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[smudger"s"works]

hello all,
 
Im smudge from newcastle but now living in Wiltshire. I've had a few minis over the years including a city E to a 998 turbo but the intake of kids made me give up my passion for minis, but now after a few years im back with a 94 cooper s works conversion and i cant tell you all how big the smile is on my face. The car is fantastic i make up excuses to drive it just to get in it. however with all minis this one needs a bit of work and I've turned to you guys to point me in the right direction.
 
mechanically the car is sound its had its engine/gearbox rebuilt new rear subframe, new brakes etc BUT the body work looks like a child had tried spraying it. it will need a few panels but that's expected the worst area is the n/s door skin, the previous owner/garage mechanic has just tried spraying over the rust but in the process its gone a weird orange colour and by the looks of it the car has had a new scuttle panel and the colour matching is horrendous.

 

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So my question to all of you :

 
Does anybody know where i can get my door skins done and a few other panels plus sprayed in the Wiltshire area  
 
Thanks for reading 
 
smudge

[BennerW]

Don't know where you can get the work done but I'm pretty close to you in Shaftesbury so thought I would say Hi.

 

Ben

[smudger"s"works]

Hey cheers, so where do you get your work done to be honest i was looking at vinyl wrapping it but ive heard bad things when its applied to minis

[myredmini]

Shame your not still Newcastle way, I'm in Middlesbrough area and could have sorted replacing the panels for you at reasonable cost. 

[smudger"s"works]

Tell me about it i know a few people up there that would do it for me its becoming a nightmare to find anyone that will touch my car down here

[BennerW]

I use a Local Garage with some Mini experience for Most of the things I need doing. For Tuning and Performance round here I use Neil Slark in Amesbury who is awesome and very knowledgable. Also doing a project myself and was looking at using Indygo refinishing in Semley for the Bodywork that needs doing.

 

Ben

[smudger"s"works]

yeh i know Neil i spoke to him today as i work next to larkhill but he pointed me to a garage in Bristol i know its not that far but its a trek just to get some body work doing

[mk1leg]

Hi..and welcome to TMF and enjoy...............

[smudger"s"works]

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