I certainly didnt damage my own car thats for sure.

 

Outragous really. This should have been a few weeks work, if that imo. Certainly not 7 months and that much money.

 

Even if you did 5 hours a day 5hours times 5 days is 25 hours. 25 a week 25 times 50 is 2 weeks not 7 months.

 

Most places are crash repair shops, just ship them in, bodge them up ship them out and charge the insurance company, easy work for easy money.

Proper resto work needs skill and time that most of these places don't have. Even the lads that work in these places dont like doing lash up jobs as many take pride in their work, but its push push push.

I put a brand new shell, etc etc in a reputable shop years ago and did a deal with the owner to use it as a hospital job over a month or so. It sat there gathering dust untouched for months. Then the owner went on holiday and all the tossers in the shop booked their time against it so when he came back he tried to hit me for vast hours, and the job they did was dire. I got it out of there, paid him half what he was for asking based on a breakdown of the real time that would have been taken a painter mate provided me and had to get it finished elsewhere.

These shops all seem to be the same, genuine ones are like needles in a haystack

 

Sounds like another good bodyshop.

ive had 2 dodgey phone calls left on my voice mail today. It sounded like a foreign person. Shame I could hear english people say wayyyyyy in the background.

 

Also had another one soposedly of darlington police about my car... Now thats a bit childish.

 

What a cunt. If it's the bodyshop owner leaving messages his final brain cell must have imploded from his own stupidity.

I'd offer to finish your welding Glenn but my garage is being moved and there's no where to store cars at the moment.

 

At least the cars getting sorted

 

I can almost gaurantee the voicemails etc aren't from him glenn, he's not childish like that, whats happened is shitty, as ive already agreed, but he doesn't do stuff like that. But as for the police, could a neighbour be moaning cause its on your drive?? Legally its obviously allowed to be but ive had people complain about mine when its been on the garage, ha.

 

[QUOTE=PAUL S;6380354]Most places are crash repair shops, just ship them in, bodge them up ship them out and charge the insurance company, easy work for easy money.

Proper resto work needs skill and time that most of these places don't have. Even the lads that work in these places dont like doing lash up jobs as many take pride in their work, but its push push push.

You've totally hot the nail on the head there m8, I worked in a bodyshop yrs ago as a valeter and my mate was a panel beater there,he was shit hot at his job and had restored quite a few old skool motors and he ended up getting the sack because according to them he took too long too complete jobs but he refused to bodge jobs. I know another panel beater who served his time in am ar**ld cla*k bodyshop and they were encouraged to use as much filler as they wanted rather than replace panels. And when they were refitting the likes of bumpers and arch liners etc if they couldn't get things to line up they would just cut the screws/bolts and glue the heads in place so it looked right
:-o couldn't believe that when I heard it but it was his own journeyman that told him to do it. Now that's fucking ruff

 

Its been a while since you have been on here isnt it Craigy boy.Hows your new job.

 

IIm thinking its some cooooooonnt from work now cause the number is my works number fpmsl even my works mates are beeeeeeeen coooooonnnts. I do apologise. .

 

Thank you very much for the offer.

 

Sounds bodgey as fook John. Glue the screw heads on lol.

 

Just picked up on this thread. Gutted for you Glenn. Could you not get a couple of bodyshops to give you an estimate for the work thats been done so far? Then give Trading standards a call, they will give you advice with regards to taking them to small claims court. Ł1300 seems canny mental for whats been done, and anything you can recover to help get it finished is going to be a bonus.

 

Complicated, time consuming but fooking amazing! Off to america in march, then back over again a few months later for my training at infra red school, well worth it though. Feel free to pop round for a cuppa one night again, you can have a nosey at the new engine that's going in......turbo!!! Ha

 

I would like to say, good you have your car back Glenn. But a big shame you get it back in this condition ! Does he thread all his clients like this ??

And all those problems with 'getting his money and payment before work stuff' ?? It's only normal that you pay him after the work when the car is done.

I hope you get the car ready soon with some new help mate !
It's gonna be allright

 

This is shocking mate.

Keep us all updated with your car pal.

 

Yeh I'd tally up everything they've done as that will be the first thing trading standards will want to know hrs,paid in, money owed, jobs left not finished etc

 

I think the best thing to do is put it in writing to him stating your not happy and want a fully itemised bill, give him 10 days to respond then trading standards? Just a thought.

 

I found out today that I was 100% right about this bloke going down on a monday night and doing the work to my car.

This bloke was getting paid 10 quid an hour and spending 2 hours a week on it and the bs owner was getting the other 15quid. Not bad for not doing anything. I found out this bloke hasnt been to the bs for6/7 weeks. The mk2 golf thats in the bs. Thats been there for 2 years apparently.

