Paint work pricing

[vetwnab]

Need opinions on paint work pricing. Took my car to my favorite body shop today to get an estimate on getting my SS hood repaired/painted and installed and get my SS spoiler installed. Hood has a slightly damaged corner and a small crack near scoop. Spoiler is a factory SS spoiler still in the SLP box that it was shipped in. My car is teal with some additional pearl and black SS style stripes. Shop wants $300 to paint spoiler/stripes, $100 to repair hood, $500 to paint top and bottom of hood, stripes and install, and $150 per fender to blend into the hood. Thats $1200 and includes a complete buff of the whole car. Does this sound about right? I had a buddy that managed a body shop before and would do my car as side work, after hours or at cost. I got the high rise spoiler (aka Easter basket handle style) painted for $100 back in 1998. Had the whole car painted and cowl hood installed for $1800 back in 2000. His shop has since gone out of business (owner liked the nose candy more than his paying employees). Need your guys thoughts.

[firebird_1995]

Unless the shop originally painted the car or has a spectrometer and can measure the amount of pearl in the current paint, its not going to match. Not perfect anyway. But for solid colors, that sounds about right on price

[vetwnab]

Chris, they were going to have their paint rep come scan it so that they could try to match it. I hope its close.

[firebird_1995]

That will help a lot. Pearl is extremely hard to match even with knowing how much is in it but if it doesn't quite match its not the end of the world. Certainly beats the alternative of repaint the whole car. The price is right on the repair though.