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What Powder Coating Costs
Powder coating is priced by the job, not off a menu — here's exactly what moves the number, and how to get yours fast.
Six things that set the price
Size & part count
A bracket, a wheel set, and a pallet of frames are three different jobs, and quantity changes the per-part math.
Condition & prep
Heavy rust, old powder, or layers of paint mean more stripping and blasting time before any color goes on. Clean metal costs less.
Color & finish
Stock colors are the baseline. Candies, multi-coat specialty finishes, and clears add oven cycles, and custom matching adds setup.
Masking & hardware
Threads, bores, and mating surfaces that must stay bare get masked by hand. More masking, more labor.
Priming
Parts that live outside or near salt earn a zinc-rich or epoxy primer pass, a second trip through the system that keeps rust from creeping under the color.
Turnaround
Standard scheduling is the default. If a deadline is tight, say so up front and we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s doable.
A worked example: a set of four wheels
Wheels are the most requested job here, so they make the clearest example of how those six factors stack up. A set of four starts with stripping and media blasting to get back to bare aluminum or steel, because a coating over old finish or curb rash will fail no matter how good the powder is. Hubs, bearing surfaces, and valve stems all have to stay bare, so each one is masked before the wheel goes in the booth. Then the color coat goes on, and a clear or specialty finish adds another pass through the oven. Four wheels also price differently from one wheel, because setup is spread across the set.
That's the whole reason there's no menu price on this page. Send photos of the wheels, tell us the finish you want, and you'll get a real number for your set rather than a range that changes when the parts arrive.
The fastest way to a number
Text photos of your parts to (973) 713-3401 with a note on what you want — color, finish, how many. That's usually everything needed to quote it. For batch and industrial work, send a drawing or a sample part and the spec it has to meet.
Ask for the whole job when you ask for the number. Stripping, blasting, prep, masking, coating, and cure are all part of the work, so a quote that names them is a quote you can plan around.