Pulling out half way through!
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Has any of you ever had to pull a car half way through/out of a Restoration or a rebuild etc?
Finding myself in between a rock and a hard place with a specialist who has cocked up a respray of my car.
Story is that I have wanted to upgrade the front and rear bumpers of my car to a later spec and was just expecting to have the bumpers to matched and blended the paint to existing colour. The orange paint wasn't in the best of conditions but far from bad, though not a shade of colour that I was ever 100% keen on.
The specialist struggled to find a resprayer that would take on the match and blend due to the fact that there was no paint code/reference mix to go from as its a non original paint job by a previous owner.
After a while it was decided that a full respray was the way to go as matching was nearly as time consuming and expensive.
Having commited to a respray on the proviso that i wanted Arancio Atlas (a much nicer shade of orange) . 4 weeks go by and the car is painted...its not Arancio Atlas.
Its the orange that i wasn't keen on refreshed. I wasn't consulted and notified that this was to happen.
So... i either pull the car out and end up with a car in bits that got to go somewhere else to be redone/finished at even more cost. Argue this out with the specialist that could/will end up in courts and car sits somewhere in bits whilst this gets resolved or Let them continue and have a car back in one piece just not in the chosen colour.
Finding myself in between a rock and a hard place with a specialist who has cocked up a respray of my car.
Story is that I have wanted to upgrade the front and rear bumpers of my car to a later spec and was just expecting to have the bumpers to matched and blended the paint to existing colour. The orange paint wasn't in the best of conditions but far from bad, though not a shade of colour that I was ever 100% keen on.
The specialist struggled to find a resprayer that would take on the match and blend due to the fact that there was no paint code/reference mix to go from as its a non original paint job by a previous owner.
After a while it was decided that a full respray was the way to go as matching was nearly as time consuming and expensive.
Having commited to a respray on the proviso that i wanted Arancio Atlas (a much nicer shade of orange) . 4 weeks go by and the car is painted...its not Arancio Atlas.
Its the orange that i wasn't keen on refreshed. I wasn't consulted and notified that this was to happen.
So... i either pull the car out and end up with a car in bits that got to go somewhere else to be redone/finished at even more cost. Argue this out with the specialist that could/will end up in courts and car sits somewhere in bits whilst this gets resolved or Let them continue and have a car back in one piece just not in the chosen colour.
If nothing was written down, I’d go for the latter, unless the precise colour really matters to you.
I got royally messed around once by Lamborghini Wycombe.
Could I be bothered to go to court?
And the outcome of any litigation is always uncertain.
In the end, I paid.
Never used them again.
Told everyone what I thought. And Lamborghini was a smaller world back then.
They went bust.
In the end, you reap what you sow.
I got royally messed around once by Lamborghini Wycombe.
Could I be bothered to go to court?
And the outcome of any litigation is always uncertain.
In the end, I paid.
Never used them again.
Told everyone what I thought. And Lamborghini was a smaller world back then.
They went bust.
In the end, you reap what you sow.
This is a sad state of affairs , my advice is unfortunately just pay the bill ,get your car reassembled as quickly as possible, these cars are an utter nightmare to part paint but especially in that Orange you wanted with layers of flake. Get your baby back first and for gods sake do not go down the court lawyers route as that will end up with you spending twice what it would cost to respray the car in its entirety and zero guarantee you will win any claim and the last thing you want is the garage with a lein on your car with a case pending . Regroup. A friend of mine had his lp640 Roadster completely resprayed in the Orancio Atlas and it was and is still utterly stunning . DM me and I can give you their details .
I know which 'specialist' you are referring to, we had a conversation quite some time ago. I would pull the car from them, have it finished off elsewhere. Pearlescent paint can be difficult to get right. Did you speak to someone like http://www.carrozzeria.co.uk/
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