candellara
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What Francis said. But, with a HUGE caveat - you can't tell what's underneath until it's all been removed:thumbsup:
Don't even think about not going bare metal if you plan on keeping the car.
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308 bare metal respray - costs?
- Thread starter sweeni
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What Francis said. But, with a HUGE caveat - you can't tell what's underneath until it's all been removed:thumbsup:
Don't even think about not going bare metal if you plan on keeping the car.
PAUL V
Active member
I had 2 jobs done by Alun @ alsa, Escort RS Cosworth and a 348, still have both cars and they are as good as they day he did them.
I have got quite a lot of experience with paint shops, most of it has been very bad! Alun had a totally different approach.
His "disappearance" was partly due to my 348 and the connection with a Mod at the time, there was quite a lot of "stuff" going on, but that is best left in the past.
I did see some posts where some members had some issues with some of work but i think Alun had left the forum by then so there was no reply from him.
Paint work is a very hard to quote for as you dont know what is lurking under the old paint.
I can tell you though the difference in price between a ok job and a flawless job is vast! in my experience
sweeni
Active member
Have to agree
Hmm - retaining old paint and patina has merits
Yep, but is there a point after which rust stops being 'petina' and is just, well, rust?
sweeni
Active member
True Francis but unlike that lovely 365 in the latest Ferrari mag mine has long since lost its original paint, there are traces of over spray and as each panel has a paint/corrosion fault then a full respray is the best solution.
Kyodo
Active member
Very true. I'd imagine a good proportion of this is the Ferrari tax. There's little reason it should cost more than your Fiesta if the finish is as good as you say.
Mulc
New member
Why traces of overspray? To be fair, that is just poor/cheap workmanship.
candellara
New member
IIRC - He didn't have an oven:shocked:
sweeni
Active member
Exactly.....
jos
Active member
Funnily enough I've just looked at my bills in 97/98 and sure enough by the time almost every panel had had some new metal and the seats had been through Connolly and I'd found new speakers in Halford's end-of-line discount box for a pound the grand total including wheel refurbishing was about twelve grand !
F355GTS
Shocking waste of good kevlar - The Ferrari Enzo
Yes, tbf the prep work he did on my 328 was amazing and when I picked it up it looked a million dollars (also helped by DaveZ's attention.
Unfortunately some of the paintwork started to go pink after just a few days and although these parts were repainted the whole car did the same after about 12 Months. My car was painted over a cold winter period and I suspect this caused the problem. Al did offer to paint another car for me free of charge however I've not taken him up on the offer.
F355GTS
Shocking waste of good kevlar - The Ferrari Enzo
I have previously used 'Rivera Autobody' for Porsche work.
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http://www.rivieraautobody.co.uk/