Rear Wheel Arches - can anyone help

[stuc]

Hi being a time served painter in quality bodyshops,and now a trainer in vehicle damage assessing i know a bit about this subject. The panel costs seem ok and should take about 5 hours a side, Mazda used to pay us 7 hrs per side to replace Mazda 6 arches under warranty as a guide. painting would be about 4 hrs per panel plus 1 hr per blend panel if blends are needed. So depending on hourly rate at the garage average £30 per hr you can work out rough labour costs. Paint and materials are usually added to this and again as a guide Mazda used to pay £110 per side(qtr panel paint and blend rear doors) but that is using high quality paint and laquer made by Du Pont. The seam talked about i assume is the bead of seam sealer used to seal the joint between the inner and outer arch, on the mazda 6 this was the problem, as on a certain run of chassis nos the sealer was there but had missed the joint,causing water ingress between the panels.

[tallbongo]

Thanks for the into. Have to admit I'm shocked at the amount of labour involved. I should have knocked the price down more on purchase. Time to invest in some hammerite. Anyone else got a hand painted black bongo ?