Why can't higher end car makers paint a motor?

Why can't higher end car makers paint a motor?

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Lee Jones Jnr

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1,724 posts

170 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Why is it that higher end manufacturers are happy sending out cars with ropey paintwork?

astroarcadia

1,710 posts

200 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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You pay for the engine and badge, everything else is free.

Davo456gt

695 posts

149 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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+1

(plus the suspension, steering, brakes) - everything else is definitely free, particularly if its Italian)

Lee Jones Jnr

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1,724 posts

170 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Meh, same old cliched excuses don't really work anymore.
If a ford or a vauxhall can last ten years without the paint flaking and rippling then any car should.

Lee Jones Jnr

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1,724 posts

170 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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A detail will correct most issues so isn't the end of the world but still.

Pork

9,453 posts

234 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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On your new GT?!

Lee Jones Jnr

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1,724 posts

170 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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On that and about half a dozen previous cars.

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

230 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I agree with you wholeheartedly. People seem perfectly fine with buying a £150,000 Aston, then shelling out £1000 for a detailer to correct all the mistakes that their brand new car had. If it were me i'd be sending it straight back, or getting them to pay the £1000.

cayman-black

12,641 posts

216 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Agree the paint on my £15k Abarth is better than on any Ferrari that i owned.

lighting

18 posts

121 months

Saturday 5th April 2014
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Lee Jones Jnr said:
On that and about half a dozen previous cars.
Are you the same Lee Jones Jnr who works for his dad's kitchen company and used to boast on a business forum about the cars you own?

If so what was the 'very special' car you had coming that you kept boasting about?

Lee Jones Jnr

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Saturday 5th April 2014
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lighting said:
Are you the same Lee Jones Jnr who works for his dad's kitchen company and used to boast on a business forum about the cars you own?

If so what was the 'very special' car you had coming that you kept boasting about?
Yes and no, I am one and the same who owns a kitchen company and am also returning to professional boxing this summer.
I also posted about cars on SPECIFIC CAR THREADS in the time out section, as I like many others, happen to enjoy cars. Unfortunately because some people didn't like my choice of cars, like yourself I dare say, a few people felt upset for some reason. I no longer use that forum as there are very few actual business people on there relative to the dozens of people who are 'just about to start the best business ever'.
The car was a McLaren. I was excited and mentioned it, I wasn't boasting. In the end I had to sell my build slot as I was too poor when the time came.
Flogging bulbs paying well?

Edited by Lee Jones Jnr on Saturday 5th April 11:48


Edited by Lee Jones Jnr on Saturday 5th April 11:49

graeme4130

3,825 posts

181 months

Monday 7th April 2014
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Lee Jones Jnr said:
lighting said:
Are you the same Lee Jones Jnr who works for his dad's kitchen company and used to boast on a business forum about the cars you own?

If so what was the 'very special' car you had coming that you kept boasting about?
Yes and no, I am one and the same who owns a kitchen company and am also returning to professional boxing this summer.
I also posted about cars on SPECIFIC CAR THREADS in the time out section, as I like many others, happen to enjoy cars. Unfortunately because some people didn't like my choice of cars, like yourself I dare say, a few people felt upset for some reason. I no longer use that forum as there are very few actual business people on there relative to the dozens of people who are 'just about to start the best business ever'.
The car was a McLaren. I was excited and mentioned it, I wasn't boasting. In the end I had to sell my build slot as I was too poor when the time came.
Flogging bulbs paying well?

Edited by Lee Jones Jnr on Saturday 5th April 11:48


Edited by Lee Jones Jnr on Saturday 5th April 11:49
Good response smile

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77 posts

188 months

Monday 7th April 2014
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graeme4130 said:
Good response smile
lol +1


lighting

18 posts

121 months

Tuesday 8th April 2014
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Lee Jones Jnr said:
Yes and no, I am one and the same who owns a kitchen company and am also returning to professional boxing this summer.
I also posted about cars on SPECIFIC CAR THREADS in the time out section, as I like many others, happen to enjoy cars. Unfortunately because some people didn't like my choice of cars, like yourself I dare say, a few people felt upset for some reason. I no longer use that forum as there are very few actual business people on there relative to the dozens of people who are 'just about to start the best business ever'.
The car was a McLaren. I was excited and mentioned it, I wasn't boasting. In the end I had to sell my build slot as I was too poor when the time came.
Flogging bulbs paying well?

Edited by Lee Jones Jnr on Saturday 5th April 11:48


Edited by Lee Jones Jnr on Saturday 5th April 11:49
Actually you just kept bragging about how you had some 'special' car coming but refused to say what it was when asked. If thats not bragging and attention seeking then i don't know what is. I thought a forum where there are very few business people would be right up your street. Dad pull the plug on your McLaren?

I make no money from bulbs at all, thats not my business but i'm sure you knew that, you being the fount of all knowledge?

Lee Jones Jnr

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1,724 posts

170 months

Tuesday 8th April 2014
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lighting said:
I make no money at all, thats not my business
I see. Perhaps why the cars I had at the time bothered you? Was it the Gallardo? I forget.
I am self employed but I wouldn't be embarrassed to work for my father if he had a business.
I thought I had been quite clear about the McLaren, I couldn't afford it.

benters

1,459 posts

134 months

Tuesday 8th April 2014
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Went to the super car day for charity thingy at Dunsfold last year and my girlfriend commented on how good the paint/shine was on the Lexus LFA over that of a Ferrari Maranello I was craving !

Lee Jones Jnr

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1,724 posts

170 months

Tuesday 8th April 2014
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benters said:
Went to the super car day for charity thingy at Dunsfold last year and my girlfriend commented on how good the paint/shine was on the Lexus LFA over that of a Ferrari Maranello I was craving !
Never seen an LFA in person. Thoughts?

StuLawton

400 posts

181 months

Tuesday 8th April 2014
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My experience of Lamborghini paintwork since 2008 is that it's nothing short of fantastic quality.

Civpilot

6,235 posts

240 months

Tuesday 8th April 2014
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Lee Jones Jnr said:
benters said:
Went to the super car day for charity thingy at Dunsfold last year and my girlfriend commented on how good the paint/shine was on the Lexus LFA over that of a Ferrari Maranello I was craving !
Never seen an LFA in person. Thoughts?
I think only the Zonda present was better finished than the LFA (and that was debatable). That car is head and shoulders above loads of high end stuff... only the badge gets it judged unfairly as 'expensive'.

Paint finish aside as for the rest of the car... just stunning.

The build quality was exceptional and it looked and felt brand new, despite being the very well used example owned by Lexus and the car featured in most road tests (Dark Blue). Once on track fast is too small a word and you could hear it above everything else as it screamed (the right word) towards 9k. Felt like a total animal on the edge from the passenger seat and according to the Lexus test driver "totally 100% analogue" in feel, feedback and response to inputs.

Sounded utterly amazing from the inside too wink

Ps. We left the line first and were lapping the back end of the pack by lap 3!

benters

1,459 posts

134 months

Tuesday 8th April 2014
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Good write up on the LFA experience. . .I have to say I love the look of it, yes its a pricey car, but at least the finish on it did stand out paint wise over other exotica.