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Oct 19th, 2021, 15:00 | #1171 | |
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Vauxhall Hazel Brown Metallic ^^^^^ Ford Chestnut Brown Metallic ^^^^^ By the time it's been repaired, refurbished and resprayed, you've spent £2500 minimum if done on a DIY basis. You then have a car worth £2500-3500 so trying to sell "as is" for that isn't a good idea!
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The seller probably bought the nasty brown car for £250 and has been trying to sell it for about a year. I suppose it isn’t too much risk for him in that if he only has a couple of hundred in it then he can continue fishing for a mug. The advertising costs must mount up after a while. I’d agree with your estimates, £2,500 to make it okay (although that probably wouldn’t cover a respray, that might be £2,000 on its own) to make a motor car worth £3,000. There isn’t really a margin, so the 244 can only be worth hundreds, not thousands. Alan
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The date references are to indicate they would truly be contemporay choices of an alternative brown that didn't make it look like a flying turd! As for my estimates, i was including the respray in the DIY basis as well as all the other work. Not sure on paint prices these days but if you said £300 for the primer, colour and clear that probably wouldn't be too far out i wouldn't think, especially with a few sundries thrown in - stopper, filler, abrasives, cutting compound, polish etc.
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I’m not sure many people would have the equipment or the ability to spray a whole car (such that it actually looked better after the respray!). I suppose it could be done outside on a still day with a compressor - but I’m not sure that would be safe or legal with 2k paints, would it? Because I had no idea of the cost I just googled it and the answers I got were: DIY: materials only, about £10/sq ft (so about a grand for a 244). I think that is for all the materials. Garage: £2,400 for an average sized car (Ford Focus). So, on a DIY basis, the nasty brown car might cost something like: Recommissioning (battery, fluids, seals, gaskets, pads…): £500 Bodywork (panels, steel, wire, gas, filler… ): £500 Redecorating: £1000 Interior: £500 … so maybe £2,500 to make an okay but plain 244 DL - it would be wise to allow a contingency for unexpected stuff like bushes, shock absorbers, callipers, track rod ends… that sort of stuff. However one looks at the figures it is hard to see there could be any worthwhile margin in a project like this. It would still be a good thing to do though, as long as the price of the car was £300! Alan PS. I suppose one might respray a whole car with rattle cans. From my experience it takes two-three 400ml cans to spray one large panel (roof, bonnet and so on) in the original colour. The aerosol paint is very thin and it would take probably twice that to change the colour. I suppose that might work out at about 20-30 cans for a whole car (same colour) plus some primer and clear lacquer. Perhaps £600 total? That would be cheaper than using a compressor I think, but the resulting coverage would be very thin (I’ve never tried respraying a whole car with aerosols - although they did it frequently on Flipping Bangers). PPS. I’ve just read the ad in C&C - the seller claims he has more invested in the car (purchase price plus transport) than the £2,500 it is advertised for. That is very hard to believe, unless he was very gullible indeed when he bought it.
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There is 22 bids on this car and 15 bidders currently at £700 40 mins left to bid
Hopefully it will go to a good home maybe someone on this very forum https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203646913527
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SOLD!!!! £1150 28 bids
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