Car Keyed - need fix.

robbie_998

Thanks to a lovely person in liffey valley carpark i now have a new deisgn on my car.


was over in trimtech today and they said they would re-spray the side of the car and they quoted me €550 for a full days work (8am - 5pm) and would have to make my own way about. have spare cars in the drive to myself so no problem there.

will be going over to Gerry Maguires to see what they say too.

my questions how much would a job like this normally cost ?

when they say they are going to respray the side are they going to fix the scratch themselfs too so their not just spraying over it ?

and do you guys have any other recommendations ?

thanks gods !

Drummerboy08

Yeah, from looking at the pictures it would be very hard to repair that properly without painting the adjoining panels.

550 quid sounds reasonable for this job IMO, but it all depends on the quality of the work I suppose. Jerry McGuire's will be more expensive I'd say, but the quality of work is top notch.

What is the car as a matter of interest?

robbie_998

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Yeah, from looking at the pictures it would be very hard to repair that properly without painting the adjoining panels.

550 quid sounds reasonable for this job IMO, but it all depends on the quality of the work I suppose. Jerry McGuire's will be more expensive I'd say, but the quality of work is top notch.

What is the car as a matter of interest?

Recent shape civic (2007)

chiefwiggum

looks like a honda civic

puppetmaster

Id second what Drummerboy said, Be tough to get that out with a compound, Might be possible considering its a door and not polyurathene bumper, Might be worth a shot if your gona shell out and get it resprayed anyway.

550 sounds reasonable for doing a whole side once they do a good job, they'd have to be fairly tidy to match a 5 year old red properly.I Feel your pain though, Someone drove into the back of me in a carpark recently and headed off on their merry way.

String

Would a smart repair be possible? or maybe filling in the scratch and buffing it?

robbie_998

puppetmaster wrote: »

Id second what Drummerboy said, Be tough to get that out with a compound, Might be possible considering its a door and not polyurathene bumper, Might be worth a shot if your gona shell out and get it resprayed anyway.

550 sounds reasonable for doing a whole side once they do a good job, they'd have to be fairly tidy to match a 5 year old red properly.I Feel your pain though, Someone drove into the back of me in a carpark recently and headed off on their merry way.

the third image there is of the bumper... the bit that looks kinda like a black line is actually a keyed part. Its a plastic bumper as you say.

ok so i can gather 550 is a good price.

the crowd is trim tech - went over to swords and they gave me that price but the job will be done on the naas road as its closer to home.

anybody any experience of them - should i or not go with them ?

any other recommendations ?

cheers again !

Drummerboy08

DrMorphine wrote: »

Would a smart repair be possible? or maybe filling in the scratch and buffing it?

It looks to deep, and too big for a smart repair. That's usually what Trimtech do, so if they're opting for a full repair then I'd imagine it can't be done.

It looks like a non-metallic colour too, would be hard enough to match that up without painting the whole panel IMO. Chances are it's faded a bit in it's 5 years.

Voodoomelon

€550 seems like a very good price to me.

robbie_998

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

It looks to deep, and too big for a smart repair. That's usually what Trimtech do, so if they're opting for a full repair then I'd imagine it can't be done.

It looks like a non-metallic colour too, would be hard enough to match that up without painting the whole panel IMO. Chances are it's faded a bit in it's 5 years.

sorry the pictures were only taking there a few moments ago not in the best of light.

another image for you of the car for color

garhjw

what a scumbag to damage such a well maintained car. OP, sorry for your pain. any cctv in the carpark too shed any light?

robbie_998

garhjw wrote: »

what a scumbag to damage such a well maintained car. OP, sorry for your pain. any cctv in the carpark too shed any light?

sadly not where i was parked. quite a bit away as it was christmas.

i wasnt the only one either ... saw two other cars with the same damage.


useless lil ****s so they are !

DonJose

Had the same thing happen in liffey valley couple of years ago, havent been there is ages cos of it, pure scum!!!

robbie_998

DonJose wrote: »

Had the same thing happen in liffey valley couple of years ago, havent been there is ages cos of it, pure scum!!!

terrible alright indeed.



anyway anyone any recommendations on this ?

or will i just go with trim tech and let them do it ? (i will check with gerry maguir first though)

robbie_998

just another question on this.

they want to re-spray the entire side of the car to blend in the scratch and what not.

but how will this blend in with the back and front and other side of the car ?

thanks again

ebbsy

Seek out Mark Donnelly in Rathangan my friend.

robbie_998

ebbsy wrote: »

Seek out Mark Donnelly in Rathangan my friend.

how would one find him ?

did a google search and seems like a hard man to find ?

ebbsy

Not sure of his number but his dad Christy Donnelly also has a garage in Rathangan and he is definitely in the book, give him a call and he will direct ya to Mark. Fantastic painter etc.

