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MarieP
Member Since: 12 Jun 2007
Location: London
Posts: 2
  
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| Bodywork repairs and respray |
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Hi have just joined the Forum today - very interesting/useful! 
I need help with a recommendation please. My Best Beloved has pranged the passenger doors using a deft let-me-scrape-myself-along-a-car-mirror maneouvre which obviously looked good at the time until he saw the huge dents in the doors. Of course I'm not cross  - these things happen - but when I drive the Disco now I can see other drivers thinking "Typical bl----y woman driver, can't even work out how wide her car is". So can anyone recommend a good body repair place in West/South London please?
Our offside doors were also "keyed" a while back, really deeply - looks like with a Stanley knife - (don't you just love some people?) and I would like to get the doors resprayed before I try to sell the disco on.
I don't want to take it into Stratstones (our usual dealer) because they are a complete rip-off and I want to move to somewhere else for the remaining warranty period.
Any ideas anyone?
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 12th Jun 2007 1:18 pm |
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Very Annoyed
Member Since: 19 Nov 2005
Location: Up there, past the strange people and the sheep.
Posts: 3698
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For body repairs I use Hughes Coachworks in West Molsey - PM me if you want a telephone number. Loving the power of the TDV8!
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| 12th Jun 2007 1:27 pm |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
Posts: 4805
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| Re: Bodywork repairs and respray |
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MarieP wrote:I can see other drivers thinking "Typical bl----y woman driver, can't even work out how wide her car is".
naturally 
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| 12th Jun 2007 1:45 pm |
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LeighW
D3 Decade
Member Since: 31 Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, AUS
Posts: 920
 
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Sorry to hear of the damage to such a fine vehicle.
But, catweasel, I'm glad there's a fair bit of water between you and MarieP!!
Oh, and for the record, I have done more damage to my wife's car than she has and I have driven it less than 1% of total distance on the odometer. I just put it down to bad luck...
Leigh LeighW
The old girl is on her third engine...
* first ran a bearing (design failure in original engine)
* second had a failure of the water outlet on top of the engine (pls check yours)
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| 12th Jun 2007 11:10 pm |
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DG
Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50978
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Very Annoyed wrote:For body repairs I use Hughes Coachworks in West Molsey - PM me if you want a telephone number.
I can thoroughly recommend Hughes also  21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 12th Jun 2007 11:13 pm |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
Posts: 4805
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LeighW, I was not having a go at women drivers but thought the stereotyping comment was humorous
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| 13th Jun 2007 8:08 am |
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d3syd
Member Since: 04 May 2006
Location: Scamander, Tasmania, Australia
Posts: 168
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Adding further to the stereotyping, my wife did similar damage to my car a week ago by backing her car into my passanger front door
So now I have 2 dinged cars '06 TDV6 SE AUTO BUCKINGHAM BLUE
'98 Volvo V70
'87 Mecedes 420 SEL
'08 BMW 135i Coupe Twin Turbo
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| 13th Jun 2007 11:41 am |
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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
Posts: 19689
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Mrs Do$h's L200 was covered in dents, most caused by me backing in to stuff obscured by the tailgate. You tend to get used to the reassuring bip-bip-bip-bip-bipbipbipbipbipbipbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee of the D3 and its superb wingmirrors.  I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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| 13th Jun 2007 11:59 am |
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MX
Member Since: 04 Mar 2006
Location: Capital of Culture
Posts: 439
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So glad to see that I am not the only one who can only reverse D3's now.
I have backed my wifes car into the garage wall and a hire car into a carpark post ...... why dont all cars give you the reassuring beep-beep when going backwards! D3 05 SE (old one)
RRS 08 SE (new one)
formerly mxgeldar7
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| 13th Jun 2007 12:22 pm |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
Posts: 4805
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one day that reassuring beep might not work and you might get a confirmation crunch instead 
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| 13th Jun 2007 2:19 pm |
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