Nooooooooo... need bodyshop

[big_treacle]

I managed to do the classic numpty drive into the back of someone at a roundabout trick this morning. Luckily it was at about 0.1mph but unluckily he had a towbar which neatly punched through the GRP just below the left headlight. No visible damage under the bonnet which is good, and the car drives fine. No damage to his car as far as I could tell.
Anyway, I wanna get some body repair quotes to see if its worth getting my insurance company involved. I've emailed some photos to tvrbodyshop already, can anyone recommend some other good places that won't give outrageous quotes?

[M@H]

Bad luck..

Sadly, I wuld imagine this will cost several hundred pounds to get done properly.. the labour to repair and appropriately profile the hole will be a fair few hours, and the paintjob will doubtless be £3-500 if it needs blending down the wings and the bonnet needs doing to match.

Cheers
Matt

[big_treacle]

Yeah it sucks. Luckily I'm good friends with a sprayer so I should be able to sort the repaint bit out. Just the body repair. Done a few searches on here & it seems people have had quotes of 300 quid to 6 grand for damaged front or back ends.

[JonRB]

Make sure your sprayer has experience with GRP. It is a different technique to spraying onto metal, I'm told.

[big_treacle]

JonRB said:

Make sure your sprayer has experience with GRP. It is a different technique to spraying onto metal, I'm told.

Yeah, he's pretty sh!t hot & talked about giving the front end a blow over before to get rid of stone chips. About 40 years experience with cars, planes, and all sorts of crazy things. He did the Thrust2 landspeed record car (that gold one).. tho i don't think that was GRP!

[plotloss]

Ewelme Coachworks...

[big_treacle]

cheers, i'll google for them

[bsdnazz]

I should be able to report back about Ewelme Coachworks when I collect my Chim on Friday afternoon.

I got slightly rear ended and collected a small crack just above the exhaust pipe.

[Tonyrec]

Jon and the chaps at Ewelme did a superb job on my old Chim.(Colour change from Green to Halcyon Atlantis Blue)
Have a look on their website and you will see it.

[bsdnazz]

This afternoon I picked up one perfect looking Chim from Ewelme Coachworks.

They've done a really good job of the repair and blended in the resprayed area so well I can't see the join.

I'm vey happy to have used them and very happy to recomend them.

[poptosis]

If you got your bloody hair cut you hippie youd be able to see where you were going

Seriously dude, get Si to pack it full of weed then smear over with cuerton Dulux - sorted.

[big_treacle]

poptosis said:

If you got your bloody hair cut you hippie youd be able to see where you were going Seriously dude, get Si to pack it full of weed then smear over with cuerton Dulux - sorted.

he'd probably fill it with 'weed-mache' or something or a nice fish decoration thing. Dave wants to shoot the car!

[ace-t]

Just going to collect the Tuscan from a bodyshop today after repair to a scrape. We will report back on how well it has been done for anyone who wants to know.

Ace-T

[poptosis]

big_treacle said:

Dave wants to shoot the car!

Bagsey seconds. Remember to warn the neighbours before you open up on it.

[big_treacle]

poptosis said:

Bagsey seconds. Remember to warn the neighbours before you open up on it.

We'll send Neil round...
Cheers for the lift today mate - loti sound better with that exhaust.. almost like it has the correct number of cylinders

>> Edited by big_treacle on Saturday 19th June 18:26

>> Edited by big_treacle on Saturday 19th June 18:26

[julianhj]

I managed to do the same, Big Treacle.

Tom Horsburgh is based south of Guildford, did a first class job on mine and is very reasonable. He's a GRP craftsman, and seems to specialise in TVRs and Lotuses. When I went to pick mine up, he had a lovely Ferrari 355 in there for some attention.

[phone]

Edited by PetrolTed on Friday 2nd February 12:31

[big_treacle]

Turns out my sprayer friend can also do GRP so he's gonna attempt to fix my car for the price of paint which is a LOT cheaper than bodyshop quotes/insurance excess + premium hike. Of course, if it looks crap then the car will go to the plastic surgery hospital.
By the way, see my profile to for a reminder of why you should keep your cars far from towbars!!

Cheers

[N17 TVR]

Ouch ! Hope it gets sorted soon mate.

Driving it with dents and stuff is like having a girlfriend with cold sores..........keep it in the garage.

[V8 Archie]

N17 TVR said:

like having a girlfriend with cold sores

That's remarkably restrained for you, Stu! Are you OK?

[N17 TVR]

The new tablets seem to be working don't they

Didnt feel the need to mention genital warts once......ooops, back to the drawing board.