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Sunday morning wandered over to the Tiv to take a nice morning spin out to lunch with the wife only to find that someone had clobbered my driver side front wing / wheel arch leaving a mass of white paint and scratches down to the bare GRP.
No note, nothing!
The excess will be at least £300 and then god knows what this will do to my premium if I claim.
Has anyone ever used Chips Away on a TVR? My Dad used them on his Shoguns bumpers and they did a good job but not sure about letting them loose on my car.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Off to weep some more....
No note, nothing!
The excess will be at least £300 and then god knows what this will do to my premium if I claim.
Has anyone ever used Chips Away on a TVR? My Dad used them on his Shoguns bumpers and they did a good job but not sure about letting them loose on my car.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Off to weep some more....
Really sorry to hear that. Theres too many scum out there!
TBH chips away are really good for just that - chips. Remember that with GRP it's what you can't see that often causes the problems. the fibreglass crazes under the paint so unless fully stripped back and repaired a gloss over will only be temporary.
It may be worth a call to a couple of TVR aware bodyshops to get their opinion and some quotes.
Out of interest do you have protected NCB? I had a fault claim in 07 but due to losing no NCB my renewal was barely more than I'd paid prior to the accident and even now I pay less on my T350 than I did when I had my Chim.
TBH chips away are really good for just that - chips. Remember that with GRP it's what you can't see that often causes the problems. the fibreglass crazes under the paint so unless fully stripped back and repaired a gloss over will only be temporary.
It may be worth a call to a couple of TVR aware bodyshops to get their opinion and some quotes.
Out of interest do you have protected NCB? I had a fault claim in 07 but due to losing no NCB my renewal was barely more than I'd paid prior to the accident and even now I pay less on my T350 than I did when I had my Chim.
Sorry to hear that, it's really annoying.
About 18 months back, I saw a woman hit a parked car and try and drive off. I made sure she couldn't get by my car and told her I was reporting her if she didn't stop (the owner was a local shop keeper). She had no choice to stop, just as well as it was clear she liked the sherry too much.
I got abused by local yobs who said she hadn't done anything (damage to both cars was clear. I'm not imtimidated by things like that, it just annoys me as other people are left to pay the bill. Also, it could have been a child, cyclist or whatever she hit.
Anyhow, if you have it on a classic policy NCB doesn't count but I think they may load subsequent policies abit (although mine wasn't after my 1st cerb burnt out).
Good luck.
Dave
About 18 months back, I saw a woman hit a parked car and try and drive off. I made sure she couldn't get by my car and told her I was reporting her if she didn't stop (the owner was a local shop keeper). She had no choice to stop, just as well as it was clear she liked the sherry too much.
I got abused by local yobs who said she hadn't done anything (damage to both cars was clear. I'm not imtimidated by things like that, it just annoys me as other people are left to pay the bill. Also, it could have been a child, cyclist or whatever she hit.
Anyhow, if you have it on a classic policy NCB doesn't count but I think they may load subsequent policies abit (although mine wasn't after my 1st cerb burnt out).
Good luck.
Dave
personally i'd get it professionally repaired, some chips away guys are very good, others are not! i saw a guy clober a new alfa in tesco's carpark once, unfortunately for him he was in a van with his name painted down the side! i waited for the owner and told him. there are too many dishonest people out there.......
Sorry to hear about your car 
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I have not used Chips Away, but a friend in the Cambridge area has and was very pleased with the result.
However, as someone else said, by the sounds of the damage, I would be more inclined to get it done at a bodyshop - just because it's quite a large area.... (or maybe I'm just being daft of course!
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.I have not used Chips Away, but a friend in the Cambridge area has and was very pleased with the result.
However, as someone else said, by the sounds of the damage, I would be more inclined to get it done at a bodyshop - just because it's quite a large area.... (or maybe I'm just being daft of course!
).Sorry to be doom and gloom but if there is a lot of scraping and paint removal the damage is probably worse than you'd think as fibreglass deflects when hit and then returns to it's former shape, unlike metal. I had my rear wing caught by a Volvo when parked and although superficial to look at it, it resulted in a £700 job, including a scuffed alloy.
I doubt that a superficial paint repair like chips would last or be sufficient.
Personally I wouln't have a Chips repair anywhere near my TVR as the paint is OK for a year or two (speaking from experience here)and then you can see the reapair. So OK for your Eurobox rep mobile but not your P&J.
I doubt that a superficial paint repair like chips would last or be sufficient.
Personally I wouln't have a Chips repair anywhere near my TVR as the paint is OK for a year or two (speaking from experience here)and then you can see the reapair. So OK for your Eurobox rep mobile but not your P&J.
My Tuscan had had a knock on the rear off side wing before I bought her. Looked fine then but now there are a lot of fine crack lines showing through.
