rough cost to rub down and spray a bootlid thats off the car

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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:39 am

How much would it be to spray a spoilerless bootlid that's removed from the car around 70-100?

Its royal blue at the moment and will be sprayed zinnoberot red
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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:46 am

matt86 wrote:How much would it be to spray a spoilerless bootlid that's removed from the car around 70-100?

Its royal blue at the moment and will be sprayed zinnoberot red
i paid £80 for a bonnet from our corsa to be sprayed and prepped and that was a metallic colour mate. id expect to pay about the same so yeah up to a tonne would be reasonable :)
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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:57 am

Rich320I wrote:
matt86 wrote:How much would it be to spray a spoilerless bootlid that's removed from the car around 70-100?

Its royal blue at the moment and will be sprayed zinnoberot red
i paid £80 for a bonnet from our corsa to be sprayed and prepped and that was a metallic colour mate. id expect to pay about the same so yeah up to a tonne would be reasonable :)
Cheers mate, I thought that was about right. Hows things?
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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 11:06 am

good cheers mate, finally theres abit of sunshine to enjoy. need a convertible like yours though cooking in mine :D
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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 11:17 am

Rich320I wrote:good cheers mate, finally theres abit of sunshine to enjoy. need a convertible like yours though cooking in mine :D
I know its nice, haven't got mine on the road at the moment till end of month, as tax has run out and need to fit a oil cooler too.

send me some pics of your new one. :cool:
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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 11:22 am

My local bodyshop, BMW approved, quoted £300 a couple of years ago.

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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:53 pm

Z3I wrote:My local bodyshop, BMW approved, quoted £300 a couple of years ago.

Don't come to Surrey!
Thanks for that Paul, that's a lot considered how small the bootlid is and the basic shape of it.

I don't think it will cost anymore than 20-30 in paint, so anything else is laboup.s when you down in Exeter again?
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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:21 pm

the cost of paint is approximatly £45 a litre you will need no more than a 1/4 most of the body shops around london charge £130ish a panel cant see it cosing that much for just the boot lid tho. £90 would be my perdiction.
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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:31 pm

Your just gona give them a paint code for red :roll:
Be better off geting a match to the car knowing what red fades like.
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Post Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:01 pm

most places are £150 per panel

Be carefull just having that done though, youll find the rest of the paint o the car has dried and comes up slightly different