Hi all,

Can someone give me an idea of how much a decent paint job on a beetle cost? Including rust proof...

Any recommendations?

Thanks!

:beer

That is probabally the hardest question of all to answer!

Somewhere between $500 and $10,000
I am serious -
$500 if you tape up the windows, no body prep or rust repair and a back yard spray.

$10,000 - body off, bead balst or similar to get rid of the rust, repair all panels and such, replace all rubbers, head lining, 2 pak paint - easy! could even go higher!

IF you want it done right but not body off i would say at least $5,000

If you want blow over cause the old paint just dont cut it $1500 - that is what i spent.

Where abouts are you.... paint jobs are cheaper in certain places.:puke:puke

So where are they cheaper? I need a spray job and want a quality cheap job. I know it's a lot to ask but you gotta try.

Anywhere in Sydney I s'posed.

Wow, I was expecting somewhere between $500 and $1000!!

it DEPENDS on what you want.

You want

change of colour?
tape around windows or popped?
same with door locks and lights?
beading out ?
rust cut out and dents fixed?

you can get if for that price.
As i said i paid under $1500 and got new rubbers, beading. I had some old doors and guards reapired and sprayed up. I then pulled everything off the car and we gave that a spray too.
Came up ok-ish. No show winner but it was a dump before and i didnt want to spend $5k and have it off the road for 4 months (yeah right - and the rest)
that was 3 years ago. A few cracks here and there. Rust bubling back there and here, i am more worried about motors and wheels and things at the moment.
I you are inner city-ish i can give the # of a bloke called Craig. He comes to your place to work. Get what you pay for but i was happy. I had to do a fair bit of work for that too.
If you want a show quality job cheaper, take the car off the road for a year or 2 and get it done slowly.
NOTHING gets done perfectly over night

thats some good advice out there...and it really depends on what you want the car for ,daily drive or show car look...
you could say im one of those back yard boys,but for 500 i dont think i will be doing to much,not if the paint and paper comes out of that 500..
for that i will rub it back,colour over colour.and the same colour,no inside ..
cheers,,,,,,,,,,:beer

what worries me is that you can spend $8000 on respray and in 3 years sell the car for $4000..................
I just love driving them, not drooling over "perfect paint".

Glen - thats The GOOD part

Some one gets to buy a bargain!!

It just craps me when you see some one spend big $$$$ and LOTS of work and then sell it for 1/3 of the $$$$..............cause its an off shade of PINK!!! or some other revolting colour!
(sorry if you have a pink car,,,but you get the gist)

:thumb
spot on,cant say much more then that.........:thumb:thumb

Uh oh...... I knew i would upset someone with my comment

I only said pink cause it was a colour. I should have said "baby powder blue" cause that is waht i have

or orange and grey cause that is what smoothie is

The point i was making is you NEVER get your money back when you do resto/refurb/custom work.

I see some amazing amounts of work done on cars that just isnt too my liking AND you see it reflected it the asking price. The trouble is IF there is a particular colour you like you are going to have to spray it your self AND pay full price cause you wont find a second hand one in that colour WHEN you want it.
When i was looking for Daisy the Kombi i found kombis that
1) were great mechanically but dud body
2) dud mechanically but good body
3) ok mechanically but WRONG colour

And waht i ment by it "craps me" is that there are some great buys out there and i always seem to miss out cause i like one part but not the other. This "in my opinion" applies to whale tails, under over head lights on the front, Rolls Royce conversions, chop tops.
It also applies to the Porsche wheels i just put on Blue. I spend a truck load and all my mates say "great"........ except one. Ray...he says "what did you do that for?"......oh well

I actually saw your car Mr No slow and i like it.
Anyway not the first person i upset and certainy wont be the last
Hope i have dug myself out of that one! :jesus

[Edited on 26-2-2003 by blue74l]

It also depends on the amount of work you do.
When i got my last respray i completely pulled the whole car apart, the body was still on and i still drove it to the place early in the morning.
It was resprayed and i then put it all back together. It made it more fun as well.

ok then, I thought that you were picking on my car, some people love it and some pople hate it, everyone has different tastes and I'm fine with that.

