Wing Replacement

[BillyT]

Hello to all, I have been lurking a while. Finally got around to registering today. Looking forward to some good chats on here.

 

Anyway, the C1 in question is my wife's. It's a July 06 Vibe.

 

Some fool taxi driver tried to squeeze between her and the kerb the other day. Didn't have the decency to stop. She got his badge number, but he is denying all knowledge!! Think I will just go round and slap him, and deny it of course.

 

He has dented the nearside front wing above the wheel arch. Took the car to the dealer where we bought it from-they estimate £750!!!! It's solid red so hardly and expensive paint job.

 

Qustion is does anyone have experience of rplacing the wings? I don't mind doing it myself anf then getting the area resprayed. Will this defeat the warranty?

 

Really don't want to spend that some of money, and really by the time we claim on Insurance will still cost a bit.

 

Any suggestions, hopefully clean, will be much appreciated.

 

Bill

 

ps. I think the C1 is a cracking little car. I enjoy driving it and I am used to much larger cars.

[Martin_1973_uk]

I'm afraid Citroen C1's are very expensive to service and repair. It is how they get some of that money back from selling them so cheap. So be warned the people who rant there cars. My second service is going to cost £220, that is madness.......

 

If you are keeping the car a long time then I would do the work myself but if you plan to see it in 3 years then get it done through the insurance. Not nice when it happens to a new car :-(

[justjim]

Hello to all, I have been lurking a while. Finally got around to registering today. Looking forward to some good chats on here.

 

Anyway, the C1 in question is my wife's. It's a July 06 Vibe.

 

Some fool taxi driver tried to squeeze between her and the kerb the other day. Didn't have the decency to stop. She got his badge number, but he is denying all knowledge!! Think I will just go round and slap him, and deny it of course.

 

He has dented the nearside front wing above the wheel arch. Took the car to the dealer where we bought it from-they estimate £750!!!! It's solid red so hardly and expensive paint job.

 

Qustion is does anyone have experience of rplacing the wings? I don't mind doing it myself anf then getting the area resprayed. Will this defeat the warranty?

 

Really don't want to spend that some of money, and really by the time we claim on Insurance will still cost a bit.

 

Any suggestions, hopefully clean, will be much appreciated.

 

Bill

 

ps. I think the C1 is a cracking little car. I enjoy driving it and I am used to much larger cars.

go to find a part there must be quite a few red c1's about get a seconed hand red wing from find a part bout 60 quid fit it your self might be a bit fiddley but it didn't grow on there

[TurboSlag]

I'm afraid Citroen C1's are very expensive to service and repair. It is how they get some of that money back from selling them so cheap. So be warned the people who rant there cars. My second service is going to cost £220, that is madness.......

you need you bumps feeling if you're paying that!

 

First service on my old 107 (had a back injury, so couldn't do it myself) was £60 at an independent pug specialist, using genuine parts and the service completed exactly as per the ICME schedule.

 

On my current 107 the service cost £22 in aprts,and I did it myself (ex technician). Shop about ruthlessly, and don't be afraid to try Peugeot or even Toyota dealers or independent specialists.

 

Your 2nd service is 1.5hrs labour, + parts, + VAT, so £220 is about right if you're mad enough to pay main dealer prices for it.

 

Having owned 5 cars in 1.5 years, I can confirm that C1/107 servicing is no more expensive than any other small car, which is good going as apart from a difference of one spark plug (which is only changed on the 'C' service anyway), there is exactly as much to mechanically change, check or adjust on a C1 as there is on any other conventional car, so no inherent reason why it should be any cheaper.

[750Nig]

I think the servicing issue is hijacking this thread a little, but here is my tuppence worth.

Both my local Citroen and Peugeot dealers had a service deal on this summer. £70 for a service, but only if the car was more than (I think) 3 years old.

If the costs for servicing small car are the same as a larger car, why are the costs less for on older car ?

It is of course a bit of a con as the dealer will find numerous faults that need fixing on the cheap old car service and get his money back that way. A new car won't (or shouldn't) have any faults so there is no way to sting the punter.

 

When I bought my Golf earlier this year, VW did a 3 year servicing deal for £200, tore their hand off !

 

For the C1 we go to an independant for about £60.

 

Back to the wing, ring round the local scrap yards, as you say red is probably the most popular colour and you might get lucky. The car isn't too old so shouldn't be difficult in getting off. Using the scrap yard one as a test bed so to speak.

[TurboSlag]

If the costs for servicing small car are the same as a larger car, why are the costs less for on older car ?

To attract the older cars back into the dealer servicing network. It's not a loss leader as such, though these deals will run the minimum of profit for the dealers, but they then make their jam by identifying additional work that the older cars will often need.

[ColinC1]

My sisters car (an Aygo) got one wing and bumper destroyed by a hit and run driver in a carpark, no witnesses.

 

Cost was £1600 to repair parts by a car repar shop (mettalic gray paint). paid by her insurance, but she unfortunately she had to pay her £200 excess, Luckly she had protected No Cliams bonus.

 

I watched the job getting done when I was in their workshop, with all the bits laid out, and the new wing was bolt on, like all the city bugs.

 

Only thing I would watch out for, which happened to her car, is that the cars front can deform inwards depending on how severe the hit, this happens quite easily due to crumple zones, so that the bonnet does not quite align with the headlights and wings, as it gets pushed back.

 

If you are doing the job yourself , make sure that there is no deformity of the bonnet compaired to the other parts.

 

Also check your mechanics at the front, like radiator, steering, front susoension is working ok.