Anybody ever spray painted a vehicle before? Or should I just

>>16917830
What car? This is important

If you do the prep work yourself Maaco can do a decent job.

>>16917830
>should I pay money to have my shitty looking car continue to look shitty?

Just save up and get a real paint job.

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What tools and facilities do you have available, what knowledge/skill do you have, what exactly are you painting and what is your desired result?

why throw 500 in the trash?

>>16917835
Old truck.
>>16917838
They allow you to do that?

If they let you prep it yourself go for a macco job, i doubt they sand or clean it at all, and there masking jobs are shite

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RATTLECAN REVIVAL

>>16917830
Get a real paint job. Don't cheap out faggot

The paint isn't going to be the best.

BUT if you do the prep yourself and DO it properly it'll come out SOMEWHAT decent

t. the previous owner of my car did exactly that with the entire car.

>>16917830
It's easier than they say. Get tractor paint and do the whole job yourself for less than $100- in supplies.

>>16917845
Yes they do. They'll normally even take the price down if you do it. The cheapo Maaco paint is single stage so keep that in mind

>>16917872
Tractor paint? In a rattle can or a compressor?

Just get a wrap?

>>16917919
You will need a compressor and spray gun, or just use a brush, it can come out surprisingly good.

>>16917953
Isn't that more expensive?

>>16917995
nope most of the time cheaper, but it won't last that long either

>>16917953
>cover up a shitty paint job with a temporary wrap....for $4k
LOL wraps are a meme unless you take your cars to shows and don't want to keep painting it.

>>16917995
It is a lot more expensive than a shitty paint job.

Maaco isn't painting shit for $500 unless it's a kei car. They offer 4 levels of paint service and their most bare bones basic one will run you at least $1000.

>>16917973
I cannot imagine any scenario in which a brush comes out good.

>>16918085
What anon? Don't you want those old-timey brush strokes so your car looks like a wooden wagon?

>>16917835
Looks like a seventh or sixth gen accord sedan

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You can make a rattlecan look acceptable - but that takes a very steady hand, good cans with adjustable nozzles and a right mixture, and also good experience with them & proper preparation

It will never be as good as a paintjob done properly with a compressor, gun and perfectly mixed paint, but if you're just doing this on a daily vehicle then it will always look better than matted/scratched/generally fucked up paint

>>16918128
Is that your shop?

>>16918085
The brush strokes melt into the body of the paint unless you paint in the direct summer sun.

>>16918216
Doubt fills me

>>16918128
Yeah easy breezy man. Just get yourself some good tips and then all you need is a shop, 50 m2 of plastic cover, sawhorses, shop lights, respirators, a friend, and hours to pull each individual part for painting.

We're talking budget jobs here. Your euroautism is not needed.

>>16918128
Or they could air brush with cheapo hobby brush. At least then you can ask toy how to paint shit properly.

>>16917830
http://www.rickwrench.com/index79master.htm?http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html

>>16918085
My dad painted his old jeep with a brush.

>>16918085
Learn to thin paints and use cutting solutions.

>>16917830

Yeah, I got my 1967 Chevelle sprayed.

I spent $300 in chemical stripper, took it down to bare metal. Then $2000 in panels and welding, $500 in primer, $1500 in paint, $500 in clear and then a shop charged me $1000 to paint it in their booth doing one base and two coats of clear.

Overall came to about $6000 and near a hundred hours of my own time on an already quite clean car.

Probably wouldn't do it again as the work wasn't enjoyable. I hate sanding.

>>16918128
>dat DIY paint booth
i need a garage

>>16918299
OK. Where do I learn? What should I paint to learn on? Should I appropriate 1000 or 2000 hours for this task while I trial and error through all the different thinning solutions/combinations?

This board is shit. 0% help for op, 100% personal blog.

>>16918341
You said that you had a car faggot.

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>>16918199
Sadly no - belongs to best buds father, and they both live 3 hours away. I can come there wherever and use his shop and tools if I need tho, really awesome and friendly guy who also loves to help out. Usually go there for bigger stuff that needs fixing.