 

The golf has been there a bloody long time but again thats the same as mine, the owner works in the army i believe, so he pays a bit when he's back and gets more work done, then goes away again and repeats the cycle etc etc, thats a proper long termer, haha. And unfortunatley its back to work for me so i'll be gone for a while again, feel free to txt me tho glenn if i can help or you just fancy a cuppa dude, its been a while.

 

id expect most places and many trades would take a part deposit up front or ask for the cost of materials to be paid up front.
if I was doing a job on the side as a joiner id expect the client to either supply the materials needed or to pay me for them up front with either agreed instalments as the job progresses if its a long one or payment in full when the works complete. (not that I do jobs on the side mr taxman...im to old for that now)
I expect it would be hard to motivate yourself to work on something if you've had the cash up front and spent it especially if you have other cash jobs coming in all the time.
ive had quite a few problems over the years on my projects, the worst being the cosworth engine conversion in my bmw. quoted 2 weeks all in. 17 weeks later I had arranged to take it back regardless with my mate at the weekend but luckily for him he phoned me on the Thursday before to say it was ready.
once you've had issues with anywhere I would never allow them to continue as any simmering bad feeling would likely effect the quality of work they then did.
ive never met a garage or bodyshop that works in real time yet.always underestimating the time

 

I have tried to refrain from posting on your rebuild Glenn but its just total bollocks.

I wish you were closer to me.When I did a rebuild colour change etc on a Sapphire back in about 95 my mate who now has his own successful business did my car in I think three days.That was after hours because he was running some one elses place.The repair work consisted of two new rear arches,two outer sills,inner repairs and a couple of seat mounts.I think he charged me about Ł250 at the time.

It was taken to someone else for the prep Ł250 and then brought back to my mates place for paint.I couldnt get everything done in one place because they were so busy.

One mallard green colour change later = happy days for me.All in it cost me about Ł750 painted !!.

I have even worked in a bodyshop for a while and one or two of my mates are painters working for BM or specialists .It boils my piss !!.

At least its home now and you have some one to sort it out.Also not trying to piss on your bonfire but if the previous repair work had been done correctly you would not be in this situation now.

I remember you having the arches seen too and paint work.Obviously they didnt go back far enough to cure the problem or not sealed correctly imo.

Good luck in getting it sorted and drop that fuel out and stick in the puma

 

Nice to hear from you Rax on this thread. Im gonna ring Gaz tomorrow to arrange to take the car to his place then get it taxed tomorrow and take the car to him next week hopefully. I must be one of those people who just get ripped off all the time lol.

 

But who is doing the work the bs owner or one of his mates he knows who comes in and does the work for him. In the 7 months of my car been in there the only progress ive seen on that car is that its moved from one side of the bs to the other.

 

I cant honestly answer that mate, ive seen him working on the golf and.on yours but obviously i dont see alot as im.not in there every week anymore.

 

He needs a good fucking kicking in!

Absolute cunt

 

I have been following it Glenn but like I say I was sitting back and waiting for the outcome.Sadly it wasnt the one I wanted.

It will get sorted now thought ay !.

Ok its going to have cost more than you would like to think about but soon it will all be a


leason learned and a distant memory.I know thats easy for me to say from behind the screen

but it is what it is now unfortunately.

Chip up ffs !! CHIN man chin lol
Chip up and all that


Should of took Carlos with you not your work mate anyway ha ha

 

My work matey might be skinny but fook me I wouldnt like to argue with him.

The cost of all this bodywork is gonna clost to what I paid for the car lol.

All I want it a nice job and for the rust to stop appearing lol. I bloody hate rust.Love my Fords though so will have to put up with it.

 

 

Primer is porous, get some tins of black aerosol to stick on top of the primer else it'll still rust mate.

 

Lol at Jay.
Crowson. I gonna leave it till it goes to Gaz and he can sort the whole car out.

 

Well Glenn if you want the rust to stop appearing then you will need to either sell it or set it on fire pmsl
You will never keep the rust at bay forever m8

 

IVE always fancied the second option as its more spectacular

 

Defo agree lol. The cars that dont rust are the ones that hardly ever get used and are kept in heated garages.


Gonna put the standard wheels back on tomorrow,get the battery charged and give the old poorly girl a hoover out inside cause its covered in shite.

 

You should of spoke to Gaz first before you took it to these numptys.

 

I wish I did now Bri.I heard Gaz wasnt doing big jobs no more so I never bothered. I wasnt expecting to get messed about either since I sort of knew the lad is this shonkey bs.

 

Not a good outcome Glenn. Really gutted you've been mugged off by this cunt as you come across as such a nice bloke. Hopefully your problems are behind you and this fella that everyone has recommended will come up trumps for you.

 

Thanks Rab. I just feel like ive wasted 1300 quid