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Originally Posted by jage
How much to go all white? Bigger area, but less color matching, and no "I don't like that stripe either" in the future.
All my other ideas are decidedly un-subtle, so if you're trying to blend in... yeah, no.
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Full van quote for me from MAACO was $2200 for single stage catalyst, which is what Ford uses now for white vans (Sprinter uses this method for all colors). It was the same price to paint and blend the one damaged body panel with 3-stage white.
3-stage with clearcoat (which is what Ford used to use) was $3200 for the entire van, and that's what I went with since I wanted metallic paint.
Any other paint shop wanted over $7,500 for full paint. Most body shops won't do single-stage paints because the surface has to be perfect first (Or in MAACo's case an understanding that imperfections may be visible). 3-stage allows for some touchup between steps.
You can see here on the replacement panel (salvage yard) where they ended up doing extra work, which looked fine pre-prep, but once prep work started there was some small dents and scratches (parking lot style) that were much more apparent. Of course most of that area ended up getting covered by the dually fenders.