So last week I finally got time to pop round to the body shop to get a quotation on re-spraying my front bumper and bonnet.
The front bumper and bonnet I know have previously been re-sprayed at some point while the car was in the ownership by one of the previous keepers. Who ever they took it to god what a rubbish job they did!
Clearly these guys didn't understand the word 'preparation'.
Ok, so i realise at 83,000 miles the car is going to have it's fair share of stone chips, fair enough however when I swapped over to my fancy plate on the front I saw where previous double sided sticky tape was holding the plate on!
Whoever sprayed the front bumper just sprayed over the sticky tape
absolute f**king tossers!!
Again on the bonnet they hadn't prepared this either, the paint has actually cracked in certain places and has been exposed to the bare metal base, in other area's the paint has just rippled!!
I was wondering where to go to have it sprayed as a lot of people say that spray shack is very good, however I was quite happy going to Multi-Tech as I know the chap though my uncle..... DISCOUNT :rasp:!!!
I was quite happy to go there not only because of the fantastic work they did on my 1.2 replica, but because of the awards they have achieved!
Believe it or not they actually do the body/paintwork for the cars that appear on the TV show 'Wheeler dealers'
If I wanted a proper job doing on the bonnet the wings would have to be done as well, otherwise the colour wouldn't match ......£325 was the quotation :O Gulp!!!!
And the quotation for the front bumper was £165
Total: £490
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As you can imagine I wasn't really wanting to pay this much, especially when the wings still have their factory paint
Originally I went about trying to obtain a bonnet from the 'Wanted' section on the forum, I specifically asked for a 2005 '05' Plate 182 bonnet in Artic Blue!
The reasoning behind that (if it wasn't clear) was that it would be very likely an '05' bonnet in the same colour would have been the same batch of paint that was used on my 182 in production line, simple!
Plenty of responses, however the bonnets individuals were selling were either off cars from a different production year (i.e 2004) or had been resprayed at some point
However I did re-post again last week and a chap on the forum contacted me saying he had one which he believed still had its factory paint, minus the few stone chips (expected) it was in perfect condition....... £70 sorted!
Arranged to pick it up from Aylesbury and collected it this Saturday!
The chap I collected it from, a real genuine individual and a really nice bloke, he was really helpful Worthwhile trip definitely, not only did I get a mint bonnet I got to look at a proper track spec'd 182, woahh what a car !!!
Got the bumper home, did my usual detailing procedure and set about getting it bolted on.
During:
I was a tad worried at first as I didn't know if the paint was going to match up, however once it was on the car you could see it was a perfect resemblance to the rest of the paintwork :approve:
After:
Really pleased with the outcome!
Not getting it re-sprayed and doing some searching around really paid off and ended up saving me £255
The front bumper and bonnet I know have previously been re-sprayed at some point while the car was in the ownership by one of the previous keepers. Who ever they took it to god what a rubbish job they did!
Clearly these guys didn't understand the word 'preparation'.
Ok, so i realise at 83,000 miles the car is going to have it's fair share of stone chips, fair enough however when I swapped over to my fancy plate on the front I saw where previous double sided sticky tape was holding the plate on!
Whoever sprayed the front bumper just sprayed over the sticky tape
absolute f**king tossers!!Again on the bonnet they hadn't prepared this either, the paint has actually cracked in certain places and has been exposed to the bare metal base, in other area's the paint has just rippled!!
I was wondering where to go to have it sprayed as a lot of people say that spray shack is very good, however I was quite happy going to Multi-Tech as I know the chap though my uncle..... DISCOUNT :rasp:!!!
I was quite happy to go there not only because of the fantastic work they did on my 1.2 replica, but because of the awards they have achieved!
Believe it or not they actually do the body/paintwork for the cars that appear on the TV show 'Wheeler dealers'
If I wanted a proper job doing on the bonnet the wings would have to be done as well, otherwise the colour wouldn't match ......£325 was the quotation :O Gulp!!!!
And the quotation for the front bumper was £165
Total: £490
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
As you can imagine I wasn't really wanting to pay this much, especially when the wings still have their factory paint
Originally I went about trying to obtain a bonnet from the 'Wanted' section on the forum, I specifically asked for a 2005 '05' Plate 182 bonnet in Artic Blue!
The reasoning behind that (if it wasn't clear) was that it would be very likely an '05' bonnet in the same colour would have been the same batch of paint that was used on my 182 in production line, simple!
Plenty of responses, however the bonnets individuals were selling were either off cars from a different production year (i.e 2004) or had been resprayed at some point
However I did re-post again last week and a chap on the forum contacted me saying he had one which he believed still had its factory paint
, minus the few stone chips (expected) it was in perfect condition....... £70 sorted!Arranged to pick it up from Aylesbury and collected it this Saturday!
The chap I collected it from, a real genuine individual and a really nice bloke, he was really helpful
Worthwhile trip definitely, not only did I get a mint bonnet I got to look at a proper track spec'd 182, woahh what a car !!! Got the bumper home, did my usual detailing procedure
and set about getting it bolted on.During:
I was a tad worried at first as I didn't know if the paint was going to match up, however once it was on the car you could see it was a perfect resemblance to the rest of the paintwork :approve:
After:
Really pleased with the outcome!
Not getting it re-sprayed and doing some searching around really paid off and ended up saving me £255
