Are there any body panel fabricators that would be able to make replacement body panels for a reasonable cost? My car was hit at the weekend and it looks like a new wing (if available) would likely take several weeks or months to arrive. A brand new replacement would cost around £300 including VAT so anything up to that price would certainly not be a problem. I was hoping the damage would just knock out but sadly it doesn't look like it will....
teabelly
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teabelly,
I can't be much help apart from remembering that there is company in Suffolk run by Exclusive Bretheren (strict protestant group)who fabricate from scratch at reasonable cost.
The yahoo XM archive will have details somewhere, or did I read it here?
rg
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You don't say what the car is, but might there be one available from a rear-ended write-off somewhere? After all, front wings come off quite easily ..
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Try this website:
www.perfectpanels.co.uk/
They seemed to have panels for just about everything.
Looked like a Mk1 Golf from the photo with the bend in I saw??
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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>Looked like a Mk1 Golf from the photo with the bend in I saw??
Ooops, saw your other photos - clearly NOT a MK1 Golf - sorry!
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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Thanks for the website link.
The car is lancia delta integrale so is not often easy to find rear-ended ones, most owners that bend them tend to bend the fronts having driven too quickly round corners and finding something the other side!
teabelly
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Beware: the few people I know in the business are anything from sceptical to scathing about non-OEM body panels. I've heard "They just don't fit" more than once.
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Googling for \'Integrale body panel\' returned this link that may be of use: www.omicron.uk.com/omi-body.html
Even though they advertise as specialising in pre-Beta Lancias, they also quote Classic Cars magazine as saying they hold the world\'s largest collection of Lancia spares. Might be worth a try, teabelly?
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Thanks, that is a good idea, SjB. I forgot about them over in darkest Norfolk :-) I'm going to try Tanc Barratt in Worcestershire also. I think the garage I'm taking it to has a spare wing if desperate but I don't know what sort of condition it is in. That is the fall back if a new one can't be got hold of.
teabelly
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No worries, and good luck, teabelly! :-)
I saw an absolutely mint red Integrale 16V only yesterday as it happens, and thought what a great car had been made out of such humble origins. Somehow, they do more for me than the Quattro (big Q for the originals?) ever did.
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teabelly,
With thanks to Mark Bedford from the XM list for the following:
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The company is called Flinco or Flimco cant remember which. I know
they have closed their branch in Stowmarket and the Ipswich one has
moved out of the old building. I would imagine they they are still
going - try Yell.co.uk. In the mean time I will speak to a member of
their group whom I sometimes freelance for.
Plymouth Brethren - very strict, no computers, TVs, Fax, radio,
Mobiles, Credit Cards (Even for customers), this list go on for ever
and is based around "do not be yoked by non believers".
A couple of years ago they could get a hold of every removable panel
on XMs, only the rear Qtr on an estate got them stumped.If they have
what you want it would be cheque or cash up front.
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HTH
rg
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Further to my post above, only today has the subject come up on the MB Owners Club bulletin board and the advice from owners with experience of pattern parts and from technical experts is avoid them and go for OEM parts if you can.
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