Irish Mini Owners Club

hi i was thinking of having my mini totally resprayed could anybody give me advice as to where's good and how much it would cost!? im waiting till after it passes NCT (fingers crossed!) to see if i have to spend much getting anything fixed!

Total resprays can cost thousands, the prices can be reduced by the amount of work that you will do yourself, dismantling, stripping, rubbing down, reassembling etc. Cheap jobs cost cheap money. Quality costs.

Depending on the condition of the car you could be looking between 2k to 3k for a half decent job.

You are better advised to get someone who knows what they are doing and that has an oven in their garage to dry the paint on the car. Gives it a better and tougher paint finish.

You could ring Paul of Minifix 0872597085

He is based in Dublin Northside

He can recommend a good painter to you

I am in the process of getting my car resprayed. If I get a good job done ill give you the number of the guy that did mine or you could look at mine to see what u think.

Will

hi how did things go with the job on your mini im thinking on getting my one done did it cast much

Lads,

the prices you are quoting in Dublin are frightening. I live in Co. Cork and recently had a very large Daimler limousine (18 foot long, 6.5 foot wide) filled and resprayed with 2-pack etc in a proper heated oven. As the top half is black and the lower half is silver, the car had to go to the panelbeaters twice.

The size of the car means that it probably needs twice as much work and paint as spraying a Mini.


What did it cost me (including VAT)?




1700 Euros!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Contact the man directly:

Donal O'Callaghan 021-4507213

thanks 4 letting me know i will give him a call be4 i call him can i ask how do you find the work he did like did the filler take to the body why i ask is i got someone to fill and spary the roof of my car and the filler cracked within 2 weeks of doing it the man i got to do it will note fix it

i stripped all the bright work,lights and windows on my gt,took it to the panel beaters where there was a bit of filling here and there and got the car back 3 days later in lovely 2 pack metallic demin blue all for 650 euro but this didn,t include the roof but its still a long way from 2k now its not the greatest job in the world but its perfectly acceptable(a little more rubbing down would have made it perfect cos the paint application as good) and my mini is for driving not shoved into the corner for most of the year so i,m not fussed about it but i could afford to spray it 3 times for the sums ye are talking about and this guy is on the dublin side of dundalk 40 min from the airport

I know this post ended a while ago, but i thought i'd chuck my 2c worth in...

About 2months ago we had one of our Capri's done : Some rust-bits cut out & replaced, filler here & there, a whale tail fitted, towbar removed, bodykit tidied up, and a full outer respray job, all for Euro 1500. Now a Capri is not as big as the Daimler, but its twice the size of a mini :wink: :lol: . I hope ye don't mind, but here are before & after pics of the Capri...

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We think they did an excellent job.
Dominic Quinn
Crash Repair Specialists
Ballygawley
Co Sligo
0719130394

Cheers, Robyn & Bert

ide agree with kerryminigringo much better to do what stripping u can do yourself.get the job done at a reasonable price ,specialy if its going to be your everyday car,nothing worse than paying top wack for a spray job then haveing some twat scratch it in a shopping center car park ,at least if it does happen u could afford to get it sprayed again a year later maybe in a loveley new colour to (follow d fashion) then again if its your pride and joy and is kept well away from twats -top price top paint!

if any body wanting work done on there mini either ring me or pm me or any questions my ph is 0857791533. or email me on crostothebow1985@gmail.comthanks.