Pink Flea

I took my car in to have dents removed, repainted, clear bra and spoiler added.
Well this is what they did to my car.
Scratches in the paint from where they tried to "buff" it, Paint scratched off both door handles, scratches in the plastic strip at the bottom of the window and scratches on the glass too! It looks like they stuck a rock in the buffer and went over my car with it!
So they told me to come back next Tuesday and they will fix what they did and they are not going to charge me for the spoiler. Im still so mad I could cry! After the weekend I had this was the last thing I needed. I was so excited to be picking her up after not having her for 2 weeks and this happens!

My8DriftsMe

Yea body shops suck sometimes. They cleaned my wrx with a rough rag and f'ed up the clear coat on the whole thing. i know your pain =[ who did you take it to?

laythor

wow
I cannot believe any shop would let a car go out looking like that. It's not exactly small subtle scratches in tiny areas.
Make sure to get some type of assurance from the owner that he's going to stand behind his repairs.
Hopefully it was some noob who didnt know which pad or compound to use, cause that just looks like some yokel used a dirty pad and the wrong abbrasive.

Jedi54

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damn you Laythor, every time you beat me to a thread I just end up agreeing with you since you pretty much covered everything already.

+1 to Laythor's comment.

Pink Flea

I will make sure its done right. He chewed out the guys in the shop but of course they all pointed fingers at the guy who was out of the shop at the time... I dont know what the hell they are going to do to fix the window they scratched up!

laythor

only way to fix it is to replace it. if they try to use "rouge" on it you'll see distortions

dozer

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NOT SEXY!!! post these pics up on meguiarsonline.com and im pretty sure someone will give you advice on how to get that sh*t out

Batman&TheBatmobile

yeah its called get it fixed. That **** is some no fun and games scratching

TopGear8

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That sucks, Time for some *** kickin.

RXallan

that sucks man

it looks like a 14 year old kid tried to buff it .

rglbegl

This is my guess


The first couple pics show a small rock was in the Random orbit buffer. And any good shop knows to NEVER use a ROB on any painted surface.

The one below was from the edge of a piece of sandpaper on a ROS(sander)





edit - Regarding the first few pics - Those look like too large of loops to be from a hose mark, however, if they are on the highest peak of that particular panel, they could be from an air hose to a ROS

altspace

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Actually that looks like the mirror reflecting on the paint. I believe all our RX-8s suffer from the orange peel effect from the factory.

ЯX-8

You should of went PDR.. You wouldn't of had to worry about all that, well maybe..

rglbegl

I am refering to the orange peel, not the reflection of another panel.


And I have NEVER seen peel that bad on ANY new car. Hyundai thru Ferrari . . .Factory is ALWAYS better than a shitty shop.



To me, it looks like only a couple panels were resprayed, and the ones next to the freshies suffered because of it.

It is a half assed job at best

Socket7

+1

My 8 had orange peel from the factory. I am afraid of doing anything about it for this exact reason.

That sucks pink. At least the guy is willing to fix his mistakes.

chancejat

iTrader: (2)

pretty much every car has orange peel....and after i got my car back form the body shop i had some of the same swirl marks from there buffer.....but theyre alot lighter than yours......

kevinD1226

my STi from the factory the bottom of all 4 doors has that orange peel effect and i noticed it on the few i looked at before i purchased mine so it must be a factory thing with them.. i never even noticed on my 8

jones75254

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Horrid, just horrid. Im wondering, did they bring these to your attention immediately upon your arrival? Or did they simply let you find them for yourself?

Im sure you called them prior to picking it up, they didnt say anything????

Damn, quality work and customer service is so hard to come by now-a-days...sad

Easy_E1

iTrader: (2)

Sorry to see that happen. Looks like a Stupid *** Moron did the work. Just kill them all. J/K
I would ask the owner to put in WRITING what EXACTLY he is going to do to fix your car. You need to make a list of the damage and have him sign a copy. That way you both can go over it when the work is done and make sure it is up to YOUR STANDARDS.
And if he doesn't fix it just like he said, take him to court. Sue them and have another BETTER shop repair the car.

Good luck.

Pink Flea

What is PDR?

The picture he circled up there, the scratched part id the plastic piece at the bottom of the window, its not supposed to be painted, but its not supposed to be scratched all to hell and back either.. The other part with the orange peel, its the part that was repainted.

Alot of cars come with the orange peel effect at the bottom of the door on purpose. I think they give it a rougher surface near the bottom to reduce dingd and scratches.

I called and they never said a word. When I got there they didnt say anything. I had to bring it to there attention and at first the guy tried to act like it was normal for a black car.

Adamrotor

That sucks hope everything works out.

raizen82

i'd go berserk and probably kill 'em all...

RX8YA

iTrader: (8)

Good luck with getting that cleaned up at least they seem like they want to do the right thing now. Hope all turns out well such a nice color.

Clavius

Oh.. my ... god.... Pink just stay home this week isnt turning out so great for you