Last two paint jobs:
URAL with stripe was a bit over $1,200.00
Liberty cost $1,600.00
Well, all I can tell you is this. He was recommended by a friend who sends him ALOT of work. My friend came with me when we brought it over. Maybe he's doing us a favor?
Let's see what happens. It'll be ready in a couple of weeks. I'll post some pics when its done.
Final product is always a true matter of the prep. It is the difference between a paint job that looks good from several feet away and one that looks great up close and from any distance. The prep is not cheap to do, as it is labor intensive. If you do it all yourself, you can save a buck or two with a single-stage paint job and skip the clear coats and such. On a Ural, you are likely to be hitting the off-roads on most models, so your new paint is going to have character marks on it pretty soon. The powder coat and Durabac methods have advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately, the cost of paints, hardners, reducers, breathng equipment and different paint supplies are all on the rise, as well as having the actual facilities to do a really good job. $500 bucks may sound high to someone who wants to skimp on money or save a buck, but it is a real bargain for a good quality paint job. You do your own prep and labor and it will quickly make a believer out of you. Painting is almost always cheaper and easier to farm out these days. It may be neat to do it yourself, and provide one with some self-satisfaction in doing so, but that all comes with a price. Now days, that price is more than most want to pay. If you can get a really good paint job for $500 bucks, my opinion is that you made yourself a great bargain and go for it. Good luck on it.
I used to own my own equipment and do my own vintage cars in my back yard shop. No way I'd be able to keep doing that today. No way I'd offer to paint a hack, gas tank, bike fenders and sidecar fenders for that price. Get into painting a frame and such, and it is even worse on cost. Add in pin stripes and two tone colors, and price would certainly go up.
Pat Huey - 4/9/2011 2:20 AM
Final product is always a true matter of the prep. It is the difference between a paint job that looks good from several feet away and one that looks great up close and from any distance. The prep is not cheap to do, as it is labor intensive. If you do it all yourself, you can save a buck or two with a single-stage paint job and skip the clear coats and such. On a Ural, you are likely to be hitting the off-roads on most models, so your new paint is going to have character marks on it pretty soon. The powder coat and Durabac methods have advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately, the cost of paints, hardners, reducers, breathng equipment and different paint supplies are all on the rise, as well as having the actual facilities to do a really good job. $500 bucks may sound high to someone who wants to skimp on money or save a buck, but it is a real bargain for a good quality paint job. You do your own prep and labor and it will quickly make a believer out of you. Painting is almost always cheaper and easier to farm out these days. It may be neat to do it yourself, and provide one with some self-satisfaction in doing so, but that all comes with a price. Now days, that price is more than most want to pay. If you can get a really good paint job for $500 bucks, my opinion is that you made yourself a great bargain and go for it. Good luck on it.
I used to own my own equipment and do my own vintage cars in my back yard shop. No way I'd be able to keep doing that today. No way I'd offer to paint a hack, gas tank, bike fenders and sidecar fenders for that price. Get into painting a frame and such, and it is even worse on cost. Add in pin stripes and two tone colors, and price would certainly go up.
This is an old thread but I agree with everything you say. I once changed the color on a 1987 HD TLE from burgundy to metallic blue and it was quite a job. I did OK finally but the cost, even then some 15 years ago, was incredible. I can't even imagine what it would cost now with two and three-part primers, paints and clear coats.
I got a quote on a paint job from a body shop once for the tub disassembled in two parts, upper and lower and one fender. They wanted $1,700. LOL.
I have two excellent spray guns that I haven't used in years. Costs too much.
I kinda agree, your painter is giving you a pretty fair deal for $500..... considering the sandpaper, primer, sealer, paint and polishing materials....even a small project runs several hundred in parts.....not much for labor...but I agree....it's fun for them to paint anything but cars....I bet a painter gets sick of painting cars all the time.....bikes are more fun..
Joel Rapose
i paid $250 plus to paint 2 finder skirts for my desoto.the last time i painted a sidecar was 1989 .it was $600.
Joel, "Bikes are more fun"...
at least for those who watch will poke on you for decades on.
"Who loves his bike pushes it!"
Well, in 82 I pushed mine dismantled in parts on a cart through the hole village to my buddy's farm for to paint it bright red, and when the paint was cured all the way back.
Nearly each time I come back to my home village somebody will rub this story under my nose....
Best regards
Sven
