Help me price this one out....

Jngrbrdman

Jngrbrdman

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I need to figure out a price for a guy on a 99 Escalade that just needs the interior done. It looks to be in pretty good shape, so it will be just minor carpet cleaning and leather conditioning. He also has 10-15 paint chips on the hood that he wants me to touch up for him. He was driving down the freeway when a windshield fell off the side of a glass truck and smashed right into the front of his car. The insurance cut him a check for $2500 to repaint the hood and fender, but he said if the chips could be touched up then that would be just as good. The truck is silver and touching that up shouldn't be too complicated. The guy is a friend and said it doesn't have to be perfect, just better than it is.

So what do you think? Interior and touch up. I was thinking maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 for the job. He will provide touch up paint and even buy the Langka kit for me.
 
$200 seems good to me, even better since he is buying the kit and providing the paint. Plus he is pocketing $2500.
 
I've got a couple uses for some Langka myself, so this is saving me from having to buy a kit just for a couple paint chips. ;)
 
How long do you think it will take you?...that what I base my pricing off of...the paint chips are the time consuming...also don't forget that he got quite a bit from the insurance company for this so you are saving him ALLOT of cash
 
$200 seams fair, I think if there are that many chips, they should be airbrushed in to look professional. I'd say $250-$300 woudl be abotu right..
 
DKKNE said:
$200 seams fair, I think if there are that many chips, they should be airbrushed in to look professional. I'd say $250-$300 woudl be abotu right..
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Thats true but it sounds to me like the guy will be happy with just some
touch up paint . I'mmore worried about the time its going to take to do
the interior . I'm thinking alittle more like 350.00 to 400.00 myself
and since he's a friend , I'd give him 50 bucks off or something like that .
 
Wow. 350-400 for an interior? thats a little steep. I have NEVER charged close to that for a complete interior./exterior with interior protectant and exterior sealant!
 
$200ish sounds good to me. Especially if the interior isn't so bad. Plus, with someone not as picky it shouldn't take you that long. IMO.
 
I wouldn't hose the guy. Now if he wants a receipt that says $2500 .... then you can hose him.
Tell him, "I charge $--.00 an hour. I expect it to take -.- hours. The range will be from -.- hrs to -.- hrs, so a range of ... you get the idea.

Then say, "And I do really good work, and will make that insurance cheque go further than most."
 
Not exactly on topic of the pricing. I have the Langka kit. It works great.The touch up paint is the problem. I have done these touch up's before and took each car to the dealer and they got the paint code from the sticker in the door panel. None of them match perfectly. These are dealership OEM touch up paints and they are very close but not perfect. The stone chips
repairs are hard to see. The scratches can be picked out from several feet.
I am wondering what the customers expectations are. Perfect? Nearly perfect? or just not as bad as they are now? The Langka kit doe's exactly what it says it will do though.
 
My PDR guy does paint work, and he adds a tiny amount of clear to the factory paint to make it match better.
 
Hawaiianelement said:
Thats true but it sounds to me like the guy will be happy with just some
touch up paint . I'mmore worried about the time its going to take to do
the interior . I'm thinking alittle more like 350.00 to 400.00 myself
and since he's a friend , I'd give him 50 bucks off or something like that .
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The interior is really clean. He just bought it a month or so ago and the dealership or whoever owned it had gotten it cleaned up. It just needs a little OCD attention is all. ;) I told him it wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a lot better than it is now. As it is I don't see much to get too worried about. It is silver paint with silver metal showing, so the chips really aren't that noticable. I'd want them at least touched up too if it were my car, so I think he is making the right choice to have this done. "good enough" is going to work in his case, and I'm ok with that.
 
$200 really does sound about right. Although he is your friend, he probably shouldn't have told you how much he was given. It's like walking into a car dealership and telling them you just won the lottery. Maybe do $250, but if the interior is in good shape it really shouldn't take you to long.
 
Is the Lanka Kit that good? I'm thinking of ordering a 2 oz kit from paintscratch.com since it includes pretty much everything you need beside some Wetsanding or Pencil tools.
 
for 200 bucks and guy could get the whole hood painted...... and normally charge about 40 bucks for the interior if its pretty clean....and about a 100 bucks if its big and dirty
to touch up and the paint 50 bucks....interior another 40.... 90 or 100 bucks would be fair 200 is ridiculous, unless hes willing to pay it
 
If he could get the hood painted for $200 then that is what the insurance would have quoted him. I don't know where you go to get your stuff painted, but the hood and fender of an Escalade is not going to get repainted with any degree of quality for $200 bucks. Just to get my bumper repainted cost nearly $400 bucks. He was quoted $2500 by the insurance because that is what the job would cost on that truck.

The $60 is based on a $40/hr rate. I have seen the truck and I figure the interior will probably take me an hour and a half to clean all the glass, clean and condition the leather, and clean the carpet. Considering it is probably going to take half a bottle of cleaner and conditioner, a can of carpet cleaner, and probably half a can of glass cleaner, my overhead is pretty high on this truck already.
 
I think 200 is plenty your outlay is not great if you are buying right I think to ask for 250 for a large interior is over the top .

40 an hour is good money in dollars or pounds if the customer is not fussed your in for a good day.
 
I tell you all it is $40 an hour now, but next month when you see the video clip floating around on the web it will say $4000 an hour. :lol:
 
sorry for the steep price quote , didn't know it was a month old . I'm guessing the leather wont need a ' scrubing " before conditioning . I was pictureing a full interior detail on this guy anf then the paint chips being taken care of . .

i guess working at a dealership now i mark up everything 140%..lol
 
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