Ascot Grey paint match

[Baileyjdm]

Hi, after a week of ownership, only 500 miles on the van, some dope leaves his handbrake off and his van rolls into mine.

The question I have is has anyone had an Ascot grey van painted or repaired and actually had a good colour match?

I imagine they will paint the whole side of the van?

I’m having a dent specialist look at it today so to avoid paint but I think it’s may be too far gone for this.‍

Absolutely gutted!!!

 

[Dellmassive]

nightmare,

but lucky for you its a non metallic base colour that will match easy. ( and fresh paint too)

the repairs normally paint a panel either side, so driver door and side panel up to roof line. . .

A Sad Day - #gutted -

ITS A SAD DAY & therefore - #GUTTED - Its more than just a scratch this time. . . . . This happened @ 730am yesterday morning on Victoria embankment - London. Just sitting there stationary at a set of red lights when this guy who was turning right in the filter lane . . . . . massive crane...

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[Bigsidavies]

Tragic. I can’t open the pic links btw.
I can’t imagine a reason why a good body shop won’t get an exact colour match, especially on a new van.
If it does end up going through the other person’s insurance personally, with only 500miles on it, the only place that would be painting it would be a VW body shop. I’m thinking paint warranty and all that.
I’m sure others will have better advice based on experience. That’s just my thoughts.

 

[Baileyjdm]

Pics added

 

[B.different]

All depends on the paint system that the bodyshop uses. Some can be cock on and some you get a different hue to it. Colours can be a nightmare as there's so many variants ie shades of paint, bum mix and application. Personally as a painter I would blow the side out as it's a new van to make sure there's no halo or yellowing of the flick out, but that's my way of doing things.

 

[Baileyjdm]

Ok, so the van came back today. I rejected it!!!
Paint match was perfect, no issue.
However there was a couple of pinholes in some filler work, some crap in the paint, they had chipped the edge of the door and touched it up with a brush, plus there was 2 fresh paint chips on the fresh paint!
I’m not being harsh am I?
It’s a brand new van, I would expect it to come back perfect surely?!

 

[Drive Wayne]

You have every right to reject poor workmanship, I certainly would and did, on my wife's car. They put it right!

 

[B.different]

Nope not harsh at all. Only thing I'll say is kill them with kindness and they will help you more.

 

[BognorMotors]

Ascot is an easy colour to match. Any decent body shop will be able to get that spot on.

 

[Baileyjdm]

I’m glad me rejecting is justified. It drives me crazy to think someone did the work, polished it up and thought “that will do”!

 

[The Bear78]

That would never have straightened out without a bit of a crease so some filler is inevitable. However, I hope they pushed/pulled the dent out as much as possible? Are you able to see the inside of the damaged panel? It would have been pretty gash not too but...

 

[B.different]

That's a fair point about looking inside. As it's been repaired they will have most likely used a spotter to pull the dent which will leave little burn marks on the inside which more than likely won't have been treated and eventually rust. It will never look like an oil painting inside, but should be definitely cleaned up and painted.
I know it's easy to criticise the workmanship but if it's gone to a big repair shop there will be bugger all time on that job about 22hrs all in (15 panel, 6 paint and 1 strip n fit). Which is never enough time to do the job properly. Ultimately the customer suffers and the workers get a bad name, but the insurance companies are happy because they have saved a few quid.

 

[Baileyjdm]

That would never have straightened out without a bit of a crease so some filler is inevitable. However, I hope they pushed/pulled the dent out as much as possible? Are you able to see the inside of the damaged panel? It would have been pretty gash not too but...

I know it’s a shame, I knew there would be filler, but I don’t expect to see pin holes. I did the classic tap test and if I’m honest I could barely tell where the filler was, so there can’t be buckets of it in there. The lines are all good also.