S.M.A.R.T. repairs

[sawood12]

What are the limitations on SMART repairs in terms of size of the area? Is it area or actual dimensions?

I've managed to put a long thin scratch about three foot long down the side of my Focus. I was waiting patiently in a queue at some temporarily traffic lights when I saw an ambulance with the blues and two's going. This is usually the signal for everyone around me to lose their marbles and all notion of common sense and start to scatter themselves randomly all over the road making an interesting obstacle course for the ambulance to weave around rather than simply staying put or shimmying over to the left a few inches and letting the ambulance go by in a straight line with no obstacles in its way. In order to make room for the people around me to arrange themselves in a random patters - looking a bit like if you were to scatter a fistfull of hundreds and thousands onto a piece of paper, I didn't notice the metal sign next to me which put a nice scrape down the side of my car. The scrape is about three foot long but only 1mm or so thin, so is quite small in terms of area, but obviously quite large in terms of dimensions. Is this SMART repairable??

Unfortunately the scrape starts about 4 inches into the wing, so the damage is not contained to a single panel.

 

[Diver944]

Any damage on a large flat panel like a wing or door is not normally in the realms of the SMART repairer (especially a mobile one). However, but it all depends on the colour, the shape of the panels, whether there is a rubbing strip half way up the door and how far away from the rear door does the scratch finish. At best you are looking at the wing and door requiring spraying, at worst you might need the rear door and rear quarter as well (depending on the colour)

 

[sawood12]

Paul, i'm glad you've chipped in. Based on what you say I might be screwed then. The scrape starts on the NS wing about 4 inches from the gap with the front door then extends along the front door and finishes a few inches short of the gap with the rear door. It runs along a crease in the body panel which was raised and has kept the damage along the line of the peak of the panel crease. I fear I am looking at a complete panel respray - though maybe the shorter 4" scrape is SMART repairable? At lease it would mean only the door needs respraying. Oh,and the colour is metallic dark red/burgondy!

Oh well, between filling up my S-Max with petrol instead of diesel and this I seem to be determined to cost myself alot of un-necessary cash on the run-up to the Christmas period.

 

[Frenchy]

Scott,
S hit happens in 3.s watch your step !
Hope you get it repaired without too much cost or grief, a guy at work was following a woman in a landrover when a traffic car came up behind them with all the blues and twos blaring.
She slammed on the anchors he did not stop in time as he had one eye on the approaching police car.
He obviously has to pay for the damages through insurance the traffic car came back shortly after when he was talking to the Landrover woman.
The officer set about her verbally and tore a fair old strip off her for basically being a complete nugget.

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: sawood12

I saw an ambulance with the blues and two's going.  This is usually the signal for everyone around me to lose their marbles and all notion of common sense and start to scatter themselves randomly all over the road making an interesting obstacle course for the ambulance to weave around rather than simply staying put or shimmying over to the left a few inches and letting the ambulance go by in a straight line with no obstacles in its way.  In order to make room for the people around me to arrange themselves in a random patters - looking a bit like if you were to scatter a fistfull of hundreds and thousands onto a piece of paper ...

Scott,

I know it's not helping your problem, but that bit of description did make me smile! Nice bit of wordsmithing ... thanks!


Oli.