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The club to which I belong is upgrading the instrument lighting in one of
our 182s. I've been doing the research side of this. All was going well. We ultimately decided upon the panel overlay product from Aero Enhancement, and started looking at shops to do the installation. And here's where I took a bit of a shock. Two shops - both of whom we've worked with - quoted about 8 hours for the install and "minimal" times for template fitting. The "template fitting" is something that occurs once, twice, or perhaps three times. AE sends a template from which they'll be building the panel overlay. The template is "fitted", and any errors are marked for correction. The template is sent back to AE. If there are corrections, they produce a new template and send it for another fitting. The two shops to whom I spoke, and AE, claim that fitting is a trivial affair. I just took them at their words (and didn't think much about it). But when I got a price from a third shop - one that claims to have worked with AE's panel overlays before - I got a *much* larger quote (8 hours vs. 20-30 hours). This third shop has worked with AE's panel overlays in the past, and even likes them. But this shop told me that the process is far more involved than AE claims. So now I'm dealing with a conflict in the information I've received. And that brings me here. Does anyone have experience with the AE panel overlay product? I'm very curious as to what the installation - and template fittings - took in terms of time and effort. Thanks... Andrew |
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