The time has come for me to consider getting some (hopefully) minor paintwork done on my car. I know nothing about paintwork other than hearing that it's very much a "you get what you pay for" thing, and cost (and quality) can vary quite widely.
I'm hoping to get advice about how to approach this in the best way without going overboard in price.
Here are the pieces that need paint:
-Passenger side skirt (large scrape along most of it from very frustrating parking situation at my old place)
-Front bumper (bottom scraped to hell from having a steep driveway approach)
-Rear bumper (small scrape on passenger side)
-Rear trunk (has some deep scratching from someone putting a gallon jug of water on the trunk while it was covered in dust/dirt, man that was upsetting)
-Rear trunk handle (have a brand new one that needs to go on to replace the original one that fell apart, needs to be fully pained from scratch)
Car is carbon black. My understanding is that there had already been some paintwork done on the passenger side from PO. I didn't notice until someone pointed it out to me, not sure if that's because it was well done or because my eye just isn't very discerning.
When they re-paint something like the sideskirt, which has scratching down most of the length of it, do they just re-paint the whole thing from scratch, or do they just sand and paint as little of it as they can and blend?
Is there a good way to understand, ballpark, what this will cost to have all of this done before I start looking into specific places to do the work?
Since they'll be mixing up a large batch of paint for all of this work, is it worth having them touch up all other smaller nicks/scratches on other panels of the car, or is that asking for considerable added expense? I guess I have no sense of how much extra marginal cost is added to take care of one additional small blemish.
Finally, I'm in east LA. Any recommendations for shops I should check out? Absolutely willing to go farther for a place that is of significantly higher quality per dollar.
Basically I'm worried that I'm going to get quotes from shops that have a pretty big spread in price without really being able to discern a difference in quality up front. Any advice would be appreciated
I'm hoping to get advice about how to approach this in the best way without going overboard in price.
Here are the pieces that need paint:
-Passenger side skirt (large scrape along most of it from very frustrating parking situation at my old place)
-Front bumper (bottom scraped to hell from having a steep driveway approach)
-Rear bumper (small scrape on passenger side)
-Rear trunk (has some deep scratching from someone putting a gallon jug of water on the trunk while it was covered in dust/dirt, man that was upsetting)
-Rear trunk handle (have a brand new one that needs to go on to replace the original one that fell apart, needs to be fully pained from scratch)
Car is carbon black. My understanding is that there had already been some paintwork done on the passenger side from PO. I didn't notice until someone pointed it out to me, not sure if that's because it was well done or because my eye just isn't very discerning.
When they re-paint something like the sideskirt, which has scratching down most of the length of it, do they just re-paint the whole thing from scratch, or do they just sand and paint as little of it as they can and blend?
Is there a good way to understand, ballpark, what this will cost to have all of this done before I start looking into specific places to do the work?
Since they'll be mixing up a large batch of paint for all of this work, is it worth having them touch up all other smaller nicks/scratches on other panels of the car, or is that asking for considerable added expense? I guess I have no sense of how much extra marginal cost is added to take care of one additional small blemish.
Finally, I'm in east LA. Any recommendations for shops I should check out? Absolutely willing to go farther for a place that is of significantly higher quality per dollar.
Basically I'm worried that I'm going to get quotes from shops that have a pretty big spread in price without really being able to discern a difference in quality up front. Any advice would be appreciated
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