Pulling the trigger on Appearance Upgrades
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Thanks, guys. I think I'm probably OK, but where I'm normally 95-100% "billable" to client contracts, the last several weeks have been in the 25-60% range... at least I keep getting little 10-15 hour projects weekly. Since my group is rather specialized and not many engineering firms focus on our segment of the manufacturing industries, I am hoping we can ride out this slump until a few large jobs hit the table again... several are pending, but companies are really puckered up when you start talking about getting them to spend more than $10,000, much less 5-50 million$$ these days.
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From: round rock, tx
Well... I'm finally going to do it.
As it is now.... solid white exterior, some large chips in paint above fuel filler door, hood, dent in rear edge of hood behind wiper arm, large dent in lower rear passenger panel in front of rear passenger tire, badly repaired damage around passenger front door handle from previous break-in (before I purchased the truck).
What I'm going to do:
-Install Bushwacker Street Style flares (part # 20504-02, full set of 4)
-Dent repairs
-paint touch-ups and clear coat for chipped paint
-Two-tone the bottoms of the side panels to match the dark gray interior trim
-New flares will be color-matched to the new two-tone
Price of all work at the body shop is $750 (the side panel repair alone was quoted at $300-$1500 and I'm using the least expensive shop, and he quoted the hood repair at $75 and the door handle repair at $75, which makes the two-toning and fender flare painting portion less than $300).
New flares, delivered from (4 Wheel Online), cost $280 (other shops/dealers priced the same set at $291-$439 for the full set, most being priced at $300-$330).
TIC = $1030. All money is set aside and ready to pay cash for the whole thing.
The guy doing the work has just finished doing a good bit of touch-up work on my son's 2005 Jetta, and he does excellent work! Can't even tell where the original chips were in my son's paint. The places that didn't come out perfect the first time, he stood behind his work and made it perfect on the second go-round.
Time-line... the flares are on order right now, and the truck will get painted before the end of January.
I'll post pics of the before/after.
As it is now.... solid white exterior, some large chips in paint above fuel filler door, hood, dent in rear edge of hood behind wiper arm, large dent in lower rear passenger panel in front of rear passenger tire, badly repaired damage around passenger front door handle from previous break-in (before I purchased the truck).
What I'm going to do:
-Install Bushwacker Street Style flares (part # 20504-02, full set of 4)
-Dent repairs
-paint touch-ups and clear coat for chipped paint
-Two-tone the bottoms of the side panels to match the dark gray interior trim
-New flares will be color-matched to the new two-tone
Price of all work at the body shop is $750 (the side panel repair alone was quoted at $300-$1500 and I'm using the least expensive shop, and he quoted the hood repair at $75 and the door handle repair at $75, which makes the two-toning and fender flare painting portion less than $300).
New flares, delivered from (4 Wheel Online), cost $280 (other shops/dealers priced the same set at $291-$439 for the full set, most being priced at $300-$330).
TIC = $1030. All money is set aside and ready to pay cash for the whole thing.
The guy doing the work has just finished doing a good bit of touch-up work on my son's 2005 Jetta, and he does excellent work! Can't even tell where the original chips were in my son's paint. The places that didn't come out perfect the first time, he stood behind his work and made it perfect on the second go-round.
Time-line... the flares are on order right now, and the truck will get painted before the end of January.
I'll post pics of the before/after.
have you considered spraying the lower rockers/fender flares in LINE-X or Rhino?
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