Welding quotes?

[Partridge]

I'm wondering if anyone can help me? It looks like I'm keeping my Jag - but for how long, I don't know. I'm weighing up what to do with it. It's a lovely motor and generally very tidy, but next year it will need bodywork repairs.

 

The lower tips of the front wings are starting to show signs of rot above the sills, and the front offside section of one of the sills is rotten as a pear and will need cutting out and replacing soon.

 

Has anyone recently had welding work done to any of their shite and can give me a very rough idea of what this will probably cost me? I want to know if I'm being taken for a ride or not before I get quotes basically!

 

And if anyone can recommend somebody in Hampshire, I'd be grateful  

[HillmanImp]

I did some welding on what is now Barefoots Jag when Volksy owned it. Was a small patch on the floor by the front wheelarch. By the time I'd finished id welded a 2 inch strip along the entire side of the car and managed to get some metal in my eye.

 

My current Jag has really started rotting this winter. I'm quite scared of the next MOT as I reckon it going to take a fuck load of fettling to get through.

 

Best of luck on your quotes though. Like anything, get a few. People will extract urine if they can.

[Partridge]

Well when I do I'll report back...I'm expecting it to be painful...

[KruJoe]

There are some good welding quotes here:

 

http://imgur.com/gallery/v0wFr

 

Someone just posted that in the Grin thread. 

 

HTH

[paulscavalier]

I had the rear half of both sills cut out replacement sills welded in ground down and painted with reconstruction work in the inner arch £260

[mitsisigma01]

Which part of Hampshire are you in ???

[paulscavalier]

Bugger sorry didn't read the Hampshire bit. In the thread that will teach me to skim read. But it's worth checking out some of the small independent body shops nearby to you the prices do vary a lot if you use my figure as a rough guide it was about £120 a side. If you have plastic covers that cover the sills it could be less because you don't have to worry about matching paint colours etc, you can just get it finished in underseal and put the sill back on top of it. If it does have rot in the wings, it may be cheaper to get hold of either a set of wings in the same colour that are ok and get them to fix them or go down the route I had to go down with my cd and get a decent used wing and get them to Respray it or possibly a new one. I was told that repairing rust on a wing wasn't always very successful and it would generally come back and it would be less labour to paint one and bung it on,rather than faff about grinding and filling. Hope this helps with ideas of costings

[Partridge]

Thanks Paulscavalier, that's really helpful. Good point about chucking the wings instead of fixing them.

Which part of Hampshire are you in ???

Fareham - halfway between pompy and Southampton.

[PiperCub]

I know a place near me in Chandlers Ford that I've used a couple of times for minor work (when I was recovering from a shoulder op and couldn't really crawl around under cars for a bit), they were good value for money and stuck to their quotes. They are usually busy (which is a good sign) but seemed to be willing to move stuff around to suit. They seem to do everything from small MoT-type jobs to pretty major bodywork rebuilds judging by the last time I was there so they are worth a call though they obv will want to see the car before quoting. 

 

They were recommended by my neighbour who's used them a number of times to repair minor scrapes etc he's had (he's 87!) down the years. 

 

They are called MDH Repair Centre, on Common Road, Chandlers Ford, about a mile or so from either J12 or J13 of the M3 (Nr. Draper Tools HQ), so about 15-20mls from Fareham, don't know if that's too far or not. 

 

http://www.mdhrepaircentre.co.uk/ 

[lisbon_road]

There was a car welding place in Shirley Southampton that was good, but I haven't seen it in a long time.  If you want I can investigate.  They were well grumpy but knew how to weld and did nothing else - which makes me wonder if it is still there as of course, it isn't the business it used to be.

 

Edit, I can't find them through google.  There's a couple of garages who promise the earth and who knows whether they deliver.

[PiperCub]

L_R:

 

There was also an ace bloke called John Newnham who operated out of a place behind the terraced houses in Northam (next to what was the old Meridian TV studios - used to work there that's how I came across him). He was superb not only with M/Steel but with alloys/stainless as well, did both the exhausts on my Suzuki Bandits (a 6 & a 12). Think he's retired now as he was knocking on a bit & went past a year or so back and no signs up anymore and couldn't find him when I checked. 

[lisbon_road]

Yes, I think he has packed it in and I remember him too.  Specialised in welding exhausts, but the demand for that must have dropped right off - though not disappeared and I'd imagine that when they cause a problem now, they cost a packet.

[inconsistant]

I had extensive welding on the outer sills of the 924 last year about 2/3 of each side was replaced. I provided the panels and took the seats out and he did everything else, inc sills painted matt black with that textured stone chip stuff to match existing and the panels welded in needed the welds grinding flush but I can do that (at some point...) so no point paying someone. Was 2-3 days work apparently and cost 500 South London pounds. Failed mot on it so didn't have much choice but trusted mechanic so I felt price not too unreasonable.

[Partridge]

This is all sounding waaaay cheaper than I was expecting. May even be worth doing if I decide to flog to it.