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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.

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

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.

I had my slim lids and top box painted at a Manchester body shop for £300

Tim kindly had one of my pannier lids resprayed after an unintentional game of 'nudges'!

It cost £150.

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

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

Sounds attractive, but I've only painted walls before, it could end up worse than the tired silver it is

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.

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

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

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.

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

burridge01 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:33 pm Is the correct answer

And this is where my impatience gets me