What's a ballpark figure for the cost to have a jeep repainted? No dents to speak of, just paint. Any recs on Kerrville or San Antonio area body shops? Thanks.

What kind of Jeep?

'79 CJ5

Hunting Jeep? Might be cheaper to just get it rhino lined. I think Jeeps fully rhino lined look really cool, whether hunting rig or not. They can do any color you want.

No, this wouldn't be for hunting. I've got a CJ7 that I use on the ranch for hunting. I would be looking for a mid to high quality paint job for this one. Going to paint it Aggie Maroon and possibly put names/class years in small cursive writing somewhere. Thought about putting the block ATM with Texas Aggies written in the T on the hood, but that might be a little extreme. Any thoughts on options would be welcomed.

T-star or GTFO

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If you do all the prep work, you could probably get a decent paint job for about 700.00, or you could do a cheap Mako job for about 250.00.

If its a garage kept Jeep for playing on the weekends and wont sit in the sun to bake all the time, the Maaco job may not be a bad idea.

half a gallon of single stage cheap crap will do a jeep.

Are you changing colors?

I will be changing colors from a rustic orange to maroon. I don't have the skill or know how to do this myself and I want it to look sharp. Any ideas on what a professional paint job would run?

It depends on a lot of things, but if you have more than one paint job on there, I would strip it to bare metal and start from there. I also would pull out all glass, handles, bumpers, trim, roll bar, etc. Before these get reinstalled I repaint or detail these as needed. If the metal dash needs painted, then all of the switches, radio, gauges, etc. get pulled out. Everything gets primed and sanded 2 to 3 times and then sealer, color, and clear is sprayed. Another thing is the inside of the jeep. Lots of times we shoot the inside with bedliner, either black or color matched to the exterior. It's not hard to spend 50 to 100 hours on a jeep paint job if you want it to look like it came off of the showroom floor. You can figure anywhere from $2500 to $4500 labor depending on the condition of the body.

For me to go to the paint store and buy primer, sealer, color, clearcoat, tape, sandpaper, etc, etc. to paint one vehicle, I spend approximately $1200-$1500. Maroon is one of the more expensive colors to buy (more than bright red usually). Add pearl in the color for a "sparkle" look and it can go up even more. I use the good PPG paint, not the inexpensive line.

A good paint job is like anything else, you get what you pay for.

Doug

Painting a Jeep is more work than your average vehicle for sure.

I had an 80 CJ7, that we repainted over Christmas break 86. It was a baby blue Renegade to start with. A friend owned a body shop, and let me do most of the stripping down/sanding, etc. We tore it down to the point the only thing we could have done was remove the tub from the frame. We put all the pieces in the paint room and painted at the same time but seperate. We even sandblasted all the loose fasteners, punched them through shoe boxes and painted them. Sanded the hardtop smooth too. Base color was a semi deep royal blue with a small metallic for sparkle. We were going to stripe it with a Laredo stripe kit, but my friend was an exceptional paint guy. He ended up taping out a Laredo stripe kit and painting it on in a silver/grey. After that he put a couple of coats of clearcoat with a very small amount of metallic flake added. Hard top got the silver color of the stripe kit.

Re-assmebled with all polished stainless steel hinges, hood clamps and bumpers.

When the sun was bright in College Station and the jeep was clean, the jeep would reflect the color onto the parking lot. And no, it did not look like a bass boat. Howver, the paint looked like you could almost reach down inside it. Put a Rancho 2.5" lift under it to boot.

It was a LOT of work. We started the first full day of break, and finished two nights before it was time to return to school.

Sadly, the only pics I can now find now are of it sitting upside down in a ditch in Snook after I flipped it end over end early the morning after we beat t.u. in Nov. 87.

I can speak first hand of the durablity of the Jeep CJ. The front end was bent upward where I hit the culvert's slope, the back downward from subsequent impacts. The rollbar was pushed through the floor in 3 places. The battery came off the holder on the firewall and hit the inside fender hard enought to make it's square outline in the hood. When my buddies showed up to get me and it, we winched it right side up. One bud said.."I just gotta try it.." and got in and turned the key. It kept cranking and cranking and after a couple of minutes it started with TONS of smoke. He could get it in gear (barely) and it would only go straight and turn right. But it ran. The last minute addition of the lift kit probably saved my life. The bumper and frame cleared the straight verticle part of the culvert by an inch. If it would have hit square up, it would have been an instant stop, and me not having my seat belt on at the time would have probably bought me the ticket. As it was, I had locked my arms, and ended up bending the sterring wheel into an oval.

I used to laugh about it, but now with a wonderful wife and great young son, now know that God had things he wanted me to do. I will save those pics for the first day my son gets his license. I will hand them to him the same time he gets the keys to his first vehicle.

It probably will not be a Jeep.

[This message has been edited by Old Sarge (edited 4/20/2011 10:13p).]

Here's the one I saved