Porsche specialist bodyshop

[Beaky]

Does anyone know of or can recommend a Porsche specialist bodyshop in or around North London (Enfiled).

The story goes - was enjoying the 24 hrs of Le Mans until earlier on Sunday I walk back to my car to find that some A**h*le had rip by wing mirror off

 

[Guest]

Bad one Chris, not nice.

Someone told me that Premier in Luton are Porsche recommended, has to be a good sign, you could probably catch the train home

Premier Bodyshops Ltd
15, Bilton Way
Luton Bedfordshire
LU1 1UU

Tel: 01582 424100

have to say that having seen Tuthills paint on a few cars now I think their guy is pretty mega too (but not so close to North London)

 

[Mrkjblue]

ORIGINAL: johndglynn

Bad one Chris, not nice.

Someone told me that Premier in Luton are Porsche recommended, has to be a good sign, you could probably catch the train home

Premier Bodyshops Ltd
15, Bilton Way
Luton Bedfordshire
LU1 1UU

NOOOooo
I had my old 944 painted there... 4 times, and they still left bare metal in places, bad. very bad.. there attitude to customer service/care is also the worst i've ever come across.
It would take all day to write down my experiance with that sorry lot, but im tired with it and dont want the trauma back.

 

[Beaky]

Thanks for the rapid replies folks even though they're contradicing.

I have also been recommended to go check out 911 bodyshop as well as Body tech, anyone have any experince with them?

Kind regards

 

[Yoda]

I have previously used Solus in West London - very good work and service but not cheap. Depending on how far you want to trave, there is a Porsche approved bodyshop in Slough who are also excellent and much cheaper.

 

[kumaram]

I had experience with Solus (London) and Premier (Luton).

The former good and very helpful.

The latter - well I echo the sentiments of a previous poster re them, especially the comments about customer responsiveness.

Cheers...

 

[Guest]

ORIGINAL: Mrkjblue

ORIGINAL: johndglynn

Someone told me that Premier in Luton are Porsche recommended

NOOOooo
I had my old 944 painted there... 4 times, and they still left bare metal in places, bad. very bad.. there attitude to customer service/care is also the worst i've ever come across.

Can't say fairer than that can you, I would take Kevin's word on this Chris!
(I heard they do a good deal on Zymol, though that might also be urban myth)
Cheers guys
JG

My favourite London paintshop was always George and Chris down in Park Royal, will try to remember their number, they did my car and it has never been mopped, nor polished but the finish they got straight from the gun is amazing, they did a lot of Porsches down there, also Saabs and they used to do Mercs too for the MB guy on the Western Avenue, great work

 

[Guest]

I'm getting my 944S2 painted at 911 Bodyshop in Wembly Trading Estate next month, the owners called Chris Tel 0208 900 2572

Is £285+Vat expensive or resonable for a front wing and stone guard? Don't have much experience with body work pricing[8|]

 

[Diver944]

A 944 buddy of mine had his Guards Red Turbo completely resprayed at 911 Bodyshop and it looks amazing, it won the London Region concours a few years ago.

I had some paintwork done to my 944 at the Northampton OPC and it has had to be redone four times in the past three years, so my personal advice would be to avoid OPC bodyshops for older cars.

 

[Beaky]

Again thx to all for your valid input, I'll get three quotes from Solus, 911 bodyshop and Bodytech see where we go from there
Cheers

 

[Guest]

I have used Body Tech and I was very pleased with the result. As I coundn't visit during the work they did promise to send me photographs, although in the end I never got them!
As for Solus I would not go near them and I could write a whole book about how bad they were.
My parther had a very simple front wing and bumper repair done under insurance.
Solus were the approved bodyshop. From a simple new wing and bumper the car was returned 5 times with a catalogue of disasterous panel sprays and blends, and incomplete re-assembly and I caught them out several times lying about what they had done to the car.
When they retuned the car on the sixth time the written list of faults agreed by their representative on the fifth delivery was still not done.
They offered to valet the car as recompense !
To this day the bumper has fixings missing and I declined their offer of a valet!

 

[Guest]

I think we should have a Thread for services to save each other from disateros fugaizi bodyshops and know-all machanics.

 

[Keggers]

I'm booked in to have some rust removed from the wheel arches of my 944S2 next week at RGA in Vauxhall. Anyone had any good or bad experiences there? They seemed to know what they were doing and certainly had a bundle of Porsches in the garage when I visited.

 

[Guest]

Hi All.

I own a fiat coupe 20vt (don't laugh!!!)
The reason I am posting here is that recently I had my car bashed and the insurance company recommended Body Technics in slough, when I took it in I thought great its a Porsche approved body shop all will be fine....

The estimate was for the work to take 1 week. Two and a half weeks later I was finally told that the car was ready, but they had not repaired the sill.

So I rejected the work and back into the workshop it went.

4 days later I was told its ready again, I inspected the work are and it was fine, got the car home and found faint scratches all over the drivers door and 4 large chips out of the paint work on the passenger side, I know I should have checked the whole car over at the body shop but they parked it so close to another car I could see the passenger side properly. Besides I concentrated on the area they were supposed to work on and I didn't expect a Porsche approved body shop to damage the paint and not sort it out or tell me!

One more thing, there customer service is woeful, I have lost track of the number of time I have called them not got an answer and left a message asking to call me back through out the whole saga.

Please if you value your car don't go here.