Yikes!

I had mine painted at the local VW dealership for about 3200.00 canadian!

Gregor

-----Original Message-----
From: Dieter Thiessen <DThies1008@AOL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 2:52 PM
Subject: paint

>Folks,
>I just received a hard jolt knocking me back to reality.  Diehl collision
>center just gave me a preliminary estitmate on painting my 84 GL.  The
>estimate includes grinding out all seams
>removing all outside hard ware
>removing windows and reinstall
>sanding and repainting entire van
>clearcoat
>now hold your socks on
>body labor 50.5hr......1717.00
>paint labor 50.2hr......1706.80
>paint supplies 57.1hr...970.70
>parts............................99.70
>
>TOTAL.....................4494.20 plus 6% sales tax....269.65
>
>any moonliters around York,PA that need extra money?
>
>Thanks,  I needed to get this off my chest, as I was hoping to repaint for
>about half the estimate.
>Dieter
>84GL