RSrussell

I'll do it for £400 quid mate

RSrussell

Now what colour do you want?

R4N SS

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mercury xr

Just had a quote from the place I went to on wednesday, they said they would do it for £1800, or £1500 cash.

Escy

I must have had my respray really really cheap. I paid £1300 (cash) to turn this....



to this...



That was a full windows out re-spray, fixing the damage by welding in a new slam panel and straightening the rest, fitting the bodykit (and new front wings), flushing the boot, the washer nipple on the roof, removing door locks. Also custom mounted the sidelights indicators into the new bumper (cut them out of the old one and flipped them around).

It took them a few months to get it done but the work was top notch.

foreverwhite

lol @ people saying 'i get it FREE!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEE'

great! that helps the lad loads

asking if 900 quid is a good price is like saying 'someones selling a car for 2 grand, is it worth it?'...

it depends on a lot of things, what paint he's using, how many coats, how good he is, is he stripping seals/windows/trim etc off, is he gonna do the prep work to a high standard etc

if he's good, 900 sounds about right.

paint jobs seem a lot dearer down south for some reason i had a mate with a body shop and he had lads drive up for 6+ hours to let him spray their car as he was quoting half the price what southern bodyshops were...even the scabby bodyshops!

foreverwhite

and dont be fooled by the 'cash' blags! its the oldest sales game in the book...

'yeah mate, give me cash and i'll do it for this price'...

it's the price they would have done it for anyway...because even if you'd paid by card and they'd have to pay tax on the larger amount (1800), it would still work out that they pocket more than 1500 anyway!

Ginge !

you get what you pay for is BOLLOX im afraid

people just charge more,,,,, theres some cheep places out there as roid boy mentions

tbh id ONLY go to a insurance aproved place that turns out volume not places that take 4 weeks to repspray a car

a blokei go the gym with works for solus,hes sorting all mine out for just under the normal but they charge too much as they have to discount insurance companys

there work is spot on,they have all the right materials and tools, they have staff who ONLY do certain jobs, that way theres less of a fuck up


2 men in a shed,, no matter if you paied them 10k wont mean its a proper job

kevins car,,, sprayed in a room,,,, your all saying how good it looks when its just been done

give it 3 years then see what the difference is !!!

oven only for me in a room that ONLY has repsrays done in it, controlled, sealed and vented

cossie604

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Im getting ready for a 3k invoice once mines been in for paint. That includes glass out, all prep work and then paint (black). Want it to last so dont begrudge spending a little getting her right, and I know the place as I used to work there...painted a couple lemans cars in the past amongst other expensive stuff....dunno if they'll enjoy having a 21yr sierra to play with in comparrison The missuses Escort is gonna get a few hundred quid dust over tho

Maxfield

I've been quoted £200 if I do all prep work etc incl primer then mask up before he does it.

Escy

I don't understand why people consider a bodyshop to be good if they do competition cars. Paint work on race cars is generally shit.

foreverwhite

loving the BM max

id laugh when i see pics of resprays and because it looks shiny people say 'that looks a good job!'

my paint is awful, patchy and matt in places from previous DIY repairs...and with a wash and a picture from a distance it looks mint...as would any car, even if it was orange peeled to fuck!

Ginge !

soo true what a was makes

i washed my bm for the first time since april before i went to the ring

the neighbours thought i bought a new car

cant belive the difference 8 months of dirt and 10k of motorway high speed blats can do to a car

the missus sister thinks we NOW have some money and before i washed it she thought i was poor

Terry Tibbs

Why are you actually spending £900 respraying a £200 car?

Ginge !

theres people on here who have wasted 30k on cars over 4 years and sold them for 6k,,,, its hes hobby,, he may not be ableto afford a escort cossie or wish to get hes arse in debt buying a money pit with someone elses money

fair play to him if hes happy with the car

hell aint porkies 3 door just a b reg 3 door sierra ,,,, hes spent a few hundred quid on that car yet no body questions it,,,, he could have paied for half of a gt3 for the cash he told me that car stands him in for

aslong as hes cool with in and proud to drive it who are we to coment

cossie604

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I presume you aimed that at me. I consider my old work to be good based on their previous work, the fact they've painted and been entrusted to look after Leman24hr cars in the past just helped me express that they aint a shoddy company. When you've got skills that can panel beat and hand roll edge a boat tailed RollsRoyce wing from sheet metal, lead fill successfully and actualy be able to produce a straight panel with out bucket loads of filler...then you tend to be a good body shop. Unlike most nowadays that can only attach a new panel then paint it...occasionaly getting the colour almost right.