Car painting gives your ride a whole new look and at the same time protects its metal components. However, there are some things you need to put into consideration if you are thinking on using touch up paint for cars. After all, repainting your car ought to be a serious decision due to its expense and time consumption. If you are looking forward to repainting your vehicle, take into mind the following things before proceeding.
Is it worth it?
Check and weigh if the value of the car fits the expense of an auto paint job. If the repainting the vehicle will cost exceed 25 percent of its worth, consider skipping it. Used vehicles with low mileage, as well as newer and classic cars, benefit the most from a professional paint job.
Painting your entire car can be a costly venture. You will have to shell out from $1400 to $5000, not “cheapos” that you always find next to a gas station. Of course, you can get a low-quality one at around $400, but if you do care what your ride will look like, seek the services of the professionals. For car painting, you get what you paid for.
A quality paint job involves removing everything in the inside, out. That means console, dash, seats etc. will have to be taken out then reassembled for an extensive painting. There are also chances that the entire engine might be taken out as well. This is one of the reasons why painting costs can run so high. Yeah, I know you guessed it, this is the part that most cheap paint job seekers skip.
Time
An excellent extensive car painting will take some time as the clear coat and paint must be removed first. Dents and other imperfections must be found out, sealed then smoothed out nicely with sandpaper. Once they remove the clear coat and the wax, they will do the painting mostly with two or three primer coats to ensure that the old colour doesn’t manifest in the new one. For this reason, it might take a week or so, but for the “cheapos” work will be complete in two or three days.
Should I change the colour?
Changing the colour of your vehicle can be more expensive. A recolour would not add value to your car unless the previous one looked dump and ugly. Yeah, there are extensions to … Read the rest