Greetings, About ten years ago now I had both side sills and floors
replaced. I bought the parts and got an out of work bodyman to use my garage
with his equipment. He did a proper job and charged me 35 hours labour.
($25/hour) The floors alone took a day \ 8 hrs.
Any properly trained bodyman can do a good job....shop around. Good Luck
76 B Ottawa Canada
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig D. Niederst <niederst@telerama.com>
To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, June 05, 2000 11:40 PM
Subject: Ouch!!! (floor pan replacement)
>Took the B this afternoon to a local repair/body shop that I was hoping
>would replace my floor pans. They do a lot of both mechanical and body work
>on LBC's (counted 7 MGA/MGB/Midgets on the premises), and also have used
>them for my Audi. But I was appalled at both the estimate amount and the
>work they wanted to do to replace the floors. I should have known I was in
>trouble when the guy asked if I wanted a cheap repair or the work properly
>done. The passenger side pan is in terrible shape, and definitely needed
>completely replaced. The guy estimated 18 hrs of labor (@ $34 an hour) to
>remove the old pan and weld in the new one. I thought this number seemed
>extremely high, considering it sounded like they would just cut out the old
>pan (not drilling out the spot welds and air chiseling out the pan). He
said
>a big issue was the fact the car was undercoated (by the DPO), so all the
>undercoating anywhere near the area would need to be removed before it
could
>be welded. The driver's side pan is in better shape, but still has a couple
>of holes in it. All 4 seat mounting bolts are rusted away and gone from the
>floor, and I have found some other "weak" areas. The guy did not want to
>replace the driver's side floor, but just cut out and replace the metal in
>the two places where there are holes. Wanted 4 hours of labor to do this. I
>mentioned I wanted the entire floor replaced, but they said it would be a
>waste of time. Total on the estimate was over $850 (and I would supply the
>floor pans). Guess its time to find another shop to do the work. I thought
>of doing the job myself, but I do not have a mig welder, air chisel, angle
>grinder, etc required for the job. Anyone else out there had floor pans
>replaced, and how much did they pay for the job (or how many hours of labor
>were involved)? I appreciate any BTDT's. Thanks.
>
>Craig
>'71 B
>
>
|