Paint bubbles

[torredcuda]

The metal is rusted/pitted, hard to say whether it was in the metal to begin with or moisture was trapped in there when doing prep or bodywork but no matter what that metal needs to be cleaned up of any rust before going any further or it will just come back again.

[Manuel]

The car had not one bubble when I took it for paint to Mercedes some 20 years ago.
They must have had moisture in their system I guess.

Agree with you, anything that was painted by them which is pretty much the whole car needs to go bare metal in order to remove any rust.

Rust is very superficial on the sampled areas.

I know its is very hard to give a figure but lets say there is no rust and you want to do a job like this with top quality PPG paint,  around how much could that cost in the USA?

[Shane Kelley]

It's all but impossible to quote a paint job on a older restored car in person let alone from pictures. Jobs like that are done by time and materials. Figure 10k and up.

[Manuel]

That gives me a good idea. Tks

The problem with my car was really something very isolated.  There are very good paint shops here in Guatemala and I hope this job will be top quality.

Fortunate for me labor is quite lower in this part of the world so my paint job will cost quite less than that.

[Manuel]

Paint shop tells me that the white coating was for some years standard at Mercedes Benz.

Kind of a thick initial primer.

Moldings came off ok.

Waiting for some sort of rust inhibitor to come from the USA and then go bare metal for all car.

Thanks a bunch.