Body work and full respray (two tone) quotes

[andydubz]

I've had two quotes in the South Wales area for body work and respray (inside doors as well). It's looking between £5000-8000. To be fair the van has chips/small dents/scratches on almost every panel.

Sound reasonable? Curious what others have paid recently. I was expecting more like £4000.

 

[SussexT6]

Just had near side, front end and both back doors done and the rest blended to match.
It’s black so a bugger to blend
Paid a reasonable £5800

 

[DXX]

It was £600 just for a new pop top roof years ago.
£300 for a new bumper.
I can’t see why bodyshop work is so expensive other than the fact that people will pay it.
It’s not like VW could offer a new van £5800 cheaper if it wasn’t painted.

 

[andydubz]

Yeah it's rough. I'm looking at the job from a DIY pov and it's 90% time and 10% materials. The garages said it'll be about 2 weeks work. That's:

• Stripdown...labour
• Filler...labour and materials
• Sanding...labour
• Spraying...labour
• Paint...materials

I have no idea how much paint is but they are not paying their staff £100s an hour. £7000 over 10 days... It's eye watering seeing £700 a day.

 

[boxelder]

You pay the amount they regularly charge insurance companies for work. Little wonder vehicles are written off so easily these days.

 

[Sasquatch]

Insurers usually pay their contractors a considerably lower rate than retail.

 

[boxelder]

I bet it's still mucho pesos though, and then retail even more. They'll charge insurers less to keep return business and keep hassle down.

 

[andydubz]

So I need to crash the van, claim through insurance, and say to the garage "while we're here can you just do the whole van through insurance please *wink wink nudge nudge*".

Shame that's classed as fraud

 

[JoshB_]

Insurers usually pay their contractors a considerably lower rate than retail.

But that’s not what they quote. My brother in law got a crease in the front wing of his MG and they wrote it off. He got a £27k payout, bought it back for £10k and got the crease sorted for £600….

 

[Sasquatch]

That'll be the assessor that made that decision, not a bodyshop.

 

[andydubz]

Well, interesting points of view but we are where we are.

It would actually be cheaper to hire my own spray garage at £250 per day. Just need to spend a few days on YouTube and can give it a bash then.

Spray booth hire – Classic Car Resprays, Bodywork and Restoration

 

[DXX]

Well, interesting points of view but we are where we are.

It would actually be cheaper to hire my own spray garage at £250 per day. Just need to spend a few days on YouTube and can give it a bash then.

Spray booth hire – Classic Car Resprays, Bodywork and Restoration

As an old timer I do most things myself perhaps because I enjoy it but initially because it saved me £.
I’ve found there are two things in life that end badly unless you are fully proficient, both of which need hours of practice:
1. Plastering, not talking rustic stuff but square, flat, smooth walls.
2. Spray painting large vehicle panels.

 

[Stay Frosty]

Or you could fill, flat and wrap the thing a bit at a time by yourself with the wife's hairdryer and a Stanley knife to save thousands.
Actually that's bonkers but broken down would be do-able, U Pol filler, cellulose primer filler brushed on and flatted back with 240 and 400 wet and dry.
If you're wrapping the panel you don't need a top coat over the repairs just a continuous layer of original paint and the primer finished repair area.