I've just seen body shop guy who said it would cost £170 to take off the side skirts and rear skirts and prepare and spray them silver.

Is this a good price?
He also added the rear bumper will have to come off to get to the clips on the back skirts - is this right?

 

the rear corner skirts can be taken off with the bumper on, couldnt tell you about the price though mate

 

id personally snap that up, i got a quote for just respraying just the side skirts which was twice your quote.

 

I agree, snap it up.

I just paid £100 to have four door handles colour coded silver ( and the was with a bit of a discount)

 

£170.00...?

Bargain m8.

I've done many sets, and they need a lot of work doing to them to get them up to the same standard/finish as the bumper finish.

Even sounds a bit too cheap IMHO.

 

Yep, it is very cheap, i was quoted £300.

FWIW are they still unpainted plastic ones at the moment? A common problem is people clean them with silicone based cleaners, which then makes them a b**tard to spray.

 

£300!!! someone was definately having a laugh

 

dude my local body repair shop will spray both rear panels on a ford ka for 230!! said hed spray all the black bumpers/wheels arches too for 300 total so .. his work is cosher too

 

I just did this myself today and it was a cinche! What car is yours as on my classic I would have had to take the bumper out to remove the rear spats as there are some screws behind that you cant get to while the bumper is mounted. Taking it off is easy enough though, 4 bolts under the car (two on each side) and two bolts under the arches and the bumper will slide off on its mounting bar.

As it happens I sprayed the lot (side skirts and rear spats) while they were mounted on the car, just a bit of careful masking and away I went.

Halfords made a pretty good paint match for a measely £10.99 as one 300ml can was enough to spray the lot. Just needed some grey primer and clear lacquer and some fine grain finishing paper and did most of it (excluding lacquer as this will come tomorrow) in half a day.

Depends on how confident you are with a spray can tbh, but I am a beginner in this field and I think mine came out rather well. I admit it wouldn't be anywhere near as good as a professional bodyshop but I am happy with it and all for £25!!

 

generally, you get what you pay for with bodywork from vast previous experience.


it cost me £300 to give my car a full respray

but i learnt how to paint and done it myself

next time around it will cost me £150 for 5 litres of paint as i still have everything else

here is a quick cut and paste from my paint job last summer

back quarter and rear door painted in a basecoat of ford white over the previous red

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...s/4082a764.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...s/702e8d36.jpg

new front wing sprayed up the correct shade ready for wet sand and rotary buffer action, notice the reflections on the bonnet, this has not been waxed/polished for around a month and has been through my carwash around 10 times to help get the wax/polish off ready for painting

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...08-06_1655.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...08-06_1654.jpg

full side then painted over, wet sanded with 1200 gritt, and buffed up with G3 compound, quick coat of meguirs techwax over the top and the end result

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...s/906a55af.jpg

 

what it looked like after i buffed it up