Freebie bumper scuff repair (with slight catch)
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Dear all,
I'm putting together a promo video comparing the cost and quality of a DIY minor bodywork repair to a professional SMART repair.
I need a volunteer with a typical bumper or wheelarch scuff on their car who'd be prepared to have a go at a DIY repair with high street materials paid for by us, give their honest on-camera opinion of the result and how easy it is in reality (compared to how easy the instructions on the tin/DIY leaflet make it sound), we'll then remove the DIY work, and repeat the repair with professional materials and techniques, and compare the results and costs of the two ways of doing it.
The volunteer ends up with a professional repair free of charge, and would need to be happy granting us all necessary rights to use the footage generated for promotional purposes.
Ideally you'll be reasonably competent with your hands, but with no bodywork repair experience, to give a genuine picture for a typical car owner, and ok with being filmed attempting your repair and a talking-head debrief of it.
My back-of-an-envelope calculations suggest that if you don't have any of the kit or materials necessary for a repair, the costs of DIY vs pro are surprisingly similar, and it's my expectation that professional results with the right equipment and properly matched paint will be far superior to a rattle can mixed to a default recipe, but in the spirit of intellectual honesty, we'll publish the results regardless.
Anyone interested in taking part, please PM me. You'd need to be within striking distance of our base near Ely/Cambridge, or prepared to travel.
Tol
ETA - crossposted to East Anglia forum
I'm putting together a promo video comparing the cost and quality of a DIY minor bodywork repair to a professional SMART repair.
I need a volunteer with a typical bumper or wheelarch scuff on their car who'd be prepared to have a go at a DIY repair with high street materials paid for by us, give their honest on-camera opinion of the result and how easy it is in reality (compared to how easy the instructions on the tin/DIY leaflet make it sound), we'll then remove the DIY work, and repeat the repair with professional materials and techniques, and compare the results and costs of the two ways of doing it.
The volunteer ends up with a professional repair free of charge, and would need to be happy granting us all necessary rights to use the footage generated for promotional purposes.
Ideally you'll be reasonably competent with your hands, but with no bodywork repair experience, to give a genuine picture for a typical car owner, and ok with being filmed attempting your repair and a talking-head debrief of it.
My back-of-an-envelope calculations suggest that if you don't have any of the kit or materials necessary for a repair, the costs of DIY vs pro are surprisingly similar, and it's my expectation that professional results with the right equipment and properly matched paint will be far superior to a rattle can mixed to a default recipe, but in the spirit of intellectual honesty, we'll publish the results regardless.
Anyone interested in taking part, please PM me. You'd need to be within striking distance of our base near Ely/Cambridge, or prepared to travel.
Tol
ETA - crossposted to East Anglia forum
Edited by Anatol on Sunday 7th June 12:53
ks, Mean's i'll have to fork out 250 quid 
. I managed to scrape the wheel arch of my Mercedes S320 having just had the car resprayed, very clever.
Anyway the drivers rear arch has a nice 12inch scrape round it which is currently sprayed up in primer grey to stop any rust getting in.
I live just outside Cambridge if that is of interest to you
Anyway the drivers rear arch has a nice 12inch scrape round it which is currently sprayed up in primer grey to stop any rust getting in.
I live just outside Cambridge if that is of interest to you
Edited by viper kev on Friday 12th June 18:11
Viper, R360, thanks for putting yourselves forward - can you email me a couple of photos of the damage you're volunteering?
One as close-up as possible while still in sharp focus, and one zoomed far enough back to show the scale of the damage against the car.
Email contact details easily located from the website on my profile.
Thanks guys,
Tol
One as close-up as possible while still in sharp focus, and one zoomed far enough back to show the scale of the damage against the car.
Email contact details easily located from the website on my profile.
Thanks guys,
Tol
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