Car Paint

I've got a 3 year old puggy. I had a 206 which was fine but the paint on this one marks if I so much as look at it.

Comes off in the rain, does it? ;)

You can still get Cellulose and Synthetic paint by post but does depend on what colour you need

You are behind the times.

Deep pockets are needed when buying by the litre.

I've noticed the price of a litre of car paint is in the appalling region. I mean 50 quid! What are they thinking?? Are there any economies of scale to this?

No it's the stupid insurance prices. It seems they will pay any price they are quoted.

Last month a BP tanker nudged my car reversing out of a road that has "deep water" signs. It cracked the number plate in 2, distorted the plastic bracket and put 2 small pea sized paint chips in the bumper skin at the bottom corners of the bracket, one of which was hidden by the bracket.

As its a 1993 car the first reaction from my and haulage firms insurance was that it was a write off. Took it to the insurance repair place for assessment. They insisted they had to quote for a re-paint of the whole bumper. The insurance engineer offered me £500, I suspect the quote would have been £1000.

The plastic bracket was online at £100 including post. That was 100 good reasons for me to unbolt it and use a hot air gun for a few seconds. The paint chips were hidden by applying a bit of trim tape. Number plate £10.

What the BP tanker was doing in a 7.5ton weight limit at 10pm on a Sunday night is still unknown.

Under bangernomics rules should I deduct the £490 from the £1400 I paid for the car in 2010?

I've used

in the 50's i use to buy litre tins of 'coach paint' that were inexpensive and that i brushed on, to my old motors. It laid on really well and most people never guessed it was brushed on with a good bristle brush. Now i wonder what kind of paint it was? and why it doesn't seem possible to get such a brush on paint now.

It will have been full of chemicals!

:-)