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so after many year of waiting, i finally got my r33 gts-t last week. It had a really nice body kit as well as some performance mods and was in great nick. The owner warned me about driveways and just said be careful cause its low.

So after less than a week of driving, being super careful around driveways and speed bumps, i get back to work today after holidays (which has an undercover carpark). I drive into the drive way no problems and drive down the hill, open the gate then slowly creep down the hill thinking it should be ok. next thing i know, *crack*. front bar has copped a nasty knock. back out and take a look.. its a nasty-ish crack with some surrounding paint chipped of the front bar as well. I read the home-repair thread but i think this one might be a little out of my ability. Its not like the bar is hanging off or anything, but the crack is pretty bad and its chipped away a fair bit of the paint.

I checked the 'queensland workshops' thread but it only had 1 panel beater listed, and that was in brisbane. My questions are:

1) can any panel beater fix this up or does it need to be a bodykit specialist or something ?

2) what sort of price range am a looking at. Its going to need more than just a respray, some fibreglass will need to be replaced and stuff, but its not like they have to go over the whole bar fixing it.

3) anyone have any recommendations of places which will do a good job that are on the Gold Coast. the only one that someone has said to me so far is burliegh smash repairs with a warning that they do a good job but are a bit pricey.

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that is too bad. i've had a fibreglass front bar for about 6 months now, scraped it on driveways, had a fury animal run out in front of me and all i have is 5 little cracks. the longest one about 3 inches.

any panel beater should be able to do it.

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Pulled into a repair shop i saw while driving to get my stereo installed and got a quote for $250.. i'll check out a couple of others.. I'd take it to the recommended places, but by the time i drive there and back i'd be paying $30 in fuel so might as well get it done locally. Its not a horrendous crack, but it does detract from the look of the car. I'll play it a bit by ear.. i should probably wait another month or 2 until ive really gotten used to where I can and cant take the car before i get it fixed up, but then im pretty obsessive/compulsive about things being neat and tidy, so i dont know if ill put up with it for that long :P

thanks for the replies.

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