Cost to Collor Match

[Xtreme03]

If i get a new hood and side step shavers from ecc what would it cost to collor match them white with my truck?

[JROD©™®]

thats all going to depend on the current color of your ride and where you go and what kind of paint will be used.

d'oh you said white. sorry. is that the stock white or is it a special color like pearl white...

[blazen]

yeah when you get into special paints the cost just goes way up. its not just the cost of the paint its the labor a normal color is only 2 stages pearls are usually 3 stages and ones like mine are 4 stages.

[importmaster1300]

I priced my pewter and it was 22.00/pt and same for black cherry w/ red metal flake.

[blazen]

are you doing the painting or paying someone else

[importmaster1300]

My uncle is gonna paint it and I am gonna do all the sanding and primer.

[CountryMud]

If you are doing the primer, why can't you do the paint too? :rolleyes:

[Xtreme03]

Its to match the stock paint for now. Later I plan on getting It pearl blue, but the paint was weard not like you see on the cadies or the older T-Birds. It was white but seemed to have the pearl lightly in the clearl coat. You couldnt see it very strong untill you got hte right sun and angle. All the same whats the rough guess. Last but not least I was gonna have someone paint it for me.

[importmaster1300]

If you are doing the primer, why can't you do the paint too? :rolleyes:

The staging and flash time, primer is easy.

[blazen]

primer is pretty easy to do even the paint aint that bad its the clear that is a pain in the a$$.

[importmaster1300]

yeah, espically when you get into the tripple coat and such.

[blazen]

yeah actually if you count intercoat clear than my truck has 8 coats of clear on the front half by the end you need to wait a long time between coats.

[Xtreme03]

Thats nice and all but can I get an answer. Ya.

[blazen]

sorry about that xtreme03 sometimes we tend to get alittle side tracked. my farther does body work and when i talk to him tommarow i'll ask.

[blazen]

ok i just ask, he said white sometimes you dont have to blend in to the fender and stuff. but if its a new hood they gotta paint the under side and with the steps it would run around $500. thats with no blending and at a regular body shop. he also said all areas of the country are different it matters if the shop is computerized. so theres tons of reason that can change the price.

[bvr775]

it's going to depend on what shape the rest of the paint is in too. With an 03 they'll probally just just use the factory color code and use some aged paint chips to get it right. My truck is dark green and over 2 years didn't fade any. Check around before takeing your truck to someone. Genrale rule is if it's super busy shop then go somewhere else.
The body shop that my truck got sent to used a computor color match thing and missed the color by about 2 shades. i have a seafoam green bed side from the tailgate to the front door and the factory green on the rest of truck. it looks like **** and it's peeling now.

[blazen]

i know some places have a camera. when they take a pic of the truck it tells them exactually how to mix the paint.

[j894]

A little off topic but is there any place where you buy spray cans
on paint say, by the rpo color code? or buy the manufactures paint
shade in cans?

I have to do some work on my blazer and when I used some of the paint
it was a different shade and kinda made things look weird. Up close
you can see where the factory paint ends, and the other paint begins.
I just want it to be able to blend better so its not as noticable.
can anyone help.please

[blazen]

spray can usually arnt your best bet but. a local paint supplier should be able to put any color in to a can.

[bvr775]

i know some places have a camera. when they take a pic of the truck it tells them exactually how to mix the paint.

those machines woun't give you a good match. If you have a flawless surface with no spider web scrathes , no wax , no oxidation, and perfect lighting then they work 50% of the time. Outher than that use the color code and cross refernce the vin number for any changes in color for that series. Then match up the progresion chips for fadeing if any. have some mixed and test it. u do this by dabing a small amount on the surface with a q-tip and drying it with a heat gun then lightning or darkening the paint till u get a perfect match. You have to have a real good eye for color,but if you do it right you don't need to blend the panels. It's very time consumming and easyer to just paint the whole truck, but the good thing about not haveing to blend is you don't have to worry about peeling. New paint will not bond to old paint with out sanding the surface no matter what you do. So you can't blend half wy though a panel you have to blend back to the next panel are you have area where there sand maks are no clear. If you blend into a panel. In a year the clear and the base will begain to peel back and you get a line where old and new paint meet oor you'll have a dull spot when the clear was sanded away so the paint would stick to the surface.

No matter what a good eye will alway catch after market paint jobs were a panel is replased or something is touched up. the new paint will fade faster as it cures makeing a match that much harded so find a good shop to do the paint and don't be afraid to spend some money. For what u'er wanting done it should cost no less than a grand. that alpine white ain't cheap paint because it has a pearl in it and it's even harder to match than the dark metalic green on mine.

[Xtreme03]

Thats some good advise, it helps a lot. So I shouldnt expect to pay to mutch but I wont be paying out the nose.