Official Repair times

[Baikal.2002]

Does anyone, C.D. perhaps, have scans of shop manual pages with the time to remove and replace the nose panel on an 69 1600-02. The insurance company is requesting "official" numbers before paying/authorizing.

[c.d.iesel]

......sorry I don't

[Mike Self]

They should have a repair time book for body work--the trick is whether the book goes all the way back to the 2002....if they don't try BMW NA and/or Mobile Tradition (or whomever they are these days). Bet they can come up with it.

mike

[Richard]

If its less than four or five hours theres a problem

[beammmer]

at Peake bmw maybe they could give you a name of their bodyshop guy. I'll call my counterpart in 3M automotive.

Don

[Baikal.2002]

Thanks Don, the car is at Jay's Body Shop, the shop Peake uses/owns. Unfortunately they don't have books going back that far. Someone from Peake is supposed to be going by to give them numbers but Jay's doubts that the ins. co. will accept them.

Emails are going out to BMW-NA and MT.

Thanks guys.

[JohnN]

01 061 9 699 021. . .

It lists the work for a whole plethora of cars (1500, 1600/4, 1800, 1800TI, 1600/2, 1600TI, 1800, 1800A, 2000, 2000 TI, 2000 TI-L, 2000A, 2000C, 2000 CS, 2000 CA), the 2002 is not specifically listed, but the 1602 is.

Those crafty Germans didn't have a particularly simple way of calculating the time . If I understand the manual correctly, they gave a flat rate of 372 time units to "Renew front grille (face) with front wall cpl."

Each time unit is 5 minutes, so the total would 372/5 = 74.4 hours up to get it to a primed and ready for final paint.

John N

[Baikal.2002]

01 061 9 699 021. . .

It lists the work for a whole plethora of cars (1500, 1600/4, 1800, 1800TI, 1600/2, 1600TI, 1800, 1800A, 2000, 2000 TI, 2000 TI-L, 2000A, 2000C, 2000 CS, 2000 CA), the 2002 is not specifically listed, but the 1602 is.

Those crafty Germans didn't have a particularly simple way of calculating the time . If I understand the manual correctly, they gave a flat rate of 372 time units to "Renew front grille (face) with front wall cpl."

Each time unit is 5 minutes, so the total would 372/5 = 74.4 hours up to get it to a primed and ready for final paint.

John N

Thanks John. Any way you could send me a scan of that page?

PS. 372*5/60= 31 Hours. One hour shy of the estimate for body labor the shop gave me.

[JohnN]

I don't have easy access to a scanner. I'll see what I can do. . .

Your estimate from the body shop did not include final paint, right ??

John N

[Baikal.2002]

Thanks for your help.

The estimate was:

Parts: $$$$

Body labor: 32 hours

Paint labor: 14 hours

Clear coat: 3 hours

Paint: $$$

It was pretty informal, hand written on a pad they had laying around. They've been dealing directly with the adjuster so I haven't seen a follow on break down.

When I called BMW-NA they couldn't help other than to suggest contacting BMWCCA. I've got an email in to Mobile Tradition to see if they can come up with documentation.