do it

 

LoL FU!
Why nerdy, don't hate the "poof"!

 

no homo

 

Could i just use white krylon paint and clear coat to paint my lip?
you guys think the color might be off by alot?

 

yeah, it will be off. Go to Sherwin Williams. Some guys on a local forum went and had paint mixed and then put into aerosol cans for their bays. The bays look super nice and they only paid like 70 or 80 bucks for like 4+ cans. I think 1 would do the lip fine.

 

what kind of lip is it?

 

^oem. i was just gonna do something temporary
i'm planning on doing full body work/paint at maaco
i went in last week and got an estimate of around 800

hey nick. you know of a good paint shop around the area?

 

You should check prices locally. I have just been researching paint myself and here's what I've come up with:


www.paintscratch.com
~$25 for a rattle can (paint) - covers approx 6 sqft
~$12 for a rattle can (clear) - covers aprox 6 sqft

~$90 for a pint (paint) - covers approx 20 sqft
~$39 for a pint (clear) - covers approx 20 sqft
~$8 preval sprayer kit - can spray approx 1 pint of paint per aerosol (extra aerosol canisters ~$5)


Called my local Finish Master (place my local honda dealer gets their paint from)
~$100 for a quart (paint) - once you add the reducer you'll have 2 quarts you can spray
~$60 for a pint (paint) - once you add the reducer you'll have 1 quart you can spray
~$24 for a quart of reducer
~$65 for a quart of clear and required hardener


As you can see, there's no way you're doing a bay for $80. But remember, the prices I found are for QUALITY OEM paint. I'm sure you can find budget paint shops with cheaper paints.

 

i do but they're expensive, Sunny Auto Van and Angkor Collision, i got my car painted at maaco on Tully and they did a pretty good job

 

Did you do body work as well? I have a lot of dents and dings
but im planning on bondo-ing a lot of them myself to cut down the price.
how much did you pay?

 

they did the body work and i needed ALOT of body work, i had alot of dings all over the car, i think i paid $1200, but it was free because i used insurance money from someone hitting my fender, so with the money from them damaging 1 fender, i got a new fender, rear bumper, filler piece, and driver door, and paint and body work

 

Damn! I need full coverage insurance like that. lol

 

my insurance company would definately total my 1991 Acura Integra with a kelly blue book value in of $885 before paying me $1200 for a fender. full coverage or not. what insurance company do you have?

 

i dont have full coverage, someone hit my fender while i was parked at my girlfriends house, his insurance paid haha

 

oh that worked out nice then. do you have any decent pictures of the maaco paint job?

 

i'll try to take some soon, i dont have a camera though, so most of the pictures ive been posting are with a cell phone. Yeah the guys insurance company (i think it was geico) told me if my damage was over $1725 it would total the car or something, but he got me as close to that as he could so it all worked out

 

Well, they did and it looks great. I think that they sprayed clear out of a hvlp gun from Harbor freight and that cost wasn't factored in. So, probably 150 or so excluding the cost of the gun.

 

I've gotten so many dings and dents from De Anza college's parking lot.
everytime i report it to security or the police they tell me that nothing can be done.
and since i have limited coverage, my insurance can't do anything either.
that parking lot is a death trap

 

just pray someone hits you hahah

 

No, I know. I've seen people paint entire cars for $50-$100. I was just assuming you guys were talking about top quality OEM paint - which isn't cheap apparently. (I know I was bummed to find that out, cause I was hoping to spray a handful of parts myself, but for the $200+ in materials and the time involved I might as well hold off and get the whole car sprayed)

 

yup PPG paint aint cheap

 

 

It's not cheapo paint. It's the same brand that Napa's body & paint stores carry, which is manufactured by Sherwin Williams. And for the record, OEM paint isn't as typically nice as PPG, according to my friends who paint.

 

why do people keep buying those Sportmaxx's?!?!? barf

 

I think those look ok. As long as they don't poke out of the fenders they're fine by me.