£70 for 500mil of paint pfffft dnt think so

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:17 pm

went into my local motor factors today to price paint for my lude gave them the proper colour which is cassis red and the paint code R-82P they quoted me £70 for 500mil of it so went to halfords exactly the same amount which was priced at £19.95 for 500mil and £39.95 for 1 litre so halfords are atleast good for 1 thing i suppose

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:45 pm

What paint was it? Halfords paint is cheap because its Clubbing Eddy.
The paint i use is around £50-100 for 500ml depending on how much pearl is in the paint. Cassis has quite an amount of pearl in it.

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:05 pm

The boy said it was a waterbased paint as they are all waterbased now i really dnt know but i thought £70 was expensive for 500mil

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:16 pm

Yer waterbased paint is excellent stuff.
Mine is PPG Aquabase Plus. its expensive but you get what you pay for.
On my Prelude respray in pearl white that was close to £350 in paint and i didnt even use half of it.

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:24 pm

Oh ryt ok well maybe ill go for the expensive paint then if its the better stuff ive never bought car paint before i was just pricing it

kris_aka_edu · Post by **kris_aka_edu** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:19 am

I've bought 2 cans of spray from halfords now and for the price of doing jobs on my car it's been brilliant. It's the first time I've ever done any kind of body work in my life on my cars and to every other person on the street you couldn't tell the difference with a decent sand down and a polish. I'm happy with the halfords stuff I think it's brilliant.

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 6:48 am

Well having thought about it some more im just gonna get the paint from halfords as ill be spraying myself for first time ever and dnt wanna be spending a fortune on paint if its not gonna turn out good

Post by **indigolemon** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:06 am

Try these guys man: http://www.paints4u.com/

Been using them for years and the paint match is pretty good, certainly a lot better than the stuff from Halfords.