How much??????

[Diver944]

Had a slight carpark incident with our S2 last night. My wife had dropped our sons off at the village hall and as she was coming back to the car she saw an old Toyota backing towards our front bumper. She ran the last few yards waving her arms for the chap to stop but he didn't see her and reversed slowly into the car. Once he had struck the bumper he then continued to reverse and actually pushed our car backwards a few inches on the handbrake. He then pulled forward into a parking space opposite and got out to make his way to the local shops, at this point he still didn't realise he had hit the car until my wife shouted into his deaf aid [&:]

He then agreed what had happened ( several witnesses were around to confirm it ), and agreed to pay for the repair if my wife got some quotes. Now obviously I am going to repair it myself but it gave us the chance to get a quote from a rival repairer in town. Here's a pic of the damage, 90% of it is just paint transfer from his car, but the central inch above the letter G is actually down to the plastic of our bumper and will need spraying. What do you think was the quote given to my wife?

 

[xenon]

Don't forget the cracked foglight glass.

Does your wife actually drive your car? I can only just get my wife to agree to go as a passenger...

 

[pauljmcnulty]

I'd say £200 - seems to be the standard rate for a small repair to one panel from the hire companies if you get any little dink or scratch....[]

 

[edh]

I recently got scuffs on F&R bumpers on the Subaru done for £130 (cash) - the rear was probably worse than that & needed a fair bit of filling

my bodyshop man says lots of places won't do this sort of work now & will quote you for a new bumper instead [8|]

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: xenon

Does your wife actually drive your car? I can only just get my wife to agree to go as a passenger...

It's her car []

It was mine and I planned to sell it when I bought the Turbo five years ago but she put her foot down and said 'its mine' [&:]

 

[smitty893]

I've just paid £80 for chips-away to repair a 4cm scratch on a Mini door so I would expect your quote to be about £500 plus the replacement light

 

[zcacogp]

I'm with Smitty - around £500.


Oli.

 

[peanut]

I don't understand why you want all that aggro ?
why don't you do it through the insurance and have a proper warrantee'd job done with a new bumper . It will never fit right and the filla will fall out the next time the bumper is flexed by someone else reveresing on it.

I've had this happen to me twice now. I am thinking of fitting a infra red distance sensor in my bumper which will set of a piercing scream when something gets withing 18 inches ![]

 

[Diver944]

When someone gets within £20 I'll come clean []

Peanut, I'll be repairing it because it is my profession and the filler won't be falling out I got a second quote to show the gentleman how competitive my own rate will be, it will feel odd to be paid for working on my own car [&:]

 

[Peter Empson]

I'd hope no more than £400 but I'm going to say £640 as that's the sort of bizarre amount you get on quotes []

Are they proposing to remove the bumper to check for damage behind it? If that's the case I'll revise my budget upwards by a large margin []

 

[cococola]

Mobile paint repair £75 +cost of lamp[8|]

 

[Gregson944]

I had chips away come and look at 4 little marks on my bumper and one on the wing for 80 quid according to Halfords he looked at it and said no way am I going to attempt that as he said the paint work was far better than he could attcheve so shopped around in the end 220 for cash the wing and 1/2 the bumper but did do several others so I recon on the whole bumper needing doing 250/300 plus vat and the galss.

 

[sawood12]

I don't think the fog light glass is cracked. The cracked part is a small piece of plastic that is screwed next to the fog lamp unit and is not part of it.

I'm going to guess £800 on the basis of my experience with body shops in that they would have probably said the bumper needed removal and completely stripped and repainted.

 

[Big Dave]

It all depends if they quote for a new front PU.....Ill say £1200......

 

[Gordon Attar]

The going rate is usually £200+v per panel from an independant so £400 from +v OPC

 

[morris944s2john]

£150 for bodyshop, £75 for Pauls smart repair.

 

[Diver944]

Ok, Peter and Gordon were closest with the £400 figure. The place we approached actually quoted £421.83 including the vat to remove and paint the whole bumper and that was charging £115 + vat for the foglight trim. They are a small place specialising in SMART repairs, but they have started to take on larger jobs too.

The actual damage to the paint is less than an inch wide and not even through the primer to the plastic so it won't need any filling, just rubbing down and spraying which should take no more than three hours and I'll be charging him a third of that price. Black is such a good colour for spot repairs that most non Porsche people would probably be happy with a simple touch in with a brush for the cost of the paint.

A quick internet checks shows the foglight trims are only £35 from Porscheshop, so when I ring the OPC they are probably £25.

I've never had much luck with bodyshops [&o]. I've had three experiences of them in my life and every time it has taken at least twice as long to do the repair than estimated (14 times longer recently) and the work has always had to be done at least twice until I was happy.