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What sort of price do panel beaters charge?

  • 17-11-2015 4:12pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭


    So the car failed the Nct with the same crease in the boot which was in it last year, was told by the supervisor their is no way of it passing the way it is, so I'm guessing somebody took a brown envelope last year if it's that bad, because if it failed I would have got my money back.

    Anybody know a roundabout price a panel beater charges and the crease is in the boot where the wheel is.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,543 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    You would need to post a picture of the damage or measure the exact dimensions of damage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Yeah post a pic.

    What car is it? Would it be possible to get another boot lid from a scrappy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭JamboMac


    Yeah post a pic.

    What car is it? Would it be possible to get another boot lid from a scrappy?

    It's the boot floor where the spare wheel sits, it's an 01 golf mk4.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭JamboMac


    Here it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭JamboMac


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭rex-x


    Thats been in a reasonably sized accident and not repaired properly, you may be in for a shock hen they dig deeper


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I got a similar thing done in an old Mazda that someone had bumped into while parked. I only noticed when I couldn't close the hatch properly.
    Cost me a tenner at the time but it could cost anything.. It took him aprox 2 mins to hammer it out.

    Without actually seeing it proper it's hard to say.
    Go to a local beater and get a quote. If too high go to another and so on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭JamboMac


    rex-x wrote: »
    Thats been in a reasonably sized accident and not repaired properly, you may be in for a shock hen they dig deeper

    to be honest the way its creased it looks like, it looks like whoever was driving reversed into one of them low pillars as it creased upwards.

    Wish the Nct Failed it last year i wouldn't own the thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Lissavane


    JamboMac wrote: »
    So the car failed the Nct with the same crease in the boot which was in it last year, was told by the supervisor their is no way of it passing the way it is, so I'm guessing somebody took a brown envelope last year if it's that bad, because if it failed I would have got my money back.

    Anybody know a roundabout price a panel beater charges and the crease is in the boot where the wheel is.

    Just a couple of weeks ago, my cousin got a quote from a reputable panel beater who does a lot of work for the motor trade in Galway / Mayo. Cousin is not in the trade.His charge per hour for labour was €30. I'd imagine he has a minimum charge per job though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,704 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    biko wrote: »
    Go to a local beater and get a quote. If too high go to another and so on.

    Sometimes you should go elsewhere if the quote is too low. It's a fairly common trick with damage that's not necessarily all visible to bid low, then they 'discover' more problems that cause the price to rise, at which stage you're stuck with that guy and have to take his new price.

    Happened a friend of mine, he stupidly took the lowest price from a backstreet cowboy, midway through the repair the price jumped to higher than anyone else had quoted.


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