***** Motors Chat - Round 5*****

toastedpickles

toastedpickles wrote: »

MM how much would you charge for a full paint correction, I was speculating it the other day and I figured i'd shop around, or diy it so yeah!

How long is piece of string? It really depends on how badly damaged your paint is and how big the car is because the longer it needs to be worked on, the more it's going to cost.

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

How long is piece of string? It really depends on how badly damaged your paint is because the longer it needs to be worked on, the more it's going to cost.

Depends on how much string you need

Well it's for the new yoke, the paint is about 95% new, I haven't found any scratches on it yet, not bad for a 14 year old car

Stheno

toastedpickles wrote: »

Depends on how much string you need

Well it's for the new yoke, the paint is about 95% new, I haven't found any scratches on it yet, not bad for a 14 year old car

You'd be amazed what can be found once you send your car in for bodywork!

toastedpickles

toastedpickles wrote: »

Depends on how much string you need

Well it's for the new yoke, the paint is about 95% new, I haven't found any scratches on it yet, not bad for a 14 year old car

By scratches I also mean swirling, marring and any other defects. To give you an idea, for a car the size of a 5 series with badly swirled/scratched paint, you'd be looking at c. €500.

toastedpickles

Stheno wrote: »

You'd be amazed what can be found once you send your car in for bodywork!

True but I've gone over it at least three times so far, just to make sure, there is a teeny tiny dent, on the roof but it's barely noticeable

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

By scratches I also mean swirling, marring and any other defects. To give you an idea, for a car the size of a 5 series with badly swirled/scratched paint, you'd be looking at c. €500.

:eek:

Well if you're at the next and I've the saab, I'll let you look at it yourself and see what you think

Marcusm

What a long drive, 950kms from 1pm to 10pm, driving rain at the beginning, dark from 400kms in and, worst of all, a cracked windscreen for the last 600kms. A beer, a burger then bed before a 28hour ferry across the bay of Biscay in this weather. I think I'm cracked as well as broke from 150litres of petrol.

toastedpickles

toastedpickles wrote: »

:eek:

Well if you're at the next and I've the saab, I'll let you look at it yourself and see what you think

Same reaction as everyone else :P People really don't know what's involved in the job, the time involved, the work involved and the experience needed to do the job properly.

If you want a cheap, hide-the-swirls-until-it's-washed-twice job, your local valetor will do that for you in an hour :P

toastedpickles

Marcusm wrote: »

What a long drive, 950kms from 1pm to 10pm, driving rain at the beginning, dark from 400kms in and, worst of all, a cracked windscreen for the last 600kms. A beer, a burger then bed before a 28hour ferry across the bay of Biscay in this weather. I think I'm cracked as well as broke from 150litres of petrol.

No money and too much driving make Marcusm go something something

Scortho

Tp buy yourself a DA and learn how to do it yourself. It'll take time and practice, but will be worth it in the end.



And apologies mm

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Same reaction as everyone else :P People really don't know what's involved in the job, the time involved, the work involved and the experience needed to do the job properly.

If you want a cheap, hide-the-swirls-until-it's-washed-twice job, your local valetor will do that for you in an hour :P

And i rarely do that :P

See luckily I appreciate the effort of something such as that, and i have a small idea of what goes into it, taking it from work I've done for people (building architectural models) People think it's as easy as throwing a few pieces of card together and make a big fuss when I say 50 or 100 quid

toastedpickles

Scortho wrote: »

Tp buy yourself a DA and learn how to do it yourself. It'll take time and practice, but will be worth it in the end.



And apologies mm

And the astra suddenly has a new purpose! :pac: I'm a bit wary of doing it myself, I know how easy it is to screw something like that up

Scortho

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Same reaction as everyone else :P People really don't know what's involved in the job, the time involved, the work involved and the experience needed to do the job properly.

