In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, T. .R. Dafforn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >> I also got a few quotes for re-spraying (in the region of three hundred >> quid), so in the end, I simply got some black Carriage Paint from >> Halfords, and slapped it on with a brush (price GBP15-ish). If you >> want to have the job done properly, you will probably have to allow at >> least GBP200. > >Got my whole car resprayed for only 550 quid. Is your hard top for an estate?
<g> Now there's a conversion that I really don't want to see! Respraying is one of those things that the experts bamboozle the innocent car-owner about. One is told that "cheap" resprays are a waste of money, and that a decent job will cost you a fortune. I got a "cheap" paint-job (GBP60) done on the new sill, and aside from the fact that the paint doesn't match the rest of the car perfectly (which would have been impossible, as the car is painted in about 17 subtly-different shades of Inca Yellow), I can't see that it is in any way inferior. You will note that in my cost estimate for James that I reduced the cost of the hardtop respray by a third. He might manage to do even better than that. ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea" http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
