Automotive dry ice blaster in Illinois

[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.