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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by bigjas280
How they are still in business I shall never know.
My shell was dipped and e coated and even on the first day when I got it back in the workshop I noticed there were bubbles under the e coat which when you popped them liquid ran out. I should have took it back straight away.
The shell was stored in my mates heated workshop until he was ready to start work on it. (Stored for 4 months I think)
I was working away from home at the time and the week that It was going to be started I had a call from him to come back and view the shell.
In 4 months it had rusted inside all the chassis rails, along all seams and even in places were there wasn't any rust to start with.
I took it back to Adrian at SPL for him to put it right and to re dip it in good faith and he wouldn't do it, he said it was acid seep, even though inside the chassis rails were filled with sediment which hadn't been washed out and the e coat was just on top of the sediment and you could scrape that away and expose all the rust! When he wouldn't redip it I took legal advise and had an
independent auto engineers report done on the shell which they condemned it. I went back to SPL and he basically told me to fuck off!
Good customer service eh, especially after you've just spent £3,000 with them.
I went to take them to court, but when my solicitors done a business check on them, they have no assets as such, everything is rented so all a bailiff could do is take there petty cash tin.
Expensive lesson learnt.... your better off having your shell soda blasted and at half the price.
I'll post some pics up of it later on.
That's worrying I work for a restoration company and we use them on to dip the shells only. mind you there very rusty in the first place. We then blast them once repairs a re done then there epoxy primed.

I will let my boss know but tbh our painters don't like them being dipped due to the acid issues as you have said.

There's another company that's just started maybe they are better.??
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