Cost for a paint job?

[geep81]

I just had the hood quoted because of the paint blisters on the leading edge and that was $500.00, with zero guaranty. I am going to do it.

Hello if your hood is blistering on the edge, that is aluminum corrosion and if you paint it and fix it up, it will come back.

Once the corrosion has started between the iron and aluminum in the hoods there is no going back / fixing it, the hood must be replaced.

I currently am going through this with my 2020 and corrosion that showed up this year. I will be buying some sort of aftermarket hood soon enough.

Sponsored

 

[Headless Horseman]

I've had mine repainted. I kept mine black, but went with another shade of black. (I know that sounds stupid, since black doesn't seem to have shades!)
As stated changing the color should be approached with caution. That adds enough to the cost, that it will make you reconsider. I bought my own paint and paid the painter $11,000. That was with the lifelong friend discount! I know someone will feel like that's not much of a friend. Considering the time, work effort, and manpower spent on my car it was a steal. Whatever you see wrong with your car, the painter will see triple that. My car was Shadow Black. I went with House of Kolors Jet Black. Ford Shadow Black has more hues in it than just black. HOK Jet Black is just that, Black! It's not easy nor cheap to paint a car. My price without the friend discount would've been $15,500 for paint. With an additional $4,500 to wet sand & buff, plus ceramic coating. My painter threw in painted stripes because we're like brothers. I didn't even know he was adding those. So that would've been another 4 or 5 grand. The time and work they put into those cars is more than we can imagine. Especially to make them flawless. Also if a painter sees a black car coming, they toss the Vaseline in the trash!!

Edit: My car was in the paint shop 4.5 months. It could've been done sooner but I asked him to take his time.

 

[Craig Brown]

It can be repainted and you are right about the iron contamination, but if the hood is striped completely to the aluminum and treated with chromate conversion coating it removes the contamination and provides a solid bond between the paint and aluminum surface. So, it can be done. I was a metal fabricator for 30 years and we always used a chromate conversion prosess when painting aluninum with zero blistering or paint flake. Areo space does the same thing.

 

[geep81]

It can be repainted and you are right about the iron contamination, but if the hood is striped completely to the aluminum and treated with chromate conversion coating it removes the contamination and provides a solid bond between the paint and aluminum surface

Sure it can be done, many Ford hoods do it successfully too and never have issues.
I'm no expert, what I've read is once it failed it can bite you in the ass fixing it and should just be replaced.

Having to go thru it soon I don't like the idea of finding out it wasn't done right down the line and having to fix again. Maybe you got a great shop you trust to strip the hood real good.

My understanding though is the corrosion is happening where the iron meets the aluminum, where the aluminum is folded over the iron - not where paint does anything to protect it.

 

[Anyone3505]

I can't even imagine paying that much to paint a commodity car like our Mustangs. If I was so upset about the shitty factory paint or the rock chips, I'd probably just sell it and buy a different one. $11-15k for a car that's probably worth $15-30k just doesn't seem like a great financial decision lol. At least with forced induction there are the extra thrills and excitement of the new driving experience. I definitely appreciate repainting a car with strong sentimental value, like restoring or preserving your dad's muscle car or something, but not for 2010s Mustang with typical Ford build quality.

 

[MAGS1]

I definitely appreciate repainting a car with strong sentimental value, like restoring or preserving your dad's muscle car or something, but not for 2010s Mustang with typical Ford build quality.

I get what you’re saying here, but the production numbers of the Mustang and other muscle cars of the 60’s are much higher than Mustang’s of today. Time has obviously taken a lot of those cars off line permanently, which is why they are now rare, and the same will happen with today’s cars. I would have no issue doing a full repaint on a car I intended to keep forever (and likely pass down to my kids). Throw cash value of the car out the window in that scenario because it doesn’t matter. For a car that might be sold/traded in in the next 5-10 years, it’s definitely not worth the money. You’ll never recoup it.

