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I know paint costs shot up over Covid, but got a 49l top box in silver I am considering colour matching.

Anyone got any ballpark ideas? UK based.
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My 49 litre top-box will be 20 years old next year.
It has has been repainted into metallic dark red and now Alpine White.

I take it to a cheap back street repair shop in North London and try to avoid paying VAT ;)
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I had a pannier resprayed. Cost £350 which I think is OTT. I have enough paint left over to pain another pannier and top box. Then I found out the chap in the opposite house is a retired spray and would have done it for a drink.
Trust me I am a retired Doctor and lecturer at Oxford University of Structural and Mechanical/Electrical engineering.
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I had my slim lids and top box painted at a Manchester body shop for £300
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Tim kindly had one of my pannier lids resprayed after an unintentional game of 'nudges'!

It cost £150.
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Has nobody had a colour match done,put into aerosol and done it themselves. Cost around £20 a can.Good mixer will get the match spot on,then it's fairly straight forward from there.Touched up my T4 that way,perfect match :thumb:
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burridge01 wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:01 pm Has nobody had a colour match done,put into aerosol and done it themselves. Cost around £20 a can.Good mixer will get the match spot on,then it's fairly straight forward from there.Touched up my T4 that way,perfect match :thumb:
Sounds attractive, but I've only painted walls before, it could end up worse than the tired silver it is :lol:
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Agreed. There's an art to using a rattle can, but in my experience, I am only ever disappointed with the result and end up having it done properly.
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lancashirert wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:51 pm Sounds attractive, but I've only painted walls before, it could end up worse than the tired silver it is :lol:
You don't know till you try,none of us can do anything till we try.Get the missis to do it,like painting her nails tell her :mrgreen:
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My dear old Dad sprayed 2 cars with cans in the open air. One was on my old 76 mini. Changed to BRG and a wing of a Golf GTI MK1. The wing was damaged by an uninsured driver. No one could tell he sprayed it and my Mini came out perfect, I even had garages ask who sprayed it as it was a fantastic job. no one belived it was by cans, sprayed in the street.
So it can be done but the prep is the main key.
Trust me I am a retired Doctor and lecturer at Oxford University of Structural and Mechanical/Electrical engineering.
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Doctor T wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 1:37 pm So it can be done but the prep is the main key.
Is the correct answer :thumb:
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burridge01 wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:33 pm Is the correct answer :thumb:
And this is where my impatience gets me :lol:
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