Austin Hill Motors - beside Blackrock DART station

Dades

Anyone used Austin Hill motors, beside Blackrock DART station?

Am dropping the SL in here on Monday to have some boltholes* in the boot lid filled, and most of the rear end resprayed. As the paint is metallic, and might prove difficult to match, I wondering if anyone has had any good/bad experience here?

Their stock in trade seems to be minor bodywork repairs, but to cars with regular colour codes rather then an 1989 resprays with a random volkswagon blue...

* damn one PO and their hideous spoiler

green-blood

was on the dart from Blackrock for a few weeks whilst sorting the mini for the summer. I was pretty impressed with what I was seeing there.... its all about the paint match though....

who puts a spoiler on an SL ??

hi5

green-blood wrote:

was on the dart from Blackrock for a few weeks whilst sorting the mini for the summer. I was pretty impressed with what I was seeing there.... its all about the paint match though....

who puts a spoiler on an SL ??

MB put rubber ones on the later w107,but did you know there are two different springs used,heard of people removing the spoiler then unexpectedly getting hit in the face by the bootlid:D

Dades

Hi guys (was away a few days)

Dropped it in the this morning, so we'll see how we get on. Have given the chap all the details I could find in the history about the paint, so hopefully he can make a match.

And it wasn't just a spoiler - it was a wing. :eek:

Those of a weak disposition don't click here.

Dades

Got the SL back today minus boltholes. The guy went to a bunch of trouble to get the paint right, having not been able to track down the exact respray paint from '89.

Am over the moon with the results.

Before pic 1
Before pic 2

After pic 1
After pic 2

Both rear wings resprayed too, as the spoiler from hell had rubbed paint off the top section.

Just an FYI in case anyone is looking for minor bodywork + repray done.

Hifive

Nice job and thats a really nice colour. Whats it's called?
Your teasing us with these pics. Show a few of the rest of it:)

Dades

Hifive wrote:

Nice job and thats a really nice colour. Whats it's called?

According to the maintenance file the colour is Aero Blue #2, a VW paint. As it was tough to verify I think the respray used a dash of this and a dash of that, though...

Hifive wrote:

Your teasing us with these pics. Show a few of the rest of it:)

I posted a couple of pics in the Mosney thread.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=53402332&postcount=48

Oshbosh

Hi,

car looks great. What kind of money did this cost and exactly what did they do apart from fill the holes and re-spray ? did they also respray one of the wings ?

cheers

Osh

green-blood

great result

Looks much better and nice match, my goodness that "wing" was awful

MercMad

Looks good !

Let us know what the cost was.........ballpark !

I have been to three different bodyshops in the last week with 3 different cars to get various bit n' piece done !

Not been a good week for cars for me !!

Dades

Osh,

They filled in 6 boltholes, resprayed the boot, as well as the two rear wings as there was paint damage on both from the spoiler.

Cost was just over €500.
Not sure how that stands up but dammit I'm happy with it.

MercMad

Seems pretty reasonable TBH !

Oshbosh

thanks, sounds okay, looks great !