chips away

[kirkcaldy kid]

I had a local rep from chips away here to give an estemate on a few small paint repairs, i liked his price but he said i had to give him the paint codes?

 

Can anyone help with the paint codes for a 1998 green/ yellow stripe classic 7.

 

Dont think i will use that rep, not very confident in him after he asked me what type of primer he should use. *confused*

 

 

[Paul Deslandes]

if you search the archives over the past 2 years with 'green and yellow and paint and code' you'll get lots of answers.

[Low Flying Vehicle]

Hi, I have owned a Revive! Mobile car care Franchise for 6 years (recently featured in EVO here and Autoexpress here ), and would like to draw caution in using SMART repair techniques on your 1998 seven. Quite simply trying to do a spot repair on any paint this old and getting a good colour match and blend is nearly impossible, added to the fact that this car would probably have paint colours that are exclusive to Caterham’s paint sprayers TSK in Dartford.

The techniques we now employ at Revive, allow us to repair brand new and nearly new cars to extremely high standards (in some cases better than body shop) that are within our remit, so much so that we offer a lifetime, no quibble, ownership guarantee on our repairs and are approved by car manufactures to do some warranty work. So I have no problem repairing a 2 day old £150k Mercedes, for example, but I would prefer not to repair your seven, and I am experienced enough to know which primer to use on both the aluminium and gel coat panels!

My advice would be to find a good local paint shop with good colour matching abilities and get them to do the repair/s, or take in your nose cone into them, so they can analyze the colours and make the paint up for you, (if you can find someone else to spray it), but don’t use a “cheep as chips” guy who doesn’t know what primer to use, he’s out of his depth.

Jon

 

Edited by - LOW FLYING VEHICLE on 28 Mar 2012 12:57:32

 

Edited by - LOW FLYING VEHICLE on 28 Mar 2012 12:59:28

[elie boone]

Near impossible to get a good colourmatch on older colours ? i can't see any problem unless there is a pigment in the color that is not available anymore.

it only should take about 4h to get a perfect mach on a solid color

[Ian B]

Quoting LOW FLYING VEHICLE: 

Hi, I have owned a Revive! Mobile car care Franchise for 6 years (recently featured in EVO here and Autoexpress here )

Jon, is this you www.revivebodywork.co.uk?

[kirkcaldy kid]

Thanks for your insight into the SMART repair, i will go to a body shop.

[Low Flying Vehicle]

Thank you Ian, but no this is me here and Elie I was talking in the context of a SMART repair, were less time = less money, so spending days and doing a muiltable re-sprays isn’t a viable option, for example, it took Caterham (TSK) over a week to get a good colour match, that they were happy with, on some replacement rear wings I had fitted to my car when it was only 6 months old.

Jon