You might ask the kind folks at any of the shops how they feel about welding in straight used parts instead. Karl Wolz |-----Original Message----- |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of |Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" |Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 2:22 PM |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM |Subject: Re: Body parts for Mellow Yellow [SOLVED] | |The insurance company of the guy that smashed into the two cars (one |1972 VW bus, which then rammed into my 1984 van) is mailing out a check |for $2800. | |Two body shops quoted $2800 - $3000 to do the repairs using new parts, |but those were imaginary parts because they have been discontinued, but |that's how their systems do the quoting. | |Since I can't find the parts, those two quotes are pretty useless. | |A third shop quoted doing the repair by banging out the old parts, |filling and pasting as needed, then painting for $2300. This appears to |be the only route to take since new parts are not available. | |That leaves $500 which I will apply toward rust abatement. | |All in all, though I'm not happy that new parts cannot be obtained, I'm |pretty okay with the outcome -- so far. We'll see how pretty the body |shop's work is. | |BTW, for anyone in Bend, Oregon, the two shops that would use new parts |if they existed were Crabtree's Auto Body and Paint, and Auto Body |Concepts. The shop that looks at it as a bang-it-out job is Ron's Body |Shop. | |-- |Rocky J Squirrel |84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") |74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) |Bend, OR |KG6RCR |
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