Body repair shop recommendations - Warwickshire

[Laura-x]

Good Evening

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good body repair shop, unfortunately, someone backed into my car and cracked the rear bumper today
I live near Leamington Spa, so ideally somewhere local, but willing to travel for somewhere decent.

Thanks

[Laura-x]

Thanks i'll give them a try

[Laura-x]

Thanks all Southam is on my doorstep as I'm only up the road, may give them a call in the morning.

[Laura-x]

havoc said:

Greg H has a very good reputation, but I would add a word of caution - he did a bumper / spoiler respray some years ago on my NSX after a crawling-speed rear-ender, and got the colour match very badly wrong.

No big deal...it's fixable, you say. Except he argued the toss big-style, and I think it was only because I had a mate with me who was (a) tall/imposing; and (b) a detailer that Greg finally agreed to re-do it (it's now ~98% there - colour is spot-on, pearl is a little strong). Spent well over 15 minutes arguing back and forth with him not interested and claiming it was "good enough"!!!


(I much later discovered that one of the bumper brackets was lightly bent, but instead of replacing it he decided to adjust the fit using a washer, which subsequently slipped...but that's a different story...)


So even the pro's make mistakes...the key is in how someone deals with it...




I'm just having a full respray done on my Civic down in Evesham (some rust to sort on arches and roofline, plus a full front-end due to stone chips / poor respray before I bought it, so figured no point leaving the front doors and bootlid unsprayed and risk colour mis-match)
...picking it up at the weekend, so I'll report back if they do a good job...

Edited by havoc on Wednesday 18th April 12:38

Shame I didn't read this post earlier, I ended up going to Greg based on the recommendations and fact it was 5 mins down the road so made life easier, but the colour match was awful, I know metallic is difficult to match, but there is way too much flake in the paint and stands out like a sore thumb to me, not at all what I expected, plus it looks like they damaged it slightly on the corner, perhaps when getting it back on the car, nightmare! Stuck with it now, keep telling myself it's better than a bumper with a crack in it, but I actually think i'd rather that!

Anyway, I was re-visiting this post as some numpty grazed the front bumper in a hotel car park (parked as far away from everyone as I possibly could too!), but to be fair I intended painting the front end at some point anyway as it's 10yrs old and littered with stone chips, some pretty big ones too!, so was looking for the other recommendations people suggested as I will not be going back to Greg.