This photo is just the main garage - there is another room, half its size, with machining tools, 50 ton press, 12x12 foot wall of hand tools. Further on you'll find a few machines for industrial knife sharpening, parts washer and some assorted stuff. Upstairs you'll find the guys living quarters, where he has tons of model cars, airplanes, remote controlled planes, drones, cases of auto/plane-related litterature and more.

The other garage where the paint-photo is taken is going to become a bigger paint booth & car storage, aswell as what it currently is; the room where he keeps all of his steel and the steel cutter.

>>16918251
Well, if he wants to do it relatively ok and relatively cheap then its a way to go. He also doesnt need all that.

>masking
Cheap tape and old newspapers
>grinding/paint removal
Flap disc on angle grinder, loose paper in hand for tighter/fragile spots
>paint
Rattlecans from fucking anywhere, as long as they have adjustable nozzles and you can find a color you like
>location
Anywhere thats not windy, overly dusty and not too frigid. Its a rattlecan, it won't look 100% no matter what.
>shop light
A tall $10-30 floor lamp from your local classifieds/craiglist works fine
>time
Look at it like a learning experience. And shit, we all know what hurried paint jobs look like

He doesn't even need to pull it apart for painting - he can just grind down the visible stuff and paint it. It will look ok from the outside, and none of his normie friends will ever look the the panels gaps to see the mismatched paint

If he wants to be a lazy fuck then he should just clean it, rub it over with paper and surface cleaner and then plastidip-can the whole thing

>>16918272
>airbrush an whole car
Madman

>>16918367
coke and aluminium foil the bumper to shine it up man. clean up the wheels and the wheelwells too

>>16918367
Why didn't you mask the bumper or step?

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$75 total

>>16918382
>>16918380
i flipped it and made a 2k profit.

>>16918397
nice, how much did you buy it for?
looks like the wheels got repainted too, lots of overspray on them too
you didn't use index cards to not spray the tires?

>>16917830
Unless you know what you're doing this is one of those jobs where you really need to pay a professional to do it properly or you'll regret it when it looks like dogshit.

>>16918407
500, put a tstat and radiator in it, painted it, sold for 2700

>>16918409
>looks like dogshit.
What if I drive a shitpile?

>>16918426
damn well done

>>16918341
You need lacquer or enamels for painting a car and all cars have top coat that can also be lacquer. Acetone, mineral spirits and a few other solutions that can be found for cheap work in thinning the paint/removing it. On /toy/ there are guides under gunpla general that give details on types of paint and what they do. Car model kits are a good starting spot for learning hobby airbrushing and the paint types previously mentioned work on galvanised steel and aluminium though abs(can be the material of trim and bumpers) can become brittle with straight laid enamel/lacquers which is why you need decent primers for the surfaces. Im forgetting some parts but thats the bulk of it.

>>16918373
Believe it or not some anon on /toy/ has done that. Cost him around 400$ for paint if i am remembering this correctly. He had the tools for it though already if i recall. I have no fucking clue what his process was though. Looked ok.

So it seems like prep it myself(I have the tools) and let maaco do it for a couple hundred bucks is gonna strike the best middle ground between cheap and good

>>16918595
>maaco do it for a couple hundred bucks
post link

>>16918619
Nvm, they just said it starts around 600 lmao

Shit

Is it possible to do a rattle can job and also clear coat it so it doesn't melt away from petrol?

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>>16918646
Yes - 2K paint stands up really nice to chemicals

I'd recommend using 2K paint for both the base and clear coat on the panel where petrol might run, as you don't want to use just 2K clear coat, have a small hole in it and then have the base coat take damage from the petrol that gets into that small hole

>>16917830
>should I just drop 500 for a cheap maaco paint job
Not unless you want your interior painted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOpbcInOrY

Fuck it, maybe I'll rhino line the whole thing

Rattle can with practice will come out better than maaco. Those monkeys don't know how to mask or prep, runs everywhere, overspray everywhere.

