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daymoon
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3rd Apr 12 at 11:31   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
My car had a stone chip on rear wheel arch when I got the car back in September.

After winter lacquer started to peel around it. Had a guy round today and he quoted me 95 + vat to sort this:



Reasonable price or not?
Twiggy
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3rd Apr 12 at 11:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeh normaly £100 per dent/scratch?
Ben G
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i paid 70 cash to sort a 3'' scratch on the boot and another 70 to respray the corner of a front bumper.

pay cash as he won't put it on the books.
Kyle T
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3rd Apr 12 at 15:12   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Daymoon, Airmyn garage charged me £85 to fill and smooth a great big gouge out of my rear bumper and then blow in the paint job - really good match too.

Maybe worth a look?

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Graeme
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3rd Apr 12 at 18:17   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Really would go to a proper body shop and not a smart repair people.
daymoon
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3rd Apr 12 at 19:32   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Kyle - followed your Civic build thread but never realised you were from Selby

Any more details on this paint shop location? can't find on google
Firestate88
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3rd Apr 12 at 19:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Graeme
Really would go to a proper body shop and not a smart repair people.
+1
daymoon
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3rd Apr 12 at 19:37   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Would they be respraying whole quarter?
Firestate88
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if you took it to a bodyshop they would spray up to the easiest line to loose the spray job on, the job looks alot nicer, a smart repairer does a bodge job more than anything and 99/100 times looks like crap tbh
RyanCorsa99
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bodyshop would be a better job but almost certainly more expensive and will probably want you to leave the car with them
Ojc
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3rd Apr 12 at 20:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've seen smart repairs and they are truely woeful
Joe
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3rd Apr 12 at 20:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Seen smart repairs that are perfect, down to the guy IMO. Wouldn't disregard them for a cheap fix.

[Edited on 03-04-2012 by Joe]
Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by Joe
Seen smart repairs that are perfect, down to the guy IMO. Wouldn't disregard them for a cheap fix.

[Edited on 03-04-2012 by Joe]


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Kyle T
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4th Apr 12 at 08:22   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by daymoon
Kyle - followed your Civic build thread but never realised you were from Selby

Any more details on this paint shop location? can't find on google


Do you know Airmyn at all? It's pretty much one road which follows the River, Bodyshop is about halfway through the village right opposite the riverbank, can't miss it if you drive through. (Left at Glews Garage when driving towards Goole - passed the tip, tight right hander then you're in the village. River is on your left, houses/shops/pub/bodyshop on your right).

I took Civic there because they've got a fairly good local reputation, and I was pleasantly surprised at the cost they quoted me.

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Kyle T
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John
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I've seen a couple of really good smart repairs as well, if they can blow it in over a tiny bit I think that's preferable to a whole panel.

 
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