anything around here but accident work. but 4300 sound about right. my orange one was well over that.
 
That price is good. I have budgeted $5,000 for mine.
 
jeepmonkster said:
I know this will be a little tough to give a good answer to. BUT! I had a paint shop look at my 81 scrambler which needs painting. I have done some welding in of holes and it needs sanded, old decals removed etc. other that that it is straight, not rust. Any Idea of what it should cost to paint one. I got quoted $4300 .
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That's why I learned how to paint when I was 15 years old because I dindt have that kind of money to spend on a fancy paint jobs. It wasn't that much back then but it may as well have been a million dollars to me.
 
Yall are scaring the crap out of me. I got my tan CJ-7 painted in 1998 to a cool tune of $800. That was inside and out, with a few dents fixed from a minor rollover. I removed the flares, dash, gauges, spare carrier, etc. Basically anything I didn't want painted to save the painter the trouble of masking/removing stuff.

That said, I know paint costs have gone up, but have they gone up THAT much? I've got two CJ's and a truck that need painting but figured I'd get them painted AFTER I got everything else done that I want to do. That quote being "normal" just sucked the wind right out of my sails.
 
Its mostly about the labor really and thats if the shop would want to do a large project like that. The shop next door to me won't touch a project like ours because of space and time. He mostly does insurance jobs and fender benders. In and out kinda stuff I asked by I'm how he quoted jobs and the price for bumpers painted at 500 and 350 each panel painted. That just paint nothing crazy .. These are NY prices BTW .. When I painted my 7 it cost me about 400 in paint. Plus materials. Not top of the line paint job but I like it ..

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First I would want to see the work the shop has done in the past. Also what paint quality they are going to use. The scope of work they will do. Are they removing trim pieces, painting the dash, fender wells, engine bay, inside of tub? Paint alone can cost $300-1000 alone for the material and there is a big difference in quality between the cheap stuff and high end stuff. Will they gaurentee the work?

Painting is somewhat of an Art. $4300 could be a good price if they do great work and use quality products or it could be a disaster if they rush job it with low end paints.
 
Remember the #1 rule with paint is..."You get what you pay for".

Materials should only be 4-600 depending on how nice of clear/epoxy primer they use, but it takes time to do it right.

YJ-8
 
If you are willing to do a lot of the grunt work you can really bring the price down. removing all of the trim and small parts helps. IF you can do rust fix and decent body work even better.

Sometimes you really have to shop around. Many of the big shops only want to do high paying fender benders and dislike anything old or with rust. Also think about how nice you really want to paint a truck. High gloss finishes are god to look at but will not stay that nice if you go off road. Often you can find a painter who is doing stuff in a small neighborhood shop that might be willing to work with you. So if you can do the big dents and rust repair and maybe even bring it to them in primer/sealer you can get a much better quote. But then again some places will just be expensive, so shop around.

It is pretty easy to figure out how to do rust repair and basic bodywork. Heck you can even spray that sand-able primer in the driveway since it will mostly be sanded off to provide a material for block sanding. If you can get ti to the point that all they have to do is scuff the final primer sealer coat and then shoot color it really will not cost that much.

Not that I work for them but Eastwood has tons of info on their site for how to do this. It is a lot of work and effort but if you have more time that $$'s then it really is a good way to go.


Carl
 
I am at that stage now. I just got my body parts back from the blaster yesterday. My plans are to get a first coat of etching prime on it this weekend so I can then take my time on repairs without have to worry about rust in this Louisiana humidity. My plans are to do 75% of the work. Not many good painters are willing to tie up their valuable time and space when they make more money doing collision work. I built a room in my shop that doubles as a paint booth, it even has a 42" exhaust fan. The problem is I don't have the experience or the skills to do a first class paint job. But I should be able to cut that $5,000.00 budget down to about $3,000.00
 
I had about $600 in materials in paint. A high school friend who has worked an an auto shop for years and does pro street cars on the side came over and sprayed it after we prepped and primed it. He taught me and let me do the accent colors. Spraying the paint is easy, finding a dust proof place to do it is the challenge. We got some dust in the paint doing it in my brother's shop even after lots of cleaning/sweeping/mopping. We even used the $9 Harbor Freight guns. One each for primer, and each color of Urathane. My buddy was suprised it sprayed as good as it did, not sure I'd trust them for long, but worked good for the one job.
 
