Resto gone bad!

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Originally Posted by ace of shades

The body shop I work at has done a couple of restos. Really something not to my liking. The boss man usually gives them a quote (BAD idea when doing a resto) and we end up getting the short end of the stick. Then someone always has to ask the customer to come up with more money, and more money. I usually tell them "shop time is $50 an hour, you supply the parts and tell us when to stop." Most of the time you never hear from them again. In my area most of the shops do one resto a year or so, but the shops around here are like 3 man shops.

Honestly you don't really make money on them and they take forever; Its like the side job in the back corner that usually never gets worked on until someone asks about it. The other bad part of it all is that you take like 5k down to do some work - in a small (our) shop that money gets spent on everything but your project. It goes for overhead, the collision cars and materials. When the insurance jobs go out your vehicle gets worked on and then someone is calling for more money. Its just no good. Its not that they're out to screw people, mostly they don't realize they can't make money but they will take the job to have some income

The Body Work being done on my Truck was by a Local 3 Man Shop.
When I brought it in, they were "up-front" with me and told me that my Truck was NOT going to be a Priority. Thier Priority was Insurance/Collision work.
I told them, I was having Contractors work at my House to enlarge the Garage, and I didn't want the Truck back until I had a place to put it,
(away from the Rain/Snow and other Nasty Elements).
Garage is being completed Monday, and my Truck will be ready to bring home by Friday.