Renault 5 T2

£1500 for a respray???? You are visiting the wrong places!!!! I do know what you mean about spiralling costs.....dont think Ive ever completed a car on budget yet!!!

£1500 for a respray???? You are visiting the wrong places!!!!

you get what you pay for peter, £4500 was paid to paint a scruffy GTA over here. now looks like new.

painting is the most expensive part of car ownership.

i would sooner buy a mechanically scrap car with a good body and paintwork over a car needing paintwork!!

£1500 for a respray???? You are visiting the wrong places!!!!

you get what you pay for peter, £4500 was paid to paint a scruffy GTA over here. now looks like new.

painting is the most expensive part of car ownership.

i would sooner buy a mechanically scrap car with a good body and paintwork over a car needing paintwork!!

Not for me it isn't!

I paid £50 for paint for my rallycross XR2i and painted it myself!!!!!!
(Must admit it needs done again cos of the 'rubbing' while racing , but it's only £50! and no-one looks that closely at a racing car when on the track! )

£4500 for a respray!!! They must have seen him coming! If, say they were charging £50 an hour that would mean 90 hours....ok knock off a copuple for the cost of the paint and its still implausible. The place that will be doing mine have been in the business for decades and do work for a lot of the main dealers, last time I was in (amongst others) they were spraying for the local BMW dealer. A friend of mine who works at a garage took a customers MG Midget there and they charged £650 for a complete spray and apparently it had needed sanding first! I have seen the car and it is faultless. So that was trade price to another garage who regularly send things there but it gives an indication. As I said I'm looking at £800 for a complete spray......maybe £1000 if I wanted every single thing that is wrong with the body ironed out.

Pete

I was quoted £ 6120 (inc VAT) for a respray from a local company. They're an independant Lotus & MG specialist and even though they know what they're doing with GRP and the like I still almost passed out - I've still got the written quote if anyone needs a laugh.

Needless to say I didn't go there when I had it done!

By the way with the front bumper missing on your car in the latest pictures it's looking more and more like the Pursuit Special from Mad Max II.

Maybe I should leave it like that....and bolt on a huge supercharger!!!!!! I havent yet fitted the new one so theres still time
Your quote for a respray is whats wrong with the whole motor trade. People charge what they think people will pay (that combined with the local cost of staff)....I'm sure if you went to a Ferrari dealer they would charge double that and yet it wouldnt be any better than a specialist spray place charging 1/4 of the amount.
The place I'm going to only does accident repair and spraying and has 2 ovens and maybe 20 staff who spend all day everyday repairing and spraying cars. They must have about 25 cars in at any given time which is maybe why they can give quotes as they do. They took the bubbles out of the passenger side door and roof for me last September (they havent come back either) and quoted £250.......once the father in law had given the owner a nod (or is that left a horses head in his bed ) they charged me £200......and they did a really fantastic job, so much so that you could tell because the quality of finish was better than the old paint job (which was crap!!!!)

£200 for 1 panel is going to work out at £1500 for a complete car easy! GTA's don't usually need much preparation because they don't rust, try sanding, repairing, filling a panel with a bit of rust and some light damage, or taking a car back to bare metal for a really good job, I know plenty of people who'll blow your car over if you prep it your self for a few hundred quid. Pearl white paint is about £150 a litre too for decent stuff so the paint can come to plenty of money too add lacquer as well. Paul had a guy come in to paint a 4CV down at ARR and the guy was there for a good 2 weeks doing nothing else but preparing the car - It did come out lovely though.

2 panels...roof and passenger door! Hadnt considered the prepping angle for plastic vs metal. Thank god for plastic cars. Whats also rather good about the GTA is that with a bit of heat you can bend panels......my front wing that was not flush with the nose cone now is thanks to the miracle of a heat gun!!!

I was quoted £1200 for a full respray in a white/blue flip .The guy was saying that the pearly white was a botch to match
I need passenger door / front nearside bumper and roof ( VANDAL effwit ) so its getting towards a full job anyway.

MY MISSUS WAS NAMED TRACY .
i dont have any photos of her now [i am married ] but she looked like Demi moore,very nice .Her dad was a trimmer at rolls royce in crewe and i had the T2 trimmed with the best Wilton carpet and sahara tan leather available [roof lining ,doors engine bay ,infact everything] the T2 was pearl white metalic and looked amazing,and didnt argue ,other than with a bark from the exhaust .
If i could own a T2 and my currant GTA i would ,but the comments about T2 s being problematic are true ,they are highly tuned small engines and weekend use is sensible LOVE EM , YOU SHOULD ALL BUY ONE , NOW

Mmmmm....Demi Moore....thats why women are a little bit like cars. Once is very exciting, but then you want to repeat the experience over and over. The good thing about cars is that they dont nag you in between!!!

Hmm could get me shot something like this! I've owned my GTA longer than any of my relationships with women have lasted! Plastic body stays looking good despite its advancing years, better at getting you from A to B but not as pleasurable to ride in. GTA more fun on the road, the missus more fun in the bedroom (but you can't get a GTA in the bedroom), neither cooks (unless the fans stop working), the missus washes herself, car doesn't moan about watching the Matrix for the 10th time, its a close call but the current girlfriend would win (the ex-wife would have lost!). Although I would never succumb to the its the car or me scenario - love me love my cars!

went for £4100.....bit of a bargain I think! If I'd had the money I would definitely have bid. Sadly crashing the GTA didnt help my finances any!!!

went for £4100.....bit of a bargain I think! If I'd had the money I would definitely have bid. Sadly crashing the GTA didnt help my finances any!!!

mmmmm - if u'd of seen the car u wouldn't of thought it was a bargain!

i met the lad and saw the car and i felt sorry for him! i know he's taken a loss when he's sold it

and also that it needs a complete nut and bolt rebuild! ONCE u've welded nearly the whole car!

but i've still got my T2 and oh yes 240bhp turned down thanks to glen @ dynotec is FUN!!! just need to fit the new clutch and we can have 300+

And he made it sound like a respray and light restoration!!!!