SMART repair or bodyshop - pros and cons?

[Jaguar steve]

I have a couple of rusted stone chips, a little peeling lacquer in one or two places and some minor bumber damage as well as a pretty poor attempt buy the previous owner to touch up one of the door bottoms with an aerosol a on a dark red metalic car with a clear over base finish.

From what I've read seems like an ideal candidate for local smart repair, especially as I've just had a quote from a bodyshop for close on £1k for putting it all right.

I know SMART repairs are a different process, using different paints and not baking in an oven - so pros and cons?

Whatever gets done has got to be a invisible colour match and durable - this one's a keeper.

Over to you Chaps

[Squiggs]

As a mobile Smart repairer I'd run a mile from some of your problems.
Rusting stone chip.
Can't be guaranteed not to come back unless all the rust is ground out.
Peeling Lacquer.
Probably the result of a previous bad repair. How much needs to come off to ensure a new repair can adhere to something that's sound.
Previous repair.
No way of knowing what it might be hiding.

All the above could turn into large jobs not suitable for smart - however that isn't to say that you couldn't find an experienced smart repairer that could tackle these kind of jobs

Bumper scuff.
Ideal for Smart.

Smart repairing isn't really a different process - it's just that smart repair is the art of keeping repairs small rather than having to go edge to edge(at best)
And there is nothing wrong with the use of heat lamps for curing Smart repairs. Gas ovens aside - we use the same lamps that you could find in many a good body shops so called oven, it's just that they have more of them to heat larger areas. As long as the temperature's right on the repaired area the job's a goodun.