Advice for respraying
Discussion
As one of the intensions of this thread is to share experiences I am going to share mine. I had a small incident recently while driving. I hit an animal in the road going at around 70mph 
. This caused some damage to the front on the drivers side. Not much to look at but there was a split about 20 inches along the skirt. And yes, I was paying attention.....damn thing ran out from infront of another car on the inside lane.....
So I went to get this fixed. The small remold of the carbon and the respray came to around £1000. Plus the radiator was leaking as a result as well (it was a big bird) so this had to be replaced.
However, when they came to respray it they noted that it had been resprayed before. This was probably to cover up stone chips as we all know is a common thing plus they didn't see anything that suggested any previous damage. But here was the problem as the paint used was not water based and therefore reacted with the current respray - badly. So they have had to take all paint off the affected area all the way down to the base.
So the advice of my experience is whenever you get a respray just check they are using the correct paint!!!
Also, avoid large birds in the middle of the road.
Dave M.
. This caused some damage to the front on the drivers side. Not much to look at but there was a split about 20 inches along the skirt. And yes, I was paying attention.....damn thing ran out from infront of another car on the inside lane..... So I went to get this fixed. The small remold of the carbon and the respray came to around £1000. Plus the radiator was leaking as a result as well (it was a big bird) so this had to be replaced.
However, when they came to respray it they noted that it had been resprayed before. This was probably to cover up stone chips as we all know is a common thing plus they didn't see anything that suggested any previous damage. But here was the problem as the paint used was not water based and therefore reacted with the current respray - badly. So they have had to take all paint off the affected area all the way down to the base.
So the advice of my experience is whenever you get a respray just check they are using the correct paint!!!
Also, avoid large birds in the middle of the road.
Dave M.
Surprised the paint shop were caught out, but with such a new car, they probably expected it would have been water base paint used originaly and probably didn't suspect previous "repair" work...rolex said:
I wonder if it was intentionally resprayed with celulose paint which I think would give better protection against stonechips, just a thought, im probably completely wrong.
>> Edited by rolex on Saturday 17th July 13:09
Yeah....it is going to cost me extra.....quite a bit so I am a little annoyed that supposedly someone used this paint.
What I don't get is why there are two possible types of paint that could be used when it must be known that they react with each other! Does this mean that my garage should have used the celulose paint instead?
I have heard that the guys from the factory read this now and again.....if so, can they shed any light on this?
Don't be annoyed and don't pay extra for something that is a shortcoming in the paintshop's preparation. Many paint shops use isolators that prevent this problem.
I assume all you asked them to do was paint the front of the car. If they failed to do that properly, why is it anyone elses problem but theirs'.
I assume all you asked them to do was paint the front of the car. If they failed to do that properly, why is it anyone elses problem but theirs'.
daftlad said:
Don't be annoyed and don't pay extra for something that is a shortcoming in the paintshop's preparation. Many paint shops use isolators that prevent this problem.
I assume all you asked them to do was paint the front of the car. If they failed to do that properly, why is it anyone elses problem but theirs'.
This is a good point....however, it is not the garage that did the original paint job so from their point of view its not their problem.
I disagree, the work you requeted was to paint the front of your car to a satisfactory standard. They've failed, and that it is their fault.
There are processes during painting that eliminate the risk of a mismatch of paint types, it appears they failed to take these - their problem shouldn't be yours.
There are processes during painting that eliminate the risk of a mismatch of paint types, it appears they failed to take these - their problem shouldn't be yours.
daftlad said:
I disagree, the work you requeted was to paint the front of your car to a satisfactory standard. They've failed, and that it is their fault.
There are processes during painting that eliminate the risk of a mismatch of paint types, it appears they failed to take these - their problem shouldn't be yours.
I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks for your advice daftlad :-)
Dave.
daftlad said:
I disagree, the work you requeted was to paint the front of your car to a satisfactory standard. They've failed, and that it is their fault.
There are processes during painting that eliminate the risk of a mismatch of paint types, it appears they failed to take these - their problem shouldn't be yours.
Totally agree. They've carried out sloppy procedures in estimating cause and rectification of a job and then have the audacity to blame others for the problem.
Poor.
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