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[Tomar2]

Evening chaps and ladies.

Just a quickie. I've got rust under my headlights, a few bits around the wind screen to the extent where i can see it on the inside and it gets damp, my floor panels need replacing (Getting water in the footwells. Will this mean the sills are buggered too?), where my back bumper used to sit it's very badly rusted and crumbled away and i'm pretty sure the under side of my doors need welding up.

Will i need new door/window seals if this is the case?

How much do you guys think the bodywork is going to cost? Also i'd like a respray black. What have you all payed in the past for this in the past?

So basically - How much for the body work and how much would a new paint job cost?

Cheers TMF

[Shifty]

You do realise that you're basically looking at a full resto there???

Thats not cheep either.

[Guess-Works.com]

Considerably more than the car's worth...

[Shifty]

Considerably more than the car's worth...

Usually!!!

[miniman24]

Considerably more than the car's worth...

Usually!!!

Not if you do it yourself

I did (or am still doing!) about £500 worth of welding to my Mini, and thats just part of the floor, and new sills! And it cost.... £46, for the panels.

Get a welder, cheap one, and practise!! Such a valuable skill, can't rate it enough. Good luck

Edit: I'm forgetful

Edited by miniman24, 18 January 2010 - 07:32 PM.

[James182]

depends who does it. if i was to do it i would look at 400 for the respray alone......600 for the panel work. so 1000 for it all i would say would possibly be the cheaapest unless u do it yourself

[Shifty]

depends who does it. if i was to do it i would look at 400 for the respray alone......600 for the panel work. so 1000 for it all i would say would possibly be the cheaapest unless u do it yourself

Good grief!!

You can't even buy the panels required to do that properly for £600!!

From his description its gonna need:-

- Floors(1/2 floors with inner and outer sills)
-Front end(inc scuttle)
- Inner flitches
-Boot floor
-Lower boot lip repair panel
-Rear valence
- Doors(repair and re-skin)
-Door Steps(poss full width)

A few other local repairs

A good paint job will cost £900ish, especially if he wants black as the prep will have to be spot on.

To do the car properly you'll be looking at spending £3000 to £3500.

A proper job isn't cheep.

[panelbeaterpeter]

Yep, between 3 and 4k.

[micrawavewindow]

if ya want to sell it let me know i might have a use for it thanks

[mick black]

Considerably more than the car's worth...

Usually!!!

Not if you do it yourself

I did (or am still doing!) about £500 worth of welding to my Mini, and thats just part of the floor, and new sills! And it cost.... £46, for the panels.

Get a welder, cheap one, and practise!! Such a valuable skill, can't rate it enough. Good luck

Edit: I'm forgetful

please dont get a cheep welder get a good one, i repair cars for a living and the amount of minis that come to me when the customer has tried
to do there own repairs, not good

[Tomar2]

Ouch. The damage on the front is cosmetic but getting on my nerves. This isn't something i wanted to read guys. Surely what i've described isn't THAT bad? Hmmmm. I've really been thrown

[GTIAlex06]

Best thing to do is to get some pictures up so the experts can have a proper look. No body work repair is cheap though. Do it for the love though

[James182]

blooody hell seamus!! it surely doesnt need all those panels!! flitches?? he said cosmetic not rot box...... lol

[Shifty]

blooody hell seamus!! it surely doesnt need all those panels!! flitches?? he said cosmetic not rot box...... lol

I bet a pound to a penny that once you start to remove the outer panels and dig around you end up buying all the panels on my list!!

If the scuttles got to the point where its holed then theres gonna be rot underneath it, the water leaking in through the scuttle will have also wrecked the floor.

This will have also trashed the step sills.

If the rear bumper lip is rotten then the boot floor will be as well, the lower panel underneath the bootlid will also have gone.

The rot he can see is cosmetic, its the bits he can't that are gonna be the problem!!

Trust me on this, I've not seen a mini in ages that pleasantly surprised me.

[James182]

I understand what you are saying. But when he said slight rust on the front wings i couldnt imagine the flitches being irrepairable?

obviously pictures would be needed to assertain the extent of the rot.
Did not mean to offend i just couldnt justify some of the panels you had listed?

James