Oahu Members Thread

Anyone know a friends of a roommates, brothers, cousin.......that does body work/ paint....you know, discount action

 

What kind of work? It really depends, you have an accident repair? Want parts painted? The whole truck? Need car show quality?

 

I need my hood painted

 

Want to get my whole truck painted...color change, want to go a coyote brown similar to the new tacoma brown color and I have a few minor rust spots on roof and corner of windshield....doesn't need to be car show quality but not rattle can either

 

You're looking around $400, what kind of prices you getting?

 

Best I got so far is $300

 

Plastidip brah. Everybody does it.

 

You're kinda stuck here. First off no decent body shop will touch it. The reason is money. They make more money doing insurance work. For example one fender and blend into both surrounding panels is about $1,200. So now times that by 4 and add the roof and bumper and you get the picture. So if you called ACME the answer would be $6,000 or $8,000 to start but they'd most likely just wouldn't even bother with a quote.

Your best bet is to find someone who can spray and then rent a booth over night or on a Sunday etc. This is the best and sadly sometimes only way to do a complete paint job without getting a Shitty tape the glass and tires $499 Earl Scheib / Maaco special.

 

$300 is a good price.

 

Shit I can buy a new hood for $350

 

Well this goes into the labor plus other revenue opportunities argument. Sure you can buy a new one cheaper that a robot paints, body shops make their coin billing insurance companies.

 

Raja.....which sadly I'm pretty sure the girl I bought the truck from put a MAACO paint job on there.

 

This is the one that I'm currently running. Haven't given me any trouble, but that's me driving from Ewa Beach to the airport everyday. It'll cut off for a moment when going under the viaduct but then the signal automatically comes back on.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/201199849740

 

That's messed up. Hopefully it's not that enamel crap you gotta sand completely off.

 

Yeah I remembered your post. I'm glad it's working for you.

 

used my slider for the first time today lol, front right tire off the ground. had to get towed out by my friend.

 

Wow... did you want to go over the rock???

 

Looks like that was Nate's Rock.

 

Excellent question!

 

Where can i get a roof mount for a 50" light bar?