I had a friend with a 06 soft top Alpha which had rear end paint issues and had it repainted under warranty.
I don't see a wagon repair running 10+ G's for paint if you shop around. Not for a spot fix at least.
I had a body and paint shop in LA redo my whole soft top for a few grand. Quotes for the whole truck including corrosion spots here and there ranging from $2000-7500 with most falling in the middle of that. That's prep, body work [pull dents out of doors, patch 2 aluminum cracks, rivet repair] new aluminum etching primer and new paint and clear coat + life time warranty on paint and body.
The only way the job will go to 10K+ is if the shop has you painted as a chump and slaps you with the "Hummer tax" OR, if you decide to go all out to pull the roof off and redo all the seals and redo all the mating surfaces which is a lot of mechanical labor. That I can see running 10 grand in theory.
I can see certain fancy candy paints with insane prep running over that, ie. spending weeks to hand sand everything but most shops don't do that.
The paint jobs from the factory are pretty poor, bubbles in the paint, odd orange peel, overspray, etc. It's all hand sprayed by a guy in a suit and that's it. It's not like the H2 or H3 lines where the paint uses a more modern dip with some sort of electro static application.
I'd make sure the shop has good attention to detail [ie. works on other exotics] and you should be fine. If I were to do a big money paint job I'd send it to Phil's Autobody in South Bend, IN, next to AM General, hes the H1 body and paint specialist.
There's an exotic car paint/detail shop near me that quoted me $5,000 for the work [this was a shop that didn't do insurance jobs, only high end cars and they had a few nice cars in getting custom painted]. I went with a shop my friend uses for local dealer work and had previous H1 experience.
Here's a few pictures of my soft top, it was a lot of work, I did the interior removal and most of the strip down myself [took a day, I did it in a public storage parking lot while I was storing the parts <img src='
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The worse thing about painting H1's, I've seen people pay 10 grand for a 2 grand paint job, where one shop actually send it to a cheaper shop down the street and pocketed the difference ...
Here's the pictures, since I wanted a tan 1998 and couldn't find one I repainted the whole tub factory gloss tan, it came out grate but the iphone picture of it painted is a poor photo.
Also replaced all the lights with LED, new light buckets, new seals everywhere, new logos, etc. Actually that reminds me, I have to finish weather stripping the interior door jabs tomorrow...