Mine needs doing properly and at least a rear quarter respray.
I scratched my Chimaera wing against a wall while in Germany and that cost €900.
Mine needs doing properly and at least a rear quarter respray.
I scratched my Chimaera wing against a wall while in Germany and that cost €900.
V8 GRF said:
Personally I wouln't have a Chips repair anywhere near my TVR as the paint is OK for a year or two (speaking from experience here)
Worth being aware that ChipsAway introduced an entirely new paint system in 2008, to take advantage of the latest technology and to be fully compliant with the newer VOC regs. This is a 2-pack product (unlike the original solvent-borne 1k lacquer) and has similar durability when fully cured to factory finishes or traditional bodyshop refinish materials now.The 1k stuff was not very durable, by its very nature. If your experience was of that system, the new stuff is a completely different kettle of fish
Anatol (ChipsAway Cambridge)
Edited by Anatol on Wednesday 21st January 14:46
Anatol said:
The 1k stuff was not very durable, by its very nature. If your experience was of that system, the new stuff is a completely different kettle of fish
Anatol (ChipsAway Cambridge)
Yes my experience was of the older stuff so my comments and knowledge are restricted to that.Anatol (ChipsAway Cambridge)
In context though I still feel that the damage unless very superficial is beyond a Chipsaway type of repair, as I'm sure you'll agree.
ds whoever it was.V8 GRF said:
In context though I still feel that the damage unless very superficial is beyond a Chipsaway type of repair, as I'm sure you'll agree.
I was more commenting on your experience of the paint system than the OP's particular situation. But certainly, if there's any damage to the composite substrate, it should go to a GRP specialist, and is really out of the arena of SMART repair, or most non-specialist bodyshops.If the GRP is exposed but undamaged, then a skilled SMART repairer, with any branding, should be able to manage filling the scratches and refinishing the arch and wing, even on a marque with typically large blend zones such as a TVR.
A caveat; there are a lot of SMART repairers out there that I would consider 'unskilled' for the purposes of the paragraph above
Anatol
ChipsAway do not have the skill set necessary to do the job.
I had a small sctrach/hole and the insurers refused for anyone to touch it but ChipsAway "who work on these sort of cars all the time..."
Yeah right.
ChipsAway guy came round, said it was beyond the scope of their system and then sent me a "to whom it may concern" letter to send to the insurance company so I could get a proper firm to do the job.
ChipsAway, no idea of the quality of their work - but top chaps!
I had a small sctrach/hole and the insurers refused for anyone to touch it but ChipsAway "who work on these sort of cars all the time..."
Yeah right.
ChipsAway guy came round, said it was beyond the scope of their system and then sent me a "to whom it may concern" letter to send to the insurance company so I could get a proper firm to do the job.
ChipsAway, no idea of the quality of their work - but top chaps!
DonnyMac said:
ChipsAway do not have the skill set necessary to do the job.
The ChipsAway skillset varies totally depending on the operator. Alan Murphy from ChipsAway Manchester ran a traditional bodyshop for over 20 years before joining ChipsAway, as an example.
Generalisation about capability and experience is therefore pretty meaningless
Your local operator clearly doesn't have the repair skills necessary, but it sounds like he's offered a very professional service nonetheless
Tol
Anatol, you're cherry picking comments from quite well balanced posts that make it look as though posters are criticising Chipsaway without qualifying the remarks. Chipsaway, as the name implies, is as I perceive it for repairing light cosmetic damage and I would have no problem in using it on a metal bodied production car if the new process is as good as you say.
That said the painting and repair of fibreglass is indeed a specilaist area and I wouldn't dream of having chipsaway repair the paint on my TVR, that's my choice and I wouldn't recommend anything other than an experienced paintshop to anyone where the fibreglass was visible or where an impact is likely to have caused stress damage.
That said the painting and repair of fibreglass is indeed a specilaist area and I wouldn't dream of having chipsaway repair the paint on my TVR, that's my choice and I wouldn't recommend anything other than an experienced paintshop to anyone where the fibreglass was visible or where an impact is likely to have caused stress damage.
V8 GRF said:
Anatol, you're cherry picking comments from quite well balanced posts...
Sorry, not my intention to misrepresent the posts. If I'm commenting on just a bit of a post but agree with the rest I tend to quote just the bit I'm commenting on.Apologies if this came across as confrontational. I absolutely respect the rights of owners to choose whatever method to repair their P&J. I draw a lot of work from PH'ers though, so I try to redress the balance a little if I see comments in a post that suggest that our network is a homogenous one when it comes to facilities and capability.
The last thing I'm looking to do is rub PH'ers up the wrong way - they're cherished customers (and potential customers!). I can bang the drum a little loudly after a touch too much coffee, however
Tol
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