8bi1ctzegfouva

Carcraft in Ballybough are very good. I got a great deal off them before Christmas. Very good job and great price. €350 for both passenger side doors, rear wing and rear bumper. Highly recommended.

robbie_998

ebbsy wrote: »

Not sure of his number but his dad Christy Donnelly also has a garage in Rathangan and he is definitely in the book, give him a call and he will direct ya to Mark. Fantastic painter etc.

Marcos Old Lava wrote: »

Carcraft in Ballybough are very good. I got a great deal off them before Christmas. Very good job and great price. €350 for both passenger side doors, rear wing and rear bumper. Highly recommended.

cheers, will call both of these tomorrow - got christy's number off golden pages.

the cheaper i can do this the better but with best result too :pac:

Stheno

Might be worth getting a quote from chipsaway in Swords as well, I've a patch of rust on my wheel arch that needs fixing and they were far more competitive than trimtech, they are mainly smart repairs, but it was worth my while getting a quote from them.

My OH also had his car keyed in a car part, not it was only one door, and the scratches were not deep and they quoted €180 to deal with it. I checked with my mechanic who had heard of them and was happy to recommend them based on his customers experience.

Costs nothing to get a quote.

www.chipsaway.ie is their site, nothing to do with me. Trimtech quoted me the same as you to deal with my wheelarch, chipsaway were 2/3 of the cost.

robbie_998

Stheno wrote: »

Might be worth getting a quote from chipsaway in Swords as well, I've a patch of rust on my wheel arch that needs fixing and they were far more competitive than trimtech, they are mainly smart repairs, but it was worth my while getting a quote from them.

My OH also had his car keyed in a car part, not it was only one door, and the scratches were not deep and they quoted €180 to deal with it. I checked with my mechanic who had heard of them and was happy to recommend them based on his customers experience.

Costs nothing to get a quote.

www.chipsaway.ie is their site, nothing to do with me. Trimtech quoted me the same as you to deal with my wheelarch, chipsaway were 2/3 of the cost.

thank you.. am getting calls for these ready for the morning !

Stheno

robbie_998 wrote: »

thank you.. am getting calls for these ready for the morning !

I can pm you the mobile number for the guy in swords if you like? Very helpful he was.

robbie_998

Stheno wrote: »

I can pm you the mobile number for the guy in swords if you like? Very helpful he was.

i filled out the form online and they automatically picked the specialist in my area and he will call me in 24hrs.

so i wreckon they have different people for different areas.

but i am shopping around before going with anything.

Gary ITR

robbie_998 wrote: »

but i am shopping around before going with anything.

Try see some samples of the garages work before you make a decision, this is the kind of job that needs doing properly, take it from somebody who had a car sprayed by somebody that made a bags of it

JJJJNR

Touch up pen, 550 euro at christmas seriously op do it yourself, come the summer if its still botherng you get it done, u would be surprised how quickly this would become a ñon issue once covered up.

robbie_998

JJJJNR wrote: »

Touch up pen, 550 euro at christmas seriously op do it yourself, come the summer if its still botherng you get it done, u would be surprised how quickly this would become a ñon issue once covered up.

i figured from what others say it might be too deep to use a touch up pen ?


trim tech guy said im looking at a white line now that if he just touched it up i'd be looking at a red line with a bit of a indent

Ardennes1944

Its a nice car OP, get it fixed or it will annoy you all the time. I believe you stated you worked 2 jobs for a while so cough it up :)

robbie_998

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Its a nice car OP, get it fixed or it will annoy you all the time. I believe you stated you worked 2 jobs for a while so cough it up :)

indeed.

i have no real problem paying for the fix, just want it done properly and just dont want to be ripped off either.

but im also using the logic that if one shop is selling a bar of chocolate for 80c and another shop sells the same bar of chocolate for €1.00 then i want to go with the cheaper one for the same price.

but its mainly about the work carried out that it gets done well.

thanks for the compliment there !

Ardennes1944

Wait for the motors meet in jan, maybe owen will go and advise

robbie_998

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Wait for the motors meet in jan, maybe owen will go and advise

maybe.


I will be taking quotes from the companies people recommended here.

I might do just that to be honest - its only a scratch - its not doing any damage to the car or how it move by being there so its not bothering me too much.

I will say thank you to all the recommendations and so on that i got in the thread here and i will be getting quotes and writing them all down and who they are from and what they want to do.

and i might wait for the meet in Jan to show it to ye lads to see what you all make of it.

thanks for that suggestion !