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A good quality paint job at a body shop runs around 4 to 5 thousand. A low end paint job at the same shop might be under 2 thousand. Mako for under a grand. The difference is masking, preparation, trim removal, and the the quality of the end result.
Don't buy a sprayer and attempt to spray it yourself. This involves a set of skills so difficult to master that even wtih practice and instruction, not just anyone can do it.
I have the same problem as you. I needs paint bad. So I'm gonna do all the prep, masking, trim removal myself. Then I'm gonna find a skilled painter who does work out of his garage. I figure that after I buy the paint, misc. supplies, and pay the sprayer, I'll spend way less than a thousand . . . and end up with a really good paint job.
Car show competitors often spend 10 to 20 thousand dollars on a paint job . . . just for comparison.
P.S. Icenine is so utterly, and completely dead on right about contaminants and surface preparation that I'm going to hand out a "thanks" to him.
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