cactusweasel Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Hello, Just had a bit of an incident with kids outside my flat involving a large stone landing on my bonnet and making its mark Before I go and get quotes I just wondered if I could get a few opinions here, I suspect it will be a bonnet respray as the scratches are quite deep, down to the bottom layers of paint I would say. Large pic here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmom32q034z81uy/2015-06-27%2017.51.17.jpg?dl=0 Cheers - Adrian Quote
ZEUS Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Firstly get the kids who did it , put them in the boot, drive them 15 miles out to the middle of nowhere and leave them there. How infuriating, that looks like a respray to me. Quote
cactusweasel Posted June 27, 2015 Author Posted June 27, 2015 Shame the boot on the 350z isn't big enough or I might have! Luckily their mother was there and I have all their details, so you never know I might see some money for it. Quote
ZEUS Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Well at least that's something if you can get the cost of repairs from them. Quote
GMballistic Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 I don't know Adrian as zoomed in it doesn't look great but tbh I'd try "Chips Away" or similar first before I went down the full respray route. Good luck. Quote
GMballistic Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 That colour is a bi#ch to match up though GM. Yep I'm sure you're correct. I do think however any colour on a 5-10+ year old car will be hard to match perfectly. If the kids Mum is paying then you're probably right to go down the respray route from a decent body shop rather than "Chips Away". Probably still going to be trouble getting everything to match perfectly though. Quote
cactusweasel Posted June 27, 2015 Author Posted June 27, 2015 Full respray... new passenger window motor, head unit, boot struts, supercharger ... The colour matching does sound like it could be an issue, its an 04 so 11 years old now, I'm sure the orange isn't quite as it was when it left the factory. Hopefully it doesn't come to a full respray, I reckon I might have a bit more hassle getting them to pay up if it came to that. Bloody hassle I could do without! Cheers 1 Quote
MIGWEL Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 Hope it all gets sorted quickly and without hassle for you Quote
ZEUS Posted June 27, 2015 Posted June 27, 2015 My mate had various panels sprayed after storm damage and it took 2 attempts to get it blended correctly but the result was good. (Same colour as yours) Quote
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