Respray cost - 75 saloon
 

Hi has anyone here had their 75 saloon resprayed and if so how much did you pay? my car is very straight with no damage or dents, it is non metallic.

I'm thinking £2000 but wondering what anyone else has paid.

thanks
Steve

It can be up at £12k depending on the paint, the prep and paint shop!!

Thanks. actually just came across a post on here from a couple of months back someone asking this question.

Depends how far you want to go with it.

I have seen superb re-spays for 2k, and some really bad ones for twice that amount. You need to shop about and see work they have done.

Just a few months ago while having some accident damage sorted on our other car, I asked him to look at my Rover with a few to having the paint sorted. It's pretty good, but has some lacquer damage here and there. I suggested a re-spray of the bottom half, up to the chrome trim. He quoted an unbelievable £450. If it turned out as good as the car we had fixed it would be quite passable if I was having the whole car done. If he was only doing the bottom half of the car, it wouldn't be quite on par with the Rover finish on the top half and would be noticeable.

The problem with re-sprays is we expect total perfection, far far better than the original finish! just take a look at the paint of most newish cars, the orange peel is very noticeable on most of them. If you paid for a re-spray and you saw orange peel you would be very disapointed, but it you bought a brand new car costing £££ and it had orange peel, you would except it. :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

Thanks all but my question was asking what have other people paid for their respray. I know you can spend thousands £££££ on this type of thing, I just wondered what anyone had paid for a respray and how good it was. thanks.

Some orange peel wouldn't worry me too much if you could see the state of mine currently :getmecoat: The horizontal panels i.e. roof bonnet and boot are in a terrible state.

As has been said you can get a respray for anything from a Grand upwards. My mates body shop has recently completed a colour change on a Porsche and that cost the owner nearly £15k but has taken 3 months and it looks better than new.

The best advice I can give is look at the cars awaiting work outside, if they are all dealer part exchanges awaiting a tart up probably best run a mile. If on the other hand it is all high end and classics you are more likely to get a good job.

You also have to consider how much stuff is going to be removed or masked to do the work? If they are going to mask everything and there is vey little damage to be repaired that will be a lot cheaper than if they are going to remove every door handle, piece of glass and all the trim before repairing a dent in every panel.

Also some body shops will be happy for you to remove trim and bumpers before hand but you will also need to refit it once the work has been done.

Mine was done recently at a cost of £1200 for full body in the, or as close to, original colour.
I was quoted £1200 + vat or £1200 cash but I’ve been a customer for a very long time :D
If you shop around you can be sub-£2k but depending how deep your pockets are I suppose!

Much of the cost for a re-spray is down to the amount of prep work that's required, so you'd need to factor in the condition of the panels. Best approach would be to have a friendly chat with a few local body shops and and outline your requirements / standards etc.

Cliff

Glad I’ve seen this thread. When I’m 18 next year I’m planning on full respraying my 75. It’s British racing green. Is this an expensive colour or would it be relatively cheap because of how common it is to get as Jags use it a lot.


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Truth is no one buys a car any more merely rent them, why be the slightest bit worried about orange peel when you can hand it back, 1,2,3 years later

P

I had my bonnet re sprayed top and underneath this summer, cost me £450, so I reckon somewhere between 2.5k - 4K for the whole car...

I used to hand paint vans and trucks in coach finish (Tekaloid). You could get it mixed to any colour (non-metallic) or choose from the range. You could not tell the difference between brush, roller or spray painted because the paint would self-level over a couple of minutes. You needed perfect conditions (warm, dry, dust and wind free) and it would finish like glass. I've done cars in large home garages. I couldn't do it now as I no longer have a steady enough hand and I also haven't seen the paints around for a while (oil based). Such a shame because the paint went on thicker and lasted well (it had to on trucks going up and down the motorway in all weathers). You could spray it with no thinners (heated) or add a little genuine turpentine for a better flow on hotter days.


Ahhhh! The good old days!;)


As said by others above, the cost is in the preparation and the paint. I've seen cars in and out the same day! (or even half a day!) Get some local recommendations before parting with your hard earned.


Edit:- Just found some Tekaloid!

I have painted motorcycles with a roller, with a finish easily as good as a spray job.

Car would be an issue tho.

Someone on ebay was doing car and van resprays for £500! I can't vouch for the finish or how they come out. For that they won't do the inside of doors or boot / bonnet. I did enquire about it a while back. I guess it depends on your standards and whether you can live with a less than perfect job.

For combined brush and roller work on cars or small vans, start at the roof and work down. Brush the edge (awkward channels, strips etc.), then blend in and cover large areas with the roller. Do one panel at once.;) I only had to compound down once due to an eejut opening the garage door, blowing dust on the bonnet!

Unfortunately, I no longer have a garage. That would be my issue.

The costs are...
 

If you want a good job these days the costs are high, you're looking at 3 litres of base coat and the same in the clear coat for the size of our cars. If you want an OK job you can have a single coat finish that can be buffed into a good shine but, the best jobs come from a lot of work. I wouldn't dream of painting a car like ours without removing everything first, it's the only way of getting what you want out of a finished job. This is a picture of my old Cortina I painted in 1992 with a solid colour of Venetian Red, it was 3 litres and flatted back for a good polish. The paints these days are far better but much more expensive, I was paying £15 a litre back then but Dupont paint was £250 a litre. It's all down to what you really want.