Cutter26

Hello folks,

I’m trying to get a ballpark guesstimate of how much to expect a paint job should cost. I have a 2003 F150 Crew Cab XLT. It needs some minor body work and has a two tone paint scheme. I’m looking to get a similar two tone paint scheme except with a lighter main color.

How much should I expect quotes to be? Are we talking more than $2000?

Thanks much

kd3pc

I would think stopping by a body shop would give you a more realistic figure.

$1500 a side, 4 sides, body work done and repairs made. Two tone requires more time and materials. That number goes up if body work is needed. Good spray job.

wde3477

Had my '89 short-bed redone in 2009, body work included new metal around the rusted through rear wheel wells, the rocker panels under the door, as well as working on the roof where the paint had wore smooth off with metal pitting to fill in. Back to same black color with clear-coat - $3,500..back then.

Farmerj

To replace rocker panels, cab corners and paint match a southern bed to remove the rust from a 2012 ram 2500, I was quoted $6000-$7000 complete.

rockers and cab corners would have been entire replacement panels back to a natural seam.

closer to $7000 was going to include new front fenders.

looked great in 2018 when I bought it…

but you could already see the rust damage that was in the bed and cab corners.

bajaman

You are talking over $7K more than likely. I recently had a quote to do my '93 RX-7 and it was $6,200...and that is a FAR smaller vehicle. And that was with no body repair (none is needed).

Slowbrick

Only your body shop can tell you this for certain. Just guessing, the work that you outlined will likely cost 3-4 times that.

Steve83

Why don't you skip all the foreplay & beating-around-the-bush, and just GET prices? Period. No one here can paint your truck through the interweb, so no number that you see here has any meaning unless it just happens (by blind luck) to match what a local painter says.Then why did you post in the '87-96 forum?Your expectations are based on your experiences - we can't guess what you'll expect.We can talk $0 to $1000000 - it's irrelevant. GO to the local painters.

Cutter26

Once I get it legal for the road and ready for paint and body work, I’ll take it to a shop. I’m just trying to mentally prepare for the sticker shock lol

Thanks much

Cutter26

Wow…. I bet you’re the life of the party

Bamaman

Our local body shops refuse to do full vehicle paint jobs. Their mode of operations is to bring a vehicle in on Monday and send it out on Friday. They simply don't have the manpower to do full vehicle paint jobs--and do the other small paint projects during the same week. The only paint pieces of cars/trucks.

Full body paint jobs are often done by individual body men operating out of their homes with a down draft paint booth. And the local body shops will usually have a painter that has the time to put into this labor intensive work.

It's very easy to put $1,100 to $1,500 into just body paint and supplies to do a full body paint job. I don't know how many man/hours a full paint job requires.