5-Year Paint Cost Forecaster

Your paint is running up a five‑year bill.

Answer seven questions about your car. You get two numbers: what the next five years costs your paint if you do nothing, and what it costs protected.

Run like a top doctor’s practice.Diagnose first, prescribe second. Nothing gets recommended for your car until it has been measured.

Free. No visit. We never ask for your phone number — call us if you would rather talk.

Certified, and checkable

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A real result, before you start

Doing nothing$3,180

On a plan$760

2021 Model 3, street-parked, 14,000 mi/yr. SPS Auto Care’s own repair pricing, not a national average.

Step 1About 90 seconds

Untreated Protected

Drag the bar. Body style and paint rendered from your answers — a preview of the finish, not a photo of your vehicle.

One question first

Where does the car sleep at night?

The strongest single sign of what is coming.

Start here — tap one

Now tap the button

Free. No visit. We never ask for your phone number — call us if you would rather talk.

Question 1

What are you driving?

Year, make and model. This is what puts your car on the screen.

Question 2

Paint color and finish

Soft black clears and matte finishes are a different job than white metallic.

Tap your closest color

Question 3

Where does it sleep at night?

Sap, sun and bird etching set your maintenance interval.

Question 4

Miles a year, and how it's driven

Highway miles mean rock chips, which means film instead of coating.

12,000 mi

Question 5

How long are you keeping it?

If you're selling soon we'll tell you to spend less, not more.

Last step

Where should your five-year number go?

Your numbers appear on this screen the second you tap. The email is so you keep them.

First name Email

Name and email only. No phone number, ever.

Your 5-year paint forecast

Untreated Protected

Doing nothing

over the next five years

Protected & maintained

repair and upkeep over the same five years

Two scheduled maintenance visits a year — decontamination, coating top-up, edge check
Annual re-inspection with fresh clear-coat readings
Chip and edge-lift repair caught early, while it's still small
A paint file with readings, photos and dates — yours, and it goes with the car

Repair and upkeep only. The protection itself gets quoted after we measure your paint — we don't price paint we haven't looked at.

The gap between those two columns is $0

One hour with the car. Six clear-coat thickness readings, swirl and chip density photographed under controlled light, contamination check, and a written protection map with dated intervals and the exact products for your paint. Credited against protection work if you go ahead.

The reference case, so you can check ours against it

2021 Model 3, deep blue metallic, street-parked, 14,000 miles a year. No garage, no coating, city driving, kept five years.

Doing nothing$3,180

Protected & maintained$760

The gap$2,420

Built from SPS Auto Care’s own correction, chip-repair and respray pricing plus the paint deduction at trade-in — not a national average. It is an estimate, and we show you the working.

“Is this just a sales tool?”

The numbers come from SPS Auto Care’s own repair and correction pricing, line by line. If your number comes back low, we tell you to wait.

“Do I have to buy something?”

No. The forecast is free and it is yours whether you ever book anything.

Your paint is running up a five‑year bill.

Three bills create the gap. All three are on a clock.

Swirl, etch and wash marring

Hood chips and bird-etch respray

Rock chips and edge lift