Bodywork cost, why do they seem differ soooo much?!

[parker278]

 Okay so after my recent family incident i had to get my drivers door totally replace.

Thankfully JordyGTI supplied a nice cheap door with just a few scratches on, so all it needed was a touch up/total respray. Although i thought why i am getting some bits touched up i might as well get everything i wanted bodywork wise sorted. This included fitting an anni kit.

Just to give you an idea these are the other bits i wanted doing.

N/S/F Wing Dent pulling out


N/S/R Wing Scratch removeal

F/S/R Wing Scratch removeal

Tailgate Deep Scratch removeal


Rear Bumper respray


Bonnet Dent removeal and respray


Front Bumper respray


Drivers door respray



I ended up trying a local auto repair garage only up the road from me. I was told that if i wanted all the above doing it is basically a full car repaint, minus the roof. He put a grand total of £1500 for all the painting/prep. This excluded fitting the skirts and valances.

I asked the guy is it not possible to just blend the panels/scratches rather than painting the entire pannel. He replied no. Is this true?

With this in mind i went to another garage near where i work. Asked exactly the same questions and amount of work. he came back with a price of about £600. He said that he didnt need to paint all the pannels and that he could blend just the scratch area in. I am guessing this is the reason of the massive price difference? Oh and the £600 included fitting the valances and skirts!!

I am not really sure what route to go down. I know you boy/gals are full of usefull information and would apprecieate if you could give me some! 

Parker

[vwfiend]

I think that's quite pricey, I got my e36 cabrio passenger wing, door, rear quarter and drivers rear quarter sprayed as there was a malicious scratch around it. Also m3 skirts and front and rear bumper sprayed and fitted along with the bonnet all for £300 and it was a very good job. Pretty much just the drivers door and boot and obviously roof not done. Some places for cheap are dire! Go on recommendations

[adamc]

Black is a solid colour so will not have to be blended, sounds like the first guy was takin the p@ss!! Maybe get a third quote but £600 sounds about right to me. Make sure that the one you go with has good reviews as you don't want it all bubbling with rust in a few years!!

[mattGTI20]

i recently had my front bumper front wings sprayed bonnet smoothed and debadged and sprayed rear bumper sprayed and anni rear valance fitted boot smoothed and sprayed and gti spoiler fitted and sprayed for £1000.