Chipsaway.....
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_dan_

Original Poster:

2,392 posts

308 months

Saturday 13th August 2005
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Quick question....

How severe a job can a decent Chipsaway chap tackle?? Is it just the odd chip here and there, or can they take on and do a decent job of a pebble dashed Chimaera??

[url]Pic here|http://www.toite.com/Tvr/images/DSCF0709.jpg[/url]

Looks worse close up, but hey, it's to be expected I guess if I do 1 or 2 thousand a month in it!! :D

cnjohnson_uk

9,586 posts

272 months

Saturday 13th August 2005
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Dan,

I have used Chipsaway in the past, but when I needed my M3 bumper doing I took into a bodyshop. It was suprisingly reasonable even though it was an Approved Porsche/Mercedes outfit that did the work. I think I paid £285 plus VAT and that included the complete removal and refit of the bumper.

Personally I think that it could be a bit too big for Chipsaway (but I could be wrong)

Eddie 4.2

1,996 posts

266 months

Saturday 13th August 2005
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Use this bloke he is the dogs balls



www.edsbodyandpaint.co.uk/



He done a top job on his car

>> Edited by Eddie 4.2 on Saturday 13th August 22:06

rooster

2,241 posts

266 months

Saturday 13th August 2005
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I used chipsaway this May, brilliant job on everything from the minor chips to repairing my bashed wing mirror. 5 hours work for just over a ton, not bad at all. Chim looked the mutts nutts afterwards.

>> Edited by rooster on Sunday 14th August 18:03

JonRB

80,030 posts

301 months

Saturday 13th August 2005
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Blimey! Did you shot-blast the front of that Chimaera or something?

_dan_

Original Poster:

2,392 posts

308 months

Saturday 13th August 2005
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JonRB said:
Blimey! Did you shot-blast the front of that Chimaera or something?


Nope, just drive it like any other car!!

Ballistic Banana

14,706 posts

296 months

Saturday 13th August 2005
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_dan_ said:

JonRB said:
Blimey! Did you shot-blast the front of that Chimaera or something?



Nope, just drive it like any other car!!


What an off roader

I used chipsaway to repair some quite servere scratches and chips on our Bumper on our ahem vetcra and they done an excelent job.

It has been known that they do struggle though with getting the TVR colours?

BB

Chim Girl

6,268 posts

288 months

Sunday 14th August 2005
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Chipsaway wouldn't touch either of my TVR's and AFAIK they won't treat such a big area. I've had them out to a scrape on a previous car, the largest area they'll work on is about 1ft square.

IMHO, that looks like a body shop job.

>> Edited by Chim Girl on Sunday 14th August 16:07

rooster

2,241 posts

266 months

Sunday 14th August 2005
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Ballistic Banana said:

It has been known that they do struggle though with getting the TVR colours?

BB


I got the paint mixed for them, perfect!

kipper_

103 posts

257 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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They did a good job of repairing tha Alloys, but could not match the paint on mine and made a right mess trying!

RUSSELLM

6,002 posts

276 months

Monday 15th August 2005
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Chips away wont do that much work, they may "take it away & get it done for you" (take it to the local bodyshop)