Would this be a issue when selling a car
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My car has just come back from repairs , I’m not overly bothered as the car does a lot of miles , and fairly hard use , so what looks like a really poor match doesn’t really concern me ( it probably should but as I say car gets quite hard use )
But will this affect the value if p/ex the car ?, can’t remember any salesman bringing unmatched panels in past , mostly front / rear bumpers .
We have a 5 yr guarantee on repairs ( though I’ve yet to read the full t&c yet ) so we could maybe say not happy .
Nb I wasn’t here when car was brought back so wife inspected it & only brought up top of grill .
Wife brought this up with lad who brought car back , wife showed me when I got home , I just pushed clips in , but have now noticed it’s popped out again .
I’m wondering if were being a bit picky , it’s a 80,000 mile focus , not a Porsche , Aston Martin’
It’s as I say would it effect p/x , though car is only worth apparently £3500 at 80k miles , so at 120/130,000 when I get rid I doubt it will be worth much anyway
Thankyou
Panamax said:
What are we looking at here? I can't see any two panels that are the same colour. Bonnet, wing, bumper, A-pillar, door, the whole lot.
Now you’ve really got me worried , as far as I’m aware it’s had a new bumper , sprayed , I’m not aware of any other body work being done I’m looking at bumper to wing match , which wasn’t brilliant before , but this looks worse , obvious
Panamax said:
What are we looking at here? I can't see any two panels that are the same colour. Bonnet, wing, bumper, A-pillar, door, the whole lot.
I can see what your saying , Bonnet does look a different colour to A - pillar , I’ve just looked and the bonnet now had no stone chips so it looks like bonnet was sprayed , but I was not aware of any damage to bonnet so I’ll ring them and find out what was actually done .
If you match the colour against faded paint, the new colour can fade and in a few months the car will look worse.
Sometimes it's better to have the new colour closer to what the old paint was when it was new, then after a bit of sunshine, it will start to all look the same.
A few years back, someone bashed into my partner's car, we had it repaired, looked lovely for about 2 months, but a couple of years later, it looked like a bitsa.
Sometimes it's better to have the new colour closer to what the old paint was when it was new, then after a bit of sunshine, it will start to all look the same.
A few years back, someone bashed into my partner's car, we had it repaired, looked lovely for about 2 months, but a couple of years later, it looked like a bitsa.
As mismatches go, its pretty terrible. Sometimes they're mismatched in the eye, but don't show up well on photos (and vice versa). Since you're selling the car soon, it would be worth asking for a part-refund rather than they do the work again, they might prefer that option. I'd say £200 was fair enough to ask for.
paul_c123 said:
As mismatches go, its pretty terrible. Sometimes they're mismatched in the eye, but don't show up well on photos (and vice versa). Since you're selling the car soon, it would be worth asking for a part-refund rather than they do the work again, they might prefer that option. I'd say £200 was fair enough to ask for.
It didn't sound like he was selling the car soon. He intends to put another 50k miles on it from 80k miles. So selling it when it has 130k miles on the clock.Gas1883 said:
Looking through paper work found this , it reads to me ( maybe wrong , that they’ve polished adjacent panels ? But then it says Bonnet , repair painting 50% , no idea if that means spray 50% of the bonnet
I’ll ring them
It’ll all settle and blend in with due course.
Gas1883 said:
Looking through paper work found this , it reads to me ( maybe wrong , that they’ve polished adjacent panels ? But then it says Bonnet , repair painting 50% , no idea if that means spray 50% of the bonnet
I’ll ring them
It’ll all settle and blend in with due course.
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