Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:36:20 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Body parts for Mellow Yellow [SOLVED]
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you might show them, like print out, Ron's parts and price list with
vanagon body diagram ..
the prices didn't look bad at all to me either.
that could help them do it right and fair.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Body parts for Mellow Yellow [SOLVED]
> And the body shop has to use additional labor to clean up the used
> parts. I've got both shops searching for used parts and re-quoting.
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
>> Body shops often have sources for used parts, though they may charge
>> the same as for new parts.
>>
>> ---- "Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> Hi Karl,
>>>
>>> As I've previously mentioned, I don't know how to get straight used
>>> parts. I possess neither a cutting torch nor the skill to use one,
>>> don't have a parts van, and don't have a place to put one even if I
>>> had one.
>>>
>>> -- Rocky J Squirrel 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical
>>> Banana") 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan
>>> Capistrano, Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl Wolz wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>
>> -- David McNeely
| 
