Hail damage - loss of value?

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:03:54 GMT, "Howard Nelson"
wrote:


"Nathan Young" wrote in message
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On 9 Aug 2006 16:23:00 -0700, wrote:



$10k for a new paint job with all the bondo work to fill the hail
dents on the body and wings.

Bondo???? I am not being sarcastic. Is this crap actually used in aircraft
repair?
10K sounds about right for decent paint job without sheet metal repair.

Well, it probably is not automotive bondo, but there definitely is a a
sandable filler that paint shops use to cover hail damage and misc
dings. It must be an aviation grade bondo. :-)

I had to reskin one aileron on a 182 and 5K to reskin, paint and balance all
control surfaces seems pretty inexpensive. My understanding from the
original post was that the $15K was for reskinning control surfaces which
seems about right.

I had one of my ailerons reskinned (Cherokee), and recall it to be
around $1k.

The paint and balance would be done in the paint shop anyway, so that
cost should not be calculated into the reskin cost.

So, $5k is light, but I don't think outrageously low. $15k seems
substantially too high. However, I do not know how much a flap skin
or elevator skin costs. Also, the OP's aircraft was a Beech, so
perhaps the skins cost more, or the amount of manhours to replace is
higher than my Cherokee.