Paintshield

Hi Guys, I know there are a number of people on here and in the other site who used to be in the Celica Club, Today I heard some distressing News Perry one of the UKS best Jap Metal car modders and great all round guy ,apparrently died of a Heart Attack over the weekend. He Was 46 years young. I am awaiting further details as I have them to hand I will post them up as I get them. My Condolences to his family. Tom

Looking forwrd to it Val will be nice to see what you have done to your baby cheers Tom

Hi Guys we have run a club offer in the other place for January I am now going to offer the same offer for February ONLY, to you guys. Full Bonnet Full Wings Bumper wing Mirrors and Sills and wheel arch protection £750 plus VAT Normal retail for this lot £1100 plus Vat This is a one off Offer for February only and is well over and above the normal club price (which is considerably discounted anyway). I could not run the offer to both clubs at the same time due to demand management issues Best Wishes Tom

HI Guys sorry I lost the link to the forum and we have been shut down over Chrimbo so I had not picked up on this (plus I am swamped all the time so I can't get on forums as much personally these days) no excuse I know but hey stuff happens Ok on Minor scratches and abrasions because the film is plastic it may well get some swirl marks or minor scratches or the odd scuff during its life but with the 3M film (only the 3M film incidentally) you can fix these with a quick run down the chemists, there are a couple of threads on this issue on either this forum or in the other place (sorry cant remember as I am on about 60 forums) Basically what you do to keep it simple is if you have this, nip down to the chemists get a bottle of rubbing alchohol (otherwise called Iso Propyl alcohol) Get Some Bounty tissue and a lint free cloth. Put the Kettle on (might as well have a coffee while you wait) Then this is what you do.... Step 1 ensure you are not smoking do not operate electrical equipment and ensure you are in a well ventilated environment in other words open garage doors (yes Valerio this means you too) Step 2 Then You saturate the bounty with the neat alcohol lay it on the surface of the film. Step 3 pour a little moure on the bounty and around it to get a pool then glide (not rub read this twice) the liquid around the film Step 4 keep some dry bounty to hand to mop up the run off prolonged exposure of the edges to to neat alcohol MAY cause lift so soak up the excess as you go. Step 5 when you have coated the whole surface remove the tissue and go to the freshly boiled kettle make and dring coffee cocoa tea (whatever) go back 20-30 mins later and the alcohol will have evapourated off the car (do not light fag etc at this point) Step 6 Gently buff film with lint free cloth. This will remove most if not all of the scratches you get and on those threads one customer removed cat scratches from his Zed and the other took out bumper scuffs when his boss clipped the car (obviously this wont work if the graze has torn the film) really simple to do and will cost you about 90p for the alcohol Hope that helps Cheers Tom PS if you need someone to talk you through this when you do it for the first time just call me 01476 592777 and I will walk you through it before you start.

HI Thanks for the Kind Remarks, the reason we take so much effort on customer service is being a petrolhead myself I got fed up with being continually screwed over and we decided we were never going to have a business like that. The only difference between good service and poor service is your frame of mind IMHO. Giving a customer the bums rush might save you money in the short term but boy is it going to cost you in the long term Cheers and keep enjoying your cars thats what they are for Tom

To be fair Tom, that's not a Zed issue as you have put, that's resprays that can affect any car. Well yes and No as it was allegedly done by a Nissan Dealer prior to the customer getting it (supposedly an ex demonstrator) Cant be absolutley certain that the dealer did it just waht the customer was told Cheers Tom

The paint isues with Zeds just seem to be getting worse, we just had to turn away a client for the full frontal treatment because the car had obviously had a respray and there was almost NO clearcoat on there, the muppets who did it did not even take off the number plate plinth and sprayed around it Makes me so mad to see naff workmanship like this, done before he collected the car. We are seeing more and more really bad resprays so think about protection long and hard before taking the car on the road. Cheers Tom

Never got these when you cinsider Paint protection film has been around for years now why would anyone entertain these?

Do you have any Before and After Pics I am sure the guys would like to see them if you did Cheers Tom

HI glad it worked, thats two jobs I have done myself out of this week Yours and that cat I bribed to scratch that other one Cheers Tom

Sorry mate I think a respray would be cheaper Dont think so unless you go to Bodgit and Dodgit, quality resprays on Metalics are NOT cheaper than the film (Dodgy ones are though) Cheers Tom

Hi removing the film is simplicity itself (if you know what you are doing) I have sent you a PM so give me a call, the guy you called was Auto Asylum (an independent distributor) not us. Talk to me we will get you sorted out Best Wishes Tom

If you do suffer from this then when you bring the car to us to be done we could do a panel for the roof to help prevent this. Just let us know before you arrive Cheers Tom

NO It depends on what you have done, The standard Kit bumper bonnet wing ends wing mirrors and Bumper IS £450 retail plus Vat BEFORE club Discount if done here in Grantham. The full coverage frontal kits are more but we are covering the whole of the car forward of the A Pillar You could just have the Bumper done for instance (however still leaves you with potential damage to the other areas) also as it is designed to be there for four years it will work out cheaper than having smart repairs every year (and a lot cheaper than a respray every year). Smart repairs typical costs for example usually end up about £120 in my experience for most multiple repairs and they will never look perfect and need re-done every year. Hope that helps Cheers Tom

Glad it worked out for you I can send you some offcuts to wrap the cat in if you like May de-fur the little so and so upon removel though Cheers Tom