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This is unbelievable aye. What are these people doing for the money they get paid let alone pride in their work. Does your insurance cover workmanship of repairs? You can earn big dollars being a good painter so I dont understand why you wouldnt put your best effort into this sort of stuff. Good luck with it all steve hopefully we can go a trip before the end of the year. If ya need a hand with reassembly just shout out
wow! what a mission, a least your in control now as you said. Hope she goes back together ok and is better than before!
They could not see "anything" wrong with it Mat, despite all my explaining/complaining, im still left wondering how they can charge for a full respray, then let me leave, knowing im unhappy enough to want to get the car painted again !Quote:
Originally Posted by nissannewby
No Insurance co is involved, its me paying the panel shop direct, I perhaps could have got them to re-paint the gaurds, but to be honest, looking at what they have already done to fix previous stuff ups, and the fact they can't actually see what they are supposed to fix, its pretty much guaranteed im still not going to get the job i want.
As for the trips, ive given up guessing when its going to be ready, im hanging to do a trip away with all everyone again thats for sure, thanks for the offer on putting her back together, ill let you know should the time come, as you can see im still pulling it "apart" at the moment :tongue:
Thanks mate, it is a bit of a mission ,im a little spurred on again now, with thoughts of what i have in mind for the new paint job, if it all goes to plan, it should look pretty trick when its all done, im gonna take the "bling" factor up a notch this time i think ! :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by 89gqpatrol4x4
sounds great, keep us posted with pics and posts etc, love to see the final result.
So i had a look at my grille today, the panel shop painted this as well, it looks like it was masked up by a child.....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/p.jpg
And overspray everywhere that looks like it was sprayed from the rear, pretty much making it quite a mess....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/o.jpg
Not nearly as much as a mess as the half job they did of rustproofing the car, what idiot rustproofs one side of a car (not the side that was rolled on) , look at this mess on my door hinges.....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/r.jpg
No rustproofing on the passenger side.....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/t.jpg
Perhaps they did not want to cover up the rubber they sprayed white ???
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/s.jpg
Again, drivers side rear gaurd (rustproofed) .....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/y.jpg
Passenger side (that got repaired) nothing....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/x.jpg
Roof cavity , no rustproofing.....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/a1-1.jpg
FAIL !
I cleaned up my dash, and got some re-conditioner off my vinyl guy that brought it back to life quite nice....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/i.jpg
I also got him to re-colour the leather on my steering wheel, it got really trashed at the paint shop, looks good again now....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/h.jpg
The rusted metal dash support got acid washed, rust converted, primed, then painted white, came up nice....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/q.jpg
I proceeded to clean all my heater fan controls, the parts behind the dash, then the conrols themselves, everything was clogged with sand......
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/b.jpg
Top view of controls before cleaning....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/a.jpg
This was inside the fan speed switch....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/c.jpg
I then spent hours painstakingly dismantalling "every" single switch on the dash, cleaning, lubing and re assemble..
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/l.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/d.jpg
This included the lights/indicater stalk...
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/f.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/e.jpg
Cruise control buttons...
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/n.jpg
Wiper combination stalk was a little tricky to get apart, but got there in the end....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/g.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/j.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/k.jpg
I then had to remove sand from the gauge cluster, i had to strip it all apart as sand had got inside, all over the actual gauges themselves.
After cleaning...
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...3102012670.jpg
Still much to do....
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j320/02ard/z.jpg
:p
Mate i don’t know how you do it ! i would have given up long ago and bought another one even if i had to settle on a GQ if funds were limited, i admire your persistence
exactly, same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by megatexture
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Originally Posted by megatexture
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Originally Posted by Ronin
Sure you don't mean, "pity my stupidity" ? (lol) ;)
Seriously tho, thanks guys, i can make things happen a lot faster now im back in charge of everything, one day this will all be a bad memory !