Body shop people, how much is this gonna set me back

[sunshine1990]

I had a 'incident' with a wall in a car park, needless to say the wall won

Now, I've never had anything repaired bodywork wise before so I'm crapping myself at how much this is going to cost to repair. I've tried to get a few photos to best show the damage (iPhone crappies sorry)






Bloody shoppers with there small cars causing small car parks not big enough to manoeuvre a lawn mower inside.

So am I looking at a new quarter panel here, or can it be salvaged?
Can anyone ballpark how much is the repair likely to cost? I haven't gone for any quotes yet, mostly because I'm scared but I also don't know of any reputable repair shops around stoke, if anyone can recommend one or help I'd be very grateful.

[Blue Oval84]

That can be repaired I would think and based on work I've had done before I doubt I'd pay more than about £300 for a decent repair, probably less to be honest.

[Evoluzione]

That will repair easy enough, it's matching the colour that will make the price up. Based on lack of overall view and type of car (Nissan 3**Z?) I wouldn't like to say as large amounts of the car may need to be blown in...

[AdamC1983]

As a panel beater myself Im gonna say around the 3-400 quid mark to repair that and paint both your door and quarter panel.

[cst]

Do choose the body shop wisely and see if you can get some recommendations for good local ones. Otherwise you may end up doing it twice!

[longdogger]

We had similar damage on our Megane 225 and chose a local place with a reputation of being the best. Cost us £550 to do the full side and the front bumper. As said above if you buy cheap you risk buying twice

[longdogger]

We had similar damage on our Megane 225 and chose a local place with a reputation of being the best. Cost us £550 to do the full side and the front bumper. As said above if you buy cheap you risk buying twice

[davepoth]

Depends on how good a job you want. Cheapest go would be a bit of filler and a feathered in spray job for around £250, most expensive would be a replacement quarter and a full respray for what I imagine would be the thick end of £10k. Options will be available anywhere in between.

[sunshine1990]

Yes it's a 350z.
That's not too bad I suppose, I was thinking between the £500-800 mark to be fair.
There's a few other dings that need touching up, so I'll probably get them all done together.

[Jimmy No Hands]

I'd guesstimate at about £350 really. It's definitely salvageable.

[nct001]

"most expensive would be a replacement quarter and a full respray for what I imagine would be the thick end of £10k"

What so some bod can come along when he comes to sell it and say.. it's had a rear quarter... I'll leave that, or expect ccj in the post if dealer garage sale etc

Simple repair, blend colour across pannels, they may be some sinkage from the filler repair but that's life!

£275 ish if trade no more than £400 is justifiable retail.

[AdamC1983]

davepoth said:

Depends on how good a job you want. Cheapest go would be a bit of filler and a feathered in spray job for around £250, most expensive would be a replacement quarter and a full respray for what I imagine would be the thick end of £10k. Options will be available anywhere in between.

£10k!!!!!!!!!! Where are u getting that from?

New rear quarter would be no more than 2 grand including panel price, fitting n painting, blending where needed but this 350z does not need a new one and advise against it massiveley.

[Stinkfoot]

10 grand !!!!! dream on.

That will cost £300 quid max plus it will be almost impossible to tell unlike a new panel which will make the car nearly unsellable for a decent price.

[sunshine1990]

Stinkfoot said:

10 grand !!!!! dream on.

That will cost £300 quid max plus it will be almost impossible to tell unlike a new panel which will make the car nearly unsellable for a decent price.

Excuse me for being a bit thick, but how come a new panel would look so obvious?

[Mr Pies]

£10,000!?

OP I'll save you a grand and do it for 9k all in!

[8bit]

Can't add anything to the original question but looked at the pic, thought "that looks like a 350z" so went to your profile to check and noticed you were a precision engineer by profession, no offence meant but the irony tickled me

ETA - Sorry I should have said, I sympathise completely, I've done that before and even tho the car I scraped was nothing like as nice as yours I was still gutted. Hope it's not a difficult or expensive fix for you.

Edited by 8bit on Tuesday 2nd April 23:37

[HustleRussell]

sunshine1990 said:

Excuse me for being a bit thick, but how come a new panel would look so obvious?

If it was a half decent job, it wouldn't.
OP- I'd say £400-500.

[Blown2CV]

i have similar damage to my car where my neighbour drove into it whilst parked. The authorised bodyshop quote was £1000 and your damage is a bit worse.