How long to let paint cure before applying graphics?

[TWAG]

The nova is currently being painted and is taking longer than originally planned. I've been told it will be back to me in two weeks. This leaves four weeks before performance Vauxhall, is this long enough for the paint to fully cure before I have the graphics re-applied?

Craig

[Benn]

Late as poss really.

[TWAG]

My plan is to have them fitted the Friday before PV which is 4 weeks after the car is painted.

[BRoadGhost]

You wont be removing vinyl from bodywork once it's on anyway

[pottersrebel]

I do my own signs and graphics for my race car and I apply them a week after painting and have no issues removing at the end of the season (paint wise) and I use 1k paint painted in a cold garage.

[TWAG]

Cheers for the info. Unfortunately it doesn't matter now, as the Bodyshop decided to paint around the existing graphics instead of taking them off:mad:

[totalnova]

Sounds like a great body shop ��

[TWAG]

Don't get me started, I'm still trying to calm down before speaking to the owner.

[Southie]

I'm sorry that this is happening to you, my reading of how much crap you've gone through with this company has given me yet again no faith in most companies nowadays in being good at there jobs and this is why I came out of the car scene and stick to standard cars without modifying anymore, I just don't trust any bloody mechanics of bodyshops full stop.

[Edd]

Cheers for the info. Unfortunately it doesn't matter now, as the Bodyshop decided to paint around the existing graphics instead of taking them off:mad:

Really sorry to hear that

I'd be raging

Get them to start over AGAIN or get a refund

[marc69]

Is no-one competent at their job any longer! The only reason I ever started doing my own car repairs was because I was always getting ripped off with bad, expensive garages, often claiming for work that wasn't done.

[Jonesfach]

What a bunch of amateurs...what made them paint round the graphics without asking you??

I despair at things like this...I really do.

get them to do it properly.

[Stuart]

That must have been some effort to mask off the current stickers etc.... More hassle than just taking them off. Weird company

[Benn]

You know how disappointed i am with them and the job that's been done.

[BRoadGhost]

Masking over will always be faster; countless ~ lets say the majority of ~ companies will always push through as much work as they can in the shortest amount of time; simple economics.

It's the places that don't that should be spoken about.

~ Standard cars have things stuck to them.

[turbojolt]

How did the conversation not take place? Surrey at some point you told them what you wanted doing ?

Strange situation to be in

[Benn]

^ I believe Craig though the whole car would be paint due to bubbles, where as after talking to the bodyshop they painted what needed repainting, rather than everything. Which i diskike and told them so, when telling them how unhappy Craig was.

[turbojolt]

Ooh So they fucked up the paint job then fucked up the repair. Sound like a bunch of retards

[Benn]

Yes and no.

Looks like someone did some crap repairs which bubbled.
So to fix the problem they sanded the bubbled arears down and repainted. Just not how Craig thought (no im not sticking up for them) they would. Or i tbh.
In there eyes (and words) the pabels with issues have been repaired.

Masking up/over the stickers is not what id have done and ihave no clue why they did that.

[Andy]

Top job eh.wouldnt pay for muck like that in water bombs.

[Edd]

Benn, what they going to do about it?
Seems like disgusting behaviour tbh

[Benn]

Look at it from their eyes tho. They have fixed the issues. No charge, just a wait on doing it. The onwer says he never said he'd repaint the whole car.
I dont think at tho mo, Craig wants to go back.


I am not standing up for them, incase anyone thinks i am. Craig knows how unimpressed i am with all of this and how sorry i am with all this!

[TWAG]

When the blistering occurred it had effected every panel (fibreglass and metal) and was progressively getting worse. The paint shop agreed to rectify the issue and the car was booked in.

when I dropped the car off, I asked if they could keep a small piece of the graphics so I could get a colour match when they are re-done. I also said not to worry about refitting the rubber spoiler as I had the correct tape for it. So my expectations where that they would remove everything before painting.

After a good look around the car today, this is what I have found

- spoiler was not removed and there is overspray around the edges where it was masked up.

- sanding lines in the paint under the laquer.

- blending marks where only the door and a pillars where painted.

- micro blistering on areas that wernt repainted.

- paint lines where the graphics where masked up.

- bare metal on the edge of the door which has been laquered over. This was from the first time it was painted.

all of that and I havnt even washed it yet. This was a £3500 paint job, I was grateful that they where willing to rectify the blistering but I would have expected it to be to the standard that I had originally paid for.

After giving myself a week to calm down, I have now spoken to the owner. I don't want to go in to detail as to what was said but hopefully I will have a resolution after the summer.

I will never have a car painted again, which rules out any major projects unfortunately. It's the only aspect of my build that I have had to pay someone else to do and I have no control of.

[Benn]

FFS. Craig as you know i'm sorry the issues you've had and that it's made you feel this way.

But i am glad you've had a chat with them and that something will be done.

[dan16v]

Sorry to hear this mate, not good at all.
If you have the money to take it else where do you not think its time to go this route and claim the deficit back via small claims court?
You have given them enough time/ attempts to rectify the work


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