Custom Carbon Fibre Service

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Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby CarbonSport on Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:35 pm

Myself and my business partners are in the process of setting up a business to sell custom made carbon fibre parts, like wings, bonnets, doors, dashboards, door cards etc. So we would use your current parts to create carbon-fibre replicas.

The reason for this post is to get some opinions of people who would be interested in such a service and ask how much you would be willing to pay for each part. Any feedback you could leave would be of great help.

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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby Oranoco on Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:39 pm

Can you post up some pics of your work?

I may be in the market in a month or so for some carbon bits for my Audi A4, dash centre console panel and engine cover.
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby Big Walker on Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:34 pm

rough price for wings and quarter panels outta interest
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby luca on Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:12 pm

how much for the foloowing

bonnets
roofs
wings
rear tailagtes

Rough prices would be handy to gauge if competitive.

I presume you cover the cost for all panels to be used to make your moulds.
Can you confirm the process in which your panels are manufatured. :)
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby RobST2001 on Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:40 pm

Yeah I'd like to be able to get my body done in carbon fibre. I could really do with a carbon fibre roof, although I would not want to spend more than £900 for it. I'd pay around £600 for a bonnet. Would you be able to do tailgates as I'd probably be in the market for it in a year or so. I'd pay up to £900-950 for one of those! You might want to look into wheel arches as they would fetch quite a bit (guessing £1000). As for wings: £500-600 would be my best guess.

Let me know when yur up n running!

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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby luca on Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:23 pm

Robst

All of the above is avaliable :wink:

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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby AndyMan55 on Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:56 pm

I wud be willing to pay...

Roof: £700 - £750
Tailgate: £800 - £850
Bonnet: £400 - £450
Outer Door Skins: £900 each
Wings: £400-500

m4dyeti, you selling any of these things? New or used? Custom made or from stock?

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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby Ollybee on Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:12 pm

AndyMan55 :I wud be willing to pay...

Roof: £700 - £750
Tailgate: £800 - £850
Bonnet: £400 - £450
Outer Door Skins: £900 each
Wings: £400-500

m4dyeti, you selling any of these things? New or used? Custom made or from stock?

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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby dontpannic on Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:06 pm

And Rob's one....?
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby luca on Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:56 pm

Now you say that mate there both odd 1st posts hey!
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby CarbonSport on Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:41 pm

Seem pretty sound to me, answers the question that was asked in the first place ;)
If you guys could do a post like "rob's" or "dAndy's" with prices of carbon fibre parts and what you would be willing to pay, i'd REALLY REALLY appreciate it (and it might lessen the likeliness of future "random posts")

Thanks guys :-)
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby luca on Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:16 am

m4dyeti :how much for the following

bonnets
roofs
wings
rear tailagtes

Rough prices would be handy to gauge if competitive.

I presume you cover the cost for all panels to be used to make your moulds.
Can you confirm the process in which your panels are manufactured. :)



As requested .... :rolleyes:
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby dontpannic on Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:06 am

m4dyeti :As requested .... :rolleyes:


CarbonSport :with prices of carbon fibre parts and what you would be willing to pay,


They haven't started up yet :lol:
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby luca on Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:03 pm

I would hope to think they could supply information on the processes and materials they use, when up and running.

With regard to cost, this should be a price in which the company state rather than the end user.

A mould cost is high, a panel cost is low.

What are the mould prices and what would a typical panel cost, then we can establish what we would be willing to pay for the service.
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby CarbonSport on Thu May 01, 2008 1:50 pm

You're dead right, we haven't started up yet. I did not say we had. It would be a bit silly to start up a high-overhead business before finding out if we can turn over enough money to survive.

So I take it none of you can give me ROUGH price you'd be willing to pay for carbon fibre parts then...(please?) :)
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby MattPym on Fri May 02, 2008 8:58 pm

most panels i would pay around the 3-500 mark dependin on the panel. i think the lads above have gone a bit high on some of the prices unless that is for a one off part
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby muz on Tue May 13, 2008 10:39 pm

I payed £395 for a carbon roof and £495 for the bonnet. But I wouldn't pay any more than that. I'd pay maybe £100 for a cam cover, £400 ish for a tailgate with spoiler. Dont think I'd bother with wings doors etc. Thats a bit silly :lol:
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Re: Custom Carbon Fibre Service

Postby RSTsteve on Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:57 pm

I'm seriously looking to get a load of carbon bits from you.

I'm soon to be in contact regarding getting a carbon bonnet.

Would you do carbon wheel arches? font wings? FRST bonnet vents? :D
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