But what really annoys me is when people hang sh#t on someone elses car just because they don't like the colour or the wheels etc..

Personally whale tails, torana tail lights and hacked off roofs aren't my cup of tea, but if I see one at a show and it has been done to a high standard and a lot of work has been put in it I will apreciate it for what it is, not bag it because it's not my style.

Yeah I agree, that you never get your money back when you build a car, especially if you customise it. but you do get to have a car exactly how you want it, and when most people build/customise their car they intend on keeping it for a long time so resale value is probably the last thing on their mind.

hehe yeah baz, i hate people who say "invested". cars are probably one of things that deprecicate most that most people spend a lot of $$$ on.

whale tails aren't that bad if they are actually functional ones. I HATE the mullholland look and i quite dislike chop top convertibles, usually because they are done really cheaply and are usually cars that aren't taken care of.

Hey Jon - was that you the other day that my wife say on the Link road out of the city.
She got all excited cause a beetle wave to her in Daisy

The cool thing about VeeDubs is that I bought a good example of a square back and over the next 10 or so years Ill spend 20K on it realy enjoy every moment of that 20K and my car. Were as a friend of mine got a 95K HSV SV 300 limited edition has had it for 6 months is bored with it and faces losing 20k if he sells it.
20K sounds alot to spend on a VW but I would soner spend it than lose it like that.
Just do what you can afford for now but if your like me I have a bigger plans for my car just acheives in small steps.
Cheers Nige

Once again

Eggactly :bounce

I know how you feel, I get some people say "loser, why have you spent so much money on a stupid old kombi?"
Although I seem to get many more that are quite often total strangers and they come up and say "Love what you've done to your kombi"
I am happy, and not out to get any money back.
The way I see it, I am not a smoker, and I use that as an example to show that I could easily spend $3000 a year that way, and that is not considered an investment either!!

My car is my hobby, therefore spending money on it ios no problem. It's alot cheaper than previous hobbies, eg sailing that was just downrite expensive. Just have to think how much money do ppl spend on playing golf etc each year?

As for a respray, I spent about $1500 on mine, Ihad a mate who had done 2 yrs as a spray painter so he showed me how to do the prep work, then we hired a booth for a few days and used that. It turned out pretty good, better than backyard, but not show standard.

hey
what work needs doin give us a description!! but as they say the more work u do the less it will cost you!!! my dad got his fasty painted in white (same as original) for 1 grand professionally but we did pull it all apart and put it back together!!!
but thats here in coffs harbour and we diddnt need hardly any dints out and only minor rust repairs!!
cheers
rhys

yep that was me baz, i recognised daisy. I waved at a bay window b4 that and got waved back at

When the Dog-O-War gets it's turn for a lick of paint it will probably be a back yard spray. Will rip off the guards, wheels and roof rack; hang them all from the clothes line, tape up the handles and windows and rough up the existing with a sander. Might take a week to do all the guards and the nitty gritty bits. If I get carried away might even drop the engine so the fire wall can match.

The hardest arguement so far has been colour so it will probably stay orange with mabey a couple of black racing stripes perhaps. Time will tell. Either way I have a little patch of rust to arrest straight up and paint will be an after thought. More importantly I want to get the pan protected keep it on the road.

hi there,i do some resprays at home and may come to you ,can do cheap ones,
if you want to contact me
about any thing related to this email me
cheers:beer:beer

At the end of the day, If someone says they dont like my car, well All I have to say to them, As long as I like it it really doesnt matter what others think!!!! If others comments make you think, well they are getting to you, and then you start trying to justify to yourself why you are spending that money on that car!!! that when you dont enjoy it anymore! I got ripped with the paint job on the notch, but at the end of the day, the car is a good one, and I LIKE IT!!!!! Colour also is the last think I think about, cause Any colour done right, will look good!!!

Cheers N!