Stone chips/spraying panels etc

Aug 07, 2006 5 Replies

Have a couple of spots of rust, stone chips on my motor and looking to get them fixed. Have used chipsaway before, but almost had to drag the guy out of bed as he wasnt too keen on a small job so going to use someone local and put the money into someone local's pocket rather than a multi-national.



Anyways, looking ot get:



couple of marks on the door pillars done, all 4 doors, all satin black round the pillars. small chip, now rusty just above the windscreen (that chips away did last year and come back) many many small chips on the bonnet, too many to do individually, so thinking of getting that panel completley sprayed.



When asking the guy about this he said he would probably have to spray the whole bonnet and then blend in down the wings. Would this be normal, I thought he would of just done that one panel. He said it would be obvious as the panel is a flat panel and particularily so as its a metalic silver.



Comments please?



Steve


That seems about right. I'm in the process of getting quotes for a farty little chip on the bottom edge of my rear quarter panel and plastic bumper where someone scraped me. They admitted fault and want to settle in cash (no insurance). The cheapest cash'n'hand quote I can get is £220 and they all say the entire q/panel has to be painted to match up.

Yup...sounds about right. That's why a scrape in a door ends up in a full side respray.

Ideally the full side should be.

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Can, and perhaps should on metallics. Most insurance repairs, I'd not be confident of getting it.

Probably about that. Typically the whole panel should be painted as blending can be very difficult in this instance but not impossible.

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