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Offline Dave7692

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Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« on: August 08, 2014, 04:11:00 pm »
I bought some GTI side skirts for my golf and wanted them sanded down and painting to match the rest of the car.  I called up a local bodyshop and their initial quote was £250  :scared:

I was sure people were getting it done much cheaper than that, can anyone recommend a place in the Dorset area that could do it?

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Re: Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2014, 06:45:33 pm »
Try prepping them yourself, will be much cheaper

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Re: Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2014, 08:00:32 pm »
Interested in this. Let me know how u get on buddy.


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Re: Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2014, 09:57:16 pm »
That is very steep. I paid 120 to have mine prep'd and painted. These were the textured gti ones too.

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Re: Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2014, 11:05:09 am »
That is very steep. I paid 120 to have mine prep'd and painted. These were the textured gti ones too.

Thats what I thought, I'm gonna get a price from a different shop that a met has used to do some stuff on his golf so hopefully it will be cheaper.

If not I'll be prepping them myself, I guess its just a case of patiently taking the texture off with some wet & dry until they're nice and smooth then take them in for prime & paint.

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Re: Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2014, 11:11:55 am »
youll never remove all the texture

you need to key with 180 grit, then plastic adhesion followed by high build primer, once dry sand with 400-800 depending on colour then paint and clear

we charge £70 per skirt for this

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Re: Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2014, 11:39:26 am »
youll never remove all the texture

you need to key with 180 grit, then plastic adhesion followed by high build primer, once dry sand with 400-800 depending on colour then paint and clear

we charge £70 per skirt for this

jake

Thanks for the info Jake, just to clarify is that £70 per skirt for prep and paint or £70 just for prep with paint as an extra?

Also just in case you're relatively close where are you based?

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Re: Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2014, 12:26:38 pm »
That's painted bud

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Re: Side Skirt prep and paint cost?
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2014, 12:59:18 pm »
That's painted bud

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Ah thanks for that, sadly I'm down in Dorset otherwise I'd have taken you up on it haha