How much for a full paint job in Auckland?

[Guest]

My wrx needs a paint job. Anyone know where to get a cheap but good paint job. Canary yellow is the colour. The clear coat is peeling off. Cheers

[Shale]

Instead, I'll show you my Impreza that had a cheap paint job 4 years ago.

It'll make you go for an expensive one...trust me on this :'(

[Scoobydoo]

I'm sure there was a person on here who advertised paint jobs, maybe a student?

Maybe do a search for painting and see what you come up with.

[zarnah]

I'd say for a full paint job, depending on exactly what you want to do, you would be looking at anywhere between 3-6k, what do you want done? whole car stripped back to primer and repainted? or clearcoat all blocked back and re-done etc?

[Shale]

That's pretty accurate for Auckland prices. A respray in the same colour at a reputable shop is $5000 therabouts, not including interior...I asked out of interest at RJ Smith & Davies when they were repairing my car under insurance, and wow. Yeah. About died.

The el-cheapo jobbie I got done was $2k for a colour change, but given I was paying peanuts I got monkeys and it's all peeling off again. The paint underneath was in REALLY good nick. :

Someone has washed your car with deterent repeatedly over the years for the clearcoat to be coming off on such a new, light-coloured car. If/when you do get it re-clearcoated, make sure you use only car specific soap as normal stuff will...yeah...result in no more clearcoat.

Go ask RJ Smith & Davies on Marua Rd, Ellerslie for a quote...then work down from there. They will be the most expensive. Go directly across the road to the T-bird Restoration shop next to the snack box cafe, see what they think - they do restos more than repairs and are significantly cheaper, but the difference is they don't have a paint booth and paint oven whereas the big place does.

From there, there are a few places around that a couple of members have had a couple of panels done to great effect. I'm sure they'll name drop too

[Guest]

Yeah, Im looking for a full strip back to metal. I 've been quoted approx $5000 but i wasnt sure if i was being ripped off. I was thinking about repainting it the oringinal yellow but painting the roof black. I like the two tone look.

[zarnah]

put it this way... my car cost me more than your quoted 5k to have it stripped back to the steel, bit of panel work (which any self respecting painter WILL do, no matter how small the imperfections) and resprayed, and that was very very good mates rates, when you start going back to the steel the $ can snowball very quickly

[CMPLSV]

gt refinishers ftw... paints show cars and creates custom steel wide bodies for a living... for a reasonable price too...

some of his work you might have seen in NZPC...

[bubblz]

is that in howick? looks kinda familiar..

[Ninja8)]

na howick numbers dont start wid 589

[CMPLSV]

hes in walls road, penrose...

he did the painting / repairs on the foz when i got it