Anyone pay to get their rear arches done.

prahunt · Post by **prahunt** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:31 pm

vetrox wrote:
prahunt wrote:I paid £1400 for the rear arches to be sorted. Though the rust wasn't as bad as can be.
And a full respray.

Did they have to cut the arches out and make up some new ones for that price? or am i miss reading and the respray was a seperate price?

They cut out the rust. And welded new parts in and then smoothed it round. And then full respray.

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:46 pm

They get your arches epoxy primed before top coating. Epoxy mastic is like a liquid plastic layer. I did my arches in it. No rust yet.

Post by **Vtecmec** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:58 pm

Yes, I epoxy'd mine too, on top of the galvanised steel, good enough for use on a submerged boat hull.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:21 pm

£1300 for that job is a fair going rate.
prahunt's price is not far off mates rates, the lucky sod!

claymore68 · Post by **claymore68** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:32 am

Holy crap ! I just paid £1000 to get both arches done massive rust issues on sills cut out welded and reinforced sprayed boot lock rust sorted and sprayed and got the body kit done as well

and i was complaining . To be fair Bathgate is a long way from most members though.

Post by **JEBB4** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:42 am

I will be doing my arches in the coming weeks myself, I plan on just cutting out the rot in a few places and welding in new metal "patches", then filling..

however, I am doing this as a kind of temporary fix as I know full well that doing it this way will result in the rust coming back quite soon..
The only way to do it properly I have been told is to buy the arch panels from cebul and have them proffesionally done which is what I will be doing in the future.
make sure you know what they are doing to the car is what imggetting at as others have said you can very easily get ripped off with body work of this type... 1300 sounds like alot for just a patch up really, id be expecting a full respray for that but then I do live in the middle of wales and prices are different

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:23 pm

I seem to think i paid £1200 5 years ago to have all the rust sorted on my Lude, including cutting out the rear and welding in new metal, and have a VS full lip kit blended.

That was at H&B in Axford. Although he did say he never wanted to do another one! lol!

scouse boy · Post by **scouse boy** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:16 pm

I just paid to have my drivers rear arch rust removed, weld new arch in (top and bottom) and sprayed to match the car for £460 mate. The guy has done a great job too so can't really complain.

prahunt · Post by **prahunt** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:58 pm

wurlycorner wrote:£1300 for that job is a fair going rate.
prahunt's price is not far off mates rates, the lucky sod!

Post by **vanzep** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:22 pm

I was at a body shop today and spoke to them about replacing the arches...
I have replacement rear quarter panels here ready to fit but they said it would be about £500 per side based on 12 hours labour each and to get the whole car fixed up and resprayed would be at least £3000