It's been over a year since I had my JDM rear and it's just been sitting in the garage next to my Voltex rear diffuser =/

I wanna get it painted and put on in time for the XXX meet coming up in a couple weeks.

So I'm looking for a painter around the Olympia/Lacey area and seeing if anyone can recommend me a shop or someone they personally know who can paint it on the side lol. I've already called a handful of shops and they quoted me about 350-400 to paint it, seems kinda high to me.

Any help would be appreciated :>

 

If you were willing to come up to Seattle, I can refer you to the body shop who is painting my parts at this very moment. It should be less than the 350 and painted with PPG paint.

 

$350 for prep and paint is about the right price for a shop unless you can find a hook up painter to do a weekend side job!

 

If I was around the Seattle area I would be interested but it's kinda out of my reach to drive and drop off a bumper then go back up there again to pick it up, I prefer to stay local. Thanks for the offer though!

Oh alright, wasn't 100 percent sure on what the right price for painting was. I had someone who was going to paint it for me for 275 but then when the time came to do the job he wanted 400 so I told him I would find a new painter. I have a shop in mind which I may go with but I'm gonna wait and see if my UK rear fog light comes in first before I get the bumper painted, hopefully it comes in before the XXX meet lol

 

Well if he can do it for 250-300 it might be worth it to come up twice haha.

 

@NWEvo - good luck on that all happening! Euro rear fog would be cool, and definitely something I haven't seen in person. Seems like a lot of work for a little over 2 weeks, especially since some of the work would be done by someone else. I hope it all happens in time!

Have you tried Craigslist for painters? The biggest issue there obviously is getting the paint matched. I know hanahawaiian (Chris) works for a body shop in Taco. You might want to give him a call if that is close enough for you.

 

Yeah, if he was able to do it for like 250, that definitely would be worth the drive haha but from what I found out from asking around, it doesn't look like many people would do it for less than 300.

Thanks! A euro fog would be awesome since I've seen that not many people have been able to wire up a rear fog to their evo and I haven't seen much rear fogs on evo's either so it would be something different. I actually ordered the fog over a month ago and it still hasn't came in, kinda upset about that since I really want that part before I get the bumper painted but I'll just see how things come along.

I haven't checked Craigslist, I prefer to go to shops or people who can vouch for another person. I actually talked to Chris about getting it painted last year, I think his painted went on vacation and some things came up for me so I had to set my lil project aside. I'll shoot him another PM and see what's up now. I'm also lazy so I try to keep the drive to the painter at about 10-15 minutes haha.

But hopefully I can get everything done by the meet!

 

Ill paint it for 225.... PM me.

 

You got a PM!

 

I know a couple guys in olympia that can paint it for a reasonable price,lmk if you are interested and ill get a price for ya...

 

You got PM!

 

Agreed on the Euro fog. BTW - what color is your Evo and what color is the JDM rear? Was it not painted beforehand or did you buy it used?

 

My Evo is Weightless White. I bought my JDM rear new and I had the option to choose between Wicked White or Pearl White. I chose Pear White cause it was like 100 or 150 bucks cheaper than Wicked White. Some people roll around with the Wicked White bumper on Weightless and say they can barely tell and others say the difference is noticeable.

I rather get the paint to match than to know that my rear bumper doesn't match my car paint and it would be a sore thumb that will stick with me even if no one else notices it but me.

 

Wait, you paid $150 less but then likely have to pay more to paint it. I assume you didn't realize the difference in wicked vs weightless before you bought it? DOH!

 

I paid about 150 less for the JDM rear because I knew I was going to have to get it repainted. So I got the JDM rear in Pearl White (the cheaper color). I did a bit of searching on the differences between Weightless vs Wicked white and decided to get the bumper repainted from what I found. Some people might not mind the difference but I prefer to know that my paint is as close to matching my stock paint as it can (given how the age of the paint affects its color).

To sum it up, I paid 150 less for a JDM rear, knowing that I will have to pay more to get the bumper repainted.

Things would've been much easier for me if they already had JDM rears in Weightless White or if I had an Evo 9 instead of an 8 lol