Serius Bodywork Question

[knukkles]

right ive decided to put my car in the body shop near my house its a good one and they charge good rates for the work they do , its a full wide arched nova fully kitted all the fibre glassing is done but it needs all the smoothing to be finished on the main shell and bonnet , boot and one door also the back bodykit not much to be done really heres a few pics to get the jist of what im talking about
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/knukkles/sideskirtshotlow.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/knukkles/DVC00291.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/knukkles/DVC00198.jpg


im thinking it will cost about 400 pound for all the filling and smoothing and then all priming to be done does this sound about right or am dreaming
ive never had a full car go in the body shop before does 400? sound about right to you ,, the guy its going did a door for me it needed the plate re welded on and then all dints and plate all smoothing in he did an amazing job and primed it all he charged me 40quid

[draper]

i wouldnt know how much bodyshops charge matey, but i like the look of your car !!!

[Jamied]

are they spraying the car aswell or just puttin primer on it? iwould of thought with sprayin at least 1k. I got quoted 1k for my nova and the body work it mint except a few dents and a small bit of rust

[knukkles]

not the respray just to finish the bodywork and prime it

[Jamied]

?400 sounds cheap to me but to be honest im not sure

[Jack]

?400 sounds cheap to me but to be honest im not sure
Hmm, if thats not including the actual painting (i.e. no cost for paint and painting labour) I'd say ?400 sounds ok.

How come you're not getting it painted? If you leave it primered you'll just have to rub down and re-primer when you come to do the top coats of paint?

[knukkles]

right buzzin i just wanted to make sure i have a rauph idea about how much it wauld cost thanks

[knukkles]

when i get the car back i will lay the base coat which is like a primer which is darck purple and then its going in the shop for the pearls and lacuer to be done if i had it all done in the shop the price wauld cripple me

[Stuart]

do you do over post offices or something?? lol

[knukkles]

Stuart Ffffuuuukkkkkkkkkkkk Offf

[Stuart]

aww sweetie dont you like me? booo hoooooo.

where the funk do kids get their money thesedays? or are loan forms too easy to lie on? lol

[knukkles]

its called hard work and not smoking idiot

[knukkles]

if you did not post sh1t then everythings fine

[General Baxter]

aww sweetie dont you like me? booo hoooooo.

where the funk do kids get their money thesedays? or are loan forms too easy to lie on? lol


lol i like you :gay:

its called hard work, im 20 and get around ?2.5K a month lol

[Stuart]

time to change industries lol designing ecus is rubbish!

[knukkles]

you get 2 and a half grand a month so why do you still drive a nova ??????????????????

[Stuart]

to be able to spunk the rest on fun lol

[General Baxter]

you get 2 and a half grand a month so why do you still drive a nova ??????????????????

i pay a morgage and bills ;)
iv also got a 2.5 v6 supercharged cavalier lol

but its just a nova thing, there the best in the world

[Dan]

you get 2 and a half grand a month so why do you still drive a nova ??????????????????

Thats abit of a daft comment mate lol, but as an example of why some of us drive nova's when we earn an average wage is probably because aswell as family's, homes etc we also own other cars, here are mine in the order of family car, my plodder and my 'toy'

http://www2.novaload.net/files/dan/newastra/frontpass.jpg

http://www2.novaload.net/files/dan/omega/omfront.jpg

http://www2.novaload.net/files/dan/bbq/dan1.jpg

So please just because the majority of us still have nova's dont make the assumption that its all we live for etc.

[General Baxter]

ooo i can do that lol

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/baxters83/my%20cavalier/carphotos075.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/baxters83/my%20cavalier/carphotos119.jpg

i also drive a 2.5 TD LDV convoy van lol

[ade]

ladies ladies - put your handbags away! lol!

back to the subject in hand - ?400 sounds cheap to me. If theyre flatting the whole thing back, de rusting and fixing up your work (ie smoothing, filling etc) they Id say ?400 is cheap imo. However this all depends on the condition of ther car at present, how good your work is and whether the shop is reputable.
If theyre priming it too then ?400 is either mates rates or (if you say theyre good) v reasonable!

Ade

[General Baxter]

its a tonka toy lol

[knukkles]

all the bodywork is nearlly finished im just taking it into a body shop to make sure its perfect their is no rust attal on the body as its had all brand new panels and stuff -----its not atonka toy its a show car

[Jack]

Nuts, I missed an opportunity to pic whore my car!

Anywoo. Stick up some pics when the work is complete - if its good stuff, I'm sure some other members may well take their cars there.






















http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/razorjack/CCUK/2006_01220051b.jpg

Whoops, sorry lol

[knukkles]

i will the body shop is called bury auto bodys in edenfield near rawtenstall

[sr bonus]

kind of lookin like mine but i didnt modify the skirts (should of.) i had mine resprayed in silver and cost me ?800 to get resprayed. they had to do some filling and that as im not and expert yet.

what color you havin it?

bonus.

[letmelive]

Whats that bonnet vent/scoop called i might go for one of them ones instead of f50???

[knukkles]

its a full bonnet skin from quod conversions the coluor is going to be dark purple with orange flip gonna look well nice when all done the sideskirts was a b11cth to fit on and when i finally got them on i did not like them too squere for the look of me car so decided too cut down and mould in some abyss ones i think they turned out pretty good nothing better than a bit of customizing ,,

[letmelive]

i really like that bonnet vent, but i don't require the bonnet ;_;

[knukkles]

i went up to me car today and did a bit more work on the body which needed doin and half way thraugh i was working and the boot was off the car ,,it fell off the table hit something and cracked in two places im not that bothered because it was a fibre glasss panel and i was a bit iffy on whether i shauld get a welded up one as they are genarelly stronger so IM LOOKING FOR ONE ALLREADY DONE NOW it has to be a welded up one and it must be a perfect one as im fed up of repairing them boot lids money is waiting for one any one up for selling one allready completed