Daylight robbery!!! Beware! Shop around!
Went to Carstar Excel for a second quote for some relatively minor body work repair. They quoted me a preposterous $6100! for parts and laubour at said it would take 18 days. The first quote I got, at a body shop 10 minutes away was for $700 parts and labour! And he'd do it in only 2 or 3 days.
I guessed they'd be more expensive but how they can quote almost 10 times as much as a competitor is utterly beyond me!
Complete rip-off merchants. They won't be getting my business now, or ever.
I strongly urge others to shop around for competitive quotes.