Got the call I never wanted to Get - Ive driven into you car

[AndyC]

Most of it is removal of bumpers and lights so they can paint it proporley, the only new panel is the door, but it has to be blended to the panels either side

 

Steve

 

Ah now it makes sense.

 

Bet you aint half glad she made that call mate.

[Digsy]

Going on from this, if I want the key scratch on my door doing at a bodyshop am I going to need blending with the other panels?

[Rob_Quads]

Sorry Stevey boy but that really does seem like they are taking the ****. Its claims like that by bodyshops that cause insurance costs to be soo high.

 

Your car is how old? 2/3 years. IMO any decent paint shop should easily be able to get a colour match on yours and thus be able to paint the door off the car.

 

At most I would have said that would have been a 1K job.

 

There is definatly no reason to be taking out stuff like the head/tail lights. Even if they were blending the paint they at most should be blending around 12 inches of it. If they are hitting the light area with paint all they are doing is moving the point of blend from being near the door join to near other panel joins. If anything its one of the scams many companys use. They blend it much further along the panel so when the customer looks at the car they look around the replacement/sprayed panels and its joints and think "Oh great match" what they don't look at is the colours on the panels next to it and how they match the panels next to them now.

[sl114]

Sorry Stevey boy but that really does seem like they are taking the ****. Its claims like that by bodyshops that cause insurance costs to be soo high.

 

Your car is how old? 2/3 years. IMO any decent paint shop should easily be able to get a colour match on yours and thus be able to paint the door off the car.

 

At most I would have said that would have been a 1K job.

 

There is definatly no reason to be taking out stuff like the head/tail lights. Even if they were blending the paint they at most should be blending around 12 inches of it. If they are hitting the light area with paint all they are doing is moving the point of blend from being near the door join to near other panel joins. If anything its one of the scams many companys use. They blend it much further along the panel so when the customer looks at the car they look around the replacement/sprayed panels and its joints and think "Oh great match" what they don't look at is the colours on the panels next to it and how they match the panels next to them now.

Thats very good to know