chipped 993 wing mirror last night = smart repair london?

[kds keltec]

mneame said:

kds keltec said:

What i have witnessed myself is when my father sold on the bodyshop side of his business with all the customers equipment etc and even 2 of the staff ,but the new owners did not have the same outlook on standards and work.

Sorry for going off topic slightly, wasn't in South Woodham was it?

Hi Mat,

No it was not.

The guys who bought company and ran into the ground went onto doing smart repairs on the road.
They are now earning alot of money and have many vans out on the road covering a large area.

I do get to see a hell of a lot of paintwork bodyshop and smart repair and still in contact with many of My dads old bodyshop staff members (in fact one works for me)so i know whats used what goes on and how money is made.

Its not that i am slagging off smart repairs in general its just a simple fact we see more smart repair paint failing or of a poor standard than mainstream bodyshops you have to remember what standard and level KDS goes to and we will always spot what 95% public wont, those 95% puplic will be happy with jobs that i wont be.
we get asked to do smart repair blends on customers cars to keep down the costs every single time we refuse even thou it would have more profit for KDS and less expense for the customer.
This means we loss work sometimes ,and even from my own customers but i will stand strong and say that the ones i lost due to the cost KDS charge end up returning.

Here is a perfect example of a non-smart repair mainstream bodyshop job gone wrong with KDS having to pick up the pieces and re-do/fix it.

OH he is a returning customer

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.39956604...

Kelly

[7even]

Really good results that should have been accomplished in the first place.
I don't know what he paid for the original job, so cant comment on saying you get what you pay for, or even buy cheap pay twice.

[Kidders]

Interesting pictures. We are classed as 'SMART' repairers but typical defects that you see in many bodyshop jobs we don't have a problem with because we are very fastidious and do things by the book.

Fisheyes, dirt inclusions, dry lacquer, and poor gloss from drop back etc is something we often on repair jobs done before us, and I find it astonishing that it's considered acceptable for a car to go out like that, because it wouldn't happen on my watch.

[smart repairer]

I get customers all the time that are surprised what good job i do especially living in manchester and some off the conditions we work in! But you are right im hyper critical of my own work, and if it aint right it gets fixed. May e thats why im used by both mercedes and audi, main dealers! Even got told my work is better than mercs own bodyshop

[7even]

smart repairer said:

Even got told my work is better than mercs own bodyshop

Me too, but is not surprising considering the time constraints put on in house work nowadays. Also there's absolutely no loyalty in trade work, better to build up a name and reputation for yourself than someone else.

[smart repairer]

To be fair my trade customers have been very good to me, its 90% of my work. Just is not enough retail work to earn a living from

[226bhp]

It's a door mirror.

[Kidders]

226bhp said:

It's a door mirror.

Doesn't matter how small it is, someone could still bugger it up!

[smart repairer]

Kidders said:

Doesn't matter how small it is, someone could still bugger it up!

True, i melted one once. got my lamp a bit close