How much does a paint job for a car cost?

#1- you get what you pay for. the $200 paint jobs advertised are designed to make your car look decent enough to sell (but sell it quick, it wont last long!)

paint jobs can range from probably $100 from the back yard painter to 10's of thousands like the cars you see at shows and in magazines.

for the regular daily driver car, to update its look, a $1000 paint job would be good.

For the love of the automotive gods, do not take your car to maaco. You will be sorry. Period. Reason why: they use substandard paints, and these paints are not compatible with any other paints on the market. Meaning: If you paint your car at Maaco, if you ever need a repaint, it has to go back to a Maaco, OR be stripped down completely before any other paint shop does the job.

Now then, you can do alot of the prep work yourself (remove all lights, trim, etc.) so there is alot less to tape off when its in the booth. Take off as much as humanly possible, as trim will hide dirt until its time to paint...then all the airpressure comming from the gun will blast that dirt out of the crevices and go...on your fresh paint. Remember this: The more work you do, the less work they do, meaning less you owe them...or more to go for better paint combination (base/clear instead of single-stage).

All in all, if you do most of the prep work yourself, you can have b/c jobber done for about 700.00 at a small mom-and-pop operation (they are more likely to haggle with prices than, say, a national chain).

Good luck!

Nobody who would do a proper job would touch a car for a repaint for $300-400. Try in the thousands if you want a proper job done. And do not listen to the other person, Yes you can buy the paint etc for that price, But the tools etc needed and experience?? You'd end up with a shoddy job. And one who cant even spell right or use proper grammar, Who apparently works in "commercial"

if your going to paint it the same colour try a good waxing first !!!!! trust me if you use a rubbing compound first to help wear the oxidation off first then buff the hell out of it with a GOOD quality wax you can bring it back to a perfect shine ( heres a tip : wax it at night so the sun wont bake your wax ) you can also get a cheep buffer from walmart for about 15 bucks , but if your dealing with rust get it looked after and you will get what you pay for as long as the place is reputable

I don't know where you live,but around here you can't even buy the paint and primers needed to paint your car for those prices these other answer guys quoted to you. Any decent paint job around my area starts at about $2500.00. The more you need done the more it will cost. I have painted cars that cost anywhere from $2500.00 to $25,000.00. Good luck on your endevor and do what you know you can do to save money on your paint job. If you are not sure of what you are doing,the body shop you chose may have to redo what you tried to do and it will cost you even more.

There was a fellow in Atlanta, Georgia, named "Earl Scheib". His commercials always touted: "I'll paint any car for $99.95".

While I've never used them (the birds usually end up painting my vehicle) I imagine that you may "get what you pay for."

Also, if you don't live in Atlanta, it may be cheaper to have it done elsewhere (or learn to do it yourself and buy the materials) than make the trip; although a road trip might be fun!

Edit: Apparently Earl Scheib has franchised. It seems you can get a basic paint job for $229.95. They also seem to have shops in many states. I've included a link to their site below.

depending on where you go and what color/colors you want to get you will pay anywhere from 350 to 500 or 600. if i was you i would go with the factory color b.c of the inside of the car and you want everything to be able to match. if you change everything in the long run it will cost you double the amount that just painting it the factory color would

300-500 at Aamco

no it wouldn't cost any more unless you pick an expensive paint. you could paint it for around 500 less if you do the body work yourself.

if you want a quality paint job that wont peel or flake(like macco,econo bake and other $300 paint jobs) go to a real body shop,you wont regret it