What is the general cost to replace the rear quarter skin? theres really not a whol lot of damage to anything but the skin and looks like it would be pretty painless to do. all i want is it to be replaced and primered.

 

not to hard at all. When I do it on customer cars I do the welding in jams or underweather stripering so it helps hind the repair. Just have to do a wash job to make sure you got all the welding good, last thing you want is a nice replace being notcieable by water collecting in the cargo area. I have quarterpanel for sale 100 per side. Let me know

 

I am getting one for $75 but i dont have the tools to even attempt such a project and i was just wondering what body shops usually charge to do it

 

I paid $1200.00 about 5 years ago for one side.That was at a high end body shop however I went with aftermarker insted of oem,what a mistake.Spend the extra and get oem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!First of all where the rear quarter met the hatch on the stock side they were about 3/16 straight gap on the replaced side the rear quarter went at an angle from about 1/8 to 5/16 maybe even 3/8.Thats a lot in a 1 inch piece.For second the replaced quarter stuck out quite a bit further than the origanal.It just didnt look right.It bothered me so much for this reason and a few others I started over with a new shell and scraped that one.OEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

i charged the guy 700. and that was more than just the panel. That was to cut, replace quarter panle, and replace the door on the driver side. Then after winter he gave me another 7000 to side that side

 

Im going to attemp the same thing in the spring. I want to do both sides. I have a good welder and a spot weld cutter. I probably should get another cutter cause I iamgine there are alot of spot welds to cut out.

 

Eastwood sells nice spot weld cutters...good luck.

 

do they even sell oem anymore? i've heard stories of 8-900 a piece. i know i pass on all cars with them rusted out because of their cost.