MATTHEW GIBBS
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I know it sounds like a load but in this area they are the only ones that pay my door rates.
we have an old nissan pick up we put our aluminum in we hauled it 2 weeks ago and made 1400.00 as for sheet metal is at 7.00 a hundred here.
I have the guys rock one of the enterprise ones around see if we can find anything. they won’t mind. let you know if we find anything
😆 makes cut in a snap. I usually have the problem that they are all different shades of blk with one or two pearls thrown in. one of or ex painters was color blind to a certian degree and the new honda black got him everytime.he would assume it was solid blk and being the lazy bastard he was not chk the code .
I can’t stand that crap I’ve wasted more time with those type of customers than I can handle.If I have cars scheduled out on friday and they are’t here at 6 pm tough shit they can pick it up monday.Just about everytime you try to help a customer they don’t appreciate the gesture.
sand and seal. all paint is activated.
dupont 72200. but i miss the old v7500.for production I’d have to go with g2-4700 looks good and dries fast with no loss of gloss.
AIG,PROGRESSIVE,SAFECO,OMNI ABSOLUTE WORST.Allstate is pretty much fix send us a bill,as is SF,erie and rockingham
If it cost you more it cost them more on parts.This isn’t a charity it’s a business.If they have a problem charge the customer and tell them that the is co. refuse to pay for the change in parts prices.If they want recepts on the parts fine copy’em mark out your cost and givem list only.what you pay is none of their business.Just remember you are working for the owner of the vehicle not the ins co.
Jim iI do the same thing and somtimes its more like 25%.and more operations are INCL. all the time.this keeps up and I swear im going write the as fix car paint car and here’s the bill.back on topic Im salary and on resto 45% commision on top of salary.everyone else wanted flat rate .
I get them in threes this week is three scions tc three focuses and thre tacomas of course they are all differnt colors and sub models.last week it was envoy week and before that civic week.
go to any you can.but you still have to take what you learned and apply it to your working conditions.
We have 2 bays just for restorations but 99 percent is collision work.myself and the owner are the only ones who will work on them everyone else claims there is no money in them lol.the xke had 108 paint hours on it and I get 45% of it plus my salary I laugh all the way to the bank.I have more time to work on them.The funny part is the guy who owns the car was all in a huff about the final bill which he was well aware of the possibilty of the cost invovled in redoing the jag.He had a shop about 45 mins away do the interior and mechanicals they only do euro car restoration and just the engine and interior has cost him 45k now he doesn’t feel bad about what we charged him.The owner of that shop went over what we did and found zip wrong with it.Kinda makes you feel good when someone who has done probably 50 of them gives you a compliment.
TIME AND MATERIAL I never price one out anymore to many variables.As for money being in it yes their is as long as the customer has it. We just finished a 71 z28,79 elcamino,69 jag xke and have a 60 vette in process and a 64 fairlane tbolt clone we started on friday.