I recently went to two shops to get some body work estimates done on my car. I have a body kit on my cvic sedan, but it was hit a few months back.

I need work on front bumper, left fender, left sideskirt and read bumper.
All were hit, they need complete repaint and reattachment.

One shop says the job to fix and paint it will take one complete day to attach sand off paint, prime, paint, gloss, compound.

Another shop told it it would take about 4 days to complete the work.

It seems like alot of work to me to do in only one day.

Especially the paint work. Does it not take more then one day for paint to dry and cure?

your opinions are appreciated, I am planning to take the car to get worked on, on friday.

thanks

 

yeah cause you have to bake it and color sand it buff it not to mention you need body work

 

id def go with the one that said 4 days. the other place by sound off it will just be rushing it in that time scale and wont get as good a job. too get it all right 100% it takes time

 

you can get a car out in a day with just paint. but if they are fixing fiberglass and all sorts of **** then it will take more than that. unless they have a magical man that can do fiber glass work filler wrk paint wrk in a day

 

Half of these people dont know **** about what they are talking about on this board. Take it to whatever shop you feel is reputable and which ever you are more comfortable with.

Example, this sat/sunday I just did a complete overall on a black 2002 mitsu galant.....a COMPLETE OVERALL. Including fixing dents everywhere, stripping the doors bare, sunroof, all glass, all trim etc etc etc. Normally this is no where near a 2 day job, but I did it.

Also who says you need to bake the paint? There are many shops who dont bake their paint, the previous job I worked at didnt, the place im at now dosent. All True2Form locations (for example) use Sherwin Williams paint. The HPC15 (i believe that is it) clear dries extremely quick and can be buffed in a hour after painting without baking...air dry at 70+ degree.

Unless your items are literally hanging off of the car...this is not alot of work really at all. In the shop we work at we have dissasemblers, body techs, painters, painter prep, detailer. They would dissasemble the car, I would get the parts repair the parts, painter prep would prime them, painter would sand and shoot, then detailer would make ready for delivery.

So to answer the q, one day is quick...but its not unreal.

 

Agreed...
I've seen cars in and out quick.. It all depends if the body shop is busy and can't get to the car yet or if they dont have enough man power to get it out faster.. or they just dont know what they are doing..

 

What is four days? If you go to the 1 day shop you may be disappointed.

 

Thanks for the advice. I actually went to the shop that said it would take one day to complete the job, I really didnt like their view on body work.

I am not an expert myself, but I saw a few jobs they were doing and I was not satisfied.

4 Day shop it is.

When I actually get it done, I will send you some before and after work.

thanks again.

 

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with some of the things said on this thread.

I would be inclined to believe that the one day shop knows more then the other. If you ask any real body shop, they will all tell you that it is true that time is money, especially in their business. The shop that gets your stuff out in one day knows how to make things work faster, doesn't mean they'll rush it, just means that they're a shop that knows how to turn a profit on fixing cars. I think it's perfectly acceptable to have a shop do it in one day.

Both shops are doing the same thing, if there's something wrong with the paint or bodywork, or whatever, take it back to the same shop and they'll fix it. So it really comes down to how much they're charging.

 

Coming from a guy who works at a reputable bodyshop.

Even cars we get in that just have bumper jobs we write 3 days on, period. Unless we work it out prior with the customer and such. We have a paint booth and bake all our cars, only takes about 2-3 hours (dependent on the car) for me and my painter to get most of our jobs done. But you figure it'll take a day to dis-assemble, and do mud/body work, then we'll (paint/prep) get the car the next day and prep/paint it, then it'll go back to the tech guys for re-assembly and out to the detailer that afternoon. Then again, we also bring in 12-15 cars a week (smaller shop, only 4 of us working out back), and get all of them out in a mon-fri time frame, so other cars get worked on at the same time.

It still boils down to which shop has a good rep in your area.

 

I wonder if the one day shop meant something like, drop it off at night, they work on it the whole next day and get it back to you like in the middle of the second day. Or some thing like that./