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[NDT]

My Mk1 is ready for paint.

It has been taken to bare metal, professionally restored and is now in primer.

There's no filler anywhere. With the amount I've paid for the body there's no point in having a poor paint job on top.

 

Can anyone give me an indication of what to pay for a good paint job?

I'm in Bedfordshire, so any recommendations would be welcome.

[whistler]

Doubt if you'll have an accurate answer here as who knows what horrors will be found during preparation. Mine cost just over £3000 with a professional restoration company with no rust to contend with.

[Quinlan minor]

With paint, you have to ask yourself "Do I want my car to look like it's had a cheap paint job?"

Find a good painter, and pay what it costs.

The £3,000, above, on a rust-free car is very good value.

[bpirie1000]

Also depends on paint colour. Some paints can cost 3grand alone.

But I suspect a period colour if you have taken a mk1 to the bare metal stage with no filler.

I would also expect the painter to come and see the shell before they give you a quote for the job.

Every painter I have known always has a different requirement before they put their stamp on the paint job....

As above though always go with someone you have faith in and ha e seen their work and like the job..

I have in the past put a car to painters for a minor bump( wife drives my car) and that way can get a feel for them and the way they work... normally good painters are booked in advance by about two or three months.

[NDT]

Colour will be Smoke Grey (the original colour) with a white roof, so nothing too flashy.
First indicative quote was 5.5 - 6k.

[NDT]

Doubt if you'll have an accurate answer here as who knows what horrors will be found during preparation. Mine cost just over £3000 with a professional restoration company with no rust to contend with.

Hopefully no horrors to be found… they should already have been found after blasting and repairs!

[humph]

As has been mentioned above will very much depend on the time involved in prepping the shell to get every panel smooth. On my Elf restoration there was 190 hours of prep work done. Worth pointing out here that the bottom half of the car was completely rebuilt, so where new Mini panels were stitched into Elf specific panels there was a lot of blending in etc. so there was probably more hours involved than normal.  The paint itself, inside and outside, was circa £2.7k back in 2021.  There's also time to be allowed for seam sealing etc.

 

If you can do the seam sealing and prep yourself then there is a good chunk of money to be saved. But be aware that you're taking the risk that some painters will always pick holes in work that they haven't done and want an element of re-work.

Edited by humph, 12 April 2024 - 08:01 AM.

[Midas Mk1]

Don’t forget time is money, i’ve painted one of my Minis twice now, about £800 in paint, primers, consumables inc all the prep pads, masking, sealers, last respray was 5 weeks of 4 hours a day after work, all that time adds up.

[Bobbins]

Colour will be Smoke Grey (the original colour) with a white roof, so nothing too flashy.
First indicative quote was 5.5 - 6k.

 

I've just spent £4.5k having a two colour paint job on my '98. This was after all the welding and panel replacement, plus the underside was done in stone chip and colour before going to the painters. The job done is very high end but I'd do the same again (if funds permitted), I thought the new panels were pretty decent but the paint shop still did a lot of correction work to get everything perfect.

[NDT]

Colour will be Smoke Grey (the original colour) with a white roof, so nothing too flashy.
First indicative quote was 5.5 - 6k.

I've just spent £4.5k having a two colour paint job on my '98. This was after all the welding and panel replacement, plus the underside was done in stone chip and colour before going to the painters. The job done is very high end but I'd do the same again (if funds permitted), I thought the new panels were pretty decent but the paint shop still did a lot of correction work to get everything perfect.

Was that bare metal?
Seems like the 6k is reasonable, to include seam sealing and the underside.

[Bobbins]

Colour will be Smoke Grey (the original colour) with a white roof, so nothing too flashy.
First indicative quote was 5.5 - 6k.

I've just spent £4.5k having a two colour paint job on my '98. This was after all the welding and panel replacement, plus the underside was done in stone chip and colour before going to the painters. The job done is very high end but I'd do the same again (if funds permitted), I thought the new panels were pretty decent but the paint shop still did a lot of correction work to get everything perfect.

Was that bare metal?
Seems like the 6k is reasonable, to include seam sealing and the underside.

If you mean did the painter start with a shiny metal shell with no paint on it, no. The guy doing the welding sealed all the joins and painted the inside areas, cabin, engine bay and boot, then prepped and stone chipped the underside. The areas not in new paint when it went to the paintshop, ie. the whole of the outside, were a combination of e-coat on the new panels, original paint and primer. The paintshop then did a lot of fault correction to both old and new panels before priming and painting. The paint used was gloss over colour.



You can see from the areas of filler the correction that was needed to new and old panels. All new panels were BMH.

Edited by Bobbins, 15 April 2024 - 05:45 AM.

[Kevybmini]

Mmm it’s a tricky one but It’s going to be over £3k that’s for sure,