Respray, cost and recommended paintshops near Manchester.

As the title says, looking to save and get a full respray done next summer time, looking for advise and prices, NW would be a bonus and I want to keep it black!

Cheers!!

PS My car should be on Waterloo Road next wednesday...[GRIN][/GRIN]

All depends on what you want to do. Are you just getting a blow over or do you want a full windows out colour change spray. Prices will vary greatly depending on requirement.

A decent job with windows out will be basic £2K+

Personally when I had my car done, I paid £1500 for new trim parts on top of a £3K spray job. I changed the colour from black to Lambo Grigio Avlon. It was not a cheap job and was a lot of work for the body shop.

You get what you pay for at the end of the day.

Best bit of advice would be to see a car done by a body shop before you go there. Nearly every car will look good straight out of the body shop. Many degrade quickly, best to see one thats been on the road for a year.

Yeah i knlow what you mean dude, I'm gonna start doing servicing again in my own time to fund it, Hopefully the Supra will be reliable over the winter and i only havbe a few more things to do before i can just put fuel in her and check the oil every week...I work for Toyota but wouldn't let my bodyshop anywhere near her.......I dlont bget how so many people don't have any pride in their work anymore, to me it doesn't matter if the customer has an Aygo or a LC, I do the job right, first time, with all the respect I'd give my own..........

did i just turn this into a rant??

Yeah i knlow what you mean dude, I'm gonna start doing servicing again in my own time to fund it, Hopefully the Supra will be reliable over the winter and i only havbe a few more things to do before i can just put fuel in her and check the oil every week...I work for Toyota but wouldn't let my bodyshop anywhere near her.......I dlont bget how so many people don't have any pride in their work anymore, to me it doesn't matter if the customer has an Aygo or a LC, I do the job right, first time, with all the respect I'd give my own..........

 

 

did i just turn this into a rant??

Rants are what make up 90% of this forum

Just save up some money and take your time looking for a good body shop. Go to some Supra meets and see some of the work done by various companies first hand.

I find looking at photographs on the net of cars to be very deceptive. Many cars look clean in pictures but when you get up close you see all the little horrors.

I think the saying is "Nice from afar but far from nice"

Yeah, i know what you mean...just times tight at the min, kids, moving house, and then have to build a Supra engine for when I want to go single (no rush) the bodywork isnt too bad on mine, but this is the oldest car ive had since i was 20, and my last 3 or 4 were new ones......grrrr its fustrating lol

Goddam it, i hate it when my car looks better wet....rain dammitm rain!

Dont take advise from matt!

Hes anal about his respray, come on matt show the lad the state of your car once you had stripped it.

Dont take advise from matt!

 

Hes anal about his respray, come on matt show the lad the state of your car once you had stripped it.

Here's a link to the old thread

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I just wanted it done properly

It need the front an skirts done again. I hate cheap road surfaces on shiny new cars

Might be worth sending Dazla a PM

He had quite a bit of work done recently at a place in Bolton and the results are damn good.

Thanks............think i better start doing a few afater hour jobs at the weekends!!

Lazy thread resurrection, any up to date recommendations on body shops, Manchester/north west area. I'm trying to get a few quotes together for a full respray. Cheers guys

Can't help with any recommendations regarding body shops your way, but Russ was dead cheeky in his post to me!

He did have a point though, I've since bought another perfectly working Supra and stripped it to pieces. Woops

The bodyshop i used is in Sheffield, not too far away, view the build thread in my signature.

Sheffields not a million miles away and it certainly looks like they did a great job, I don't think mines in bad shape and probably only needs a blow over but I'd like it done properly. If I was to go for a more upto date black would it cost more?

Blacks usually the hardest to paint. You'd have to give them a call, if you send me a PM ill send you their details.

Anything under £4000 will be cheap paint and not a full respray. The cost of paint has gone up and is set to go up again in February so be careful where u go

Does it need repainting ? i've got a good mate who works his majic on my cars by just mopping them.