Panel respray, blended so you cannot find the join
Most of the cost of paint is the work you never see: stripping, filling, flatting and the hours the panel spends curing in a booth.
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$400–$1,000 per panel
Panel, colour and preparation. A flat door in a solid colour is the bottom; a hood in a three-stage pearl or a candy finish is the top, before any bodywork underneath it.
A typical US range to plan around, not a quote — every professional on Task Masters sets and publishes their own price, and you see it before you book.
A panel respray is refinishing one part of the car — a door, a wing, a hood — back to the colour it left the factory in. It is what a deep scratch, a rusted edge or a repaired dent ends with, and the visible spraying is a small part of it. The rest is preparation: stripping back to a sound surface, filling and flatting until the shape is right, priming, masking the car properly, and then letting the finish cure instead of pushing the car out of the door the same afternoon.
A single panel typically runs $400 to $1,000. The variables are the panel, the colour and the shop. A flat door in a solid colour is the bottom of the range; a hood in a three-stage pearl or a candy red — colours that need a base, a translucent mid-coat and clear over the top — is the ceiling and sometimes beyond it. Blending into the adjacent panels is not an upsell, it is what makes the repair invisible: paint fades in the sun, and a panel sprayed exactly to code and stopped at the join will read as a slightly different car in daylight. Ask what the quote covers. Is the colour mixed to your vehicle paint code? Does it include blending? How long does the shop want the car, and is that long enough for the finish to cure in a booth rather than air-dry in a yard? A respray that comes back in four hours is one you will be looking at for years.
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Because almost none of it is spraying. Stripping, filling, flatting, priming and masking are hours of hand work before any colour is mixed, and the booth time and cure afterwards are hours more during which nothing else can use the booth. The paint itself is a small line on the invoice.
Blending is carrying the new paint a little way into the neighbouring panels so any difference in shade falls in the middle of a panel rather than on a sharp edge. You need it on almost every car that has spent time in the sun, and on every metallic and pearl finish. A quote without blending is a cheaper job that shows.
Two to four days for a straightforward panel, and longer where there is bodywork underneath or a difficult colour. Most of that is preparation and cure time rather than spraying. A shop offering to do it in an afternoon is skipping one of those two, and it is normally the curing.
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