>>16919133
Shit's expensive
also will look bad

>>16919198
And just do clear coat on top? I've painted bikes with spray before but it took a lot of cans and after wet sanding I still went through to primer pretty quick

>>16918451
>airbrushing before spraying
What, why would he want to do the harder spraying first

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Just have a shop do it, I wouldn't feel safe giving a noob urethane paint or primer and a spray gun, you'll end up hurting yourself and the quality of the work will be shit.
Noobs should stick to spray cans and if you want something better let the shop take care of it unless you have an experienced person there to help you.
Pro paint is not a joke.

>>16919290
Dude, the truck is worth like 3k for very good on KBB so I don't want to drop 2k on a paint job.

>>16917830
Just do it yourself. If you do the prep right and have the right equipment and do it in the right place it will be much better than maaco and cheaper.

>>16919835
There's a reason it costs so much to paint a car, it's an insane amount of work and the supplies are very expensive and the safety is extremely important, lots of money goes into supplies and equipment, I spent 1500 on just supplies alone to paint my car.
Primer is 100/gallon, paint is even more, all the shit you need like sand paper, drop cloth, masking tape, paint strainers and stirrers, activators and thinners, it's not a joke.

>>16919870
Very true, I spent like 100 bucks on just the paints needed for my front bumper. Color didnt event match in the end.

You can go super cheap and just do primer with a clear coat though, prolly do that for 400 bucks total with a crap compressor and paint gun from harbor freight

>>16918451
all of your advice is wrong. back to /toy/

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>>16918451
This post made me lose more brain cells than the time I shot Imron with no mask

>>16918385
Can you get a refund?

>>16918080
Lies. Quoted a 94 Bronco at $450 scratch and spray. Get fucked.

>>16917830
> Ignore everyone's advice here, including the dumbass that mentioned tractor paint.

Get plastidip kit. It'll run you maybe $400 with the gallons and the gun. Plus you can choose more than just one color and you can design shit if you want. Is really easy.

Plus a $400 job comes out very good where spending $500 or $1000 on a Maaco job is risky.

Just go for it. It'll stay good for at least 3 years and anything beyond that can be peeled off and reapplied. Unless you plan on keeping the same car for 10 years. It's much cheaper than regular paint

Also don't forget to get a glossifier to make it look more like a paint finish.

>>16920134
Fuck off OJ.

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Would it be worth it to have Maaco repaint the entire car the same colour? Or is there a better way? They have the no clear coat, single layer for $350 right now.

>>16920266
Great option if you want to spend $400 to make your car look like a rake handle (followed by a peeling rake handle 3 weeks later)

>>16920302
That would be a tough car to paint, every time the painter looked at the horrific 70s rear wheel offset he would be blinded, there would be runs everywhere

>>16920342
Theres nothing wrong with plastidip. And except for matte finished black. They all do look good and it does justice especially for older cars but no one wants to spend $2000 for a paint job.

I don't know what you are complaining about. CVS pharmacy sells hemmroid creams if you feel so butthurt.

>>16920302
Paint doesn't look too bad. Maybe get a heat gun and spray clear over the top and bumper after masking.

>>16919870
>I spent 1500 on just supplies alone
But I just want to paint a $1,200 car.

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>>16920302

>>16920342
>>16920421
Paint on the roof is bad and chipping off, but no pics of that and it's dark out for me right now. Front bumper is pretty bad but most cameras "fix" it automatically.

>>16917845
>They allow you to do that?
no actually they dont. you are not allowed to do bodywork to your own car before getting a maaco paint job, it's against hipaa bylaws.

>>16920469
Top i cant tell but most of that looks like clear failure. You can find a lot of videos of people fixing that and most of it you can do reletively cheap.

>>16920508
Hey retard I just meant they would say "congrats you prepped it yourself, we're gonna go ahead and prep it again."

