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Originally Posted by deanyel
That's not clearcoat failing from the sun - that's clearcoat failing from poor adhesion / bad surface prep in all likelyhood. It's obviously a repaint - not the original factory paint. This raises the question of whether the entire car has been repainted, or just the hood. Hood repaints seem to be extremely common on 10 to 15 year old cars - more often than not. That's a significant question to the cost of repainting the whole car - if the clearcoat is suspect it would all have to come off. The cost of a repaint is one of those pick-a-number exercises - it is whatever you want it to be - $500....$10,000. You are not likely to be happy with anything under $2500 to $3,000 - but that assumes no major substrate issues.
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Dean,
That makes a lot more sense to me. When I think if clearcoat failing from the sun, I think of almost bleached out looking sections usually running the width of a hood or trunk lid.
If it's just the hood that was repainted, any idea what the 'pick a number' range would be on that job? This car was at $5995 and lowered to $4995 a few weeks ago. I'm thinking that if it's just the hood, I can negotiate down enough to cover it.
This is a 2nd owner, 88 560sel w/98k with service records from a reputable MB indy. Other than this and some heavy creasing, light cracks in the driver's seat, the car looks perfect. I know I'm going to need to do the timing chain at 100k. Assuming the car passes a PPI, is it worth $4500 knowing that it'll be needing paint all the way around before long?
~Bill
10-31-2004, 02:27 PM
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