My 1993 F350 Crew Cab SRW Long Bed is a little worn down on the paint. I'm just curious....for all those that have painted their trucks:

How much did you pay for to have the entire truck painted? Nothing Fancy or show/competition quality, but a color matched paint job?

Any pictures to show how your truck turned out? It would be great if there were before and after shots.

I just want to be prepared for the pocket book when I do some estimating.

What else should I look out for? Thanks for your feedback.

 

i guess i wont be much help, i did mine myself in autobody school so the only cost was the $650 for paint.

for a good color change though, here you'd be looking at atleast $5k upwords.

before



after..well this is 3 years after but you get the idea haha

 

Wow, that's an amazing paint job and color!! In addition, you're using is for real tough jobs. Good Job. Yeah, I figured that it would be around $2 - 5 K to do a big truck like mine.

 

thank you! it was my first paint job and it came out real good i think. not to mention its held up great over the past 3 winters going on its 4th.

 

take it to EARL SHIEBE ( how ever its spelled )

 

u got the wrong length bars on the bed, u shoulda got the longbed ones.

 

might of had a tool box up there !!

 

i dont know who in their right mind would paint a ford chevy orange.

 

I got the front end of mine repainted on someone elses insurance when they crashed into me. i paid the auto shop $2k extra to get the roof and tub done, and get rid of some dents and rust spots.

 

actualy, its a ford factory color. second... yes i plan to istall a tool box infront of the bars thats why i have the shorter ones.

 

2-5 k normally around here depending on the quality your looking for as the cost is in the "prepwork" if there isnt any rust or many dents to contend with.. I do all my own trucks and they are usually black (which allows ease of color match using cheaper single stage paint) so I usually come out with less than 1k into all paint and body .....

 

materials have gone out the roof lately, you can figure around 800-1000 just for materials alone. any dents, rust, etc will be more time, therefore more money. there are places around here that are extra cheap, but those paint jobs usually dont last more than a few months before they flake off. If you can do any of the prep work, that is money saved. if doing a color change you need to decide how far you are going with it, under hood, door jambs, etc. with a straight, rust free body i would figure around 2k-2500 for a simple paint job. color change including the jambs and under hood more like 3500. this is for a basic bc/cc job. you could single stage it and maybe save a few hundred dollars, just make sure the prep work is done properly. the key to any paint job is in the prep work.

 

You aint" kidding about those material cost as just the other day I had to go get a pint of weird red ppg basecoat for a friends Hyundai and that pint of basecoat was $287.......

 

You mean Earl Scheiße, right? The jobs are exactly that, Scheiße. (that's German for *****)
I can do a better job with a rattle can than anything they can do.

 

never said they were good but there fast drive through like a car wash !!
cousin bought a vega decades ago that was painted by ole EARL , the right side of the car still had the newspaper print on it , never thought you would get a vega for the sunday newspaper !!

had some old work trucks done by EARL and they came out OK for work trucks