 

[Headless Horseman]

I get what you’re saying here, but the production numbers of the Mustang and other muscle cars of the 60’s are much higher than Mustang’s of today. Time has obviously taken a lot of those cars off line permanently, which is why they are now rare, and the same will happen with today’s cars. I would have no issue doing a full repaint on a car I intended to keep forever (and likely pass down to my kids). Throw cash value of the car out the window in that scenario because it doesn’t matter. For a car that might be sold/traded in in the next 5-10 years, it’s definitely not worth the money. You’ll never recoup it.

I agree with you on this! Your money is your money. Everyone will spend their money on what they find worth spending their money on. 95% of the people I know would've viewed buying a Ford Mustang to not be a good financial decision. Not racing your car to recoup the money invested in performance like a supercharger, to just sit in traffic or to "cruise" with could be considered a bad financial investment. I collect things that most people will never find the value I do in them. I don't plan on selling any of my stuff or keeping it in a grave with me. As long as I enjoy and appreciate it, it's worth every cent spent to me! Money can't buy me happiness but it can buy things to make me feel a sense of peace. If one views the Mustang for resale value, your car is worth what Kelly or Carvana say it's worth. Mine is priceless because I won't sell it. So no amount of money is too much to put into my car, and I have enough in mine to piss any money conservative person off. To each his own!

 

[Craig Brown]

I understand the idea of repainting a mustang hood that has had blister issues is risky, and I may just do the prep work myself and have it painted. (I am not a painter) But I could handle the prep part of the job. I like the stock hood design on the 2015 and want to keep it. Even if I had to paint it every 5 years. LOL

 

[Craig Brown]

The idea of putting money into things you love and plan on keeping, and what the value of that might be is subjective at best. I have a 2000 Heritage Softail HD it has performance work done to it and is different than most other bikes in that era, people have wanted to buy it, and I tell ok, here is the price $$$$$$$. They ask why I am asking so damn much. Because I don't want to sell it. I set the price so high nobody would consider it. I hope they never do consider it. It brings me that much pleasure and what is the price tag for that? The 2000 is the one in the background. I won't sell either one. The other one is 100th anniversary edition.

 

[HiGrafX]

It can be repainted and you are right about the iron contamination, but if the hood is striped completely to the aluminum and treated with chromate conversion coating it removes the contamination and provides a solid bond between the paint and aluminum surface. So, it can be done. I was a metal fabricator for 30 years and we always used a chromate conversion prosess when painting aluninum with zero blistering or paint flake. Areo space does the same thing.

This is how mine was done, striped, treated, sealed then painted

 

[HiGrafX]

My hood was full of paint chips when I got the car, I'm having it stripped and repainted now. (Just the hood)

The body shop an also recognize the oxidation around the edges and said they knew what to do. They stripped it, treated it, sealed it, and painted it. Whatever that means, but it looks great.

 

[OldbutNew]

I had the hood corrosion bubbles on the hood of the 2018 when I bought it. I was told buy a guy who was a paint tech expert at Flat Rock assembly plant for a few years AFTER a long career at AKZO-Nobel. He claimed that the chromate treatments would work... for 5-10 years. The problem was that the microscopic ferrous particles that were virtually impossible to remove 100%. And the fact that the treatment was hard to find in smaller consumer quantities. I wasn't going to pay $350 for a gallon of it and let 3/4 of it sit in my barn for the next 20 years.
I bought a clean take-off hood for $200 and had a shop spray and blend it for $1000.

As for a paint job?? Decent quality re-spray I would budget $7-9K. Trim removal, correct masking, blocked and sealed. Color change is $15K plus.

 

[pop smoke]

Sell it and buy one with perfect (albeit Ford factory perfect) paint.

 

[geep81]

Sell it and buy one with perfect (albeit Ford factory perfect) paint.

I tried that twice, it doesn't exist. The second time I just learned to live with it.

 

[2020 MagneticPP1]

Mine is bubbling like this as well, and I'm not interested in painting it, just for it to happen all over again, regardless of how many years it takes for it to happen again. So I guess I'll be looking for an aftermarket hood that actually fits worth a crap. I see way too many cars with hoods that align like crap and yet people are okay with, that's definitely something I cant do (OCD) lol.

Sponsored