Anyone knows the price of painting job for scratch?

[padboy]

I just got some small scratches on my car today...(bad luck...)

anyone knows the price for fixing the scrathes? like how much$/cm square?

mine ones are not that badly, just become white on scrathes.

thx!

or do i need the full paint for the side?

[AeroGrace]

i think most panel shops charge by how many panels you do ie: you can't do half a panel....sorta like how much paint they'll need..

i remember once my friend's car got scratched up, some dick left 1 small deep scratch on EACH panel!!

[padboy]

so, if both panels get scrathes, it better to respray?

[AeroGrace]

sorta leaves you with two options, get it painted...or just simply learn to live with it.....

depends on how deep/severe the scratch is anyway...but as i've said, some people just learn to continue driving it as always....

[WazR32GTSt]

if its miniture just touch it up...

if its major then you really HAVE to paint the entire panel to make it look stock. (panel doesn't mean the entire side of the car, maybe just the door, or just the front guard etc...)

probably about $100 - 150 per panel

[JimX]

A GOOD paint shop will charge around $300 for a panel or front/rear bar. This includes blending the paint into the adjacent panels. You can probably get a quick respray for less but you will probably notice the difference in colour.

You can try one of those scratch repair places, but in my experience they will only touch non-metallic colours, because they can't get the touch-up paint to blend properly on metallic paint.

You can also touch it up yourself, which I've done on mine for a couple of scratches it's picked up. It's easily noticable if you look at them, but if you just look at the car overall your eyes don't get drawn towards them and you can't really notice.

[hippy]

hey jim u have a silver 33 right?? can u tell me where u got that touch up paint from?

[JimX]

I got a bit of leftover paint from my respray. It's not proper touch up paint, and as such I can't use that Langka stuff to rub it back with. I just dabbed some on, let it dry, then dabbed a bit more on, etc. It's now almost flush and so harder to notice. But because it's metallic, it'd be noticable even if I did get it flush.

If you want proper touch up paint, try the various auto parts shops. You might need the paint code off your car, or maybe just telling them it's a silver Skyline might be enough for them to find the right one.

[padboy]

Originally posted by JimX

A GOOD paint shop will charge around $300 for a panel or front/rear bar. This includes blending the paint into the adjacent panels.  

Can you still notice the difference in colour for blending the paint?

and how much for respray in white?(milk white???i dont know the term)

[JimX]

A full respray is usually around $3000 or so. More if you want funky colours (pearl etc) or a more than average amount of coats.

I've had experience of a well-done paint blend on my previous car, and I have to say that YOU will notice it, but no one else will until you point it out The paint in the resprayed area just looks a little darker/newer, but unless you are very carefully looking for it, you won't notice it.

At one point I managed to dent the rear passenger door fairly badly, and I replaced it with one from a wrecker of the same colour without respraying it. The guy that bought the car looked the car over very carefully but didn't notice the colour change from either the paint blend OR the door change, even though to me both stuck out like a sore thumb.

[padboy]

thanx, Jim!

could you suggest some workshop do the painting job good or maybe where you did your previous car. and how long does this job spend?

btw: i am in Sydney

[JimX]

BG Automotive at Meadowbank is where I got my Skyline resprayed after I got rear-ended. Phone number 9807 6502 or 0414 842 652. I think it should usually be done in around 2 weeks or less.

The place I got my Commodore done at is out of business, but he was also quite good.

[wrxhoon]

padboy if u want to get the right colour paint for ur car go to vg paints at girraween . u need to take with u the colour code ( u 'll find on the cars id plate under the bonnet ) and ur fuel filler door , ask for acrylic paint they will mix the paint for u and for a small fee will match it as well ( i/2 lt mix and match silver is $25 - 30 ) u can use the paint to touch up u r scratches and stone chips . if u want to paint a panel if u never done it before dont try u will stuff it up .

jimx when a pro paints a panel and blends ( u can only blend metalic paint ) u should never notice the diff in the colour if u do its not a good job , i have done plenty and u can never see the diff but metalic paint u have to blend and then u give it a coat of clear to cover the whole panel .

when it comes to painting i/4 panels is more difficult cause u cant paint the whole panel u have to blow it off in to the edge of the roof and as the paint gets a bit old u 'll see where they blow it off , if u try to buf it there it will get worse the more u buf the more u 'll see it . the guys that do touch up jobs its crap u try to polish there and u'll see an edge the more u polish the worse it gets thats why u paint full panels thats the proper way of doing it

touching up is like cheating if u want to sell the car .

[padboy]

wrxhoon: I am getting confused. From your say, i should do the touching up? but i dont have confidence for doing this coz i never done this b4.

so the better way is get a pro to respray full panels?

[JimX]

Originally posted by wrxhoon

jimx when a pro paints a panel and blends ( u can only blend metalic paint ) u should never notice the diff in the colour if u do its not a good job , i have done plenty and u can never see the diff but metalic paint u have to blend and then u give it a coat of clear to cover the whole panel .

The thing is a keen eye can always spot the difference between old and new paint. Even if it's the exact same colour, you'll never get it perfect. I can always spot resprayed panels, unless the old paint was only like 1-2 years old. The old paint on my Commodore was 5 or 6 years old, and there's no way to get new paint to look the exact same as paint that old. If nothing else it was the only panel without any stone chips on it

Like I said, the guy that bought my car looked over it very very carefully from all angles in broad daylight and he couldn't tell. It's probably just one of those things where if you know it's there, you can tell, but if you don't, you can't.

[wrxhoon]

padboy by all means buy the paint to do small touch ups with a very fine brush , u will always see it though but better than having the chips or a small scratch there .

if u wnt a proper job done take it to a pro ( unless u done it before ) and have the whole panel pained , i hope that clears this up for u .

jimx a good painter will match the paint to the old one it doent matter of the age . its not going to be the same colour thats why u blend it in . iven if its the same paint u put on the car the day before and another person paints the panel next to it with that same paint chances are that it will be diff ( like darker or lighter ) the diff u'll see where the panels join.thats the reason when u repair the whole say front door u blend in the rear door and the guard . so u paint full colout the repaired door then full colour the front guard near where the door joins and as u go forward the u put less paint until at the end and near the bonnet no paint at all . u do the same with the rear door then u put a clear coat on the 2 doors and the guard . if the colour was close u can never see the diff as it is blende in with the original paint , got it ?

believe me i have done plenty of them , metalics are easy to match cause u can blend u cant do that with solid colous though .

[sinisteR32]

just respray the full panel. but dont do what i did and then scratch it on the side of your house a week later and have to do it again. my mate is a panel beater so its cheap for me but twice in one week is still not cool. about $100 a pop (normally $200 for a door).

[sHorty]

no cant notice the difference really when they blend the paint i had my rear 1/4 panel done... but when they do touch ups make sure they do it properly and not with a paint pen or sumthing some of them can be dodgy....

[Riceee]

how much you recon to spray a bonnet?

[JimX]

$300