I had about $1000 in paint and supplies, and I have enough extra paint for armor, tube fenders, and a matching trailer...........

That's everything.....I wasn't set up to paint. paint, sandpaper, plastic and filters for temporary booth, spray guns, thinner, etc....

But,
Harbor freight gun.....
Summit Paint.......
In a welding shop.....





It can be done
 
Well my paint and body guy was a magician. My grandfather owned the GMC/ Pontiac/ Buick dealership in our little town until the late 80's, and this guy was his body man for years. He left the dealership and worked in a small shop in his backyard. He's fixed countless vehicles for the family over the years since, and always did amazing work and was very reasonable on price.

Saw my uncle on the farm over the weekend in his beater farm truck and jokingly said "You need to take that to Richard and get him to paint it". He responded with "Richard retired. Said the paint was getting to him and making him sick."

So here I am with two Jeeps and a squarebody GMC that I'd always planned on having him paint after I got everything else on them fixed. :(
 
Earlier I guessed 4-600 but after spraying the extended part of my YJ I would guess $1,000 to $2,000 for supplies on the high side, and $500 if they shoot cheaper materials (single stage).

A guy on on a muscle car forum I visit said he spent 2K on his materials. It is all about how nice you want to go.
 
Most of the pictures I see of self painted jeeps are from 20 to 30 feet and they look fantastic. I would prefer to see pictures of panels and fenders from about 2 to 3 feet to really see how much detail everyone went through.
 
It's all in the preparation, and how much prep your Jeep needs. Once that is done, single stage in a solid non metallic color can look great, as you can color sand and rub it out. Metallic in single stage can look nice but not as nice as a two stage metallic with the clear that can be color sanded and rubbed out. If you want a nice looking driver that doesn't need to be show quality, you could try painting it yourself in a solid color. If you can do the prep, you can do a nice job. If not, best to let someone who knows how get it ready. Painting can give you a good feeling when you do it yourself and it turns out nice. Personally, I feel better about a nice job that I did rather than a "professional" job that cost half the value of the Jeep. But that's just me. The more I do myself the happier I am about my Jeep.
 
I've been prepping mine for two weeks now. I'm trying to get every wrinkle and spot weld out of it and I don't know if I'll ever get it like I want it. Waves and spot welds are just part of the character of a Jeep.
 

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I got mine back from the paint shop about a month ago. It had been painted over before I got it, and I wanted to take it back to bare metal, and start over. I got a quote from a custom paint shop (friend) for $3,500. This turned out to be quite an undertaking, and took way more time than expected. They sanded it down to bare metal, got rid of any bondo, repaired a few body stress cracks by welding, did a few minor repairs, then primed and painted the whole vehicle. I had them replace the rusted out windshield frame, which I furnished (mine was never repaired in the recall). They shot it with the factory red Garnet color to which they had added some additional gold flake. It really looks good. Materials ran around $1,000, so I kicked in some extra to compensate them for the extra time they had to put in (total about 30 man hours). Fairly expensive but worth it after the initial pain. I started to just do a low budget paint job, but remembered the words of John Ruskin: "The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of low price has been forgotten".
 
sawfish said:
I got mine back from the paint shop about a month ago. It had been painted over before I got it, and I wanted to take it back to bare metal, and start over. I got a quote from a custom paint shop (friend) for $3,500. This turned out to be quite an undertaking, and took way more time than expected. They sanded it down to bare metal, got rid of any bondo, repaired a few body stress cracks by welding, did a few minor repairs, then primed and painted the whole vehicle. I had them replace the rusted out windshield frame, which I furnished (mine was never repaired in the recall). They shot it with the factory red Garnet color to which they had added some additional gold flake. It really looks good. Materials ran around $1,000, so I kicked in some extra to compensate them for the extra time they had to put in (total about 30 man hours). Fairly expensive but worth it after the initial pain. I started to just do a low budget paint job, but remembered the words of John Ruskin: "The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of low price has been forgotten".
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Let me be the first to say.....

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Seriously, sounds great, love to see pics. :wave:
 
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