Anyone used Chipsaway or Similar
Discussion
As the titles says, has anyone used Chipsaway (or similar) to take out nasty parking wounds?
The OH came home with the below today.
As normal these days no note and nothing parked within 3 spaces of her, so the Parking faeries must have done this.
To say she is annoyed is something of an understatement.
As it's only 4 weeks old I don't fancy asking Volvo (V40 R-Design)what they will charge to fix.
Few of the blokes in work mentioned Chipsaway, but none seem to have actually used them.
So has anyone here had any experience with them.
The Bumper is Plastic and the Paint is non-metallic if that helps.
PS Thanks for the move MODS
Cheers
The OH came home with the below today.
As normal these days no note and nothing parked within 3 spaces of her, so the Parking faeries must have done this.
To say she is annoyed is something of an understatement.
As it's only 4 weeks old I don't fancy asking Volvo (V40 R-Design)what they will charge to fix.
Few of the blokes in work mentioned Chipsaway, but none seem to have actually used them.
So has anyone here had any experience with them.
The Bumper is Plastic and the Paint is non-metallic if that helps.
PS Thanks for the move MODS
Cheers
Edited by Untalented82 on Thursday 10th July 20:08
lamboman100 said:
They -- and all other companies like them -- are very worker-dependent.
Get a good repairer turn up, and they are good (for minor to mid issues). Get a bad repairer, and they are not so good.
With all these kinds of firms, you just gotta take a gamble and keep fingers crossed.
Spot on. I've used Chipsaway twice. The first time for some bodywork and they were fantastic. The second time I had someone else turn up to do a wheel and the repair was fairly poor. It was okay, but.... Get a good repairer turn up, and they are good (for minor to mid issues). Get a bad repairer, and they are not so good.
With all these kinds of firms, you just gotta take a gamble and keep fingers crossed.
Used Chips Away a few years back. Corner of back bumper and wing was scraped on my Laguna by what looked like a 4x4 bumper while it was parked outside my flat.
The guy came to my work to repair it and done a good job. He must have had a lot of patience as he couldn't get the colour (a very pale metallic green) to match at all. After consulting with his technical dept it turned out the colour on my 2002 car was actually a 1995 Renault colour! Apparently if Renault run out of a batch of paint they don't always use the exact current colour, and could go back to a similar one from previous years.
4hrs it took him and I think he was tearing his hair out, I was glad I wasn't a per hour job I was paying and the end result looked good. I would use them again in the need arose.
Unfortunately his good work was undone when the car was rear ended by a Transit a year later and had to get repaired/painted in an insurance body shop.
The guy came to my work to repair it and done a good job. He must have had a lot of patience as he couldn't get the colour (a very pale metallic green) to match at all. After consulting with his technical dept it turned out the colour on my 2002 car was actually a 1995 Renault colour! Apparently if Renault run out of a batch of paint they don't always use the exact current colour, and could go back to a similar one from previous years.
4hrs it took him and I think he was tearing his hair out, I was glad I wasn't a per hour job I was paying and the end result looked good. I would use them again in the need arose.
Unfortunately his good work was undone when the car was rear ended by a Transit a year later and had to get repaired/painted in an insurance body shop.
RammyMP said:
I scraped my TT down a railway sleeper, local chipsaway chap did a decent repair. Think he was called Chris Redmond, from Rawtenstall? It cost about £90 from memory.
Chris did a couple of scratches on mine (OSR quarter in metallic grey). I thought he was based in Unsworth, though I know he covers Bury areas including up the valley. He did an excellent job and knew what he was doing. Apparently he does a lot of work which the others don't want/can't do. Bad news was the lack of masking, which meant I had to clay over the full car to get rid of the overspray. Locally it was fine, but with doing it outside, the wind took the spray all over the front as well. I hadn't noticed until he'd gone as I was looking at the repair and not the bits which hadn't been done.As stated earlier, Chips away are as good as the franchisee you get allocated. Some are dedicated, some just see it as a means to an end. I found that the latter are usually employed by the franchise holder as he looks to expand.
We used Paintline in Ecclestone when my wife tried to add some green highlights from a gatepost to our black Superb.
http://www.paintlinesmartrepairs.co.uk
Excellent job, no sign of the scrapes that she put on rear door / arch.
In fact, need to use them again, as a scrape has appeared across rear bumper of her Cube (although I don't believe she did this, unless she handbrakes it into parking spaces)
We found them after a recommendation on here.
http://www.paintlinesmartrepairs.co.uk
Excellent job, no sign of the scrapes that she put on rear door / arch.
In fact, need to use them again, as a scrape has appeared across rear bumper of her Cube (although I don't believe she did this, unless she handbrakes it into parking spaces)
We found them after a recommendation on here.
rich83 said:
Full bumper respray up north would only be about 175 quid
Hi Dave (but I think this reply is to Rich by mistake...),Apologies for the overspray which isn't usually an issue outside, but it sounds like the wind took it onto the car which I should have anticipated or at least checked for before leaving you.
You weren't to know of course but there was no need for a claybar, as unless the lacquer settles onto a surface which is keyed up there's no real bond and it will wipe off very quickly with a mild panel prep liquid I carry.
That being said, for the last couple of years I've been masking up most of the car using cotton sheets which are ideal (hope the photo from this week displays OK) and eliminate any problems with overspray.
Best,
Chris.
daveenty said:
Bloody Hell Chris, It took you nearly two years to reply to that. 
Top lurking as well, first post in over 7 years.
I type with one finger and actually started writing my reply in 2014. Top lurking as well, first post in over 7 years.
In all honesty I'd forgotten about signing up here, and only realised I was a member when when trying to join yesterday only to be told my email address was already taken (Doh!)
Just happened to Google myself yesterday out of curiosity and found the post about me on here, which was positive but bad form on my part for not checking if the wind had taken any lacquer onto panels where it wasn't intended. Takes a few seconds to remove with my cleaner but the customer isn't to know this.
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