General Time for a respray?

[gar074]

Just washed and polished my baby. I'm gonna have to bite the bullet sometime soon and get some serious work done on the bodywork. The front bumper has more stone-chips than paint, there's some surface rust on the rear wheel-arches (it is surface, dammit!! - at least that's what I keep telling myself), and the big scratch down the side where she was keyed years ago is sooo much more obvious when she's all clean & shiny. Not to mention the parking dent on the driver's door, and the ever-so-slight-but-terribly-irritating-palm-sized-dent on the rear panel, where some ham-fisted muppet gave me a "helpful" shove in a muddy field two years ago.

So, how much do you reckon for that little lot? Or should I put my £££ into a new hood instead? Or some uprated springs & shocks, to tighten up the handling? Or...? Hmmmm, decisions, decisions!

Right, that's enough navel-gazing. Time for a blast around the Suffolk lanes in this lovely evening sunshine!

 

[bumble]

I need a new hood and I even sold my hardtop to finance it but I'm not sure what happened to the funds? Think it has been sidetracked by the in-house chancellor Personally, if your hood is still serviceable, I would try to address the body imperfections first. Keep us posted - Steve

 

[gar074]

I need a new hood and I even sold my hardtop to finance it but I'm not sure what happened to the funds? Think it has been sidetracked by the in-house chancellor Personally, if your hood is still serviceable, I would try to address the body imperfections first. Keep us posted - Steve

I know what you mean! I have a hard-top that sits in the barn gathering dust (my B never goes out in the rain, so I never use it) but I know that if I were to sell it, the cash would be "redirected" to more mundane uses like repairing the roof (of the house, not the car!) Also, one advantage of having a fair-weather-only B is that the soft-top stays tucked away in its compartment, so nobody gets to see how manky it is!

Anyone have any idea of how much I might expect to pay for the bodywork?

 

[biscotti]

I was quoted 1100 pounds for a respray and lacquer.

 

[scallywag630]

I'd certainly fix the bodywork first especially if there is any type of rust to remedy.