Approx price for one panel on car

tea and coffee

To repair scratches to one panel on a car/ panel beating and respray i guess.
Is 120 ok?

Vicxas

Depends on the damage, but normally they need to match the colour to the adjacent panels.

I was quoted 500 for my work, that was beating, respray and colour match.

colm_mcm

120 is suspiciously cheap.

fancy pigeon

colm_mcm wrote: »

120 is suspiciously cheap.

Could be for an Alfa GTV Cup wing.

If it's a bonnet or the likes...

tea and coffee

Picture

tea and coffee

It's the strip along the bottom of the car under the door

colm_mcm

Ah yeah that's fair enough for that as it's not really gonna have to 100% match.

tea and coffee

Ok thanks.
I'm in Spain and it's a rental. I am getting it repaired locally so I dont have to pay the rental company.

Del2005

tea and coffee wrote: »

Picture

That looks like it with need filler as the top scrape looks deep

Michael D Not Higgins

tea and coffee wrote: »

Ok thanks.
I'm in Spain and it's a rental. I am getting it repaired locally so I dont have to pay the rental company.

Is that with or without the permission of the rental company?

colm_mcm

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Is that with or without the permission of the rental company?

I think you know the answer

Riva10

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Is that with or without the permission of the rental company?

What has that got to do with the post?

tea and coffee

tea and coffee wrote: »

Ok thanks.
I'm in Spain and it's a rental. I am getting it repaired locally so I dont have to pay the rental company.

If they do less than a perfect job you're fncked

Michael D Not Higgins

Riva10 wrote: »

What has that got to do with the post?

This:

Augeo wrote: »

If they do less than a perfect job you're fncked

JohnBoy26

It's only a plastic skirt so 120 isn't really suspiciously cheap and the job would have to be dreadful for it to be noticed in such an inconspicuous area.

Car99

How much is the excess on your insurance?

Del2005

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

It's only a plastic skirt so 120 isn't really suspiciously cheap and the job would have to be dreadful for it to be noticed in such an inconspicuous area.

Proper repair on plastic is more expensive than metal and a whole lot easier to make a mess of.

That's not an inconspicuous area on a car never mind a rental which will be inspected on return.

Toyotafanboi

Del2005 wrote: »

Proper repair on plastic is more expensive than metal and a whole lot easier to make a mess of.

That's not an inconspicuous area on a car never mind a rental which will be inspected on return.

Ah be reasonable, that's a handy repair. Even if the finish is as rough as a bag of nails, drive the car through a bit of dust and dirt before handover and it will definitely go unnoticed.

JohnBoy26

Del2005 wrote: »

Proper repair on plastic is more expensive than metal and a whole lot easier to make a mess of.

That's not an inconspicuous area on a car never mind a rental which will be inspected on return.

No it's not, well not in this case anyway. That part is easy to remove and a repair will involve filling and sanding which is the just like metal but unlike metal it's not welded in place so a repair is easier.

Also that is an inconspicuous area. You might'nt think it but it is. I've touched up minor scratches on sills a few times using rattle cans and that was even nearly unnoticeable. A bodyshop will easily have that looking like new.

tea and coffee

I've just looked through the video I took on arrival. The rental guy rushed me past that side quite quickly, but my kid has taken a few screen shots and it looks like scrape is already there. I'll try to upload

tea and coffee

Only problem is now that we signed off saying no scratches larger than the agent's weird protractor tool thingy on the rental form, and we haven't notified it to the co.
Planning to fight it at the airport... is this thick?

tea and coffee

Screenshots of video. Under child's elbow in corner of the pic.
Thoughts?

tea and coffee

Ugh. Sorry. Hard to get this right on phone and slow wifi.

SCOOP 64

With zoom photo 4 and 5 think i can see the scratch, but will they?

goz83

Always Always Always take your time to check the car inside and out. Almost every time I rent a car, I spot something not marked on their little diagram form and have to go back to get them to mark and sign it.

That mark would have been very hard to miss by just glancing over the car. It's huge.

tea and coffee

I know :-(
He was chatting away so I was cursorily looking at the doors.
I don't recall scraping it but that's not to say we didn't do it.
Screenshots have just put doubt in my mind

corglass

Forget the video, you've signed away your recourse.

Check insurance, did you take out super cover?

If not just repair it and move on