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Costing on painting front end of mk5
true-blue:
There's no excuse for silly quotes like £700 for a bonnet !!
My mate will do my bonnet and front wings for £300 (mates rates) and he's still making a reasonable profit (this is a proper job, full oven bake the lot). Strangely, my front bumper is relatively chip free but my bonnet is peppered??
x5pea:
problem is that materials have rocked in price since the industry moved to waterbased, the lacquer for my mk5 cost 600 quid alone :laugh:
600-700 sounds ok IMO
Phil Mcavity:
as Cocopops (lee) has said , bodyshop reckoned that it would take 11hours labour to do the work, £50 an hour rate for a vw garage bodyshop to do it. That was including wings /splitter/front/bonnet. Way over priced for what needs to be done, so that idea got shelved and spent money on better things. :smiley:
VeeDubDan:
Admittidly this was for my MK4 but I've had panels painted at a very well respected (that means expensive) bodyshop and it was about £300 a panel. But they do a top job! :smiley:
Toast:
Thanks for the info guys :happy2: I'm off to see the parents today so when I'm up I'll speak to my neighbour who works at Vw garage and negotiate a price from him :wink:
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