AndyKent
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Been looking at my next car, may be pushing on a little bit (Year 2000 probably with a fair few miles on it).
What sort of cost might I be looking at for a full car respray to get it looking nice and new (all in - prep, painting, labour, the lot).
Would be on a Honda S2K.
Rough ideas would be handy 
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SportBoy
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1500 - 2500
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JonnyJ
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Originally posted by SportyBoy
1500 - 2500
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wilson_sri
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Depends on how good a job you want.
Mines is costing me 3200 on my nova, but that includes welding rear quarters, door locks, full respray inside outside and the underside. By a top quality bodyshop.
If its just a basic respray i wouldnt pay anymore than 2k
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AndyKent
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Hmm, less than I thought........not that you'd ever see that value back of course.
How long might you expect the car to be away for or is that all down to the particular bodyshop?
Cheers 
[Edited on 17-01-2008 by aPk]
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Ian
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Would it not make more sense to up the purchase budget by 2 grand? You get a newer car that way.
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IvIarkgraham
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was thinking the same as ian. if you plan on spending 7k on the car and 2k for a respray why not just spend 9k on a car
should bring the age of the car down about 2 years to 02/52 plate car
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Roffo
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Would it not make more sense to up the purchase budget by 2 grand? You get a newer car that way.
^^ sensible
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AndyKent
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Just trying to keep my options open - would prefer less miles on an older car than more miles on a newer car you see, even if it means a respray.
That said, the newer versions look better (better wheels, better spec etc.)
As I say, trying to keep my options open
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Ian
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Newer plate will also resell for more.
Older resprayed one may even be worth less after the paintwork.
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Tom
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Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
was thinking the same as ian. if you plan on spending 7k on the car and 2k for a respray why not just spend 9k on a car
should bring the age of the car down about 2 years to 02/52 plate car
Not gonna get an 02/52 s2k for 9k 
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AndyKent
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No, 9k barely gets you one of the first W reg 2000 models.
12-13k for 2002 models.
Want a 2001 in an ideal world, but more than likely up to 60/70 thousand miles
9k is looking at 100k milers - too much for me despite the claimed reliability!
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Tom
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I wouldn't be worried about buying one for around £10k with 60/70k tbh.
Just make sure it's been looked after (in terms of bodywork mainly if you are worried).
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AndyKent
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Nah, 60/70k doesn't worry me much, 100k before I've owned it does.
60k is a big service so to get one past that would actually be a bonus........just not too far 
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IvIarkgraham
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom
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Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
was thinking the same as ian. if you plan on spending 7k on the car and 2k for a respray why not just spend 9k on a car
should bring the age of the car down about 2 years to 02/52 plate car
Not gonna get an 02/52 s2k for 9k
i havnt looked at them i just used those figures as they were the first numbers that came into my head
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coke-gsi16v
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i own my own body shop, i would be willing to do a full repaint(from start to finish) i would be wanting 1200-1600 depending on how bad the dints were an exactly what your wanting doing we also do custom paints were you can help us mix the colour an add differant metalics that you like so it would be a 1 off colour
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*Laura*
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I paid 1100 for full respray on the corsa & it took about 7-8 weeks
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Jambo
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 8weeks!?
mine had everything resprayed bar roof panel, a panel repaired boot smoothed, bodykit fitted, solenoids fitted doors smoothed all in about 10days
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AndyKent
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Cheers coke-gsi, would be looking for a car with no body damage, only light scratches/stone chips if possible. Would also probably just repaint in the same colour, unless the original was yellow or something awful
8 weeks does seem a long time though
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*Laura*
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Well it didnt actually take that long, the car sat there for a while cos they had a lot of other work to do. The bodyshop owner knows my bf so he did it cheap as a favour to us (should have been at least £1500 for a full respray & kit painting & fitting) but it meant customers paying full whack got priority which was fair enough
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coke-gsi16v
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quote:
Cheers coke-gsi, would be looking for a car with no body damage, only light scratches/stone chips if possible. Would also probably just repaint in the same colour, unless the original was yellow or something awful
i would probably do that for 8-900 quid all in, would take about 6-7 days. thats nice strip down then a full repaint
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AndyKent
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Not bad at all, definately something to bear in mind. Cheers pal
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