How much would you think a BIG insurance approved company would charge for bumper re-allignment and minor repair to bumper, respray bumper.


Now, just for reference, the same place quoted me £220 +vat to respray my front wing.



any ideas peeps?
by the way
its in white and laquer

carl

 

£500 + VAT?

 

you kidding right

 

If they are charging £220 to do a wing, i would have thought a bumper would be quite a bit more.

I am happy with £100 inc Vat to do a bumper

 

My bumper had a little scratch on the side (8"'s long and 3"'s wide) and thats costing his insurance company £784.68

 

the reason i ask


i would like a full respray on the car, and have someone in mind that ive spoken with about it who is exceptional at what he does

thing is, my car is in the "insurance approved" shop tomorrow and was thinking that if they give me a cash settlement, then that can go towards the full respray

anyone else have any experience in body work estimates..???

there so many peeps on here that have had body work done, but 1 reply from rossco



carl

 

holy foooooooooooook me batman


thats outrageous

anymore

carl

 

 

Our old place used too work on £100 a panel. Plus around £50 to re-aline your bumper. Extra maybe parts brackets for bumper etc.

Smudge

 

Is it just an 'insurance approved' bodyshop or a bodyshop that specialises in insurance work?

I could find you a place up here that would cost the insurance a grand to supply, fit and paint a front bumper plus a 1er a day shet hire car fee,
It's a money making market

 

its nationwide in blackpool, i think anyone can go to them, but are insurance specialist

its supposed to me in tomorrow for repair, but the coonts at norwich union still havent got back to me about the claim, and ive been on hold since i was 7 years to the fuckers




carl

 

I had a wing resprayed on my old R33 GTR, the company that did the work work on behalf of porsche and it cost £502. Top class finish and blended in to the door for a perfect match

 

the cunts have just phoned me and said £205 to settle

yet, the same garage quoted me £220 plus vat to flick my front wing


fuck it its going in tomorrow to be repaired



carl

 

i had my bumper sprayed along with splitter, sticks etc about 2 years ago(carbon fibre now) it cost me £200+ vat but was quality work.



Sean.

 

when someone crashed into my old renault it needed a repair to the bumper and respray (bumper only)

i saw the bill and it was 600 quid plus vat

and that was almost 10 years ago!!

 

i work for nationwide as an estimator, and the thing is with bumper repairs and resprays is that some times the colour looks off when just doing one panel so insurance approved companys blend adjacent panels for a perfect match and also to bump up the insurance claim cost to make it worth while doing.

also if you look at most audi's the bumpers always look off compared to the bodywork.

 

i work for nationwide as an estimator


anyway of phoning blackpool branch and getting them to do me a full respray



carl

 

lol, if only... im trying to blag some paint for the bmw at the mo