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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: The Danno on 22 June 2012, 08:41
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Morning all!
I've had a slight mishap with the R....
See here http://www.rforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2126.0
It's in next week for some heat gun lovin and a coat of paint. There is a chance that I've done for it and I'll need a new bumper cover. I'm not doing an insurance job on it, so am paying out my hard earned, lowly paid wages.
Can anyone help me get it cheaper than the £311 +VAT quoted at the dealers and by the bodyshop??
Part number: 5K6807421 H GRU. The H makes it for a Golf R
Any help advice would be greatly received.
Thanks
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Gutted, but we need the full story. :wink:
I would give your local TPS a call and see if they will supply it to you http://www.thetradepartsspecialists.co.uk/ my local puts it down on another contract as it gets it for me at trade price and it helps them out as they appear to be selling on a new contract (which is what they have to do, push new contracts)
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Thanks for the advice Scott.
Phoned them. 10% off. Not brill but better than nothing!
Still open to other suggestions...
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Thanks for the advice Scott.
Phoned them. 10% off. Not brill but better than nothing!
Still open to other suggestions...
I doubt you'll get it new any cheaper than what TPS can offer unfortunately :cry:
Other option would be to wait for something to show up on eBay which I'm sure it will do eventually - but not sure how long that might take?
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Euro car parts maybe?
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TPS would be your best bet.
I didn't think £311 sounded too bad. Surely money can't be that tight if you managed to buy an R in the first place? :huh:
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I didn't think £311 sounded too bad. Surely money can't be that tight if you managed to buy an R in the first place? :huh:
That's just that particular part. Add in other parts required, paint, labour and VAT its £1,100!! Which is a holiday in real terms.
I've stuck it in for a smart repair (£200). Lets see how well it comes out...
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I didn't think £311 sounded too bad. Surely money can't be that tight if you managed to buy an R in the first place? :huh:
That's just that particular part. Add in other parts required, paint, labour and VAT its £1,100!! Which is a holiday in real terms.
I've stuck it in for a smart repair (£200). Lets see how well it comes out...
Oh dear this type of prang is annoying as it costs loads, hope the low cost repair works out. When I my UR quatto I had a light rear end shunt which required a new bumper and the parts alone where nearly £2k so you have to be greatful it's a Golf.
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Pics of the repaired after please....
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I've come up with a potential solution
Leave the car as it is and buy one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OOPS-ARROW-DENT-FUNNY-CAR-STICKER-DECAL-NOVELTY-CORSA-206-WINDOW-BUMPER-JDM-DUB-/290727645985?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item43b0b7d321#ht_920wt_1344
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I've come up with a potential solution
Leave the car as it is and buy one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OOPS-ARROW-DENT-FUNNY-CAR-STICKER-DECAL-NOVELTY-CORSA-206-WINDOW-BUMPER-JDM-DUB-/290727645985?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item43b0b7d321#ht_920wt_1344
hehe!
That would have been great for my trip to Le Mans 24 the other week, when 80,000 people kept looking at it!
Pics of the repaired after please....
Will do...
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I've come up with a potential solution
Leave the car as it is and buy one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OOPS-ARROW-DENT-FUNNY-CAR-STICKER-DECAL-NOVELTY-CORSA-206-WINDOW-BUMPER-JDM-DUB-/290727645985?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item43b0b7d321#ht_920wt_1344
Seen a few cars lately that shud be on lol, worryingly there new car....
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I've come up with a potential solution
Leave the car as it is and buy one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OOPS-ARROW-DENT-FUNNY-CAR-STICKER-DECAL-NOVELTY-CORSA-206-WINDOW-BUMPER-JDM-DUB-/290727645985?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item43b0b7d321#ht_920wt_1344
Seen a few cars lately that shud be on lol, worryingly there new car....
Women drivers..pfft! :lipsrsealed: :grin:
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Danno, looked at the pic again and appears you took the pic on the ferry, so did this just happen when you were getting on?
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Danno, looked at the pic again and appears you took the pic on the ferry, so did this just happen when you were getting on?
