Bodywork repairs following accident - paint match
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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 13 Jul 2010 15:43 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Richard H Huelin <spamandscams(a)nospammershere.co.uk> saying something like: >> I have been working in the trade for nearly forty years and admit >> some colours where difficult to match, perhaps I've been very >> lucky but in all that time I/we have always managed to match an >> existing colour, the vehicle would not be allowed out the paint >> shop unless the colour matched properly. > >Snip > >Your excellent and detailed post confirms my experience and the views of >the professional painters I have known over the years. There is simply >no valid excuse for the shoddy way in which the OP has been treated. Indeed. Jerry notwithstanding, I can recall numerous repair jobs (paid by the insurance companies) where the routine thing to do was blend in the new with the old, and not just lazily take the new up to a panel or seam and stop dead. It took a little extra time, but it was normal. Perhaps, the real problem now is the lack of pride and skill in painting, same as with many other trades, where a quick and dirty job can be got away with, as long as too many customers don't complain.
From: Jerry on 13 Jul 2010 16:02 "Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message news:f4gp361na4js162caddc81i960pfcb3qu5(a)4ax.com... : : In a dung pile, by the sound of his workshop. I'm sure you didn't intend to offend every single agricultural engineer in the country with that remark, but then what would a city raised grease monkey like you know about farming, apart from how to put green wellies on...
From: Jerry on 13 Jul 2010 16:06 "Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message news:lbfp365r6log04o042cl6uhrre1bmghr5c(a)4ax.com... : We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the : drugs began to take hold. I remember "Jerry" : <mapson.scarts(a)btinternet.INVALID> saying something like: : : >If I told you who some of the : >client base I've worked for you would understand that the finish : >expected was in excess of that expected by Rolls-Royce - but I : >can't as these passed contracts are still covered by NDC : >agreements, unfortunately. : : Look, Jerry; slapping on a yard-brush coat of NATO Green does not count. Insult all the painters at Rolls-Royce why not! Did you actually bother to read what you were replying to or did you fingers lead your brain cell again?...
From: Jerry on 13 Jul 2010 16:17 "Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message news:7agp36h7o0eq7uc152q8l70fetpknl4er6(a)4ax.com... <snip> : Perhaps, the real problem now is the lack of pride and skill in : painting, same as with many other trades, where a quick and dirty job : can be got away with, as long as too many customers don't complain. Tell me Grimly, do you, would you, work for nothing (and in some cases pay to work on someone else vehicle), what do you not understand about the fact that repairers can only do what they are being paid for - pay peanuts get monkeys, that goes for insurance cover as much as the repairs. This is exactly why the OP should have bought classic car insurance; old cars will get minimal repairs (or surcharges for "Betterment") assuming that they are not just written off, if the owner is lucky with the option to keep salvage. -- Regards, Jerry.
From: stephen.hull on 14 Jul 2010 17:37
In message <q7KdnYZDlrExyqrRnZ2dnUVZ8oqdnZ2d(a)powerusenet.com> Richard H Huelin <spamandscams(a)nospammershere.co.uk> wrote: >On 09/07/2010 16:56, stephen.hull(a)btinternet.com wrote: >> In message<af04d314-75af-4598-8ed0-256fd063c759(a)r27g2000yqb. >> googlegroups.com> >> "BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com"<bertiebigbollox(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Jul 8, 12:07 pm, Adrian<toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> "BertieBigBol...(a)gmail.com"<bertiebigbol...(a)gmail.com> gurgled >>>> happily, sounding much like they were saying: >>>> >>>>> However, surely I'm entitled to have my car back with paintwork that >>>>> matches regardless of betterment? >>>> >>>> <sigh> >>>> >>>> YET again - they need to mix the paint to match the car, not >>>> the code. >>>> >>>> I'm presuming that, in the time this thread's been going, >>>> you've actually taken it back to them and complained about the >>>> paint match? What was their response? >>> >>> Garage you mean. Told me that they couldnt do any more because >>> insurance had only paid them to paint the back. >> >> So they haven't even tried to do it properly by the sound of it! >> >> I have been working in the trade for nearly forty years and admit >> some colours where difficult to match, perhaps I've been very >> lucky but in all that time I/we have always managed to match an >> existing colour, the vehicle would not be allowed out the paint >> shop unless the colour matched properly. > >Snip > >Your excellent and detailed post confirms my experience and the views of >the professional painters I have known over the years. There is simply >no valid excuse for the shoddy way in which the OP has been treated. Blush -) I know it doesn't help the OP this time, but it may help other people reading this who may find themselves in the same situation to be more aware. Stephen. -- http://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk Coach painting tips and techniques + Land Rover colour codes "Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble". Henry Royce |