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Shaft
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PostPosted: 20:46 - 28 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

c_dug wrote:
I'm far from a car expert,

So, pair of doors maybe £500. Body shop to fill the damage to the sill and wheel arch and match the paint up, another few hundred quid.

Surely less than a grand all in?




HAHAHA, no, you're not are you!

If you want to do it properly (and who wouldn't, on a 2 year old car) that is a £1500+ job all day long; I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a grand in parts and you really don't want to be DIYing the sill, unless you're a professional panel beater.

Edit: changed my mind, £2500 after a rough tot up.

Edit 2: Not a bad guess, based on those images, I just did an insurance estimate and it comes out at £2465 - would almost certainly be more after a physical inspection.
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PostPosted: 21:20 - 28 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Polarbear wrote:
MOST women are really shit drivers, however I would say the good ones are usually very very good. It's a pity you didn't marry one of them Hawkeye1250FA. Laughing

Typically women have the smaller accidents, prangs in parking lots etc., guys roll it ten times through a field thinking they're Lewis Hamilton.

I kinda get what you mean though. I watched a woman park an estate into the tightest space imaginable, something I wouldn't have even attempted Embarassed
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PostPosted: 00:02 - 29 Nov 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shaft wrote:
c_dug wrote:
I'm far from a car expert,

So, pair of doors maybe £500. Body shop to fill the damage to the sill and wheel arch and match the paint up, another few hundred quid.

Surely less than a grand all in?




HAHAHA, no, you're not are you!

If you want to do it properly (and who wouldn't, on a 2 year old car) that is a £1500+ job all day long; I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a grand in parts and you really don't want to be DIYing the sill, unless you're a professional panel beater.

Edit: changed my mind, £2500 after a rough tot up.

Edit 2: Not a bad guess, based on those images, I just did an insurance estimate and it comes out at £2465 - would almost certainly be more after a physical inspection.


This, i wouldn't be bodging a 15 plate car, get it done properly.
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