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Average price for a full body paint job?

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by icyrius, Aug 18, 2024 at 10:31 AM.

  1. icyrius

    icyrius Active Member

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    Hello, my son’s Prius factory body paint is starting to look sad. This is a 2010 with 130K miles and would like to repaint the entire car.

    How much should I expect to pay on average for this job? Nothing fancy, just the same color as the original. This information will be very useful for me so I do not get ripped off by local shops and also to start budgeting for it.

    Thank you for your help.
     

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    You best bet is to call different paint shops in your area. Simple Duck Duck Go search
    will bring up several places.
     
  3. Tombukt2

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    Oh I'm sure you're talking three to five grand quick fast in a hurry I mean look at all the prep work and nonsense it goes into a paint job needs to be generally done in a spray booth so you don't wind up with garbage in your paint generally speaking yeah it's a big to do even back in the old Earl shive days yeah remember those so you know you got to just figure it out but you're talking big bucks people DA sanding and sweating and all that nonsense there you go really can't do it yourself who has a spray booth at home that makes them portable ones you can put up made out of plastic sheathing and pipe but that's a stretch You don't want to be breathing in that paint urethane compounds and all that deadly I say people who spray paint and mess with fiberglass resin generally the last 7 years after there stop working and they're dead.