Shopping list- are my price estimates about right?

[davegrimmett]

Am considering my shopping list for the next couple of years already! Can you let me know if I'm there or thereabouts with the costings?

Waxoil treatment of chassis £100
full chassis replacement £2000
replacement walnut dashboard (a few cracks currently) £300
new stereo fitting cost and removal of 10 disc changer £100
spider alloys (wheel conversion???) £500
paint touch up/ small respray of one area £200
full respray £1500
leather chairs replacement/fitting £500

thanks,
Dave

p.s I will be highly unlikely to do anything other than a piss easy job myself so inevitably labour costs will be incurred.

[m4ckg]

from the quotes I've had, double the respay costs

[raceboy]

Some very optimistic prices there.....
Waxoil might be about right....
A new chassis will cost you at least £3k then the fitting is going to be at least another £1.5k and then there's all the bushes and pipes that need replacing because they are worn out....I'd guess at £6k
Dash, might be about right, maybe a little higher if you're paying someone else to fit it as well.
Stereo costs might be about right if that doesn't include the cost of a new unit.
Spider conversion, add a grand to that, unless you can find some second hand alloys/tyres you'll want a £1k for the wheels then the hub conversion on it's own is going to be £500
Touch up really depends on the colour and the size of the area, I had my front end resprayed 6 years ago and that was £700 then, so full respray again depending on the colour and the quality of job It's got to be at least £3k to do it properly, roof off, screen out all that sort of prep.
Seats are about right, as long as you just want like for like replacements.

Somewhere like Sportmotive is a good indication for prices....
http://www.sportmotive.com/index.html

[tuscan99]

m4ckg said:

from the quotes I've had, double the respay costs

they will be ripping you off just as its a tiv if they want double !!!

[m4ckg]

tuscan99 said:

they will be ripping you off just as its a tiv if they want double !!!

Can you give me the details of a body shop that would do it for £1500 as I've been quoted 3k twice ( and I'm not being sarcastic )

[Andy chimaera]

where did i hear a full chassis replacement was £4000? and yeah, a respray would cost more than that i think

[raceboy]

Andy chimaera said:

where did i hear a full chassis replacement was £4000

A full replacement chassis is £4k
Then you need a little bit of labour to fit it.

[chris2002hk]

just buy a Z4 ?

[raceboy]

Or buy one that the previous owner has spent a small fortune sorting everything out......nudge nudge, wink wink....bargain in the classifieds.

Or there is the option of the 2" lift to replace just the outriggers which I believe is about £1500 if done in isolation.

[SILICONE KID]

Get your spanners out and do most of the work your self..You may make mistakes but you would get there in the end..

[Podie]

m4ckg said:

tuscan99 said:

they will be ripping you off just as its a tiv if they want double !!!

Can you give me the details of a body shop that would do it for £1500 as I've been quoted 3k twice ( and I'm not being sarcastic )

I had a front end respray quote for £900 from one of the TVR Coachworks. Our local body shop did the same job for £350.

Having used the TVR specialist in e past the job was average... the local man did a far superior job. I won't make that mistake again. Avoid the "TVR tax"