Dusk said:
Aye, if they worked on your car it would be ready in 1 month MAXIMUM.
They are just lazy, and work on other peoples cars... you should just go down without arranging it now and then - you will see other peoples cars come and go in and out of the bodyshop and yours will still be there in the corner...
This type of delay is quite nomal and standard when it comes to having custom bodywork and a major repair that is taking place on Dan's car.
You have to understand and respect that as a business a bodyshop will have a workforce that can allocate itself to a said amount of jobs / cars at any given time. However in many cases custom work means no deadline and in some instances delays depending on how the jobs go and what is required.
If a potential customer contacts your business wishing to book there car in, your not going to say come back in a month and we'll book you in when that car is finished as you'll loose the customer and they'll go somewhere else.
Bodyshops operate in such a way that they will book in a certain amount of cars and then work on them over a given period, this way ensuring they have a constant workload.
Dan's car may took longer then some jobs and yes I'm sure they'll have work come in and go before Dan's is finished but they still have to operate a business, make profit and utilise floor space, you wouldn't just have one car in when say for instance you have standing floor space for 5.
To fit a wide arch kit is pretty straight forward in comparison to:
- stripping five layers of paint.
- re-fitting arches
- re-building bonnet
- re-moulding front bumper
- aligning and re-fitting front lights
- re-building rear of the car
- aligning and re-fitting rear lights
- re-building tailgate
- customising the rear bumper
- paint stages.
The paint stages alone should take 2 weeks, the primmer should be allowed settle for days, the base coat the same and then depending on what paint finish Dan has it will probably be about 4 stages to build up the colour and then ideally it should sit for a week to bond properly before being on the rod
So I wouldn't be suprised if it's in for several weeks to come.
Kev