OK OK. Here's the story:
I was setting off on a trip to the Le Mans 24 hour race, with a mate and 3 other Golf R forum members. I get to Newhaven Port, at 11pm. It's dark and rainy and I've never been there before (it's a sh!t hole, backwater of a south coast port).
We are queuing for passport control when my mate, who's in the passenger seat shows me his passport. He's an international development consultant and his passport is literally full. It's full with stamps and visas from Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, etc etc. I was thinking that was pretty cool. I've only got one poxy stamp from the Cayman Islands!!!
We get to passport control. They look at our passports, then say to us that they'd like a word in the customs shed. We duly drive into this tin shed. The police quiz my mate, actually it was a grilling. They look at my pathetic passport and hand it straight back to me. They want to continue questioning my mate, so tell me to reverse out of the shed and park up in lane 1, while they have a proper chat with my passenger. To remind you it's dark, pissing with rain. The car is full of camping gear and the port is a badly designed mess. I'm also slightly flustered as I'm now thinking we're going to miss this, the last ferry, and not hook up with the other R lads in France in the morning.
The police and port officials keep directing me to go back further. I'm checking my mirrors, wing and rear view, I see nothing. "Keep coming back" they say. "Back further", I lean out of the window and say "more?" They say "yes" and carry on nattering amongst themselves.....BANG! Hidden from my view in that small black spot that is the rear pillar (C pillar I think) is an open gate, only 2 inces wide. This gate is the port gate. It's quite large in height, but very narrow end on. It was completely invisible to me.
All the officers jaws were wide open. I heard one lone voice from the man on the gate as I was getting out of the car to inspect the damage "oh sh!t that's a lot of damage". Silence ensued. You could have heard a pin drop. I was genuinely in shock. I don't make frigging mistakes like that! I was told under duress by the police/customs to do this. I was F'ing furious. I said F@ck out loud as I looked at the damage, but managed to control my anger as it was very likely to make me miss my ferry, and get me arrested. I got back into the car and drove off. Needless to say they didn't stop us or insist on continuing to question my mate!
I phoned my insurance co to see if they could persue a damages claim, as I have legal cover with them and they told me that despite being told to reverse and being guided, it was ultimately my responsibility to check my mirrors! It wasn't in my frigging mirrors! I thought they'd be able to get the CCTV and use that as evidence. They werent bothered.
So here I am paying for the damage to be repaired myself so as to avoid another claim and lose my protected NCB (my mrs had a fault claim in 09 by letting strong winds bend my door back on the GTI)
So here's the good news. The local body shop have told me that they have managed to repair it. No bent bumper bar, and they managed to heat gun out the crease and fill the puncture marks. Apparently, and I'll reserve judgement on this till I've seen it myself, it looks good and it's all back in alignment, primed and ready to be sprayed today. I made sure that I'd cleaned the car spotlessly to make sure they knew it was my pride and joy and hopefully that will have instilled some pride in the people working on it. It looked showroom when I dropped it off yesterday morning ;-)
We shall see. Pics will be posted and the body shop will be named and hopefully praised, not shamed!!
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Ouch. Hope it comes back with a perfect repair. It certainly must have put a damper on the trip :angry:
I think I'd have turned around and gone home! :grin:
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Ouch. Hope it comes back with a perfect repair. It certainly must have put a damper on the trip :angry:
I think I'd have turned around and gone home! :grin:
I was determined not to let it put a downer on the trip, and with the amount of beer that was consumed it wasn't that hard to forget.
If it had broken the rear light, that would have ended the trip there and then. In fact, there is a small mark of silver gate paint on the light so we were a gnat's cock away from disaster!
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Ouch. Hope it comes back with a perfect repair. It certainly must have put a damper on the trip :angry:
I think I'd have turned around and gone home! :grin:
I was determined not to let it put a downer on the trip, and with the amount of beer that was consumed it wasn't that hard to forget.
If it had broken the rear light, that would have ended the trip there and then. In fact, there is a small mark of silver gate paint on the light so we were a gnat's cock away from disaster!
