new paint job questions

[einstein57]

Dp90 will turn gray because it is just an epoxy and has no UV protection. I recommend staying with the factory color because it will cost more to paint all the jambs if $$$ is an issue. Painting a complete for $2000 will not get you a quality job unless you do most of the prep yourself and you know what you are doing (remove and reinstall trim, fix dents, prime and block sand, then polish the finished product). Our shop rate is $50 an hour. So $2000 will get you 40 hours of work. It may sound like 40 hours is a long time but in the body shop world it's not. I sprayed my tuck with a factory GMC blue color (815k) with Dupont products. It took about 1 1/2 gallons of base coat to paint it including underhood, all jambs, inside and out of the bed. The base coat ONLY was $479 a gallon. There are different paint lines, (PPG, Sikkens, Martin Senour, Omni, to name a few). Check your local autopaint distributor for brands and costs. You can by the paint yourself and take it to the body shop. I paint cars for a living, if you have any ???'s let me know.

$479 seems overpriced. I get my dupont chroma base for about $260 a gallon. But the last time i bought a gallon was 4 years ago. i did buy a pint of cirrus blau for $40 last week though. What do you think about transtar clear coat?

[monty]

The reason the base was $479 was because it has almost a quart of blue pearl in it. Paint is made with petroleum products also, so just look at it like the more the gas prices rise so do paints. 4 years ago a gallon of gas was what $2 or even less? Havent sprayed any transtar clear. I hear its good stuff though.