R40PDB
Member Since: 23 Jan 2013
Location: Essex
Posts: 72
  
|
good afternoon...newbie here...anyone know the costs involved with regards
to having a deep gouge repaired on passengers door and is it an easy repair by a dealer?
|
 23rd Jan 2013 3:17 pm |
|
|
al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10350
|
Do any dealers do their own bodywork, I thought most farmed it out to a bodyshop. Is the paint broken? is the metal split? - It all depends how bad it is.
Just visit a few local body repair centers, and get a few quotes, and also, if the paint isnt broken, try someone like Dent Devils/Dentmaster - I've seen them fetch some really bad looking dents out.
Al Volvo XC90 B5 Plus Dark
Gone - MY18 D5 HSE - Corris on 22's with Black Pack
Now gone - MY16 D4 SE Tech, Loire Blue, Almond Leather, Privacy, plus some other goodies.
Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
Older - D3 TDV6 XS Auto - Lugano Teal with Almond Leather, 20" Stormers, Shiny Tailpipes, DVD/TV - and obligatory D3 sticker
Ancient - D3 TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony, 20" Stormers, satnav & DVD
|
| 23rd Jan 2013 3:31 pm |
|
|
bigdave
Site Sponsor
Member Since: 04 Jul 2008
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 9870
|
I have a deep gouge still on one of my doors.
Was quoted in excess of £1700 a couple of years a go by a stealer.
Hence its STILL there.
 All things shipping, storage, transport. UK and worldwide.
E-mail info@md-couriers.co.uk
|
| 23rd Jan 2013 3:33 pm |
|
|
R40PDB
Member Since: 23 Jan 2013
Location: Essex
Posts: 72
|
many thanks for your responses....yes the paint is broken...but if £1700 is roughly the going rate it will have to stay....shame i love my old girl best motor i have ever had...tks again
|
| 23rd Jan 2013 3:37 pm |
|
|
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15261
  
|
Tip of the Day
Try some sticky vinyl in same color as your paintwork.
I did that last year when swmbo left the outside meter reading door open to flap in the wind against my D4. 
I covered the damaged area with white vinyl and after a few days when taken to bodyshop for estimate I initially couldn't find the damaged area.
With a closely matched colour it'll blend in well and you may even forget it's there.
btw, my dealer did a local repair and only cost me £30
Just can't believe the job done for that money - can't notice it at all. ...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
|
| 23rd Jan 2013 4:22 pm |
|
|
R40PDB
Member Since: 23 Jan 2013
Location: Essex
Posts: 72
|
good tip thanks again
|
| 23rd Jan 2013 4:25 pm |
|
|
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15261
|
No probs R40PDB .... invoice in post 
in fact that's a similar sounding reg to mine R33 RDP ...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
|
| 23rd Jan 2013 4:28 pm |
|
|
Grunders
Member Since: 30 Apr 2011
Location: Manchester
Posts: 2328
|
ronp wrote:No probs R40PDB .... invoice in post
in fact that's a similar sounding reg to mine R33 RDP
A bit like Meerkat and Market... They look the same but sound different... If it ain't broke... Take it apart anyway, how else you gonna find out how it works
|
| 23rd Jan 2013 4:55 pm |
|
|
R40PDB
Member Since: 23 Jan 2013
Location: Essex
Posts: 72
|
lol...it was a gift from SWMBO to remind me that i am 40.....cheers 
|
| 24th Jan 2013 8:11 am |
|
|
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15261
|
And NO, before anyone asks ..... 33 was not the year I was born. 
It just rhymes with my initials ...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
|
| 24th Jan 2013 8:26 am |
|
|
disco5
Member Since: 23 Dec 2012
Location: birmingham
Posts: 1088
|
Hi there go on ebay and get a second hand door qite cheap now adays and almost certain to have the same colour for sale ,then get it fitted easy job to do ..
|
| 24th Jan 2013 10:14 am |
|
|
zig
Member Since: 09 Sep 2005
Location: Scotland
Posts: 648
|
How wide, long and deep is the gouge on your passengers door?
and how far away is it from the edges?
|
| 24th Jan 2013 9:19 pm |
|
|
R40PDB
Member Since: 23 Jan 2013
Location: Essex
Posts: 72
|
Its a couple of inches away from the edges either side and the gouge is like a small screwdriver has gone along the panel
|
| 25th Jan 2013 10:10 am |
|
|
hotrocks
Member Since: 05 Jan 2010
Location: England
Posts: 467
|
Sounds like an easy enough repair, I am no expert but I do spend my spare time doing damaged repairables and the like. We allow £100 a panel for repair and paintwork on damage like you have described (low rate to us from a local body shop).
I did get a quote for a damaged vehicle that had a dent in the rear quarter and some along the roof line from another body shop last year as a comparison and he only quoted me £280 + VAT
I would take it to a local bodyshop and get a quote - you will probably be surprized
|
| 25th Jan 2013 11:46 am |
|
|
R40PDB
Member Since: 23 Jan 2013
Location: Essex
Posts: 72
|
hotrocks wrote:Sounds like an easy enough repair, I am no expert but I do spend my spare time doing damaged repairables and the like. We allow £100 a panel for repair and paintwork on damage like you have described (low rate to us from a local body shop).
I did get a quote for a damaged vehicle that had a dent in the rear quarter and some along the roof line from another body shop last year as a comparison and he only quoted me £280 + VAT
I would take it to a local bodyshop and get a quote - you will probably be surprized
many thanks mate appreciate all of you guys time...
|
| 25th Jan 2013 2:28 pm |
|
|
