Jimbo1959
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- VW Scirocco. The Quattro, E350 CDi Blue Efficiency Sport Coupe, now both gone
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The car went to the bodyshop today and surprisingly they left me a Seat Leon as my courtesy car. I must admit to being pleasantly surprised as I was expecting a Corsa or something equally low spec as my run around, however the Leon is not to bad at all. It's quiet, nippy enough and has a DAB stereo unit fitted, all I need to put up with is paying for the petrol.
They reckon it'll take a week to ten days to do, mainly due to them being at 70% staff rate and the back log of work that, that has created.
I asked if they could give me an estimate for powder coating the other three alloys too, instead of just the one which was damaged. That way they'll all turn out the same colour, and prevent my guy trying to get a match with the remaining three. I could get the four of them done trade through my contacts for £266. If they are even slightly close, £300 ish for the three, I'll get them to do it, I might even go to £400 for the three to save mucking about and to get the match that I would like.
I was very close to being able to afford my remap there too, typical.
They reckon it'll take a week to ten days to do, mainly due to them being at 70% staff rate and the back log of work that, that has created.
I asked if they could give me an estimate for powder coating the other three alloys too, instead of just the one which was damaged. That way they'll all turn out the same colour, and prevent my guy trying to get a match with the remaining three. I could get the four of them done trade through my contacts for £266. If they are even slightly close, £300 ish for the three, I'll get them to do it, I might even go to £400 for the three to save mucking about and to get the match that I would like.
I was very close to being able to afford my remap there too, typical.