EEEEK...I SCRATCHED MY FRIENDS CAR!

[Angie]

I'm hoping someone can help save my skin....! I borrowed my friends lancer....and scratched the passenger side side skirt....

Yes....i know....I'm a horrible friend! so to remedy the situation I rang around and drove around a number of panel beaters asking for quotes and I can hardly believe the price to change it is .. $600???!! for one little strip of plastic!

can someone verify if i'm being ripped off or not?[/i]

[blade888]

Sounds about right, depending on the damage.

Any amount of work that requires stripping back the paint, filling the scratch (if needed), re-prime, re-paint, re-gloss, is going to cost around that.

Won't be much of a difference price wise if it's blend work (if they do just the area) or the whole panel or skirt in some cases. Once again depends on the amount of damage.

[Angie]

Oh that's so sad. It's a plastic strip that I thought would cost no more than $200 to buy a new one and no longer than 20 mins to fit.

I'd expect them to replace not fill it in

Guess I should just suck it up!



Thanks for getting back to me.

[blade888]

The side skirts you can buy and they aren't expensive but they come un-painted. So the prime, paint and gloss and labour involved will still add to the cost.

[ofey]

Actually I recently bought side skirts for some members in VIC. They do come painted. But Mits is now defaulting to white.

[blade888]

Thanks for the clarification Ofey

Well if the car is white, might be worth replacing it!

[malkinfalcon]

Dono how shit is now but I purchased a set of OEM >pre-painted< cool silver side skirts from Knox Mitsubishi for $320...This very late 2011

[ofey]

@malkinfalcon-> That's about the price. You did well. Best I can do is A$330.

[Dazz4C]

@malkinfalcon-> Thats about the price. You did well. Best I can do is A$330.

Pre-painted (in any colour) or white only?... Seriously want some...