Defender 110 CSW Respray Costs

Hi

I was quoted £8,000 to respray my blue with white roof Defender 110 CSW. To be resprayed the same colour. Does that sound right or a bit toppy? I live near Bristol in the U.K.

Thanks
David.

David Bath said:

Hi

I was quoted £8,000 to respray my blue with white roof Defender 110 CSW. To be resprayed the same colour. Does that sound right or a bit toppy? I live near Bristol in the U.K.

Thanks
David.

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Welcome to the forum.
It sounds expensive, but nobody is going to be able to answer that without more detail. It depends on the amount of prep work required, if you are taking windows out, seals off etc, paint, No of coats, quality of the spray shop facilities etc, etc. Even with more detail you will get a range of prices from different spray shops.

Al2O3 said:

Welcome to the forum.
It sounds expensive, but nobody is going to be able to answer that without more detail. It depends on the amount of prep work required, if you are taking windows out, seals off etc, paint, No of coats, quality of the spray shop facilities etc, etc. Even with more detail you will get a range of prices from different spray shops.

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And more importantly how much alloy corrosion its got...

Shippers said:

And more importantly how much alloy corrosion its got...

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I'm including that in the prep work

You need to get a breakdown of where the money is going. The paint can cost a bit but labour is the killer. It does sound a bit high and I would shop around. I recently painted my LWB S2A - total was under £40, £25 for 1 litre of tractor enamel and about £10 in mini-rollers. Even that took the best part of a day of rubbing down but the great thing about hand painting is there's almost no masking up.

Unless you want a showoom finish I don't see how anyone can justify that unless money is absolutely no object. to be honest for that money I would expect better than showroom. some sort of concours.
Why not just spend the money on a compressor, really good guns, air driven tools to do the flatting etc and just do the job yourself? It'd cost much less and you would probably get a reasonable finish, especially after a bit of practice. I think they are rather tearing the asre out of it.
Ask them how much they'd charge if you stripped it yourself and all they had to do was prep and refinish.

Probably best have a very good tracking system fitted first. Let the police know to use this as a trap vehicle, then leave a lot notice via the web of how nice and clean your Defender is. This way budding thieves will make arrangements, to obtain your vehicle at a certain time of their choosing and let them respray for free. This way you get the vehicle back freshly painted and a new licence plate to boot. And helping the police round up more criminals WIN WIN.

a gloss roller and a tub of paint ain't that expensive surely

I'm no expert an this, but I assume wrapping isn't an option ?
LR's legendary panel gaps might prove a problem

I take it you don't go off-road? You could get the same anxiety putting an £8K Rolex on your wrist and wandering round the local sink estate at night.

Why does it need a respray and how old is it? Yer probably best to invest in the chassis and fix rust instead. Also increase security as they're easily nicked.

For £8k i would want all rust fixed. Panels straight and dents removed with hammers and primer filler. Full strip like windows and seals out. Full spray and put back together. And I'd want some change back anorl.

rob1miles said:

I take it you don't go off-road? You could get the same anxiety putting an £8K Rolex on your wrist and wandering round the local sink estate at night.

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LOL you're right I don't these days, back in the 'eighties I used to green-road & compete in trials with Series 2A/3's.
Thinking about it I guess it was a silly idea

I was being a bit harsh, but it is like wearing your best coat to a muddy day out. I can safely say that parking my roller painted series is a stress free activity.

rob1miles said:

I was being a bit harsh, but it is like wearing your best coat to a muddy day out. I can safely say that parking my roller painted series is a stress free activity.

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Not harsh at all, I had forgotten all the scratches from forcing a path down overgrown tracks

rob1miles said:

I was being a bit harsh, but it is like wearing your best coat to a muddy day out. I can safely say that parking my roller painted series is a stress free activity.

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It's not the paint that makes parking a problem in a land rover, it's wether the fecker will still be where you left it!

Sadly I now have a steering wheel lock, a tracker, a padlock on the bonnet (its Series) and a fuel cut off. But I didn'd put the pressure washer back in the shed a few weeks back but left it behind the locked back gate - gone in the morning. arrrgh. They carried it down a 100 ft garden, over 6 ft wall and across a park. What's scary is that the security lights had been down about a week so they must be checking. And the scum took the trolley jack handle but gave up carrying the jack, can I get a handle? No I've got to spend hours making one.