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How Much To Spray A Front Bumper

armbrusb

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blind_elk Grand Master

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The guy had been recommended and I had used him before to respray the rear wing. I was happy with the job he did, so I didn't bother with other quotes.

Yes, the car is as you deciphered (engine is from a Stagea).

armbrusb Proficient

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I guess I am considering a Stagea conversion in my GTS4. What did you pay for the engine? Is it stock? Which turbo did you go with? Did you do the swap yourself? Have you driven a GTR - does it compare? If you had it to do again considering the cost and result would you do it?

Lots of questions for enquiring minds.

MerlinTheHapyPig Mentor

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$500 is way too much

There is a place in bayswater that will respray an entire car in 2-pak oven baked enamel for $599.....

Expect $100-150ish for just a front bar, just get a few quotes. Front bar is easy-as, because you can take the whole thing off the car, and don't have to remove any trims or anything.

Just go around a few panel beaters, and get some prices. don't pay $500, a front bar isn't hard to do at all.

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true, but for spraying a front bar. not much to screw up. u can spend 3 hours doing it and it will be perfect. so depends on how much they charge per hour, and what paint they use.

Plus you mentioned your cost included some modifications, so hard to compare what it would cost for just the respray...

Nathan_G1 Proficient

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Depends where you live....i paid 350 for my vertex front bar to be sprayed, they cleaned it up made the lines flow, put to layers of undercoat on the fibreglass so that the actual paint would stick, then they sprayed it in the skyline burgandy (wine) colour and clear coated it.......looks better then my cars paint lol...and i thought 350 was a jip..CHAMPION CRASH REPAIRS ADELAIDE

TracidTrax Grand Master

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ye $500 is too steep, u can buy your own spray painting gear and paint for that and still have money left over. My mate bought his own compressor, paint, sprayer and did his own spraying and came out good.

krzysiu Grand Master

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$500 to spray a front bar alone is very high and far from normal...i'd expect to pay anywhere between $250-300 for a GOOD job...

goodluck

Yeah it is expensive, but if you want a proper job you have to pay for it.

limpus Mentor

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I personally have had a few spray jobs done...the basic price for this place i go to is $200 per panel or part...and the work is top notch...you'll be hard pressed to find workmanship of this calibre even at higher prices...i'm a firm believer of the saying "you get what you pay for" too...made that mistake before...krzysiu...since you're in melbourne too...if you ever need some work done...drop me a PM...i can guarantee you won't be disappointed with the quality of work done at this place....

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