ed
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Its obvious that the paint he is using is water based and not that strong, tell him to use some decent paint.
I feel your pain as the Astra VXR uses the same paint and the front bumper looks more like a 40k car than a 10k car.
Nothing wrong with using waterbased paints at all.
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ed
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If you want the paint to last though, you need to use hard laquer. The laquer they use on cheaper cars like your Vauxhalls and your Citorens is pretty soft shitty stuff in comparison to what German cars are painted with. Glasurit is the stuff they use to laquer Porsches with and they are low, you don't see many Porsches with a shot load of chips all over them 
[Edited on 02-07-2007 by ed]
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Rob B
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shall i request that then Ed ? He says he gets his laquer from germany, i cant remember the name of the product though...
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ed
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Worth a try asking for hard laquer. The way it would have been painted would be a solvent or a water based colour base and then a clear on top. It's the clear that gives the protection and the shine so you need good stuff.
I mean, the stuff Fiat uses is utter shite, it's so soft and thin it's unbelieveable. I'm tempted to get a full re-spray on my 6 month old car, be it Fiat paying for it or whatever, the paint has chipped so quickly it's an absolute joke 
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Rob B
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i said to him
" if you took your car to have the headgasket done and four weeks later it had the same problem would you not want the problem rectifying"
His reply was its obvious youve got onto some gravel or something has "peppered your bumper" im just worried it may happen again TBH aswell as ive got to remove my bumper again  after just getting it to sit perfectly.
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ed
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Bring it to Tom 
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Rob B
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how far is it from tamworth ( by the snowdome ) Ed 
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ed
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 Miles and miles.
It's about 2 hours max. You need to get to M40 Junction 2...
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Joe
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" if you took your car to have the headgasket done and four weeks later it had the same problem would you not want the problem rectifying"
Thats hardly a fair comparison.
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alli Ronald
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venture-shield.
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Rob B
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Miles and miles.
It's about 2 hours max. You need to get to M40 Junction 2...
bummer
Joe, it was the only thing that came into my head at the time Made him go silent for a minute though
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Rob B
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haha just had a good idea, im going to get an empty touch up pen from halfords and get him to fill it up for me  so then i can touch up any chips.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by joe6886
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Originally posted by Rob B
" if you took your car to have the headgasket done and four weeks later it had the same problem would you not want the problem rectifying"
Thats hardly a fair comparison.
was just thinking the same - the bodyshop owner is being too nice spraying your mirrors for free considering it left the bodyshop with no problems and stone chips are a natural occurrence. Like i said before, you certainly wouldn't have a leg to stand on in court.
Perhapps it's a lesson learnt, don't drive up people backsides
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paul.mitchell1984
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you can get flexi laquer which is supposed to help but would still get them and its supposed to be very expensive
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Rob B
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very true Dom, i just didnt think it would go quite how it has, espiecially seem as there are no chips on the bonnet at all after 7 years so i wouldnt expect it on a freshly sprayed bumper just wandering if i can ask him to do anything to try and make it stronger apart from differnt laquer
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