ive been offered some molds for fibreglass parts,a full width front splitter,side skirts,rear spolier(3 piece) and a rear diffuser for a total of £1200,around $2500,they are profesionally made and well seasoned molds,does this sound like a reasonable price?
It depends on a couple of factors and some common sence. First do the parts fit a popular car or are they for a yugo? ( oops yugos may be popular where you are) you say they are well seasaoned molds, does that they they are at or very near the end of their useful life? molds usually only last so long before they they have to be replaced, this time depends on materials used, maintanence as well as how may impressions have been taken.
also look at the cost of reproducing the molds ( both time and materials) from purchased parts. the decision is up to you but if they are money makers then it’s a deal, if they are dead duds then you are thowing the cash in the trash.
yeah as long as you believe you can sell the products that the are made for. On ebay there is a guy selling some RX7 molds for a widebody
Bricklin posted a great answer. I’m working on a factory helped new import drag race car and when the owner told me that (he wanted my opinion) he could buy all the molds for $1,000.00 (1 piece front end, front and rear doors with inners too and rear deck lid), I about fell over! I told him, buy them or I will! These only had 1 set of CF parts made from them.
PS: I’m doing the PC windows on this race car.
also make sure they can handle your manufacturing processes. If you are infusing make sure they are flanged and such
the previous guy used to sell batches of 20 of the front splitters to a very large toyota performance store in the uk,and im very confident that i can sell good numbers of all the parts,i think i will go for it,ive only got to make 2 of each part to get my money back…
If you know you can make your money back then go for it as anything else on top of that would be profit for you…