About what price should i look for to have these painted?
20dollars or 100 dollars? What is reasonable price for having these painted to match my cars paint?
i paid around 140 i think for my side scoops and my quarter window scoops painted at the same time, at the second best body shop in town.
i'd expect around 80 or higher for a quality job. i wouldn't want to go looking around for the cheapest place, but the highest quality place. prep work is key.
i did auto collision repair for 2 years, and hopefully getting back into it soon. prep work can make or break a paint job.
gotta factor in paint, clear coat, primer, sandpaper, any kind of finessing they have to do to make it fit like it was a factory piece. then you gotta factor in labor, they gotta sand it down, prime it, sand that down, might have to prime it again, paint it, then clearcoat it, if they have any kind of runs or orange peel, they gotta sand it and buff it, or if they sand too much they have to clear it again. and then you got wait time inbetween coats. you can't prime it and pull it right out of the booth and start to sand it down, it is too soft and you'll just shred thru no matter what grit you use its gotta cure. and you gotta clean it before you coat it, i always tack ragged it and prepsall'd whatever i was painting. then any kind of labor, or tiny part like that in the paint booth, when they need to throw a car in pronto, so your tiny part is hogging up the booth. etc.
you don't want joe blow auto to say they'll paint it for 40 bucks, sand half the part down, then prime it, then paint it 5 minutes later, and clear it another 5 minutes later and 2 months down the road the paint is chipping off, because they didn't prep the surface, or didn't clean the surface, so the paint couldn't adhere properly, or the paint never dried underneath the clear coat because they didn't wait the flash time.
i'd look for a place that does alot of custom work, thats why i went with where i did for mine. they deal with aftermarket body panels and etc all the time, so they know what to expect for fitment, spraying, because spraying some of those aftermarket parts and getting it nice and wet but not running and not being too dry can be tricky. especially with something like a clearcoat. whenever i sprayed clear i found it gave it the best gloss the heavier it went on. but its hard to spray heavy, and not run.
call around a couple shops, and look for one doing water based paint. its a pretty new thing. the paint matches alot better, it sprays alot easier, using less paint, so less cost to you. with regular spraying, some aftermarket parts can look dead on from the front, the side be too dark, and the back be too light. different materials will make this stand out even more.
i know its long, but i figure its alot of good information for you to read, cause i know how tempting it is to go for the cheaper shop to save a little money.
so that wouldnt of worked out in my favor.
