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get it done in Thailand, i looked into it last week after noticing they love to rice out there cars, bikes and tuk tuks ect....

around 10 000 baht (around $350 AUD) for a whole car, any car depending on how hard the paint is to mix up, and the jobs i saw were equivalent to our standards here, and when you think of it, why are our spray painters charging us so much anyway? not like they went to uni and studied for 7 years to do it....

i agree that when you add up costs of materials and actual time spent painting, its not expensive... but the sheer amount of prepwork involved in a good spray job is enourmous.. things need to be perfect and clean before even thinking about the paint.. overhead costs of spray booths, exhaust fans, etc. for one car arent cheap.. and many panel beaters have to have many cars on the go to save the customer paying for them to wait around until this has hardened, or that has dried, etc. etc.

because spraypainters need to eat too.

its not like someone who went to uni for 7 years has ever done a proper days work either...

+1 for xclusive by the way

spraypainters need to eat yes... but how much of what you pay for a respray actually goes to the panel beater??? mechanics need to eat aswell, and many are charged out at $100 per hour... but they will be lucky if they get $25 of that... the norm rate for a mechanic is $15 p/hour, and they, like panel beaters/spray painters, went to tafe for for years to learn how to do it.

on a side note, didnt a young girl die the other week after being wrongly diagnosed by someone who went to uni for 7 yrs and probably charges $100 for a consult??

there are better things you can do with 10k, the best looking spray job i ever seen is a mat black spray can job on an old carolla, makes it look like the bat mobile.... if my r33 ever got vandalled and insurance didnt cover that what i'd be doing... but i'd hire some illegal immigrants to do it for me, have you ever tried using a spray can for more than 2 hours?

Hey and the Thailand option is becomming more practical if i can go without the R33 for 4 weeks, the shipping would cost less than $2500 return trip, and get a holliday out of it at the same time....

But who am i kidding? i'm the lazy bastard who is still driving around with an unpainted front bar for 2 months...

haha... yeh, 10 big ones would cover my entire rebuild, with turbo kit.

you think 10g for a respray is unreal... think of wrc cars... their suspension cost $30000 per corner.. imagine F1 cars!!

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