2 grand is not out of line for a good paint job. If you take your car to a macco or a Earl Shieb, you have to do the prep work because they won't ! A good shop will R&I (remove and install) all the trim and moldings and anything else they can't get under to prep... the car looks pretty much stripped when they're ready to shoot it. the cheaper shops will just mask everything, and when you do that you get a paint edge around all the trim and usually paint ON some of the trim ... it just looks tacky and can cause the paint to peel along that paint edge. With Macco and places like that even if you do your own prep its a crap shoot ... if they happen to have a good painter who gives a sh** you can get a pretty decent paint job for the price ...if they have a crappy painter who doesn't give a sh** it will look like crap right from the get go and will start peeling and blistering in a couple of months.
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