nowhereboy Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 What a pain in the arse! I was going to a party on saturday night and due to being super paranoid about leaving my car outside my mates house he told me I could put it in his garage. Once arriving I realised he had failed to mention the road to the garage was stupidly tight and their was a right angle turn to get into his back yard where the garage was. Not wanting to leave it out the front of the house I gave it a shot getting it in the garage, carefully checking both mirrors I drove really slowly around the tight corner. Then heard that god awful sound of crunching. Turns out their was a rock hanging out of the side of the wall just below eye level! WTF!! Its scraped the hell out of my side skirt. Its not out of shape or anything, just scratched badly. Does anyone know of anywhere in the Newcastle area to get it sorted? What about these guys that do body work on your driveway? Are they any good? How much can I expect to pay for this? I'll put a picture up after work today. Feeling pretty angry, done loads of overtime at work this month to pay for mods and thats not going to happen now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
14N Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 By the sounds of it, it could of been a lot worse mate (I'm thinking door, rear quarter) Might be able to pick a skirt up in decent condition for cheaper than the repair cost. Put an ad in the wanted section and take a look on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OsakaBen Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 If it makes you feel better my sideskirt flew off on the m1 and got run over twice and smashed into 1 million pieces last Sunday haha. Pictures would help us scope the damage and give you a better answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
14N Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 I did think "At least you've still got yours mate" (with you in mind Ben). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posidrive Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 I did something similar when I caught the unserside of the skirt of a rock at the exit from my driveway while cutting the corner to tight one dozey Saturday morning. Our local Chips Away guy in Swindon did a pefect job fixing it up for about £120. From what I can recall though, these guys are all franchised and the quality can vary greatly between the operations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowhereboy Posted August 19, 2013 Author Share Posted August 19, 2013 "chips away" where the first guys I was thinking of calling to be honest, I like the convienience of em being able to do it at my work. Gonna give them a shout on my break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowhereboy Posted August 19, 2013 Author Share Posted August 19, 2013 Also Id be happy if it only costs me 120.... Could get them to go round the rest of the car and tidy up the little bodywork niggles that need sorting while they are at it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalos Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 For the repair option take the car down to Graham at 'Car And Bike Magic' in Sunderland and get a quote from them. They did a full frontal respray on mine to get rid of the stone chips and have done jobs for other Zed owners on here too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowhereboy Posted August 19, 2013 Author Share Posted August 19, 2013 For the repair option take the car down to Graham at 'Car And Bike Magic' in Sunderland and get a quote from them. They did a full frontal respray on mine to get rid of the stone chips and have done jobs for other Zed owners on here too. Cheers Dalos I'll try those first. How much did you pay for the respray? I could do with the front end chips sorted too. I might try and get it all done at once and turn it into something positive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalos Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 For the repair option take the car down to Graham at 'Car And Bike Magic' in Sunderland and get a quote from them. They did a full frontal respray on mine to get rid of the stone chips and have done jobs for other Zed owners on here too. Cheers Dalos I'll try those first. How much did you pay for the respray? I could do with the front end chips sorted too. I might try and get it all done at once and turn it into something positive! Let's just say I was very happy with the job I got for the price I paid. I also got a a few other little chips at the same time (like when I ever so slightly caught the edge of the fuel filler with the pump nozzle!!, grrr). The best thing to do is pop over and ask for a few quotes. Drop my name in (Dale) and the 'ZClub' forum and I'm sure he'll look after you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowhereboy Posted August 19, 2013 Author Share Posted August 19, 2013 (edited) Cheers dale I will do Oh and for those who are interested heres a pic of the damage Looks worse than that in the flesh mind. Edited August 19, 2013 by nowhereboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OsakaBen Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 That's nothing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowhereboy Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 You would say that! You lost the entire thing Just to top off my bad week Ive just drove out of a petrol station and slowly over a speed bump. The car bottomed out so badly, I was crawling over the bump and misjudged the size of it. The sound was awfull. Nothing seems to have broken but I've yet to have a decent look. One bloody thing after another! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowhereboy Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 I've just been quoted £90 for the skirt to be repaired from the guys at "car and bike magic" and £130 to sort out the stone chips on my front bumper. Seems very reasonable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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