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Body shop in essex
« on: April 11, 2014, 07:53:44 pm »
So I've had my front and rear bumper resprayed about 3 weeks ago. I was happyish with the end result as I had a lot of flattening down to do on them.

But I started to prep my car for it today for the rear to do this (from pressure washer)





I'm pretty sure this isn't my fault. But I'd like to get it sorted ASAP so I'd like recommendations for body shops in Essex/Suffolk.

I'm from harwich so closest pos would be best.

Thanks in advance

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Re: Body shop in essex
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2014, 08:01:12 pm »
would it not make sense to take it back to the original bodyshop and tell them to sort it out?  :confused:
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Re: Body shop in essex
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2014, 08:41:10 pm »
what exactly did you have done before bud? the bottom half of the bumpers re-textured or did you have them colour coded?

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Re: Body shop in essex
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2014, 08:58:16 pm »
He's offered to blow it back in. But if he's already done a bad job then it's only going to get worse.

I had them colour coded mate

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Re: Body shop in essex
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2014, 09:28:44 pm »
ah right, from the pictures it looks like the bodyshop havn't prepared it properly, i can't see any sign of plastic primer or 2k primer under that paint, they've painted straight on top of the textured plastic, botch job!, makes it loads harder for the next man to do properly now, best advice i'd give is remove the lower half of the rear bumper and jet wash it all off, can't comment on the front as there's no pics.  :happy2:

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Re: Body shop in essex
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2014, 10:12:28 pm »
Well he already have the excuse of the primer being in the paint lol?

You can just see that it's poor prep work and as you say a botch job.

I think that's the only thing that I can do and hopefully find a decent body shop