Car Keyed - need fix.

browner85

CHIPS AWAY GILMARTIN TELL EM BROWNER SENT YE , DONE A GOOD JOB ON MY CAR FOR 250 .. GOOGLE EM OR I CAN PM U HIS NO

robbie_998

browner85 wrote: »

CHIPS AWAY GILMARTIN TELL EM BROWNER SENT YE , DONE A GOOD JOB ON MY CAR FOR 250 .. GOOGLE EM OR I CAN PM U HIS NO

i have a chipsaway guy coming to me already but pm me the number there anyway and we'll see if they charge different.

thank you

Wolverine_1999

€550 for keyed repair, are you mental :eek:

There MUST be something more reasonable than that. A friend of mine recently paid €180 for a much deeper scratch to be repaired.

eg6 vtec

i did a job on a car with just about the same damage as you have, take a look at our facebook page and see what we did with it and the end result, pm me if you need a price

https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.151184041643908.31942.123050261123953&type=1

Owen

Wolverine_1999 wrote: »

€550 for keyed repair, are you mental :eek:

There MUST be something more reasonable than that. A friend of mine recently paid €180 for a much deeper scratch to be repaired.

Seriously? How can you give advice like that without realising the level of work involved? Take a look at the poster below your post to see the amount it takes to repair keying damage. You pretty much have to repair the entire side of the car.

eg6 vtec wrote: »

i did a job on a car with just about the same damage as you have, take a look at our facebook page and see what we did with it and the end result, pm me if you need a price

https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.151184041643908.31942.123050261123953&type=1

In fairness, that's impressive work.

eg6 vtec

Owen wrote: »

In fairness, that's impressive work.

Thanks Owen, some people just think its a matter of giving it a quick rub over then a blast of paint

what really is involved is stripping the car down i.e removing door trims to get and door handles and the likes then going at it with the sander with a number of different grades of sanding discs to feather out the paint, then primer is needed as most of the time key marks like this go right through the paint down to the metal, more sanding when the primer has flashed off, tedious masking of the car, putting on the base coat and making sure its dust free ( some more sanding ) and then the clear coat but its not done now after the clear has gone off the whole side you just painted needs to be wet sanded to remove any imperfections and a final buff is then done

thats just a very quick run through of the process so when you think of the time and effort involved it all adds up, and at the end of the day you get what you pay for, and this job cost a lot less than what the OP got quoted and i even did 2 smart repairs on the bumpers for free to seal the deal

Owen

I do SMART repairs in Cork myself, so I know the undertaking. It just irks the hell out of me when people start thinking that respraying the entire side of a car is a trivial matter and shouldn't cost more than a Happy Meal. If a scratch on a bumper for example is an inch, or a foot, it doesn't matter price wise, it's still nearly the same time involved to repair it.

I recently did the side of a Hyundai Trajet for a guy, but it was only because he's in the trade, had his own workshop with plenty of heat available, and plenty of time to let it dry. I'd never attempt a job like that without the right working environment. Seriously impressed with the job you did.

eg6 vtec

Thanks again Owen we have the use of an oven for big jobs if you have a good look around our page you will see some of our other work like my own subaru wagon, i started off myself doing smart repairs and self though myself from there, it's not an easy game but patience pay's off big time

Wolverine_1999

Owen wrote: »

Seriously? How can you give advice like that without realising the level of work involved? Take a look at the poster below your post to see the amount it takes to repair keying damage. You pretty much have to repair the entire side of the car.
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Sure Owen, I know what's involved but also provided a price that was quoted for the same (or similar) job. That's just crazy money in this day and age.

Owen

Wolverine_1999 wrote: »

Sure Owen, I know what's involved but also provided a price that was quoted for the same (or similar) job. That's just crazy money in this day and age.

It's not really. In the hey day, to have the side of a car sprayed would have been anything up to a grand. 550 is a reasonable price, as many experienced and knowledgable posters here have agreed.

eg6 vtec

Wolverine_1999 wrote: »

Sure Owen, I know what's involved but also provided a price that was quoted for the same (or similar) job. That's just crazy money in this day and age.

cant see how you think its crazy money when you think of the cost of materials, labour and other over heads it costs to run a garage these days

ebbsy

The standard of the job done is as important as the price, same with any trade.

robbie_998

Wolverine_1999 wrote: »

€550 for keyed repair, are you mental :eek:

There MUST be something more reasonable than that. A friend of mine recently paid €180 for a much deeper scratch to be repaired.

like i say i am shopping around - one of the chips away guys said it would be about €400 all in - when he has a look at it i'll mention browner sent me - whatever the hell that means :pac:

eg6 vtec wrote: »

i did a job on a car with just about the same damage as you have, take a look at our facebook page and see what we did with it and the end result, pm me if you need a price

https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.151184041643908.31942.123050261123953&type=1

price me please


like i said time isint much of a problem and i do have spare cars in the drive if i need to get places while mine is being done

