As well as the sills and bumpers, the nice guys have done some extra work free of charge.

 

The tyres, intercoolers, intercooler ducts, silencer, fuel tank, front splash guard, horns and numerous other bits :cursing:.

 

Spent yesterday afternoon getting the worst of the overspray of the front end. Is there no pride in workmanship anymore?

Overspray is my biggest pet hate. Luckily, I have none and made a HUGE point in telling the bodyshop that overspray simply would not be tolerated.

 

I actually stripped off most bodypanels and trim when I had my car painted, so there was no need to have paint anywhere near the underside.

 

I've seen a lot of z32s with paint all over the wheel arch liners and all over the radiator, ICs, exhausts. Awful.

Thing is I went round a few bodyshops before deciding. The guy talked the talk, showed me some of the work they were doing which looked pretty good tbh. He even said everything would be done right, bumpers wheels off etc.

 

The day before I took it in I spent hours taking out the boot interior trim, and removed/refitted the front bumper to make sure they wouldnt have any problems. it would have taken half an hour for them to strip the bumpers off.

 

I know they were busy last week, and probably just did a rush job to get mine back out the door, but that aint an excuse for shoddy work!

yeah its hard finding a good body guy, my nephew runs his own body shop so he does a family discount and makes a good job of it when i get time to get my zed sorted ill take some pic'ys of his work, all i need now is 1 of my niece's to marry a mechanic :smartass:

Did they do a good job of the bits they were being paid to paint? :1eye:

 

 

As well as the sills and bumpers, the nice guys have done some extra work free of charge.

 

The tyres, intercoolers, intercooler ducts, silencer, fuel tank, front splash guard, horns and numerous other bits :cursing:.

 

Spent yesterday afternoon getting the worst of the overspray of the front end. Is there no pride in workmanship anymore?

Did they do a good job of the bits they were being paid to paint?

 

 

Not particularly, it would have been a far better job if they had taken the bumpers off and taken a bit more time!

Bodywork is expensive to do properly as it is very time consuming.

Overspray = lazy masking

 

 

No overspray = good masking

 

 

 

Jeff TT

:( how does it look apart from overspray tho mate?

how does it look apart from overspray tho mate?

 

Better than it did :)

Overspray = lazy masking

 

 

I hazzard a guess but other than protecting the panels above there was no masking......not just lazy masking, but cant be bothered at all masking

I had the same problem, when my car got to Custom Exotics, Scott showed me all the overspray, was absolutely everywhere under the car and over the suspension - real disgrace!!! Unfortunatly people in every walk of life seem to have a lack of pride in work :(