>>16920524
Yeah cheap and it'll look liked mismatched paint you fucking queer.

>>16920540
hey retard, i was serious. the minimum wage tech school dropouts there love doing body work so much that they do it for free. even if you drop your car off and just pay them for a paint job they will keep it for weeks, wet sanding it on their downtime in between vape breaks.

>>16920549
Depends how bad it could have faded. I dont think hes willing for learning how to do colour blending for the paint so its not like he has many options desu. Even then its not like he has the tools or space for that. It would at least keep it from getting worse for a short while.

>>16920540
That's why most folks who are willing to do the prep work won't get within a mile of a cheap paint shop. They'll paint it themselves.

>>16917830
My. Uddys brother rattle canned his beater truck. It doesn't look bad from a distance but up close it looks like shit. But it's a beater truck so he doesn't really care

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>>16920469
>"paint problems"
more like patina

>>16920597
this. if you are going through all the trouble of doing the prep work, just spend the extra bucks on a tent and a sprayer.

mexicans do this shit in their backyard all the time.

>>16920579
Hey retard I meant they would re do the prep so they can get the full price out of me.

>>16917830
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrZoeystevenson/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/customspraymods/videos

I've seen some maaco jobs done, I don't see what's wrong with going there

so realistically how much money should i save for a paint job?

>>16922956
5-6k

>>16923180
Nahh. That's door jams and engine level paint job. $2k-$3k max for exterior.

>>16922857
I think it differs franchise to franchise. The one I've been talking to seems to get a lot of classic cars. Every time I go they have classic muscle in the back for a show. Seems like if it is good enough for those guys it is good enough for my cheap 80s gbody. I'm taking as many steps as possible beforehand. Removed all trim, bumpers, etc. I'm also not going with the cheapest package. I feel like most negative reviews are for the cheapest package they offer. Going next Monday. We'll see how it turns out.

>>16923205
How much are you paying? What car?

>>16923249
86 El Camino. Taking it in for rust repair and body work. The paint part of the estimate is $559.85. They had three paint packages. This is their mid-end "urethane special." With all the body work they're gonna do it all comes to around $2000. Maybe I should invest in an extra couple hundred bucks for their top paint package. At this point what difference does it make? Reading these horror stories are making me nervous.

>>16923205
Good lcuk anon

>>16923271
>spending 2 grand at fucking maaco

m8...

>>16923288
For body work. I had other shops just turn me away telling me to go to Maaco. Everyone only does insurance jobs it seems.

>>16923314
>MAACO
>body work
Expect sloppy Bondo fills with paint bubbles forming 13 months later. You can buy a giant tub of Bondo for $20, do that.

>>16923382
They're not doing bondo. They said they are cutting and welding the rusted quarter panels. If they say one thing and do another then we have a bigger issue. Estimate has cut and weld on there and I'm being charged for it so I'm going to trust them a little bit.

>>16923392
Don't listen to >>16923382
He got all his knowledge of Maaco from memes and the internet. Maaco is generally as good as any other shop filled with illegal immigrants working for $10/hr. Unless you are taking it to a HIGH END custom paint shop, they are all the same. Source: I work with body shops every day.

>>16923414
OP's estimate is $2000 which includes $560 for the paint. That leaves $1,440 for "cutting and welding the rusted quarter panels" and all the rest of the prep. That sounds too cheap.

>>16923479
No that's about right. Expect to pay about $500 per quarter panel repair plus another $500 to prep a car for paint.

>>16920302
I can tell you from here that the top and bumpers have already been painted by maaco in the past.

>>16926394
You sure? Paint matches the factory color listed on the inside and it's much better than the paint my dad's truck has (which was done by Maaco).

>>16917830

Does Maaco even prime?
Does Maaco even block sand?

>>16926554
why prime when you have one step

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>>16920302
Mine has a $299 special. I spend more per year on car washes.

>>16918385
C L E A N

>>16930006
Dude whaaat nice

>>16930006
Where do you get these coupons?