How much would be a resonable price to pay to have your whole evo painted a different color, like from yellow to apex silver. i know there is a lot of work involved and i would want all the paint redone, not just the outside, including the inside of the doors where you would still see yellow.

So for all this, good clear coat, good paint job. Im hoping 2-3 grand, but i have no idea

 

for a "good" paint job and clear coat your looking more 5-6 grand. You could probably get an ok job for 2-3 but doing it right with jams and all that takes a lot of $$$. and if you all out and do engine bay like you should.... 5-6 G's at least. Although you may save money going with cheap paint like mitsus come with like your apex silver idea.

 

I was going to paint my Evo "Sunset Pearlescent" which is that orange color that the newer eclipses come in. I was quoted $6,500.00 for full job including engine bay, door jambs, and inside trunk. I thought it was a rip off.

 

Seems 5-6Gs is about right. My co-worker got his car repainted and had the engine pulled to do the inside of the engine bay and it cost him around that much.

 

Not a rip off. Thats what it costs. lol.

I have two friends with tri coat paint jobs. The body shop owner is a good friend so labor was free but he said the paint jobs were 8k+ jobs for anyone else.

 

Yeah I guess it wasn't a rip off based on what I've learned since then. But if I ever have $6,500.00 at one time to spend on my Evo I'll be running 9s even if my paint was faded and swirly..... Besides when you're going that fast, they cant see the swirls in the black paint...

 

true that. lol. You drive 9's. save 6 grand and then drive 9's while looking mad sexay.

One of my buds with a tri coat has a built ls1 FC. he just spins the rears all day so while hes standing still after matting it he has to look good.

 

my first guess was 5k but then i said to myself. is it that hard to paint a car. Idk how hard is it to paint a car, pretty skillful to make it look nice. but if they make that much money maybe i should paint cars.

 

cheapest way is to key your car and pay your deductible

 

LOL. I have a $250 deductible and a few cosmetic flaws that are actually from very minor "not at fault accidents" like trucks in front of me on the highway losing a log from their flatbed and it hitting me, etc. but I have not cashed in on anything because I am worried about my deductible going up for years resulting in more spent than paying out of pocket.

The cost for a good paint job is like 80% labor costs. $40-60/hour adds up quick.
If you really want to save money, and/or have more time than money, strip the car and do as much of the prep as possible yourself. You can save a TON like this. Just document and organize everything you remove carefully or your car will never be quite the same again.

The way I look at it is: paying down paint really well, like first class professionally, only comes with practice and experience and is something most of us can't do overnight. HOWEVER, turning wrenches and screwdrivers while carefully organizing with patience, and sanding, almost anyone can do. Why pay someone else to charge you probably at least as much as you make an hour for something you can do yourself? THEN pay them for their really special painting skills that you can't replace.

If you trailer the prepped car to a body shop, have them paint it, and reassemble it yourself you will save a lot of money. plus, you can decide what is absolutely necessary to reinstall, and just might end up with a lighter car

 

depends on the paint used. factory paint, $5-7k is about right. if u want House of Kolor paint, expect anywhere from $10k & up depending on how many coats u want. my cousin had his S65 repainted with 8 coats of House of Kolor black pearl & 3 coats of clear. cost? $35k

 

i say do one part of your car at a time bumper then finder so on

 

Absolutely horrible idea. Especially if you are changing colors to a pearl. It would probably cost more this way. there's a poor chance they would all match perfectly in the end, unless it's all been mixed at ince, in which case, why not do the whole car at once? Silver isn't as noticeable, but still, BAD idea.

 

that is true, hoever, you can get House of Kolor results without spending HOK $. HOK is expensive and there are cheaper alternatives. Besides he is talking about going with Apex silver. Matching OEM is usually much cheaper than custom because the codes already exist, they just follow the formula, instead of mix, try, re-mix, re-try etc.

To the OP, it adds a lot to the cost, but color matching the engine bay, even if it's not quite as high quality, is a good idea. I know if I had a yellow engine bay on an otherwiose silver car, it would probably bug the hell out of me every time I spent the difference of matching it on something nice to put into that mismatched engine bay Unless of course it was a track car. In that case I'd probably just leave it be, or do it down and dirty old school hot rod style. i.e. in a garage turned makeshift paint booth.

 

I just dropped on repainting mine 3800.00, the same color , so I can imagine just changing the color complete.