Scratch repairs and respray cost?

[am1w]

I was charged a total of £1000 for a new front grille, to have a dent removed from the bonnet and the front bumper, followed by a full bonnet and front bumper re-spray with blending-in to the front wings.
I used ARC Bodyshop in Park Royal (very nice people and totally helpful) who are VW approved. There is a long, long thread about all this.
All perfect now.

[AGB]

£500 for a dent! I hope I'm not looking at those figures to fix a few scratches on the paint work! I think any more than £150 I would be tempted to get out the white tipex! Thanks for the heads up about Exan.

Get a quote anyway, it can't hurt to shop around. I'd personally avoid the roadside repair brigade. Recipe for disaster IMHO.

[am1w]

Takuma: I can more or less tell you to the nearest £25 pounds it will cost you a max of £275 from ARC, Park Royal. Speak to John Ford. Tel 0208 961 8961.
Flat Black is the easiest colour to paint. Generally requires no blending-in.

[takuma]

Managed to take a picture of the damage on my iphone, got a quote from these guys http://www.automotiverepairsystems.co.uk/ £80 (which I'll probably go for unless someone tells me they are rubbish) Went down to VW Bromley and they recommended them. Also spoke to libra arc and they quoted £350!

[gizzywizzy]

Managed to take a picture of the damage on my iphone, got a quote from these guys http://www.automotiverepairsystems.co.uk/ £80 (which I'll probably go for unless someone tells me they are rubbish) Went down to VW Bromley and they recommended them. Also spoke to libra arc and they quoted £350!

That's nasty barstewards want stapling to a wall.

[dubber36]

To the untrained eye, the smart repair type people to a good enough job, but to be honest all they will do is give it a quick rub down and blow some (quite possibly miss matched) paint at it.

My Mrs recently caught the rear bumper of her car on something, drove away and put a 8" split in it. I have taken it to a mates body shop (who is spot on) and he has quoted me £120 to plastic weld, repair and paint the bumper.

£80 to me sounds like alot of money for a quick job on the side of the road. I would rather pay a bit more and have the job done right.

[am1w]

£80 is as cheap as chips.
Will they blend-in the paint with the rear quarter panel? If they don't, there might be a paint mismatch.

[dubber36]

£80 is as cheap as chips.

£80 for about 15 minutes work and a few pence worth of paint cheap?

[p3asa]

Is that down to bare metal as its hard to make out in the picture?!?

If its just scuffs and scratches then it may very well polish out with a machine polisher.

[am1w]

P3,
Luckily the scuffs and scratches seem to be only on the plastic bumper.