Vlad

To people who's got them on - what did you use to stick them on? I've got some extra strong carpet double sided tape - but it's too thin and wouldn't hold corners down (so they stick up). Got some thicker double sided tape, used it before on other bits - and it's pretty solid, but this one wouldn't stick to the inside of eye brows as they are now completely smooth... What do you people use then? Some kind of silicone?

Haha well, he is quite thick - so may be local paint store just taking the **** and charging him £200 per roll of "non-straight" masking tape...?

Forgot to mention about bonnet... I did say that bonnet and arches have barely any lacquer on them, but while arches at least look half decent, parts of bonnet dried out like rush because if just few drops of lacquer. Also he didn't wait wait for it to cool down and masked it away while lacquer was still soft - there are few lines from masking tape now. Added this to the 1st post.

And this is one of my points, if he could have got a local labourer in for £80 a day then thats what your value was People in Ekona's trade rarely get out of bed until they need to cancel until another day anyway And my point is - that it was never about money... It was favour for favour. Just like he said - he spent £1200 on just materials...other body shops laughed at that and said they could do 4 cars for that lol £1200 on material to do your front end and this was after you paid £100 towards paint? I assume this was his first job and he's including the cost of the gun and compressor? Haha by the looks of it lol he said it cost him £1200 in materials (yea, that's after I paid £100 towards paint), that doesn't include booth time and labour

Get me a job there In Ekona's bed..... One day I will remember to be careful with my words on this forum

And this is one of my points, if he could have got a local labourer in for £80 a day then thats what your value was People in Ekona's trade rarely get out of bed until they need to cancel until another day anyway And my point is - that it was never about money... It was favour for favour. Just like he said - he spent £1200 on just materials...other body shops laughed at that and said they could do 4 cars for that lol

Get me a job there

If youre getting £150 a day for less than 8 hours a day doing unskilled labour in a bodyshop let me know when you need more staff I don't work at bodyshop... And I'm getting paid that for a skilled labour

Haha do you want to know if it's before or after my health insurance and other things as well? Lol Yep, same here...notices couple of hairline cracks around air intake hole another day... Awful!

That! Although I don't think I'll go as far as local paper... Social media is quite good at it these days

And jut to confirm - I never asked or thought of doing him a favour in return for a free spray job... HE OFFERED IT! And I made this thread not to configure out who owes what to who, but just to warn people!

To be honest - money are completely irrelevant in this situation! As it was agreed I do him favour and he will do me a favour after! I only mentioned money after he went mad and strarted screaming at me that I'm getting it all for nothing and it costing him so much.... Only then I mentioned that it did cost me in wages and fuel wen I was helping him out. And yes, if I worked them days - I would've got £150 per day...and would've worked less time than I spent in his body shop. Regarding fuel costs - it wasn't just the case of getting there and back... He doesn't drive - so every te I had to pick him up, take him there and then drop him off... And all the trips to the shops etc inbetween! And that was last year, when fuel prices were higher than now lol But yea, I will say it once again - money are irrelevant as it meant to be favour for favour... Until he started mentioning costs!

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More like you get what you pay for ......... Not always... As "technically" I paid over £1400 for it

SOLD

Totally agree! And I did trust him...otherwise I wouldn't go there myself and definately wouldn't reccomend him to others!

Yep... And that's what I'm doing... While warning others in the process lol

I don't...

Cheers buddy! I'm sure we could sort something out if you want it doing...won't be this month though as got a lot on already. Let me know though, be more than happy to do it. Wicked! That sounds good! I don't want to do a full proper detail yet anyway, until my front end properly resprayed but I will message you on FB soon! Keep up good work

You owe me a beer

Sen this on Instagram - looks amazing mate! When you coming over to do mine?

Ok mate, will keep you posted

Yea, that's what I've learnt now! And sorry for recline ding him to you...only if I knew... Glad you didn't go there!

I said it was nothing to do with me what happened between you and him! Just like it's nothing to do with anybody else what happened between me and him - I'm not blaming anybody else for it, just warning people! Without trying to blow this up or go into tiny get ails it still sounds to me like you still lack insight! And this this is what was/is annoying about the whole. You recommended someone to me who gives me the run around, does a really bad job and when I complained to you about this after the end of the protracted saga, you said it's none of your business what happened between the 2 of us👀! This comes accross as unsympathetic and selfish. You fail to see that what happened is that I got a shocking service by someone you recommended! It wasn't a social complaint though is behaviour is also shocking! I was'nt asking you for a refund but some acknowledgement that you misled me and this guy has messed up. This is taking responsibility. The least could have been on the lines of "i"ll speak to "my mate" to see how this can be redressed or to let him know you were unhappy with the service", Not its nothing to do with me because it does👎. I'm not blaming you for his actions but for claiming he was a professional when by the evidence of it all you where guess or quoting his words without substantiated evidence. So it's good the same treatment was metted out to you despite him being your mate and highly professional ( "very anal about his work" as you put it!) Well, I'm sorry for recommending him! I did speak to him about your job - but he just chatted so much bullsh*t, making out it was your fault and that - so I just left it, as already had my car in bits and didn't want to cause an argument before we even started. And I was angry at the time as you sold me bumper as we agreed...with just 1 crack... But then it appeared that mesh is home as well (even that's the point you've spent 5mins on the phone toe saying how good it was etc) and it wasn't just 1 crack...hairline cracks all over and so on...but that's nothung to do with this thread! At the time I was sure that he is good at his job - after all them pics he was sending me... If I knew he was crap - I would never recommend him to anyone and definitely wouldn't take my car there!

Provisionally sold. Awaiting payment