Changing a vert hood.

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MiniC
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Sun Aug 12, 2018 2:34 pm

Hey zone I'm after some advice

My hood is pretty knackered and I want to sell the car I'd like to change the hood but have never done one does anybody have any experience or advice to give me on price and procedure or if I should even bother.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Sun Aug 12, 2018 3:54 pm

Where are you based?

To do the whole roof is easy enough will need two people to lift it off and on, to recover then get a company that knows what they are doing.
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Sun Aug 12, 2018 4:06 pm

Cornwall.

do you know roughly how much it would cost to be done?
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Sun Aug 12, 2018 4:43 pm

About £700 to recover but this is a company in London so would be a task for you and financially not worth it, you maybe better off selling the car as is and reflecting the damage to the roof in the price.

What colour is the roof and how bad is it?

http://www.carhood.com/bmw/

Keep an eye out on eBay as well as posting a wanted add on here for a roof, you would have to do a pick up as they do usually can damaged in transit and I suppose that serves you right for living in the arse end of nowhere with lovely beaches ;o))))) Where in Cornwall are you?
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Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:05 pm

I bought a replacement from Z3i and we swapped the roofs over on his drive was hard to get as mine is blue.
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