Repaint?

wraymond · 20th March 2024, 19:01

Out shopping today to Aldi. For the first time there was another 75 in the car park and it looked brand new from the outside. Obviously a repaint and it was amazing. Naturally, I parked at the other end of the area.

Has anyone any idea just what kind of money might be involved? I won’t go so far as saying I would sell the grandchildren but.....

suzublu · 20th March 2024, 20:11

Well Ray, up here in the frozen north, it cost me £600 for top surfaces, ie bonnet, roof, boot lid. After 3 days recuperation, I thought it wasn't too bad 😁

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Matt_75 · 20th March 2024, 20:23

It depends on where you go and which paint colour your car is (monogram "flip" paints can be very expensive), but I believe a respray in the same colour is about £3000-5000 on a 75.

If your paint doesn't have any lacquer peel or really deep scratches, a machine polish works wonders. This is the difference a quick pass made to my car:

A professional detailer should be able to make it look as good as new.

Teflon · 20th March 2024, 20:34

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Originally Posted by wraymond

Out shopping today to Aldi. For the first time there was another 75 in the car park and it looked brand new from the outside. Obviously a repaint and it was amazing. Naturally, I parked at the other end of the area. .............

Why "obviously a repaint"? I know of a number of '75s with original paintwork as good as it left the factory

Ravinder · 20th March 2024, 21:51

Upwards of 2k for a good job.

daveo138 · 20th March 2024, 21:55

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Originally Posted by suzublu

Well Ray, up here in the frozen north, it cost me £600 for top surfaces, ie bonnet, roof, boot lid. After 3 days recuperation, I thought it wasn't too bad 😁

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That sounds like good value.

wraymond · 21st March 2024, 07:43

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Originally Posted by suzublu

Well Ray, up here in the frozen north, it cost me £600 for top surfaces, ie bonnet, roof, boot lid. After 3 days recuperation, I thought it wasn't too bad 😁

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When was that Ron? I left the 'up north' (Runcorn) some 60 years ago. Sounds like there's been no inflation since!

wraymond · 21st March 2024, 08:56

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Originally Posted by Matt_75

It depends on where you go and which paint colour your car is (monogram "flip" paints can be very expensive), but I believe a respray in the same colour is about £3000-5000 on a 75.

If your paint doesn't have any lacquer peel or really deep scratches, a machine polish works wonders. This is the difference a quick pass made to my car:

A professional detailer should be able to make it look as good as new.

There aren't serious scratches - mainly fading. No dents either so I guess a polish might be the answer.

wraymond · 21st March 2024, 09:06

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Originally Posted by Teflon

Why "obviously a repaint"? I know of a number of '75s with original paintwork as good as it left the factory

I had walked past the car parked in the driveway of a house not 200 yards
from me for nigh on 20 years. Then a new BMW (ugh) was there with the 75 outside, in the cold and obviously about to be sold. The owners were solicitors and the main driver had been the lady partner. Not that she wasn't a lady now.
So a degree of fading and surface bloom. Not the lady, the car.

wraymond · 21st March 2024, 09:09

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Originally Posted by Ravinder

Upwards of 2k for a good job.

That's about what I expected, and somewhat more than I paid for the car.

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Matt_75 Gets stuck in 75 Saloon Join Date: Apr 2022 Location: North Somerset Posts: 548 Thanks: 13 Thanked 20 Times in 8 Posts	It depends on where you go and which paint colour your car is (monogram "flip" paints can be very expensive), but I believe a respray in the same colour is about £3000-5000 on a 75. If your paint doesn't have any lacquer peel or really deep scratches, a machine polish works wonders. This is the difference a quick pass made to my car: A professional detailer should be able to make it look as good as new. __________________ Matt 2001 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE 2.5 (BRG) 1999 Rover 75 Club 2.5 (Dorchester Red) 1973 Triumph Dolomite (Honeysuckle)

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suzublu This is my second home rover 75 1.8 vvc club se wedgwood blue Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Seaton Carew Posts: 26,921 Thanks: 65 Thanked 7,142 Times in 4,642 Posts	Well Ray, up here in the frozen north, it cost me £600 for top surfaces, ie bonnet, roof, boot lid. After 3 days recuperation, I thought it wasn't too bad 😁 Sent from my SM-A145R using Tapatalk