New car painted wrong colour

[HedgeyGedgey]

saaby93 said:

HedgeyGedgey said:

It shouldn't matter what car the OP ordered, high value or not. The manufacturer should right the problem. Whether it'd be to destroy the car and build another to the correct order specs .........

A said before if they were to do that it would no longer have a chassis VIN number from the special limited edition build sequence.
Rectification or rolling over are the only two options

I cant see posting this up on facebook/twitter working out too favourably for either party

Whilst I agree, it just means that the OP's car will be that little bit more special to an enthusiast 10 years down the line. I've heard of similar stories where this happened, the car painted externally at the manufacturers expense. If you've handed over £200k for a car, regardless if you're a billionaire or not you'd want it to be right

[danllama]

Worst "I have a very expensive car that I don't want to use" thread ever.

[underphil]

TooMany2cvs said:

underphil said:

most likely way to get any movement from AM is to hit Twitter/Facebook, sad as it may seem

Be worth checking whether it's actually AM's fault first, though, right...?

not really, it would force AM to get involved to avoid bad publicity - they're much more likely to get traction with the dealership than the OP

[saaby93]

anonymous said:

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[Shakermaker]

I don't understand why they can't repaint it in the correct colour, at their expense, if it has been their mistake?

[rkwm1]

mackay45 said:

Two cars the flippers have loved getting their hands on, interesting.

Surely when ordering you'd know your financial situation/ability to afford vehicles so you'd know what to get. It seems to me like OP is a bit of a flipper but doesn't like to admit it to himself/the forum.

I personally have no problem with flippers. If they are in the know and are able secure a car fair play to them.

As i could have made 20k off the GT4 when i got it and still own it 16 months and have no plans to sell anytime soon,it probably makes me the no.1 flipper around.

Edited by rkwm1 on Thursday 12th January 15:01

[rkwm1]

HedgeyGedgey said:

It shouldn't matter what car the OP ordered, high value or not. The manufacturer should right the problem. Whether it'd be to destroy the car and build another to the correct order specs or pay for an approved bodyshop to paint the car in the correct colour

Totally agree. it doesn't matter if its 10k or 100k you should get what you have ordered.

[rkwm1]

Mr Roper said:

Tell them to keep it in exchange for 001.

Wish i could afford one!

[rkwm1]

Re spraying is not a option for me. As i said earlier i want a totally original car as it was built and painted.

[em177]

rkwm1 said:

Re spraying is not a option for me. As i said earlier i want a totally original car as it was built and painted.

You know as well as I do that's not going to happen.

[Shakermaker]

rkwm1 said:

Re spraying is not a option for me. As i said earlier i want a totally original car as it was built and painted.

You've lost me now.

If the manufacturer takes the car back, strips it, and paints it up, in the factory, to your specification, using the same paint, and the same machinery that paints all their cars - you won't be happy because it won't have been built like that?

[AshBurrows]

rkwm1 said:

Re spraying is not a option for me. As i said earlier i want a totally original car as it was built and painted.

But why? The finish will be better in a good paintshop tbh. And if they take it back and repaint in the same booth what difference does it make? Genuinely curious not having a go!

[rkwm1]

em177 said:

You know as well as I do that's not going to happen.

Yes, seems like wishful thinking at the moment.

[TooMany2cvs]

rkwm1 said:

As i said earlier i want a totally original car as it was built and painted.

I'm sure you do.

But here in the real world, will you be rejecting THAT car and getting a full refund, or accepting it?

[rkwm1]

AshBurrows said:

But why? The finish will be better in a good paintshop tbh. And if they take it back and repaint in the same booth what difference does it make? Genuinely curious not having a go!

I don't like the idea of it been disassembled and the reassembled. I have had friends who have had fully resprays and although the paint job was fantastic their cars always seem to have problems with random rattles.

[AshBurrows]

rkwm1 said:

I don't like the idea of it been disassembled and the reassembled. I have had friends who have had fully resprays and although the paint job was fantastic their cars always seem to have problems with random rattles.

Guarantee there'd be more care taken with a rebuild than a normal line built one mate...

Hope you get it sorted. I'll have it for retail if you decline though please

[rkwm1]

TooMany2cvs said:

I'm sure you do.

But here in the real world, will you be rejecting THAT car and getting a full refund, or accepting it?

We'll have to wait and see. 50/50 at the moment.

[Venturist]

Shakermaker said:

You've lost me now.

If the manufacturer takes the car back, strips it, and paints it up, in the factory, to your specification, using the same paint, and the same machinery that paints all their cars - you won't be happy because it won't have been built like that?

Not quite true, you will never get the car painted by the same equipment in the same booth, the production line paint facilities are heavily integrated into the production line. Factories will have small areas for paint rectification which includes full spray jobs like this if necessary. Finish will likely be better than the original because you've got one guy focusing on one specific car that has already been sent back for a paint issue once. Production line paint will be robots for most manufacturers, or manually for smaller companies, although even then no matter how much attention they are paying and pride they take in their work, you're still only one car out of several identical ones that day.

[ukaskew]

rkwm1 said:

Re spraying is not a option for me. As i said earlier i want a totally original car as it was built and painted.

Then there is no option, surely? Assuming a new build is out of the question (and I imagine it is) I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve.

A full stripped-down repaint (for a customer they know they need to please) will probably be better than the original = win.

Accepting the car as is with an agreement to be on the list for the next LE + making a profit if/when you sell this = win.

[Shakermaker]

Venturist said:

Shakermaker said:

You've lost me now.

If the manufacturer takes the car back, strips it, and paints it up, in the factory, to your specification, using the same paint, and the same machinery that paints all their cars - you won't be happy because it won't have been built like that?

Not quite true, you will never get the car painted by the same equipment in the same booth, the production line paint facilities are heavily integrated into the production line. Factories will have small areas for paint rectification which includes full spray jobs like this if necessary. Finish will likely be better than the original because you've got one guy focusing on one specific car that has already been sent back for a paint issue once. Production line paint will be robots for most manufacturers, or manually for smaller companies, although even then no matter how much attention they are paying and pride they take in their work, you're still only one car out of several identical ones that day.

Thank for the clarification on that. I therefore don't see where the problem is - it would be a manufacturer paint job, at their facility, to meet the manufacturer's specification and be in the chosen colour of the OP - all that would be different would be that they have had to paint the car twice because of their (expensive) mistake painting it the wrong colour in the first place.