Easy way to clean up old paint/fiberglass??
The interior cabin in our '87 Falcon is now updated, and we've taken several great trips. The exterior, sadly, looks awful. I have some health problems, and can't do any major exterior cleaning. Ar...
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Paint and unpainted fiberglass are different cleaning/polishing problems, and it depends on how far the finish has gone. It is usually not just cleaning at that age, rather removing weathered finishes down to an unweathered base.
If it can be cleaned and polished, the job could be a few hundred dollars.
If it needs to be stripped down and painted, it could be anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand, depending on the quality of work you want and how much repair and preparation is needed. Most of the cost is labor.
In the late 1950s when I was working in my dad's auto body shop, Maaco was already in business advertising "any car, any color" for $49.95. Our minimum price for a full body paint job was $400, based on 30 man-hours labor at $10 an hour, plus paint and materials. We would charge $600 to repair a Maaco paint job, because it took at least another 10-15 hours work to clean up the mess they made, getting down to the base for a proper job. Inflation says multiply the dollars by something like 10 to 20, the amount of labor is about the same, except that if you've got fiberglass, the prep work can be double the time, getting down to undamaged plastic vs getting down to bare metal.
If it can be cleaned and polished, the job could be a few hundred dollars.
If it needs to be stripped down and painted, it could be anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand, depending on the quality of work you want and how much repair and preparation is needed. Most of the cost is labor.
In the late 1950s when I was working in my dad's auto body shop, Maaco was already in business advertising "any car, any color" for $49.95. Our minimum price for a full body paint job was $400, based on 30 man-hours labor at $10 an hour, plus paint and materials. We would charge $600 to repair a Maaco paint job, because it took at least another 10-15 hours work to clean up the mess they made, getting down to the base for a proper job. Inflation says multiply the dollars by something like 10 to 20, the amount of labor is about the same, except that if you've got fiberglass, the prep work can be double the time, getting down to undamaged plastic vs getting down to bare metal.
