hey getting back to the paint issue, have you been down to CRASH Smash repairs, in northgate, i got quoted @ $3000 for my baby which is $500 cheaper than i had budgeted for. anyway, if you've got it done when do we see the piccys?

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MiniMitch,,,just to let you know & others Know, i have had many customers of crash`s come here with their paint literally falling off the car,,,scrape & orby marks everywhere, poor prep & even poorer application. Absolute fact, some of these customers were talking about taking him to court. i have no idea what ended up happening tho.

I have quite a few very good friends who are panel beater/spray painters & they`ve seen these particular jobs too & they also have spoken their thoughts about the quallity (or lack of) of those particular paint jobs to those particular people & basically the result is--->"""not happy Jan"""

now i must say that i don`t have any knowledge on any $$$ deal that was done by those people with crash as to the quallity of the job wanted & i don`t want to know either, just that i wouldn`t be taking my car there to be sprayed

if people just want their car with a full coat of colour & that`s it, in otherwords they don`t really care how good the job is or how long it lastes then maybe that`s what they asked for,,,i don`t know, some people just want it done as cheap as possible,,,so maybe you just get what you pay for

the "Very Fast Paint Shop" used to charge about $1000 for the same sort of job & i wouldn`t ask for that to be done to my car either.

i can show you some of those "un-happy" customers cars too,,,they still havn`t had them re-done yet so anyone interested in seeing what quallity was achieved are quite welcome to ring me & orgainsie a viewing

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Exactly the reason they went out of business in a big way..........The motor repair industry is in a bit of a worrying state nowadays with regards to skilled tradesmen.

I work in the trade and i could count on one hand the number of people i'd genuinely trust to work on any of my cars........panelbeaters,painters,mechanics etc.

Combine that with 99% of customers who have the highest of standards and are no way prepared to pay for it and there is a recipe for disaster like mentioned.

well no pics for a while...of the paintjob anyway...decided to ditch the a-series and buy a starlet gt frontcut...am currently disassembling it and then will be organising a subframe to fit the beast into the mini...a long way off paint at this stage but atleast i have a year or 2 to think about who to get the paintjob done with...

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OK thanks for the heads up miniman, If he's no good at painting I'll go somewhere else, I just want my baby to look nice, any suggestions anybody?

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I found another place to get my car done, i viewed some work they had done previously and was very happy with the finish, once mine is finished i'll post pics up. wont be till early march as everyone is backlogged from the holidays. till then im going to have some engine work done.

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