Paint in Peterborough
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Can anyone recommend a good body-shop, paint-shop or cosmetic repair outfit in Peterborough?
Someone or something has put a couple of deep scratches and a nasty little ding in my totally original mk1 Golf GTi. Some of it through to bare metal. Very annoying. On the bright side, despite being a 99% rust free car, there are two little rust patches on the same quater of the car. So at least it won't be money for nothing. I've had a couple of quotes around the £300 mark to paint most of the o/s rear quater, including sorting the rust patches.
I need someone who can do a good job of matching the mars-red flat paint. This is old-style paint and has a habit of fading quickly. (Comes back great when polished.) My main concern is that the new paint will be a different composition and will retain colour longer, so leaving me with a patchy car unless I polish it every weekend.
Someone or something has put a couple of deep scratches and a nasty little ding in my totally original mk1 Golf GTi. Some of it through to bare metal. Very annoying. On the bright side, despite being a 99% rust free car, there are two little rust patches on the same quater of the car. So at least it won't be money for nothing. I've had a couple of quotes around the £300 mark to paint most of the o/s rear quater, including sorting the rust patches.
I need someone who can do a good job of matching the mars-red flat paint. This is old-style paint and has a habit of fading quickly. (Comes back great when polished.) My main concern is that the new paint will be a different composition and will retain colour longer, so leaving me with a patchy car unless I polish it every weekend.
It is very likely that the repair paint will be modern, waterborne basecoat with a low VOC clearcoat.
Hunting around for a specialist (there are some exemptions to the EU regs, for example for restoring classics) might net you someone able to repair it in direct gloss.
It's oxidisation that causes the breakdown of the red pigment though.
A good polish, followed by a barrier of wax or sealant that isolates the paint from the oxygen in the air, regularly topped up, should prevent any future colour loss. If you pick something with good UV inhibition as well, chances are the original paint will last in a similar manner to modern clear-over-base.
Tol
Hunting around for a specialist (there are some exemptions to the EU regs, for example for restoring classics) might net you someone able to repair it in direct gloss.
It's oxidisation that causes the breakdown of the red pigment though.
A good polish, followed by a barrier of wax or sealant that isolates the paint from the oxygen in the air, regularly topped up, should prevent any future colour loss. If you pick something with good UV inhibition as well, chances are the original paint will last in a similar manner to modern clear-over-base.
Tol
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