Once upon a time long ago I used to work at a custom auto body shop and over the years I have picked up a vast amount of knowledge concerning everything from tires and rims to body kits for cars. If you are looking to have custom work done to your car, always remember that there are three basic pricing levels: cheap, moderate and insane – I would almost guarantee you when it comes to this kind of work you get exactly what you pay for.
The materials and components required for custom car work is astronomically experience as is the labor to install everything and get the work completed. If you want to be happy and find someone who does good work, you need to, by whichever means necessary, find custom auto body shops with a good amount of reputation behind them and their work.
The reason why the price of the job reflects the work done is because of the cost of the materials. For instance, you can buy just shy of a thousand bucks for a custom paint job and chances are it will not turn out that good, on the other hand, if you were to pay over two thousand dollars for the best paint and labor possible, your car would look brand new and be free of any long term problems. It can be tempting to spend less money upfront but you will pay more money over the lifetime of the car just keeping up and repairing the shoddy work done in the first place. There are just some things in life that call for doing things right the first time, especially when it comes to cars. Work that is botched the first time around could cause permanent damage that can cost ten or twenty times the amount of the work you are planning to have done originally and getting auto body shops to repair their own damage is a nightmare to say the least if you are dealing with malicious shop owners which can be the norm.