When your ready,give this guy a ring as he is doing my sons ht van and he painted my esky.
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My friend was telling me about a panel shop near his work that ended up charging a person $20k+ before he finally took the car back.

He imported a massive yank tank and it ended up being full of rust so the shop had to completely remake everything past the back seat and lots of other small patches around the car.

Not saying their a bad panel shop just that the cost gets high very quickly. [8~2]

Not a lot of shops are up for body restoration these days, it is more insurance jobs.

You quote a job, you do the work, the customer pays for it. How is that complicated?

You don't quote the work, the customer doesn't approve the work and you don't do that work. Simple, right?

You quote the work, have the customer pay for the work, then you don't do it and lie about it repeatedly. You tell the customer on the phone work has been completed and when they show up it hasn't been at all.

Customer gives you a deadline, you can make the deadline so you take the job.

Customer gives you a deadline and you can't do it, you tell the customer and negotiate or you don't take the job. Seems fair?

Customer gives you a deadline, you lie about it over and over and 19 months later sweet freak all has been done. That's not right imo.

None of things are rocket science and this particular "Car Modifications" shop from East Maitland is guilty of all the above. I won't mention which "Car Modifications" shop but suffice it to say they weren't just a normal smash repairer but someone who claims to do "Car Modifications".

do
they them selves actually do the body work or is it sub contracted to someone else
This should not matter but he should have advised you
any way good luck i feel your pain
but when i get the sizzers people tell me to take a chill pill
but life would be less stressful if it wasn't full of ****S