DIY roller painting

[robert weinberg]

pretty cool stuff.

i'll probably go the conventional route and have a body shop repaint the car.

i got one quote for $1,000 to repaint the whole thing. my neigbor's friend owns a shop close to us. i'll see what he says when i'm closer to wanting to paint it.

see ya,
Robby

--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Ed Kellock <ekellock at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Ed Kellock <ekellock at gmail.com>
Subject: RE: DIY roller painting
To: "'Kent McLean'" <kentmclean at comcast.net>, 200q20v at audifans.com
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 3:14 PM

The hood on my 1990 V8 is going to get this treatment on the hood.  Maaco
quoted me $300, a "real" body shop quoted over $700.

My neighbor painted his old 4Runner in the driveway with a compressor and it
came out pretty decent too.  I was going to do that, but this roller
business is even better, especially since it's just the hood.  It won't
be a
clearcoat thing like the rest of the car but it's a 1500 beater for the GF
for winter so I think it'll do very well.

Happy Holidays!

Ed



> -----Original Message-----
> From: 200q20v-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:200q20v-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Kent McLean
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:02 PM
> To: 200q20v at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: DIY roller painting
> 
> 
> Kenneth Keith wrote:
> > Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> 
> <http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/03/need-a-paint-job-50-will-do-it/>
> >> 
>
<http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=233168
> >> 2&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1>
> >>
> >> Hope this helps. :)
> > 
> > Wow Kent.  That's fascinating.  Thanks for posting that.  I 
> think I'm 
> > going to try that method for a few of my cars.
> 
> People either love it (the frugal ones) or hate it (the 
> my-car-is-perfect- and-so-is-its-paint types).
> 
> If you have a $500 beater, a $50 paint job might improve it.
> If you have a $10K classic urQ, not so much.
> 
> -- 
> Kent McLean
> '99 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
> '91 200 TQA #3, gray, UFOs, chipped, Euro headlights
> '91 200 TQA #2 blue, up in smoke 2
> '91 200 TQA #1 black, recycled
> '94 100 S Avant, "Moody", sold
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy", up in smoke 
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