Fair price to repaint entire nose and side skirts on 03 cobra

I have a torch red cobra that I'm going to have the nose repainted and side skirts at my dealership due to rock chips and scratches. They quoted me $1500 do this and I feel like that's kind of high. I don't know if that includes my employee discount or not. Is that a fair price?

Mpoitrast87 said:

I have a torch red cobra that I'm going to have the nose repainted and side skirts at my dealership due to rock chips and scratches. They quoted me $1500 do this and I feel like that's kind of high. I don't know if that includes my employee discount or not. Is that a fair price?

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insanely high. Shop around.

Depends. It is a two stage paint vs. redfire which is three stage. So that helps. The red is tough to match, for a quality job they should blend it. Are they blending the hood, fenders, and possibly the doors, along with a full front bumper and the side skirts? Or just the bumper and side skirts only. If its a quality blended job it is resonable, if you are bringing them the skirts and front cover, way too high.

Mach828 said:

Depends. It is a two stage paint vs. redfire which is three stage. So that helps. The red is tough to match, for a quality job they should blend it. Are they blending the hood, fenders, and possibly the doors, along with a full front bumper and the side skirts? Or just the bumper and side skirts only. If its a quality blended job it is resonable, if you are bringing them the skirts and front cover, way too high.

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They are doing the front bumper, hood, fenders and side skirts. i'm taking the parts off the car cause its off the road for the season. So they blend into the door. But he did say it would be a show quality paint job. This particular guy has a mint Grand National that he painted and its perfect.

Mpoitrast87 said:

They are doing the front bumper, hood, fenders and side skirts. i'm taking the parts off the car cause its off the road for the season. So they blend into the door. But he did say it would be a show quality paint job. This particular guy has a mint Grand National that he painted and its perfect.

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fwiw I had my old dealership fix my 04 cobra, and it was $1800 worth of paintwork.

I had a friend fix the paint on my 03 by basically doing the exact same thing, and it was $500 cash, and a better job.

Really depends on how much the color has faded, that said , dealerships are usually much higher, as shop rate is more .
I would take them the entire car , because you are otherwise just buttmatching the panels .
You will always be able to see where the work was done .

ashleyroachclip said:

Really depends on how much the color has faded, that said , dealerships are usually much higher, as shop rate is more .
I would take them the entire car , because you are otherwise just buttmatching the panels .
You will always be able to see where the work was done .

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Not really an option. Also the car would have to stay outside and we are getting 5" of snow tomorrow.

I'll share a little story with you so take it for what it's worth.

I needed the trunk painted on my car. It was a different trunk and I was having the third brake light and Sat antenna filled.

I have a Tungsten gray car (gray metallic... a bitch to match) and I called around for quotes etc.

The one shop that I actually wanted to go to was almost twice what this other guy was going to charge me (1200 bucks vs 600) for the trunk.

So I went to the cheaper guy.

That was the dumbest choice I could have possibly made.

Not only did the guy do horrible work, he burned the paint trying to blend into the other panels... he didn't match the paint worth a damn... and my car looked horrible.

Of course I wouldn't accept it so he tried again... and again... and again until finally I had just had enough.

I took the car to the original place I wanted and SHOULD have taken it to.

Well... the original quote of 1200 was out the window. it cost me over 3 thousand dollars to FIX the crap that the "cheap" guy did to my car. Not to mention they had to take the car down to the metal because the first guy had used so much paint and not prepped the SEVERAL layers properly that the paint was literally falling off. Had they know that it would have cost me even more, but the guy felt badly for me and didn't charge me extra.

So my "cheap" job wound up costing me 4k with the costs included from the first guy... and not only that they had to literally re-paint the entire back of the car.

Just throwin that out there.