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Hey everyone im considering re-painting my car (long story, but i gotta repaint my front bumper and re-polish my car, which is gonna cost me a fortune anyway...), so i was wondering how much it would cost roughly to get a mettalic colour done and who to go through.

Also i was wondering, do i have to inform Transport SA about my new car colour?

coz when u r doing ur registration it says your car colour and stuff...

Cheers!

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You need to be a bit more specific.

For starters, a metallic paint costs a lot more than a standard paint. Why not paint it the stock colour with maybe a metallic in it?

How far do you want to go? Just the visible outer shell? Door Jambs? Engine bay? Want to remove the motor to do so? And all the windows etc.

How straight is the body? A mate had his car painted that I thought was nigh on mint, and the painter removed 94 dents out of it.

Has it had previous crash work? There may be a few hidden surprises.....

To be honest, to get a full respray, without doing ANY work yourself, you're looking at around $5K - $8K, even more if you go candy/pearl paints....... My respray is only going to cost $1K, as I did all the prep work myself, and Im only painting the visible outer shell, because Im painting the car a very similar colour to standard.

MC Doyles, Tom Howard, All type crash, Eagle paint and panel etc are all reputable repairers, and do quality work. Some I think are a little overpriced,, but others dont.

All Type Crash are painting mine BTW.....

My advice would be to simply get your front bar repaired and colour matched, and have the whole car professionally buffed..... going to work out a lot cheaper and easier that way.

Finally, You cant just ring up TSA and say "I painted my car, it's not black", it will have to go to the TSA inspection centre and have the numbers checked that it isnt stolen etc....

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You need to be a bit more specific.

For starters, a metallic paint costs a lot more than a standard paint. Why not paint it the stock colour with maybe a metallic in it?

How far do you want to go? Just the visible outer shell? Door Jambs? Engine bay? Want to remove the motor to do so? And all the windows etc.

How straight is the body? A mate had his car painted that I thought was nigh on mint, and the painter removed 94 dents out of it.

Has it had previous crash work? There may be a few hidden surprises.....

To be honest, to get a full respray, without doing ANY work yourself, you're looking at around $5K - $8K, even more if you go candy/pearl paints....... My respray is only going to cost $1K, as I did all the prep work myself, and Im only painting the visible outer shell, because Im painting the car a very similar colour to standard.

MC Doyles, Tom Howard, All type crash, Eagle paint and panel etc are all reputable repairers, and do quality work. Some I think are a little overpriced,, but others dont.

All Type Crash are painting mine BTW.....

My advice would be to simply get your front bar repaired and colour matched, and have the whole car professionally buffed..... going to work out a lot cheaper and easier that way.

Finally, You cant just ring up TSA and say "I painted my car, it's not black", it will have to go to the TSA inspection centre and have the numbers checked that it isnt stolen etc....

1K for painting the outside shell? seems to good to be true if its 2pac

also when changing colour of your car all you have to do is write on the rego renewal paper what the new colour is iv done it 4 times now lol

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1K for painting the outside shell? seems to good to be true if its 2pac

also when changing colour of your car all you have to do is write on the rego renewal paper what the new colour is iv done it 4 times now lol

Fair enough about the Colour change .... that was what I was told by TSA....

And yep, $1100 to have the 31 painted in 2pac. Ring All type yourself, prolly give the same price. Although I said it was a drift car and hayden said they generally look after the drifters LOL.

When the Corolla gets painted (in the factory toyota off white and all factory chrome.... yum!) it's only $900....31 is a bit more as they have to use the booth twice, once for the car and once for the kit.

That was paint/material supply,masking, painting, and buffing.

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not trying to give them bad name but they done a dodgey job on my car after 2 trys becareful

Iv never hade work done by them as they are always busy but the old guy that owns the joint is a really top bloke last time i called i was on the phone for 30mins talking about putting sr20's in old rollers lol. What was the problem you hade with them?

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not trying to give them bad name but they done a dodgey job on my car after 2 trys becareful

He said there may be issues if the prep work isnt done properly, done the prepwork on a few cars that have been sprayed, havent had a problem so far.

Not really fussed anyways, only gonna be a 10 foot car; Looks great from 10 foot away LOL...

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Iv never hade work done by them as they are always busy but the old guy that owns the joint is a really top bloke last time i called i was on the phone for 30mins talking about putting sr20's in old rollers lol. What was the problem you hade with them?

without writing a story my car was keyed they fixed that no problems but when it came to colour matching i took it back twice and its still not right wasnt blended or buffed right left a tape off line of clear on roof which should have been buffed out also crap or something musthave came out of gun now i have lumps and crap in my paint that werent there when it went in not happy. they were good and didnt charge me to do again but he said he could do the job no problem so that no one would know .when we have a cruise i will show u .u will agree trust me.

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super cheap compressor and gun.... it's a very slow process LOL.

The compressor keeps running out of air. Gun is pretty killer though.

2 pac primer I got through a mate who's a panelbeater.... so cant tell you what the retail price is unfortunatley

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Fair enough about the Colour change .... that was what I was told by TSA....

And yep, $1100 to have the 31 painted in 2pac. Ring All type yourself, prolly give the same price. Although I said it was a drift car and hayden said they generally look after the drifters LOL.

When the Corolla gets painted (in the factory toyota off white and all factory chrome.... yum!) it's only $900....31 is a bit more as they have to use the booth twice, once for the car and once for the kit.

That was paint/material supply,masking, painting, and buffing.

that is sweet.

what you think looks better on 31, black or gunmetal (from r34gtr) ?

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