Thread: What's the difference?

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Southerner I feel the same, know very little about painting, but give me $15,000 towards a BB and I would be in 7th heaven

the thing is with a quality paint job is how good the base the new paint job is going over . How many mills of paint is on your truck now ?
Most paint manufacturers only recommend 9 mils 10 mils max !
Reason being metal expands and contracts at a different rate then paint , the thicker the paint is the more it has a chance of cracking .

I just had to re-do a 3 year old GM Pontiac Grand Am that had 6 paint jobs on it from the factory that was splitting like crazy .

Do you know whats under the paint job on your truck now or did you buy it this way ? I ask because there could be some hidden stuff that may not show for say another year , then what happens to that 10K paint job you just had done ? If it was me I would strip it down to bare metal and see whats under it all . Then build it up right from the ground up , leaving no unanswered questions . Thats alot of money to spend not knowing .

Just my 2 cents worth

I would say for 15K that should be bare metal up and blocking down . On Dream Car they did a 15K and made all edges even and block filled before painting. The car was mirror straight. I have heard some of our local shops do high quality show jobs for 5K with a clean base to work from.

As spraytech said you can not have a heavy build up of paint. If its been done a few time's it will need stripping .

How straight is the truck? Does this repaint involve a color change? If you want a "show quality" job it should involve aligning doors, hoods, fenders and grilles and, if a color change is thrown into the mix, ALL of the panels will have to come off anyways to do a "show quality" job on the jambs.
Like was said previously too much paint can be a bad thing but, if it is in good shape, and the mil thickness isn't bad a "quality" job can be done. If I was spending 15K on a paint job it had damn well better be perfect and that truck would be blown apart and it had better be stripped to bare metal just to make sure it stays that way. No, I'm not picky, 15K is a LOT of money which is why I do my own painting...
Mark