Car Repair - Cost?

thescouselander

Ginger_Nuts wrote: »

Is this a new way of painting? Every bodyshop blends paint into the swage lines of the car, thats where shade lines of paint shpw up the most, if you got your bonnet done, believe me, they painted the tops of your wings also and blended it in, it's impossible to just paint a bonnet and get it to match the tops of the wings:rolleyes: And I could tell you of loads of stories of insurance companies telling bodyshops not to repair certain items so as to cut the cost down from my time in the motor trade

A lot of bodyshops blend in the paint to adjacent panels but a lot dont. Its not impossible to match the paint if you know what you're doing.

MumofCR

Well I got it checked out and the metal bit behind the bumper is also damdged so this needs repairing as well. Costing £280 for a new bumper direct from Ford already sprayed the colour of the car. A local bodyshop is fitting it and repairing the damage to the metal underneath for £50. So all in £330, definitely not worth claiming on my insurance.

It gets fixed on Friday and is going up for sale on Saturday!

Thanks for all the help.
Sara

ArsenalFC

Couldn't you just sell the car with the damage bumper and reduced the price a bit? This could save u money.

AHopwood

Thanks for the posts, I have had my Fiesta bumped on a car park & no-one left details, but this has given me an idea of how much it will cost to repair!

Thanks all!!