Daimo B
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Rich's car was terrible, its a lot neater now.
And all the cars i've seen bar Matt C were not very good at all.
A proffessional bodyshop, laquer coming off  And you say im contradicting myself
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Craig W
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Registered: 31st Oct 00
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The work done on my car was pretty crap. When it went in the first time i had all my arches colour coded, standard front bumper smoothed with the grill cut out and smoothed, the bumper soon cracked where the badge was. The arches were bonded on and all of them come away leaving big gaps. I also had Morrette lights fitted, and he didn't wire the inside lights up because he said there wasn't enough wires, and the lights were pointing in the sky, and he said he couldn't adjust them, so i had feck all night vision 
When i had some new bits done, new bumpers etc fitted it was ok but my front bumper wasn't secured well at all, and soon begun to rattle away.
Oh yeah and i had a smoothed boot and he forgot to tell me he didn't fit a solenoid so i had to open my boot from the inside.
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Daimo B
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C13RSA, panels under the skirts are still green Or they were when they came out the bodyshop anyway.
Daves 2nd attempt at C4 was awful, lights didn't work for ages, all the smoothing cracked etc.
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Andy Stocker
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Registered: 31st Aug 00
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The skirts never came off as they were bonded & smoothed into the car actually.
If you wanted under the skirts sprayed then the whole car would have to have been sprayed, Skirts bonded back on & smoothed in again & another respray to match the colour. Pretty pointless if you ask me.
At least my scuttle panel doesn't look like the himalayas 
Iloved my car & was very pleased with the finished result bar a scratch & a few runs, unfortunately no cars perfect
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Andy Stocker
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The only thing that cracked on C4 was the astra vents.
Lights didn't work due to picking the car up at the last moment in an effort to make it to Donny.
However his smooth tailgate did sink where the welds were, BUT that was done by Carisma/ Fulfords
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Daimo B
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Not saying the quality of my car is any good I paid a chepa price and got what i paid for from a crappy crash repair shop
Im standing by my opinion on Dex
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Andy Stocker
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& i'll stand by mine So we'll agree to disagree then sir?
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Daimo B
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We shall indeed  sir
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DanielJ
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i can remember wen u fort tha bodyshop u used was the best thing since sliced bread my bodyshop was cheap an my cars still in crackin nick after a yr
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by DanielJ
i can remember wen u fort tha bodyshop u used was the best thing since sliced bread my bodyshop was cheap an my cars still in crackin nick after a yr
Who me? Never thought that of Dex's bodyshop. When i went there to get my spare wheel arch cut out, the spray room wasn't actually a spray room, just a sectioned off area with see thru soft plastic (like u get in warehouses) around a bit of floor.
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DanielJ
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nonono ur crash repair bodoyshop 
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Daimo B
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Ohh yeah, well they are, at crash repairs, filling etc. But there was a lot lot more work involved with the car. The repairs to the A pillar, smoothing of small dents etc is superb, very good (thats what they are good at), but with regards to smoothing a few things (such as rear reg plate hole, scuttle panel built up) they were not very good at all. I dont blame them, its not what they were used to, and i may use them again to respray parts, but wouldn't go to them for more detailed work though.
And still, i got everything done at a bloody good price. £1400 inc respray, damage repaired, kit all fitted, smoothed etc.
never mind
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DanielJ
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always worth ago tho dunno untill u try, thinkn back mine was £450 inc respray kit fitted boot smooth, dents fixed, arhes cut, spoilers fixed 
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Daimo B
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Mine was there for 6 months though
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DanielJ
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so was mine near enuff 1st time he eva attemptd half the stuff
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Daimo B
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Thats a bloody good price you got!!!!
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DanielJ
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he jus finishd my m8s punto for £650, i'll av 2 get sum pics of it, combat 2 kit, custom spoiler consists of an arbarth an sumthn else, f50 vent, badbot bonnet, full respray smooth boot,
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Rich S
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Registered: 16th Aug 00
Location: Midas Styling
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my car was firstly built by dex when it was black, like daimo said, bit shoddy. then dex built it again in its orange form, but i had to redo a hell of alot of it again cos of cracking etc, stripped it back down now and rebuilding it proper from metal work up.
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mikey1
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were is dave harwood now? was a friend of his at college. was aware that c4rsa was a rite off, moped crashed into it on a roundabout i believe, sold most of the parts. fcking loud car.
if you are or know dave plse let me know it would be good to catch up especially as iv now sold my black 2i and got a blk 53 sxi. 
mike69howudoin@hotmail.co.uk
[Edited on 03-02-2004 by mikey1]
[Edited on 03-02-2004 by mikey1]
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Daimo B
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Daves probably back in India for a while again now.
C4RSA was a write off, but if u read the whole post i htink he explains that he still owns the car and its being put to standard (i think).
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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damnit, just saw this post from Ty_Harris and thought he was back online, but its an old one  Need to talk to him!
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SteveW
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well there is the *NEW C4RSA* My mate has it.. Black with the Merseyspeed front, that center exit zorst and the rear..
He has some crazy plans for that car....
its Mattb off here
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Super_si
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Thats craigs old one
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SteveW
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yeah he bought it off some girl in Luton area...
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Super_si
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calling craig a girl 
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