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[Jammy]

"look, its been three months now, rust is beginning to appear already, and this anti-chip stuff you put on is terrible, it looks awful and obviously hasn't done its job properly, can you sort it out please?"

A baseball bat would say the same thing, but with a more 'direct' approach, and would probably recieve a more 'swift' response! :cheese:

[Bungle]

mimis84 is there any chance you could go with pixie as they might take more noties of a man rather than a woman they can fob off :erm:

[Purple Tom]

if she wants me too I will yeah - I went with her to have a look at it when it was half done and the bloke seemed a bit......strange, about his explanations for various parts of the car.

He also wired up the spotlights so the current draw melted the light switch too, its all a bit dodgy really, he needs to sort it out for her.

[minipixie]

you didnt mention anything about him being that strange when we went to see him?

im gonna try and get home this weekend and see if my dad will come with me!

[Purple Tom]

I mentioned to you that I wasn't so happy with what he'd done with it, but obviously by then it was too late, the work had already been done :sad: I hope you get it sorted!

[LuckyStar]

Aww that suks :sad: - I wouldnt expect a car to come back from a garage looking like that having just had a respray unless it was a mega cheep bodge job which it wasn't? Plus it shouldnt be rusting already after only 3 months

From the other pictures you've put up of her she looks lovely but that front end..... I wouldn't be happy with it either
Definitely see if they will do anything to correct it for you - They may not but it's worth the try. One of my friends uncles has a garage and he said from when a customer leaves his premises (on completion of whatever theyre having done)they're obviously happy with the work he's done otherwise they would say so at the time in which case he would try and rectify it then

It's up to the garage really it's not in there interest really to redo it for you it just depends if you get a nice man or not who's understanding

Good luck

[CharlieBrown]

Just a thought, is that rust coming from the mini or the headlight surround?!?

[minipixie]

Just a thought, is that rust coming from the mini or the headlight surround?!?

im not sure about where it's coming from on the bit by the headlight, but it's starting to come through a little further round the wing aswell, so that bit isn't from the headlight! but i'll have a check at the headlight rust in day light?

yea cheers for your comments Britney, you've got a point there, i should have prob said something at the time i picked it up! ah well, like you said it's worth a try! ill see what he says!

[andywaller]

i would definately go back too! it doesnt look good, after i sprayed some bits on my car myself it started to rust like that and now its back to a bubbling mess.

[Bungle]

take a man with you

someone that they cant fob off

[Dom]

:sad: Hope things get sorted

[d-lux]

i bought my first mini from the same garage. he was supposed to replace the front end and respray. 4 months later rust bubbles started to apear. he'd actually filled the holes and replaced only one panel and he'd done a very poor job of that! i now use surf blue garage eastwood. hope you get it sorted out.

andy.

[minipixie]

i bought my first mini from the same garage. he was supposed to replace the front end and respray. 4 months later rust bubbles started to apear. he'd actually filled the holes and replaced only one panel and he'd done a very poor job of that! i now use surf blue garage eastwood. hope you get it sorted out.

andy.

Yea the more I look at the front end, the more I think he's just sprayed over the white paint, as I can see white coming through underneath it. :nugget:



Anyway, yesterday Mum and Dad came to pick her up and took her home, as she's quickly getting worse, her headlights come on when I brake and for some reason when I actually put the lights on (in the dark or anytime of day for that matter) the tail lights don't work and the brake lights are on constantly!
Also more rust is quickly coming through the paint on the front end and I noticed on the other side at the front the silver paint is cracking and I can see white underneath it!!!

So next plan of action is.....Mum is going to take Babs to Surf Blue, who have done some work on her before, but unfortunately don't do spraying, and they're really good down there, Mum's just going to ask Geff, to see whats wrong but not actually do anything and also see what he suggests about the front end, and then at the weekend, we're going to go and see the man at Nottingham Mini Centre and tell him what is wrong and see what he says!

[TJenkos]

Sorry to hear about Babz...

I'll try to avoid that place, Put a review up here before any more people fall to the pit of doom!! :sad:

[clubman katie B.F]

hi pixie...i was at unca jeffs today...he doesn't do spray jobs but he does use a couple of guys to do his painting, who are real good, thats who is doing mine for me..... jeff said that "he might be expensive but thats because he doesn't do C**p jobs" lol..... i can vouch for that, he wouldn't weld katie up as it wouldn't be worth it...it's nice to have an honest bloke