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The truck market seems to have alot white plain trucks over any other color for some reason. I wonder what it will cost to paint a white truck another color like ocean blue or a light blue? The truck will be a GMC 2500 single cab 4x4. Local dealers don't want to order this color of truck from the factory. They want me to buy only white because they have it in stock.
Depends on how good of a paint job you want. You can get a cheap Maaco quality paint job for not too much. (Maybe a grand). It's not going to last too long. If you have a showroom quality job, maybe $4000+. Then all sorts of levels and prices in between depending on how much prep is done, the quality of the paint itself, etc.
Years ago we took a boring early 2000's white F-250 truck and painted the bottom panels gold. It looked thousand times better, but it was a make-a-wish (Maaco) paint job with it being just a work truck.
The truck market seems to have alot white plain trucks over any other color for some reason. I wonder what it will cost to paint a white truck another color like ocean blue or a light blue? The truck will be a GMC 2500 single cab 4x4. Local dealers don't want to order this color of truck from the factory. They want me to buy only white because they have it in stock.
Thanks.
Easy to touch up and hides scratches, dents and other flaws. You can even touch it up with a rattle can and it looks halfway decent. No other color is so friendly......
Even a crappy touch up with dirt and sand, even runs looks ok on pure white.
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To hell with a new paint job.
I would tell them to order the color of truck I want or I will go to a dealership who will.
Nothing wrong with going out of town to get what you want.
I agree, white is the typical low-option work truck sold to contractors, and GMC trucks are not popular enough with residential buyers to stock a lot of colors. Go get the Chevy version, or try a Ford. We have about 6 dealers of both within a half hour drive and they have hundreds of trucks (colors) in stock all the time. When spending $30k it's worth a bit of drive to get the one you want.
The truck market seems to have alot white plain trucks over any other color for some reason. I wonder what it will cost to paint a white truck another color like ocean blue or a light blue? The truck will be a GMC 2500 single cab 4x4. Local dealers don't want to order this color of truck from the factory. They want me to buy only white because they have it in stock.
Thanks.
I'm gonna agree with Annie on this one, John . . .
If your local dealer refuses to order or at least search GM's inventory for another color . . . FIND ANOTHER DEALER.
For what it's worth, any GM Dealer is able to special order any GM vehicle.
In response to your question . . . $10k is probably a decent estimate as a cheap paint job on a new truck would be a huge mistake.
Been to four GMC dealers near me and 100 miles around me and the same thing they hate to order my color from the factory and has told me it take three month to get and one dealer order it they said then came back with we cann't find your color so you will have to deal with white.
If it was me, I would wait the 3 months to get the color I want.....I would never be happy with the truck if I didn't.
Every time I looked at it, it would eat me alive that I spent all of that money for a brand new vehicle and didn't get the color I wanted.
Maybe you should go Hemlock's route and check out some other trucks?
It all comes down to what you can live with.
Anything but paying all kinds of money to paint a brand new truck that will never be as good as original factory paint.
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