Chipsaway??

[Burch]

I have a Chipsaway guy coming round this evening to give a quote on some dings that the car has picked up from general tttish parking down my road over the past year or so and was wondering whether anyone had any experience with them and what my options are.

Obviously the work is dependant on the individual - this is a guy called Chris in the NW6 part of London. There's a scuff on the bumper, a ding on the rear arch and I'm looking at getting a couple of wheels refurbed too.

If not Chipsaway does anyone have any recommendations for superficial touch ups near West Hampstead?

Cheers,

Olly

[XTR2Turbo]

Based on my personal experience:

dents - good
chips - no better and sometimes much worse than you could do yourself with the factory touch up.
scratches - now experience.

[Burch]

Thanks mate.

Is your experience with scratches potentially down to the guy that does it or the techniques they use?

I presumed they would use something slightly more advanced than a touch up pen?

[Burch]

Sorry, experience with chips, not scratches.

[XTR2Turbo]

They scan the car and mix the paint.

In my case the match was so poor that I asked them to take it off immediately before it fully dried.

This was a metalic red.

[Squiggs]

CA guys usually go by the paint code on the vehicle, not a scan .... are you sure the scanner guy was from CA?????

Scratches won't be simply 'penned in' they will be flattened, primed, coloured, lacquered, baked.

Take a look at the video on the ChipsAway website ....

And yes - if you have the time to labour endlessly over one chip V's calling someone out and forking out for their time to labour over one chip then the results will be similar

As the OP says the experience of the individual repairer is what counts

[Stu R]

CA are only as good as the guy doing the job. Some are woefully bad, some not bad.

[Sifly]

I had a bad experience with them, perfect colour match but shoddy workmanship. Ended up taking the car to a bodyshop to have it done properly a few days later.