Rear End Damage
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fordsbyjay
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If you have full coverage you shouldn't even be involved other than driving it down to the body shop. Your insurance company has to deal with getting the money out of their company not you.
one finger john
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one finger john
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I honestly don't know what happened with the above post, but what happened with simply replacing and painting a whole new body?
The $7000.00 to paint the car is reflective of todays rip off attitude towards insurance companies, both on the companies' side and the "hot rod" repair shops. Did it even cost $2000.00 to paint the car originally? Honestly.
Sounds like someone is trying to make bank on this one.
John
P.S. Who is this world famous "hot rod" shop that is charging exorbitant prices. Name names.
The $7000.00 to paint the car is reflective of todays rip off attitude towards insurance companies, both on the companies' side and the "hot rod" repair shops. Did it even cost $2000.00 to paint the car originally? Honestly.
Sounds like someone is trying to make bank on this one.
John
P.S. Who is this world famous "hot rod" shop that is charging exorbitant prices. Name names.
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ellis8500
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Car is in the shop. Body is off and repairs started. Insurance company [other guy's] agreed that entire body need to be repainted. It ends up that after getting a better look at the extent of damage with body off car the repair estimate did increase. There was hidden damage that could not be seen with body on the car. New estimate not that far off from the $7K estimate I got from Old Dog Hot Rods in St. Louis. Now a days, when a big city shop does all the body prep, base and clear coat with cut and buff we are talking in the $10K range. That was range of quotes I got a few years ago. Blew me away then and still does.
2old2fast
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I'm gonna say this again , when a fiberglass structure is stressed as bad as yours was , there is damage that no one can see w/the human eye , I'm not trying to be a dick about this , but in the future you Will have stress cracks show , tell them you want /demand a new body !!!
dave
dave
ellis8500
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Thanks for asking, Dave. Car is in the shop. Checked on it yesterday. It is just about ready for paint. They will paint the entire body. The filling and blocking looks and feels perfect. They added a lot of glass to the back sides of the cracks and added some stiffeners to eliminate some body flex that I noticed when driving. They lined the entire trunk area with a Linex type material. They filled all the imperfections that where on the body, trunk lid and doors that I did not address on the first; low budget paint job. Before they paint I'll come in and select the level of sparkle I want; they are spraying test panels. They are going to clear coat which it did not have before. I do believe that it will look far better than it did before the accident. As for durability we'll just have to wait and see. I'm not in a hurry; just want it done right.
fordsbyjay
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It seems expensive until you do it yourself. There is a butt load of time in fiberglass bodies even if they are small. Paint supplies are expensive as well. A friend of mine repainted my body for $1500 plus material and he worked on it a lot to make it straight as an arrow. There was no major repairs either.
one finger john
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Bill, it appears that you had a lot of extra work done to your T body. Time consuming work. Work that was not performed when the car was originally prepped & painted. I think the term is called "betterment".
John
John
@ellis8500 how about some pictures? Glad you got your bucket back and it is all fixed.
iajjpop
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When I got ready to have my 'T' painted , there was a guy here that did body work on semi trucks [ fiberglass cabs] worked on them everday . So I went & seen him to do my painting on the 'T'. We agreed on a price & he did it. That was in 2006 , still looks good today. Since then he has inherited a farm & farms it. Does not do body work anymore..
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