I am taking my good left fender for him to quote me on building a mold which I would keep and how much per fender fo him to do them. I should have some numbers this afternoon. Are any of you interested in a fiberglass left fender any time soon? If someone is serious and this guy can give me descent enough numbers I'll have him dupe this left.
Otherwise this will at least give me an idea on price and I will shoot for a right fender instead of tying money up on that.
My right fender is just too creased to work with so I have to get a repairable one. Something that can at least be banged and bondo'd into a good mold candidate.
So if any of you have one let me know.
Well to get a mold made by a top notch guru is $2500 to $3000 for a nice re-useable fiberglass or about $800 less for a plaster mold that will be too heavy to move around much and would not be guaranteed on how many runs could be made on it.
It would be $250 per fender for them to run it and tabs for the headlight bezel as well as the flange where the fender bolts to the cab would still have to be laminated in.
About the only good news is that this guy is running a government project right now building JTF flight similators and mini-versions of different jets and a pretty impressive blackhawk helicopter. So he does not fall under the category of needing the work right now.
Given that it really didn't seem that bad. I just need to find a shop not running off $14,000 parts as fast as they can turn them out the door. So I still have hope in finding someone that needs the work enough to get well below these numbers. Unfortunately the guy that recommended this guy did not know he had some gov contracts going or I would have not even bothered.
posted December 16, 2003 08:58 AM
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