metal fabricator for rocker panel

[TAP64]

I need to have the rocker panels replaced on my 2010 xlt v6. Got the runaround from a few shops so I reached out to a metal fabricator to make and install new ones. Anyone used this service before?

 

[Fix4Dirt]

I need to have the rocker panels replaced on my 2010 xlt v6. Got the runaround from a few shops so I reached out to a metal fabricator to make and install new ones. Anyone used this service before?

some make and use slip on rockers, if not some will weld on a new section iirc. no rust issues in cali, so never used em

 

[J_C]

No, I had my rocker panels and doglegs replaced on my '98 a dozen years ago but the body shop ordered pre-fabbed pieces for everything but the box structure underneath which they fabbed in house. Total charge including paint was $1200-something IIRC, would probably cost more today.

You can get the rocker panels for a '10 prefabbed, Rock Auto among others has them. Watch out for shipping charges though, oddly Rock Auto shows $35 shipping to me for one, but put both sides in the cart and shipping jumps to $136... heh, order separately or check elsewhere.

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[Fix4Dirt]

You can get the rocker panels for a '10 prefabbed, Rock Auto among others has them. Watch out for shipping charges though, oddly Rock Auto shows $35 shipping to me for one, but put both sides in the cart and shipping jumps to $136... heh, order separately or check elsewhere.

are they from different warehouses? the truck icon will tell ya that. or if not maybe it just needs a bigger box

 

[J_C]

^ Same warehouse, and they are mirror images of each other so would ship in same box size and weight, but the really funny part is one is $35 shipping, the other only $30 shipping, but together, $136! Maybe the dimensional plus real weight, triggers an oversized package fee. Or their shipping calculator is just broken like a lot of other sites these days.

They are probably already in the shipping box, so ordered together, you'd still get the same two boxes for $136 shipping, that you'd get for $65 ordered separately. Maybe they duct tape them together.

 

[Fix4Dirt]

^ Same warehouse, and they are mirror images of each other so would ship in same box size and weight, but the really funny part is one is $35 shipping, the other only $30 shipping, but together, $136! Maybe the dimensional plus real weight, triggers an oversized package fee. Or their shipping calculator is just broken like a lot of other sites these days.

interesting. thats odd!

 

[Brian1]

As a fabricator myself I recently dabbled in repairing my rusty rockers on my 1st gen and it is a different skillset. The metal forming isnt much of the issue but the cutting off the old, welding in the new and the bondo skim coat and painting is more in the wheelhouse of a body shop and not a fab shop. Body shops do this routinely where fab shops may have never done it so if it were mine I would keep shopping for a body shop to take it to.

 

[TAP64]

As a fabricator myself I recently dabbled in repairing my rusty rockers on my 1st gen and it is a different skillset. The metal forming isnt much of the issue but the cutting off the old, welding in the new and the bondo skim coat and painting is more in the wheelhouse of a body shop and not a fab shop. Body shops do this routinely where fab shops may have never done it so if it were mine I would keep shopping for a body shop to take it to.

Thanks that's all this guy does is work on older cars and restoration. He uses something called black raptor as a coating after it's complete. He has a FB page for his business Apathy Motors.