Car Paint Price For Cavalier?

Question

I'm looking for a cheap paint job for my 2000 Chevy Cavalier. I want to have dark navy body paint, and a maize racing stripe down the center. I know it won't be quality but anything is better then flat white.

Answer 1

bfh get off the vinyl thing
i am an automotive artist. vinyl can be over rated and some times to expensive for what it is. if you want a cheap paint job yes go to a chain paint shop. but u will save alot of money if you prep your car yourself. what bfh isnt telling you is that many times these cheap chain shops dont prep or mask your car so what your left with is a paint failer in 6 months (pealing blistering solvent popping) and you have overspray all over your trunk and engine. also these cheap places dont paint your jams (door jams and such). dupont has a 20 step guide on how to paint a car from prep to repair (just paint not body work) this guide works for all paint systems. you can usually go to a shop(this may take some time and find someone to hand pinstrip your car for 75 bucks. stri[ing a car isnt not hard depending on how good you want it changing from white to blue is usally not a hard change. go spend 5 bucks on some 2 inch tape sand your car with 400 grit sand paper, take off all your moldings bumpers lights ect. take it to the shop then mask the windows and such. if your willing to do the work a good shop will let you do that stuff there and they will give you some advice (they wont do the work usually) if your willing to do alot of the work a GOOD shop will spray it for you cheap. a color change and just jams is about 2000 if it was black to white it would be more (depending on the paint) now then ask the shop to spray valspar on it (they own house of kolors) look it up. its cheap the color looks good and the clear flatens out pretty nice without buffin. now then with a decent paint you can have the stripes added later and if your a repeat customer and you prove that youll do alot of the prep work a good shop will cut you a deal to add the stripes later. i do this quite often most people want a 10 -15k paint job and well most dont have that at one time and this is how you get a good job and what you want.
very important this is just a summory go to house of kolours website or airbrushing mag site and you can buy some books for 40 bucks and u can learn how to do this stuff your self
so check this yourself a $300 paint job that lasts 6 months and your not happy with or a $3000 paint job you paided maybe 1500 at most for.
key thing go to a wall mart or something for your sand paper and go buy a piece of scotchbrite or something put the sanded papaer on the sand your car by hand and then use the scotchbright on the edge (nothing coarse) napa has the supplies u need 1 or 2 pieces of scotchbrite and maybe 20 -30 piece of sandpaper for your car
you dont sound like your worried about bodywork. now to detail your engine and trunk and whatnot take your tape and measure 1/4 inch inside your james then mask what you dont want painted (u can use old newspaper doubling it up wont hurt) go get some flat black rattle can and spray the engine compartment jams ect. dont try and match the color painted by a shop with rattle can it doesnt look right, black goes with everything and it works.

Answer 2

Cavalier Car

Answer 3

Get your cheap paint job at the your local national chain paint job joint, and then buy a vinyl graphic on the web and stick it on yourself. Take your time with the graphic and make sure you have plenty of "Rite on" spray, a rigid squeegee, some masking tape, a razor blade, and an assistant with a steady hand.

Line the whole thing up on the side of your car (in one piece), and tape it where you want it. Trim the exess backing paper around the edges and wheelwells (leave exess around the wheelwells if the graphic is to wrap around the edge). DO NOT cut out the door openings yet! The side with the plastic film should be against the car, and the paper backing should be facing out. Make sure it is where you want it before you cut anything. Take into consideration door handles / locks.

The car should be perfectly clean, and not waxed. When you have it trimmed, and taped tightly exactly where you want it, now cut the door gaps. You are ready to start sticking it on. Start at one end, and work one half panel at a time. Just untape it from ONE end and fold it away from the car 90 degrees in the middle of the panel. While someone holds the sheet of graphic away from the car like that, you can peel away that section clear plastic backing and soak the sticky side of your graphic and the side of the car down with the spray, then stick it on carefully working from the middle outward. You can use your hands at first to get it flat, then spray the outside of the paper backing, and squeegee to fine tune it and work out most of the bubbles. As soon as you have it mostly bubble free, untape the other half of the panel, remove the plastic, spray, then stick it on like the first half. Use lots of spray on the outside paper layer while you squeegee, as it will soften the paper and help it conform to the body contours. When you are confident you have removed all the bubbles, you can carefully peel away the paper backing; do not peel off the graphic in the process. Repeat the process with the remaining panels. Easy as pie, and cheaper than a custom paint job.

When you go to pick up your car from the paint shop ask how long the paint they used will have to cure before applying vinyl graphics, and they can probably tell you who sells "Rite on" spray in your area. Most paint suppliers should carry it.

You may say quality doesn't matter, but when you have to look at it every day, your buddy freds backyard first ever paint job, with drips, and imortalized bugs in it... Well you get my point.

Ps. If that aint the best answer I'll eat my hat.

Answer 4

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