Well that's me won the auction! £77 delivered! Not a bad price I think. Pretty confident it's the correct part so now can't wait to get it delivered, painted and bolted to me wagon!
Cheers Gaz and the rest of you for your help. Will keep you posted and will upload a pic when done.
Spoiler arrived today and have just unpacked it - "Brand New In Box" is definitely an apt description! It's definitely the right part and came in original box with all the relevant paperwork and fitting accessories (glue, adhesive pads etc).
I'm well-pleased!
Just have to get it painted now....
£180 sounds a lot. A small portion of the paintwork on the integrated spoiler on my 5 door was damaged (no one can guess what happened) and a local coachwork firm did it for £78, labour and materials. They did the whole spoiler, primer, colour coat and lacquer. Looks fine to me and they were recommended.
South Devon is a tad far for you I suspect. 340 miles only gets me as far as the Lake District!
What??? £180 to paint and fit a tiny spoiler?? They're having a laugh!! Mine's only £60 including fitting!! Go to a private bodyshop, don't just give them the colour code though as there are about 4 or 5 shades of Candy white used within the VAG range.
As for window bond failing and your spoiler bouncing down the road behind you, that is total bollox! Put it this way, to get a spoiler that has been fitted with window bond off you have to cut it off with cheesewire. Window bond is designed to hold one of the most important parts of a cars structural rigidity in place....your windscreen! And he reckons it couldn't hold a tiny wee spoiler on?? lol twat! My Mugen spoiler on my old EP3 was much bigger and heavier and was held on with window bond, never shifted!!
I got my 5door spoiler frm seat cost me £100 for the spoiler and an other £100 to paint/fit it
LOL well that'll be your Irish temperament showing then? Actually I'm allowed to say that with a wink and a twinkle in my eye as until I was 9 years old I stayed in a small village just outside Lurgan, Co Armagh! Half-Irish, me! I still say I left my heart there when we moved to Scotland!
Anyhoo there's no way I was going to be parting with that sort of money (part Irish, part canny Scott! lol) so I'm going to be trying some spray shops/ coachbuilders locally as well as Agmors in Glasgow and see what their quotes come in at.
I'm also with you with regards to the window bond. I wouldn't have a problem with it being used to stick the spoiler to my car.
I was actually amazed that I managed to keep a poker face when Sandy told me the price. He said it would take 5 hours labour, 4 of which were to spray it!!! It's already flipping primered!!! I said I'd get back to him! lol TBH I think the price was so high as they didn't want to take on a wee job, and if I was mad enough to agree they'd be laughing all the way to the bank with the massive profit they'd made...
Fear not, I might be mildly deranged, but I'm not raving mad mad! lol
Yeah I do have a bit of a short fuse sometimes particularly towards rip off merchants lol Dollingstown or Waringstown per chance? 4 hours to spray it my arse lol does take about an hour for the bonder to cure though so at least they got one thing right Hell you could actually post it to me, get my mate to spray it and post it back to you for less than they're looking lol scandalous!
Totally off topic but you weren't far from me - I lived near Banbridge, though I'm in Dublin for the foreseeable future
Cheers for the friend request, Gaz! Hopefully I have added you OK... If not feel free to hurl abuse in my general direction!
Yep you were right second guess - I lived in Waringstown. Mill Hill to be exact!
I'll try a few local spray shops and see how I get on. Around the £80-100 mark seems reasonbable to pay, I think....
I've friends from Waringstown although you maybe wouldn't know them. Yeah, wouldn't want to pay more than £100 for a spoiler that size. My Mugen spoiler on my old civic which was quite big cost £100 to paint. You could fit it yourself it's a piece of piss really
And yeah you added me ok lol