Any body guys wanna give an estimate on my damage?
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Any body guys wanna give an estimate on my damage?
Just recently bought this CRX and am looking into getting some bodywork done on the drivers side door and quarterpanel where it looks like the car got hit a couple times. If you can give me an estimate on what fixing should cost. Thanks
P.S. Anybody near Oklahoma City feel free to offer to do the work.
P.S. Anybody near Oklahoma City feel free to offer to do the work.
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Re: Any body guys wanna give an estimate on my damage? (janz3n)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by janz3n »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">would someone actually just use bondo on something that bad?</TD></TR></TABLE>
On the quarter panel yes if it was insurance work because of the age of the car otherwise it would be a total.
I would replace the door skin for sure or find a door at a junkyard. Quarter panel is up to you...meaning how much do you have to spend? To do it right is gonna cost probably at least $1000 for quarter panel and install and new door skin probably without paint...possibly more. I dont do estimates we have a estimator + Im paint side so I dont know the exact hrs to apply to these jobs money wise.
Figure Bondo on 1/4 and new door skin + labor and paint would be about $1500 and probably $2500 for new 1/4 panel. New 1/4 panel is a lot of work...glass removal,bumper removal etc
On the quarter panel yes if it was insurance work because of the age of the car otherwise it would be a total.
I would replace the door skin for sure or find a door at a junkyard. Quarter panel is up to you...meaning how much do you have to spend? To do it right is gonna cost probably at least $1000 for quarter panel and install and new door skin probably without paint...possibly more. I dont do estimates we have a estimator + Im paint side so I dont know the exact hrs to apply to these jobs money wise.
Figure Bondo on 1/4 and new door skin + labor and paint would be about $1500 and probably $2500 for new 1/4 panel. New 1/4 panel is a lot of work...glass removal,bumper removal etc
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From: Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Bondo jobs? I had a dent in a similar spot on my quarter panel, I used 40 grit sander to etch it all, then used long strand fiberglass to fill it after tapping it out best I could from the inside. After sanding that, I roughened it back up with the 4 grit, and just skimmed bondo over the top of that, deepest part of bondo is probably 1/8th inch. I guess I see fiberglass holding up longer is my point, just as cheap too.
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Re: (NAallTheWAY)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NAallTheWAY »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> A big chunk of bondo would eventually crack and fall out.</TD></TR></TABLE>if done right they would pull most of the dent out as best as possible, then fill the imperfections with some filler/bondo. Final metal glaze would be used to clean it up. It wouldnt crack and fall out if done this way.
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Definitely get a new (used) door at a junkyard. They can be had cheaper than just the labor cost on the door dent.
The quarter panel is actually going to be more complicated than it looks. Ideally, filler shouldn't be any closer than a couple inches to the seam of a panel, and your dent goes all the way into the door seam. Additionally, your dent covers the fender lip, and also the gas door. I bet your gas door section isn't flush with the rest of the panel...it probably got pushed in a little bit, and when the rest of the panel is brought out flush it's going to look bad.
Getting that section looking brand new is going to take a lot more labor than just a regular old basketball style quarter panel dent.
smokinsax is right though...most of it CAN be pulled out, and the filler probably will never crack or fall out. Expect at least $500++ for somebody to do that section properly.
The quarter panel is actually going to be more complicated than it looks. Ideally, filler shouldn't be any closer than a couple inches to the seam of a panel, and your dent goes all the way into the door seam. Additionally, your dent covers the fender lip, and also the gas door. I bet your gas door section isn't flush with the rest of the panel...it probably got pushed in a little bit, and when the rest of the panel is brought out flush it's going to look bad.
Getting that section looking brand new is going to take a lot more labor than just a regular old basketball style quarter panel dent.
smokinsax is right though...most of it CAN be pulled out, and the filler probably will never crack or fall out. Expect at least $500++ for somebody to do that section properly.
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Re: (b.d.racing)
no body can determine if the filler is going to crack or fall out except for the person who is actually doing the work because the only thing determining this is the prep work done by the body guy, whether or not he actually used 24 grit to get down to bare metal, whether or not he grinds it completely bare like your supposed to do or leaves some paint in the low spots. and yeah those are pretty decent dents, nobody is gonna "pop" those out from behind, your gonna need a stud gun to get it some what straight and still at that 1/2 your quarter is gonna be covered in plastic work, for some people thats fine, for me, no way, i'd be putting a quarter on and skin that door. for that much plastic work i'd guess about $600-900 for just getting it up to prime, double that price to get it all painted with decent materials
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