Nonoperational

If you want a proper job done your looking at basically respraying at least 2 if not 3 panels. Id consider anything under €500 for that isn't bad if it's a place with a good reputation.

eg6 vtec

robbie_998 wrote: »

price me please

Price gone your way

nudger

robbie_998 wrote: »

like i say i am shopping around - one of the chips away guys said it would be about €400 all in - when he has a look at it i'll mention browner sent me - whatever the hell that means :pac:



price me please


like i said time isint much of a problem and i do have spare cars in the drive if i need to get places while mine is being done

Should have changed the Winters,:D sorry to hear about the car, arseholes.

robbie_998

nudger wrote: »

Should have changed the Winters,:D sorry to hear about the car, arseholes.

I have boards stalkers now ? :eek:















I love it :pac:

dr.fuzzenstein

Any CCTV footage of the perpetrators?
They might not have money, but I would ....................................................................................................................them and then ..........................................................and after that.......................................................................and of course................................................and then I'd call the guy with the pliers and the blow torch.

simx

dirty b**tards same thing happened to me one night parked in local town,not one panel didnt have a scratch,keyed all around the car and as deep as possiblew that a full respray was only option,i have since found out who done this,am still planning what to do,they dont know i know

dr.fuzzenstein

simx wrote: »

dirty b**tards same thing happened to me one night parked in local town,not one panel didnt have a scratch,keyed all around the car and as deep as possiblew that a full respray was only option,i have since found out who done this,am still planning what to do,they dont know i know

So many options, pliers, blowtorch, concrete shoes or:
Take out as much credit as you can possibly get from the biggest, meanest, most violent loan shark in town and give their name.

simx

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

So many options, pliers, blowtorch, concrete shoes or:
Take out as much credit as you can possibly get from the biggest, meanest, most violent loan shark in town and give their name.

i like your thinking,it has to be a well planned out revenge that i cant be proved doing but they know ive done it

nicewine

I had bumper damage on a Ford Focus repaired very professionally and at great price by Willie Horan 0872330660, has to be worth a quote, operates from road behind Fagan's pub.

robbie_998 wrote: »

Thanks to a lovely person in liffey valley carpark i now have a new deisgn on my car.


was over in trimtech today and they said they would re-spray the side of the car and they quoted me €550 for a full days work (8am - 5pm) and would have to make my own way about. have spare cars in the drive to myself so no problem there.

will be going over to Gerry Maguires to see what they say too.

my questions how much would a job like this normally cost ?

when they say they are going to respray the side are they going to fix the scratch themselfs too so their not just spraying over it ?

and do you guys have any other recommendations ?

thanks gods !

miller50841

Look up the likes of dent magic and that because they do a good job and not very expensive
Oh and they come to you

robbie_998

Had one chips away guy come out the other day.

said he'll try as hard as possible to sand and respray sections only instead of the whole side for €350.

now to get hold of other chips away and car craft for more price checking.

E39MSport

Sorry for the semi-hijack

I'll need work done to the 8er (rust around windscreen/roof) and people seem reluctant to recommend paint shops.

I haven't used Dennings in ages and so don't know their work any more.

This Show me the Money place in Dublin looks good but a bit out of the way/pita for me (North Kildare)

Any other good/known places to deal with.

Will need windscreen out and roof sprayed in Mauritius Blue (287)

EPM

robbie_998 wrote: »

Had one chips away guy come out the other day.

said he'll try as hard as possible to sand and respray sections only instead of the whole side for €350.

now to get hold of other chips away and car craft for more price checking.

You pay your money, you take a chance.

For the sake of €200 on a fresh car I'd go with a bodyshop.

JJJJNR

I'd have to have a "couple" of jobs needing repair around the car before I'd even consider going to a body shop, spending that type of money on a single scratch not a hope, not saying I'm tight, but would it not make more economical sense that way?

EPM

I'm thinking more in terms of the finish you'll get tbh.

Orando Broom

robbie_998 wrote: »

i figured from what others say it might be too deep to use a touch up pen ?


trim tech guy said im looking at a white line now that if he just touched it up i'd be looking at a red line with a bit of a indent

Check the depth of the scratch with your fingernail. It won't be a uniform depth at any rate. if it catches hard then it is deep, if the nail slips out maybe you'd get away with some remedial work.

I'm far from an expert so I'm open to correction.

nicewine

Robbie. I hope you tried Willie Horan as per previous pm. His work is top class and really specialises in that type of work, I hope it works out for you.:rolleyes:

robbie_998 wrote: »

Had one chips away guy come out the other day.

said he'll try as hard as possible to sand and respray sections only instead of the whole side for €350.

now to get hold of other chips away and car craft for more price checking.