Panel Beaters Needed - Kildare / Dublin

jjdonegal

I know there has been a few threads on this before but looking for the most up to date info. Anyone got a name of a good panel beater within 30/45mins of Maynooth to fix damage that was caused to my car today.
No idea what happened; think something was thrown at it as heard huge bang when driving and once I stopped at the earliest chance I noticed the damage at left rear wheel.

Thanks a million for any help anyone can provide.

colm_mcm

Lanes autobody in robertstown are very good.

fguinan

jjdonegal wrote: »

I know there has been a few threads on this before but looking for the most up to date info. Anyone got a name of a good panel beater within 30/45mins of Maynooth to fix damage that was caused to my car today.
No idea what happened; think something was thrown at it as heard huge bang when driving and once I stopped at the earliest chance I noticed the damage at left rear wheel.

Thanks a million for any help anyone can provide.

Liam Duff has a garage outside kilcock, reasonably priced and excellent work.... I don't have his number but could give directions if you want.

Heroditas

Ian Clandillon - Clandillon Motors - a couple of hundred metres from the Orchard Garden Centre on the road to Celbridge from Weston/Lucan

jjdonegal

fguinan wrote: »

Liam Duff has a garage outside kilcock, reasonably priced and excellent work.... I don't have his number but could give directions if you want.

Yeah please do thanks a million. Plan to get 5/6 quotes tomorrow and get fixed on Monday. Thanks a million.

jjdonegal

Thanks for the help guys - popped to 3 places today and hope to get out to Robertstown on Monday. 2 of them think it might have been a brick that was thrown at the car. Absolutely raging to say the least.

Once again thanks all for pointing me in the right direction.

fguinan

jjdonegal wrote: »

Yeah please do thanks a million. Plan to get 5/6 quotes tomorrow and get fixed on Monday. Thanks a million.

The address is Gragadder, Kilcock.
From maynooth go out the rathcoffey road, at first cross roads turn right, follow this road until you cross over the motorway (about 6k) and it's on the right.

jjdonegal

fguinan wrote: »

The address is Gragadder, Kilcock.
From maynooth go out the rathcoffey road, at first cross roads turn right, follow this road until you cross over the motorway (about 6k) and it's on the right.

Spot on ill try there on Monday too. Thanks a million.

jjdonegal

Went to 7 panel beaters overall - prices ranged from 230e to 880e all for what is exactly the same work - fill, skim, spray as one of the people put it.
Interesting how there can be such a deviation in price but I suppose that shows the importance of shopping around.
Finally thanks to the posters for the guidance in pointing me in the right direction.

Heroditas

Beware though. Some will do a far better job than others. Cheapest might not always be the best.
Did you check if each place had a proper spray booth?

colm_mcm

jjdonegal wrote: »

Went to 7 panel beaters overall - prices ranged from 230e to 880e all for what is exactly the same work - fill, skim, spray as one of the people put it.
Interesting how there can be such a deviation in price but I suppose that shows the importance of shopping around.
Finally thanks to the posters for the guidance in pointing me in the right direction.

Cheapest isn't always best though. Its all in the prep work and how much of the car they're gonna spray.

quadrifoglio verde

I'd be looking at seeing some of there past work to be honest. It shocking how many cars you see on a daily basis that have had some monkey at the paint.

jjdonegal

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

I'd be looking at seeing some of there past work to be honest. It shocking how many cars you see on a daily basis that have had some monkey at the paint.

I didn't go with cheapest but a guy who was highly recommended and I looked at past work he had done with 2 different people. I'll report back in a few days when I get with a photo but I'm hopeful it will be good.