Powder coating quote, reasonable? Options

[Doug Leggins]

Calling on those of you that are familiar with powder coating. I have never worked with powder coating before. I am looking for some help to determine if the quote is fair.

I took the suspension components to a local powder coater to get a quote. Got a quote of $400. The quote was for both sand blasting and powder coating. The quote was split about 200 for the sandblasting and about 200 for the coating. The sandblasting seemed high to me and the powder coating seemed low. But overall $400 seems ok to me.

I took everything in the pic and both rear trailing arms also.

Here is what I took in for the quote.
suspension protection cover
2 front A arms
the 4 bushing caps for the A arms
2 brackets that go in front of the A arms
2 front struts and 2 tubes
all 4 brake dust shields
aux support
2 half shafts
2 trailing arms
2 trailing arm mounts

The color quoted was gloss black. I couldn't find another color that I thought would look good with Signal Orange.

Do you think that $400 is good/bad for blasting and coating these parts?

Thanks

[ArtechnikA]

i can't really speak to pricing.

but i wouldn't depend on the guys knowing what places can be blasted and coated, and which ones can't. you'll need to do some masking. the spindle, ball joint connection, caliper-mounting ears, tie-rod-connection place, and top threads on the struts, the splines on the torsion bars. i wouldn't send halfshafts to be blasted - pull the CV's and send just the drive shafts (perhaps you've done that, and what i'm seeing in the picture is them, and not torsion bars - in which case, good show). remove the ball joints from the A-Arms. you have the hubs and bearings out of the trailing arms, yes ? mask the caliper-mounting ears.

lots of people don't run brake 'dust' shields. i don't. i also don't run front strut dust covers unless a snubber spring is being used - mostly, the purpose of the damper cover is to prevent the snubber rubber from expanding radially. but some people like them, so don't take this as a recommendation, just another option...