Car painting in the Algarve is done at the JustCars body workshop in Loulé: colour matched on your actual car rather than on a paint code, two or three panels typically finished in four to five days, and a full exterior respray on an honest queue of two to three weeks before work starts. The quote is fixed after inspection — free, and without obligation.
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Twenty years of southern sun shifts every factory colour, which is why a code sprayed straight from the tin rarely matches an Algarve car. We mix and adjust against your actual paint, blend into neighbouring panels where the eye would otherwise catch the transition, and judge the result in daylight as well as booth light. Metallics, pearls and tri-coat finishes get the extra stages they genuinely need — the goal is that nobody can find the repaired panel.
Full exterior resprays carry the longest waiting list in the house — usually two to three weeks before the car goes in, and we say so before you commit. Partial work moves far faster: two or three panels typically run four to five days from drop-off to handover. Cars come to us from across the region — Faro to Albufeira — and free pickup within 15 km of the studios covers Loulé, Almancil, Quinta do Lago, Vale do Lobo, Vilamoura and Quarteira.
Oxidised, chalky, sun-tired lacquer often doesn't need a respray at all: machine polishing revives more finishes than most owners expect, and JustCars Loulé is the official RestorFX centre — chemical restoration of tired clear coat at a fraction of respray money. We measure the paint first and recommend the cheaper route whenever it's the right one. And if you plan PPF over fresh paint, the paint needs a minimum of three weeks to cure first — we schedule both stages so the protection doesn't trap solvents.
