Automotive dry ice blaster in Illinois

[GrumpyJeff]

Originally Posted by SS427

I just received a quote from United Rental nearby me. They are wanting $2778 for rental equipment. I was guessing that if I took this car in to have it blasted it would have been about that much and they would have the mess and not me. Maybe I am wrong. I only need to blast the complete bottom side of the car with no engine or transmission mounted. I need to check others to see if that price is normal.

I've been quoted locally here in South Eastern PA at $240 HR and i think a 8 or 10 Hr minimum to do my 70 Z/28, this guys specializes more in High end Exotics than Muscle Cars . But I felt confident in his process and abilty.

[SS427]

Originally Posted by GrumpyJeff

I've been quoted locally here in South Eastern PA at $240 HR and a 8 Hr minimum.

Damn! If I could find someone within about 3 hours of me for that amount of money I would be booking the date! I love where I live but unless you need cattle feed or corn seeds you are pretty much out of luck finding it nearby. I got spoiled living in Mpls for 41 years.

[Steve Shauger]

Just an FYI there was car to be Vintage Certified and the owner decided to have it Dry Ice Blasted by a provider in Westchester, PA and the owner was billed about $5k.

The quote 10hr minimum doesn't provide any assurance of what the total would be. The service provider many be really thorough and could spend 25hrs=6k. Also you as a customer may want a really detailed job which will add hours. You may consider a time limit or ask the company what is the average hrs per car.

[1967 4K]

If you’re going to rent check on an air dryer also. You MUST have almost perfect dry compressed air to do this process.
We went to Buffalo NY one time to move a line back to Ky.. We wanted to clean the line with this process before transporting it. The owner said their air was dry but it was terrible wet! Even the supplied air dryer would not remove all the moisture in the system.
We had to scrap the plan to clean the line.
You must have dry air.

[GrumpyJeff]

Originally Posted by Steve Shauger

Just an FYI there was car to be Vintage Certified and the owner decided to have it Dry Ice Blasted by a provider in Westchester, PA and the owner was billed about $6k.

The quote 10hr minimum doesn't provide any assurance of what the total would be. The service provider many be really thorough and could spend 25hrs=6k. Also you as a customer may want a really detailed job which will add hours. You may consider a time limit or ask the company what is the average hrs per car.

Good to Know ! , This is the guy I inquired about doing my car . I guess i was thinking , assuming 10hrs = $2400 would be in the ballpark to do mine , maybe not ?

[David C.]

Wow, guess I lucked out last year when I had a 73 super duty ice blasted. There is a new car dealership in the Buffalo area which has been buying and selling classic cars. I heard they had this equipment so I enquired. Car had heavy undercoating, I doubted the effectiveness and was worried the time would really make it costly. When I checked in a couple days later (they had to wait a day to get more ice), I was pleasantly surprised. Charged me 1500, that’s the labor and ice.

A friend of mine also looked into starting a business providing these services and was recently quoted 20k to get the equipment.