If you want a cheap, hide-the-swirls-until-it's-washed-twice job, your local valetor will do that for you in an hour :P

And charge him **** loads for what he's done. The Valetor is a false economy

pred racer

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

There was a thread called Car Plans 2013. Here's what I had in my list:

CD Changer - still looking for a 2nd hand unit as new ones are nigh on €1000

We've had this conversation before:pac:

In all seriousness it would be cheaper for you to buy a brand new car.

Scortho

toastedpickles wrote: »

And the astra suddenly has a new purpose! :pac: I'm a bit wary of doing it myself, I know how easy it is to screw something like that up

With a DA? It's very difficult to damage your paintwork with one unless you're a complete idiot

Scortho

Scortho wrote: »

Tp buy yourself a DA and learn how to do it yourself. It'll take time and practice, but will be worth it in the end.



And apologies mm

Don't apologise, it's up to him what he wants to do at the end of the day. I'm only answering his questions

toastedpickles

Scortho wrote: »

With a DA? It's very difficult to damage your paintwork with one unless you're a complete idiot

Aye true, but it's the method of doing it that i wouldn't be too sure about

Stheno

I just remembered I've a stupid question, the OHs E200 is bleating about the brake lining being worn.

WTF is brake lining?


That bastard C5 started first time tonight too

Supergurrier

Lines the brake fluid flows through

Stheno

Supergurrier wrote: »

Lines the brake fluid flows through

Lovely, can they be affected by driving through flooding? His car bleeps more often than not with all sorts of bizarre warnings.

So it's wear on the brake lines? Is that a big job to replace?

cabb8ge

toastedpickles wrote: »

:eek: ..

€500 not bad for that.

pred racer

Supergurrier wrote: »

Lines the brake fluid flows through

Is it not the liners on the rear brake shoes?

Supergurrier

Stheno wrote: »

Lovely, can they be affected by driving through flooding? His car bleeps more often than not with all sorts of bizarre warnings.

So it's wear on the brake lines? Is that a big job to replace?

Not unless they have metal parts to join them and they have become corroded or water has somehow managed to get into the system (possibly through condensation?)

pred racer

pred racer wrote: »

Is it not the liners on the rear brake shoes?

I'd say it's this. There's no sensors on the brake lines to indicate wear.

Supergurrier

pred racer wrote: »

Is it not the liners on the rear brake shoes?

Ahh right i read it as lines for some reason

pred racer

pred racer wrote: »

We've had this conversation before:pac:

In all seriousness it would be cheaper for you to buy a brand new car.

That's a slight exaggeration now isn't it pred???

Stheno

pred racer wrote: »

Is it not the liners on the rear brake shoes?

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I'd say it's this. There's no sensors on the brake lines to indicate wear.

Lads, many thanks, I'm familiar with shoes and discs, and this message just confused me, so there is some sort of lining on the rear brakes that wears before the shoes go?

@ super, sorry if I confused you

Going to mention it to the mechanic Monday anyway, I was more wondering wtf brake lining was thanks

pred racer

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

That's a slight exaggeration now isn't it pred???

I dunno, thats an awful lot of work to do on a car. I was just thinking that at the moment you are paying for a car and all the stuff you want to do. If you bought a brand new one then you would just have to pay for the car.
Just a thought!

Plans for 2014
Maintenance for scratchy.
Buy another car!

pred racer

Stheno wrote: »

Lads, many thanks, I'm familiar with shoes and discs, and this message just confused me, so there is some sort of lining on the rear brakes that wears before the shoes go?

@ super, sorry if I confused you

Going to mention it to the mechanic Monday anyway, I was more wondering wtf brake lining was thanks

The liner is the friction material ( pad) on the shoes.

Stheno

pred racer wrote: »

I dunno, thats an awful lot of work to do on a car. I was just thinking that at the moment you are paying for a car and all the stuff you want to do. If you bought a brand new one then you would just have to pay for the car.
Just a thought!

Plans for 2014
Maintenance for scratchy.
Buy another car!

My plans match yours somewhat

NCT and sale of the C5 now I've finally discovered the battery problem on the gtv

NCT on the alfa

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