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 NuZo
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 04:51 PM |
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Best place to get ur beetle Resprayed/panel beated?!?!?!
gday all! yup, its me again! with another Hopefully helpful post!
ok, so this time im wondering, where in sydney is the best place to get a respray. and do u have any idea of the costs?
I.E. my mechanic says he has a mate in concord that will panel beat and respray the whole car for approx 3k? is this a good price? or i can just get
then panel beating done for i think 700-800? which includes:
new right rear guard and sprayed
Front right guard beated
rear apron beated
front left guard beated a little (tiny little dent that gives me the shits)
i also have a friend who's dad is a panel beater but i havn't asked him yet as i want AVD's opinion first!
So im looking to get the car's dings and what not fixed up. but as i was cleaning it the other day, it occured to me, sure the parts that are getting
fixied are going to look nice, but what about the rest of the car?, iv got paint chips all over it! some on the door from rocks on the freeway, on the
insides of the doors when ppl just let go of the seatbelt and it flys n hits the door. (retractable seatbelts)
my paint has many, many imperfections, most of which will come out with a good detailing, but the chips of paint missing wont! sigh... this is all
courtesy of my brother who owned it b4 i did, he didnt care about it all all. now i have to pay to fix it 
SO!!! what does AVD think?
ill post pics! to give u all a better idea! but i need an oppinion from experienced VW'ers! help a dubber in need 
Once agian!!! Cheers all!! Loves yas!
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NuZo
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 05:23 PM |
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OK... i kno theres alot of photos here, but i made them all approk 26kb so it should be too bad on ur net! but these are all the imperfections i was
talking about.... and they all effect how the car looks so, what do you
AVD's think?
 
Rear left gaurd, some idiot decided to sit on it with jeans that had keys in it!...........................Rear right guard, brother hit a few poles
comming up my drive way..
 
Rear apron, no idea how this happend, but it did .................................................left hand side door
 
Left hand side door agian.................................................................Left hand door hinges
 
Right hand light.......................................................................................Right hand door hinges
 
Fuel Cap and bottom of windscreen
 
bottom of windscreen agian.............right hand morror
 
front right guard...................right hand door
 
right and left inside doors
right hand side of bottom windscreen
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 05:25 PM |
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where r u in Sunny Sydney ???
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NuZo
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 05:28 PM |
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sorry! im in abbotsford, which is neer fivedock, concord, burwood all those kinda places.
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 05:32 PM |
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3grand isnt too bad but you need to look at his previous work. i know i paid 2500 for the paint job on chaos but i got lucky with the guy that did it.
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 05:41 PM |
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Peeling paint I would remove all paints existing to bare metal, and then you start getting into $10,000 if you have to pay someone else.
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 06:06 PM |
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hmm....go buy a $40 5inch grinder from supercheap and one of those "brumby" blue scotchbrite pads...oh and safety glasses...anywhere you got peeling
paint buff it down to shiny metal...then you will know what needs repairing before you can paint this experience can be very interesting
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 06:08 PM |
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posted by helbus
Peeling paint I would remove all paints existing to bare metal, and then you start getting into $10,000 if you have to pay someone else.
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WTF!!! WTH!!!
how would u remove the paint urself? im guessing just like the rest of the ppl on here do it. but even then, that takes weeks even months! GAH!
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 06:12 PM |
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oh yeah and get a spraycan of primer to protect the shiny metal and at least then you can drive around saying work in progress
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 06:14 PM |
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haha ok so... if i sand back the paint to bare metal, is it only the parts with peeling paint? or the whole car? and if i do the work myself? how much
do u think it would cost then? do they need to do anyhitng special or is it just the same as a normal respray?
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 06:19 PM |
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thats what mine was. just a spray job with a little body work. my old man and i did all the prep work including rust repair.
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| posted on November 24th, 2008 at 07:29 PM |
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Mate if you have no panel beating expertise go to a professional, 3 grand is dirt cheap if his work is good,if not it is bloody expensive
.Particularly in 6 months time when you have bits of bog starting to drop out,rust showing under the shiny paint and it goes on.You get what you pay
for. I don't know any tradesmen in Sydney but after seeing the vehicles at the shows some of the guys on the forum must be using a good shop they
will recomend.
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| posted on November 25th, 2008 at 04:21 AM |
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posted by grumble
Mate if you have no panel beating expertise go to a professional, 3 grand is dirt cheap if his work is good,if not it is bloody expensive
.Particularly in 6 months time when you have bits of bog starting to drop out,rust showing under the shiny paint and it goes on.You get what you pay
for. I don't know any tradesmen in Sydney but after seeing the vehicles at the shows some of the guys on the forum must be using a good shop they
will recomend.
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yeah but it doesnt include removing paint i dont think.... i think its just spraying...
so u guys rkn i should sand it down to bare metal.....but only on the parts where paint is peeling.... or the whole car?
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| posted on November 25th, 2008 at 05:32 AM |
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like i said...take the bad bits back to bare metal and see where it goes. nothing wrong with a bit of good bog but not if its hiding rust. your car
looks pretty good in the pics and you may just have a couple of places need fixing before you spray expensive paint on it
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| posted on November 25th, 2008 at 05:38 AM |
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OK find a place close to you so you can keep eye on the progress
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