Respray - car wing, how much?

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Hi,

As per title really. Have bought a new (used) car, which is spot on apart from previous elderly owner has attempted to respray around the front wheel arch (badly). This lets the rest of the car down.

Would like to get it sorted.

Any idea of cost?

Additionally, as a long shot - can anyone recommend a decent body shop in the West Sussex (Bognor Regis) area?

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How long is a piece of string?

Seriously, it will depend on several things, location [labour rates will vary between a back street spray shop on lower overheads than a main dealer shop with main rd location overheads], what exactly needs doing [how much damage is beneath his poor attempts at a respray] and even the size of the wing.

With more years of motor trade experience than I ever want to remember, I would personally suggest you take it around several local body shops and get quotes, plus ask local friends and neighbours about which body shops they have used and can recommend.

Asking on the international internet could result in more 'guestimates' than you ever thought possible. :|
 
£150-250

Have a word with a few local car sales places and ask them who does their pre-sale paint prep

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bolide said:
£150-250

Have a word with a few local car sales places and ask them who does their pre-sale paint prep

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Optimistic price ... mixers are a horrendous price these days £400ish /ltr for standard ,labour's a killer so i'm thinking be prepared to pay nearer £400 chances are that the neighbouring panels would need blending in that's if the bodyshop does it's job as it should .
 
Find a local scrappy that has a replacement wing in the right colour? Might be cheaper and less bother!
 
if you did all the prep work first the cost of respray would cost a lot less.

Realspeed
 
YV is correct
IMPOSSIBLE to know without detailed examination.
Depends on the standard of work you want.
and on the car
and on the colour
and on the condition
and on..................it goes on.

Sound advice .........find a bodyshop that is recommended.

The job wont be any good if its cheap!

If its a decent car and metallic paint, dont expect much change out of £500.
for a "proper" job.
good luck
 
It's only a bolt on, you'd probably be able to do it yourself.
 
Superb! So is this a better option than going to a body shop and paying for a re-spray?

I appreciate that it would not be a perfect match, but to be honest it is not that important to me to be.

It is a used car after all. Just wouldn't be happy leaving it as it is - his attempt at a respray is poor!
 
Dalton said:
Superb! So is this a better option than going to a body shop and paying for a re-spray?
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yes, if £100 and a couple of hours of your time / mates time is a better option to you than £500 for a paint job in a garage losing car for a couple of days.

Given the car, i am guessing not mega bucks (i.e. its not something precious where a perfect blend will seriously affect the value) - however, I have no idea of the quality / finish of panel you will receive.........

If it was me, i'd check the feedback and plump for it. If I had a £50k ferrari, then money not a problem, so would pay for a pro job, blended in.
 
Was in the motor trade many years ago and still tinker, My advice would be the same as Yv.

If your looking for a guesstermate, £150ish from a indy garage.
 
I totally agree with Yv. I've been in the trade for 32yrs now and suggest you get a few quotes. I can get paintwork done for £21/hr at one place (excellent quality too) and £32/hr at another place. (about the same quality).
If the wing was slight damage and not rotten, I would expect the cost to be less than £200 + vat. That includes labour/paint/materials.
At least it would be a good match...


Kev.
 
just a side point on this and aimed at all the traders who have commented on above.

From my understanding, each manufacturer has a range of paint codes and colours which a decent paintshop can replicate by adding so much of x, so much of y and so much of z.

Some cars and colours suffer from fading of the paint, probably not so much nowadays, but sunshine takes it's toll.

Therefore, how do they account for mixing the "normal recipe" for say a red 54 plate focus yet allow for fading of 6-7 years to get a good match?

Hope that makes sense.
 
Dalton said:
Superb! So is this a better option than going to a body shop and paying for a re-spray?

I appreciate that it would not be a perfect match, but to be honest it is not that important to me to be.

It is a used car after all. Just wouldn't be happy leaving it as it is - his attempt at a respray is poor!
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If its metallic paint, chanches are it wont match and you will not notice until the panel is on your vehicle. No two will be the same. A pro will blend it when sprayed!

regards,

john
 
Lynton said:
just a side point on this and aimed at all the traders who have commented on above.

From my understanding, each manufacturer has a range of paint codes and colours which a decent paintshop can replicate by adding so much of x, so much of y and so much of z.

Some cars and colours suffer from fading of the paint, probably not so much nowadays, but sunshine takes it's toll.

Therefore, how do they account for mixing the "normal recipe" for say a red 54 plate focus yet allow for fading of 6-7 years to get a good match?

Hope that makes sense.
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I had a Capri wing repainted when the car was about 7 years old. They just took a sample of bodywork (part of the damaged wing) to the place that mixes their paint and had the paint made upto match. Paint suppliers have lots of sample cards with different colours, I assume they start with the correct colour to the code and with experience know what to add to match faded paint.
 
Personally I would get a second hand wing in the right colour as that is not a oem part and probably won't fit perfectly, the colour won't be 100%.
A decent bodyshop will want to blend the wing in to the door etc so it won't be cheap.
 
When I put a big hole in the wing of my old metallic Purple Rover 200 many moons ago, I got some quotes for repair and repair. They ranged from £200 to £2000!

So, I bought a brand new wing panel, bought 5L of paint from a motor factor in the correct colour, a few litres of primer and laquer and then me and my dad spent a weekend taking the old panel off (had to remove the bumper/headlights etc), he sprayed it (thankfully he had a compresser and spray gun) and then we bolted the new wing on.
Total cost for all parts and paint was about £40.

The match was near perfect, after a few weeks you couldnt tell which wing was replaced!
 
Lynton said:
just a side point on this and aimed at all the traders who have commented on above.

From my understanding, each manufacturer has a range of paint codes and colours which a decent paintshop can replicate by adding so much of x, so much of y and so much of z.

Some cars and colours suffer from fading of the paint, probably not so much nowadays, but sunshine takes it's toll.

Therefore, how do they account for mixing the "normal recipe" for say a red 54 plate focus yet allow for fading of 6-7 years to get a good match?

Hope that makes sense.
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My understanding is that if say for instance a wing is replaced, the new paint is also blended into the surround panels [door, a pillar, bonnet, bumper or whatever] to minimise the difference and good body shops will buff the old paint to return it as close to original as possible anyway. Modern paints and laquers are more stable than of old, but its still not an easy job and unlike to be any kind of exact match if pre-spayed, but if all you want is some close enough and tidy, then more then likely ok.
 
Hi, just a quick update on this.

After agonising all weekend over how much this would cost to sort and worrying if I had made a mistake buying the car I decided to sort things with the seller!

I bought the car on Friday (paid deposit) and was due to collect car this afternoon after it's MOT this morning. Garage agreed a £150 discount on sale price to cover cost of getting paintwork done.

This morning I went back to the garage and they are now going to get the work done themselves as I told them I couldn't get it done cheaply enough and had changed my mind about buying car.

I feel a lot happier now. Have paid a little more for the car, but at least it will be mint now.

Car is pefrect otherwise - 1 owner from new and only 31,000 miles with FSH.

Yay!

:)
 
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