Thanks for taking the time to explain, easilly done in the circumstances hope the repair is good. I wouldn't have turned round as LeMans is an excellent trip. I haven't been for 10 years but did the previous 10 back to back with a big crowd. Stopped going as corporate hospitality set up on most of the interesting places to watch such as Arnarge corner at the bottom of Indiapolis and old signalling pit at the bottom of the Mulsane. Also the Gendames were getting hot on speeding and a few of got done. Before that you could blast through France as fast as you liked and no one cared. Never touched my car after Friday do I could focus on beer for the weekend :laugh:
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I'm sure it will look good as new...
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Fixed
(http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc440/thedanno/Untitled.jpg)
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:shocked: :shocked:
That looks like an awesome repair job! :cool:
Question is; are YOU happy with it? :smiley:
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Awesome, looks good! I bet you're chuffed!
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Danno
If that looks as good in the flesh as in the pics then that is a great result (and relief)
Whereabouts are the body shop for those who might need some bodywork TLC at some point?
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Autofit (Sussex) in Hove, well Fishersgate really.
Brilliant job. I mean its out of panel alignment by about 3mm on the right, where it runs up by the tailgate, but then I'm massively anal.
They hadn't quite polished out all the orange peel around the number plate and rear diffuser, so I mentioned it to them and they whipped it straight back in an sorted it out in 15 mins.
I am well chuffed. I can't believe they managed to rescue it. I honestly thought is was too much for a smart repair, and it was really, but they went over and above for me.
Put it this way, Peter Copper VW Bodyshop quoted £1,100. I paid Autofit £195 and 2 crates of Stella (I thought they deserved it)
Highly recommend them for anyone in Sussex with a VW (they are VW approved)
Oh and my NCB remains intact...
:smiley: :smiley:
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That looks great mate! :cool: my panels at the back are all over the place so might not be their fault. :lipsrsealed:
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3mm is a lot mate with metal mate, i don't like my bricks out that much when laying bricks :nerd:
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3mm is a lot mate with metal mate, i don't like my bricks out that much when laying bricks :nerd:
Its plastic. They had to manually melt the plastic back into shape. It was never going to be bang on. That would have meant a box fresh bumper cover. Pretty good bodge they've done though. A blind man would like to see it!! :wink:
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3mm is livable and at £200 + Stellas that is a good price - back to enjoying the car now :cool:
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That looks like a bang tidy job fella...
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Actually I've measured it now and it's about 1.5mm. Basically nothing!!
I'm a happy boy now! :smiley:
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Fantastic job you can see by the reflection that the bumper has no wrinkles, you must be delighted :smiley:
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Actually I've measured it now and it's about 1.5mm. Basically nothing!!
I'm a happy boy now! :smiley:
you should be, you lucky bugger, I paid more than that to have my door sprayed on my last car and the colour match was awful, even after 4 attempts!
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Great job, from the pics it looks good :cool:
I am guessing I am like quite a few of you on here from reading your posts that anything not absolutely 100% perfect screams out immediately, very annoying affliction :undecided:
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you should be, you lucky bugger, I paid more than that to have my door sprayed on my last car and the colour match was awful, even after 4 attempts!
I think the match is pretty good. Having had a very close look though I think it's a miniscule touch lighter than the original. I'm not complaining though as its SOOO hard to tell, especially as its a colour that looks lighter from certain angles anyway, and the bumper is sculpted with angles all over the place...
I didn't think colour matching was hard to do. I just thought once they'd weighed the paint out as per the book, that'd be it, job done, no??
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on an old car colour matching is very difficult. on a new car its easier but still not totally. lots of different factors like temperature and drying time etc can effect the paint finish. plus that colour will be clear coat too is it?
in the picture it looks very good and like said before the rear panel gaps are a fricking joke on these things anyway.
all in all i think you've had a lucky escape there! give it a week or so and you will have forgotten all about it!
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on the photo is that a speck in the pain or something where the reflection of your right foot is or is it a reflection?
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Good result, glad you got it sorted.
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on the photo is that a speck in the pain or something where the reflection of your right foot is or is it a reflection?
Its my shiny black shoes glinting in the sun :cool:
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shiny shoes eh?! hope your not looking up skirts with them reflections :evil:
glad you got the car sorted in the end. must have been gutted before.