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[Bean]

I haven't even taken him around the shows properly yet and he's started to crack

So I'm getting this sorted and will work on him for 8 weeks whilst he's stored away... getting his interior as gorgeous as his exterior!

[Ethel]

If you own 2 cars it would be ridiculous not to use them both. £20 for a power run doesn't sound bad at all 'n I'm sure any half decent operator will discuss the results with you 'n may well pin down the idling fault with the diagnostics. Rust round seams is nearly always the outward signs of whats happening inside the joint. Have a thorough go at the back of the panels 'n get some rust neutraliser pumped as well in to the joints as possible.

[Bean]

Cheers ethel! will get the bodyshop to do that!

I also told them that I didn't want fibreglass, which is what they said that they would do... i want metal!


But... I got the job! So can put lots of moneys on his interior! yeay!

[Bean]

Well... after breaking down again, in an attempt to get him in to the garage... he finally made it


He's had a new alternator and he's had his exhaust stripped, sealed and welded!


he's running perfectly Such a joy to drive home today

[mini93]

good that is all i need to say right?

[Bean]

wouldn't have expected anything else!

[rja]

Reggie is one of my favorite minis of ALL time!

Absolutely perfect!!!

[Bean]

awww, hehe, thank you!

We're going up to Bingley on Sunday, so if any of you lot are going - we'll see you there!

[Bean]

My little man is booked into the bodyshop

He's having the rust taken off the front panel and a metal plate put in, the rust taken off the seams and re-sealed, the scuttle-to-wing joins re-sealed, the two front seams from roof-arch (both have tiny bits of surface rust on) re-done.... and the the whole front end re-sprayed from the windscreen forwards


I know it's a bit drastic, but it needs doing because I won't be happy otherwise!

Anyway ... he's going in on Tuesday 29th January, and he'll be done by Friday morning


How much do you think this work should cost? I've accepted a price and I'm pretty sure that it's a good quote, but I want to make sure??

[*DJH*]

so how much is it going to cost you?

[Bean]

how much should it cost me?

[*DJH*]

dunno, it could be rediciously cheap or dear

[Bean]

Oh, alright then...


£300 for the lot

[*DJH*]

not too bad i suppose i had a complete respray in two colours and some smoothing work done for £330

but i'm glad to see that you're letting a professional do it.

[Bean]

if it was just the front panel and it was just surface rust, then I would have done it myself... but as it goes, I'm getting lots more done, so I wouldn't do this myself...

not yet anyway not with Reggie

And for the work that they do, £300 is brilliant - I think! They re-sprayed my uncle's car... he caught the fence and scraped some paint off, and then he had the bonnet re-sprayed because of some stone chips... And his car is a 53 plate car, so has metallic paint - but their work was perfect!

And they're 0.6 miles from my house! I may not have much in my village, but I do have a bodyshop!