I just had a grill painted for my Durango and my paint guy charged me $366.84 to paint it. I took him just the new grill to paint so there was no installation or anything like that. Prep should have been relatively easy since it was new and I could have just bolted it on if I wanted black. I'm sending one of the guys to pick it up now but I thought the price was a little steep. Body guy said it was a little more for the color: red and that it was color sanded and buff. I'm sure the work is 100% perfect and I can't complain about the quality. In 2008 I had him paint the entire vehicle (not because it needed it I'm relatively picky, heck it even has low miles) and it costs me a little over $10k plus some misc parts. I just received a quote to have the top of a BMW painted from another paint shop and he was going to charge me slightly more to paint the top of a sedan gloss black. Maybe this guy is a little more since I've always wanted to paint/bodywork to be perfect. I paid less than $150 for the grill from an online reseller.
How much did you pay to paint your grill?
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I just had a grill painted for my Durango and my paint guy charged me $366.84 to paint it. I took him just the new grill to paint so there was no installation or anything like that. Prep should have been relatively easy since it was new and I could have just bolted it on if I wanted black. I'm sending one of the guys to pick it up now but I thought the price was a little steep. Body guy said it was a little more for the color: red and that it was color sanded and buff. I'm sure the work is 100% perfect and I can't complain about the quality. In 2008 I had him paint the entire vehicle (not because it needed it I'm relatively picky, heck it even has low miles) and it costs me a little over $10k plus some misc parts. I just received a quote to have the top of a BMW painted from another paint shop and he was going to charge me slightly more to paint the top of a sedan gloss black. Maybe this guy is a little more since I've always wanted to paint/bodywork to be perfect. I paid less than $150 for the grill from an online reseller.
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Yeeeeow! I can't imagine that costing more than $75-$100.
A lot of times, shops will try to price themselves out of doing small work so they don't have to bother with it. Sounds like they didn't want to mess with it (until you told them, ok!)
edit: Wait, you paid $10,000 to paint a Durango? Wow!! Why in the hell would you question the $350 grill?
A lot of times, shops will try to price themselves out of doing small work so they don't have to bother with it. Sounds like they didn't want to mess with it (until you told them, ok!)
edit: Wait, you paid $10,000 to paint a Durango? Wow!! Why in the hell would you question the $350 grill?
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I'd figure $100-150 would be fair for a stock grille.
That's what I'd charge.
Again it depends on paint too. Red is expensive. I painted my '76 T/A viper red and it was just shy of $2,000 for 2 gallons with primer, all hardeners, reducers, and flex additives.
That's what I'd charge.
Again it depends on paint too. Red is expensive. I painted my '76 T/A viper red and it was just shy of $2,000 for 2 gallons with primer, all hardeners, reducers, and flex additives.
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Zen, you took the words right out of my mouth! 10k sounds a bit pricey for a common color paint job :? for that type of money it should consist of removing the doors, hood, hatch, etc. to make sure the jambs are shot correctly as well. I know of some shops that even pull motors to do the firewall. not trying to criticize in any way, just would hate to see a fellow DOC'er get robbed. as long as you're happy with the results, that's what matters.
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Was there a question for the forum in there somewhere?02Rango Ohio said:
With your past posts of money this, I have that? you got a $10K overpayment on a total paint job and a $400 overpayment on a grille? what's the difference?
My new grille, new hood, finished underside of the hood and the Stillen front bumper cover was $910 to paint and I thought that was excessive. While I easily have the money too, I'm glad I didn't visit your paint shop. I have better things to spend the rest of the cash on.
Prior to the above, I had the stock front bumper fascia repainted once for rock chips and it was $200.
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I think it was excessive. I've been using the same guy for over 15 years plus he always does top notch work. I always figured he was very expensive, but I felt the work was worth it. You really get what you pay for. He also does paintwork for stuff I send out to our clients. I'm figuring over the very many years my company and myself has spent nearly 120k with him. The reason why I question this is we've recently been doing work for a client that owns a custom paint shop, not a crash repair shop. I showed him my BMW and we talked about painting it and I was quoted $5-$6k for an all over paint, inside the doors, under the hood, trunk, the jams and some custom work. I brought him my Durango to look at as I wanted to paint the top above the bodyline black and he quoted me $2,400 which included inside the jams. I took it to my regular guy and he said $5,500 to start so I asked why? Quote: He said it's about half what I charged you last year and we're painting half the truck. I'm guessing he doesn't care about me the client. I know I don't justify my companies like that to my clients as I like to be treated as such.
Anyways, the guys installed my grill this afternoon and they like it. I've yet to see it but I'm sure it's an improvement. I'm thinking about buying an existing body shop just to mess with as a hobby and as a small investment.
Anyways, the guys installed my grill this afternoon and they like it. I've yet to see it but I'm sure it's an improvement. I'm thinking about buying an existing body shop just to mess with as a hobby and as a small investment.
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To go from intense blue to green on the moon visor and wiper cowl set me back $150/$200 on the dango
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