Bonnet respray

[alexkp]

I need to have the bonnet resprayed on my S2. Anyone else had any experiences of doing this or advice? Any thoughts on colour matching issues (mine is racing green metallic), costs? Places to have done?

[bridgdav]

I had mine done after a vandalism incident....(insurance) by:-

[phone]

Perfect colour match on my BRG S3.
Always busy with TVR's, so thats a good sign..

Dave

To add
Trevytrev has also just had a total respray...Drop him a line..

>> Edited by bridgdav on Tuesday 3rd February 11:26

Edited by PetrolTed on Friday 2nd February 12:30

[Tripps]

bridgdav said:

I had mine done after a vandalism incident....(insurance) by:-

[phone]

Perfect colour match on my BRG S3.
Always busy with TVR's, so thats a good sign..

Dave,

How much did it cost? And did they overpaint the stonechip dents or fill them in, as mine has been re-sprayed at some point but without filling in the holes

Edited by PetrolTed on Friday 2nd February 12:30

[bridgdav]

Rob

Your best bet is to give him a call...He is a very amiable chap. The materials are probably the greatest cost, IIRC my front end mtrls were about £400. Tom had quite a bit of work to do as the paint stripper poured over the bonnet ate down to the glass, so he had to relaminate.
There were a number of stone chips on the front of the bonnet, which are not there now nor is there any sign, so I guess he either filled or rubbed down locally.

Dave

[apprentice]

Tom's your man!

Does all our paintwork to our total satisfaction every time!

His craftsmanship may be viewed at our showroom anytime.

apprentice

[Pies]

apprentice said:

Tom's your man! Does all our paintwork to our total satisfaction every time! His craftsmanship may be viewed at our showroom anytime. apprentice

He must of done my bonnet then, looks superb

[trevytrev]

bridgdav said:

To add Trevytrev has also just had a total respray...Drop him a line..

I had my done by Westover and they did do a fantastic job.

My bonnet was actually repaired and resprayed under the insurance (some nice German tourists reversed into me !), so I then paid the difference to get the whole car resprayed. The quote for the insurance company for repairing the damage and then respraying came in at around a £1000. I had some big spider web's and the fibre glass behind the number plate was split into two so they had quite a lot of work to do before they sprayed it.

With the rest of the car they removed all the scratches I had along the back of it, a big crack in the fibre glass on the corner of the boot and they repaired the huge chip in the bar across the windscreen where I guess one of the roof panels must have hit it. I know that most of the work involved a lot of rubbing down and replacing of fibre glass.

Overall what they did was amazing, I even parked next to my S when I popped in to see how they were getting on and only realised it was my car when I looked at the number plate !! --- Can't recommend then enough ...

[Tripps]

trevytrev said:

Overall what they did was amazing, I even parked next to my S when I popped in to see how they were getting on and only realised it was my car when I looked at the number plate !! --- Can't recommend then enough ...

I must say when I saw it at the Seven Stars it did look the business, I must get mine done, but my wife wants a new car alas..

[woody]

Just as an aside to this - does anyone know of a good body shop in the midland (Birmingham'ish area), and what sort of price a full re-spray would cost.

Been promising it since I had the car (4 & a bit years!) and now I've got the house & garage sorted I might just do it.

Chris