Hans Gruber
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- Joined
- 24 Mar 2015
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The time has come to seek out a body shop to deal with the paintwork on my P&J
To the 'ordinary' bloke in the street my car is a minter but I am a perfectionist and I spend far too long looking down the lines of my C4S agonising about the almost imperceptible dents and stone chips.
Added to this I have just noticed that the edges of the near side wheel arches front and rear are starting to bubble, I'm talking a few millimetre size bubbles here but it's enough to give me sleepless nights, it's time to do something before the tin worm spreads - this is after all a 17 year old motor.
So after that long and boring preamble what I am looking for is a really, really good body shop. I thinking old geezers in blue overalls who I can trust to do a job worthy of a perfectionist, anything less than faultless just wont do, no orange peel, no overspray and a perfect match to the existing paint.
Car is Arctic Silver, I'm based in Huddersfield but would take the car some distance to get the right results.
I'm looking for recommendations, and an idea of what I should be paying..
Front PU/rear PU/both wings/rear quarters and bonnet - IMO the arches aren't far enough gone to require any metal to be removed
Your help is greatly appreciated
To the 'ordinary' bloke in the street my car is a minter but I am a perfectionist and I spend far too long looking down the lines of my C4S agonising about the almost imperceptible dents and stone chips.
Added to this I have just noticed that the edges of the near side wheel arches front and rear are starting to bubble, I'm talking a few millimetre size bubbles here but it's enough to give me sleepless nights, it's time to do something before the tin worm spreads - this is after all a 17 year old motor.
So after that long and boring preamble what I am looking for is a really, really good body shop. I thinking old geezers in blue overalls who I can trust to do a job worthy of a perfectionist, anything less than faultless just wont do, no orange peel, no overspray and a perfect match to the existing paint.
Car is Arctic Silver, I'm based in Huddersfield but would take the car some distance to get the right results.
I'm looking for recommendations, and an idea of what I should be paying..
Front PU/rear PU/both wings/rear quarters and bonnet - IMO the arches aren't far enough gone to require any metal to be removed
Your help is greatly appreciated