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Will this need a respray?

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I found my 944 this morning with some additional graffiti spray work all down the drivers side and across the bonnet. As it is (or rather, was) guards red and they kindly used black or dark grey you can guess what it looks like. Although I can hardly bear looking at it, from memory it appears that every panel across the side has been affected along with the bonnet and tailgate. So my questions are:
Will I be best off having a full respray and how much should I consider paying for it ( I have been quoted £1200 by a local garage)
Any North London bodyshop recommendations?
Are there any 'tricks of the trade' that will remove this?
Any prevention methods bearing in mind that I have to keep it on the street and the local council has kindly made my road pay-and-display (at least outside my house)

It's a D reg 2.5 Lux and the paintwork is already somewhat faded although basically sound.

thanx
 
Hi there luker

there are some evil B*****ds about. Decapitation would be too good for them.

If you can find a specialist paint supplier they should be able to sell you something to remove the mess.

I will make some enquiries about the name of the product.
 
If the original paint was waxed the spray may only be on the wax and might be removable.

Also the spray will remain soft for some days after, where as your original paint will be thoroughly cured so, again a paint thinners may remove the spray without damaging your original paint.

Once your inssurers have agreed to pay, I would have a go at cleaning the spray off. You have nothing to loose as, if it goes wrong, you will have to have the panel sprayed any way.

I'd start off with white spirit and see how that goes. If the spray is on top of a wax coating the white spirit will remove the wax and spray with it.

I that doesn't work have a go with meths.

Neither of the above will harm your original paint.

If neither of the above show fruit then you are into some more agressive cleaners. Hammerite thinners can get at a lot of things but make sure it doesn't start to attack your original paint. Provided it isn't on the car for too long it should be OK.

If none of the above demonstrate an improvement then it is the old tried an tested T Cut. Just be carefull that you don't go through the original paint.
 
Get down to a good bodyshop quickly.

Modern paints take weeks to cure properly (and thats when properly prepared and then lightly baked afterwards) so I am sure this will be able to be removed if you act fast enough. Your insurance company will probably encourage this too as there will be less of a claim for them to pay out on. A bodyshop would then polish and mop it afterwards and your paint would probably look better than it did before [:D]

The longer you wait the more it dries [:eek:]
 
Following on a decent bodyshop will be able to remove virtually all paint within 4-7 days of it being on the original paintwork, the guys at the bodyshop on the site I work recently got White Gloss that had been applied heavily to a 3 ish year old Audi TT about 3 days prior and they managed using mainly thinners to remove all the paint and the car looked near perfect.

So bodyshop would as mentioned also seem a viable option to your insurance company at this stage
 
Thanks for the advice,

Car is now with a bodyshop who said "we'll see what we can do - but you should be suprised!" Hopefully not by the cost as my £400 excess means it's hardly worth claiming and loosing my NCB unless the repairs will be substantilly more.

LukeR
 
Bon Soir

Really sorry to read about the vandalism, I drive 86 lux and like you park in the street, though I don't have to pay...yet! I've got keyed all along the nearside a year ago, not too deep so I live with it. And the coppers are such a big help, down here they offer some stupid counselling ! Its true.
Anyway can't offer practical help but you are not alone.

Regards KEITH SCZ
 
Sorry to hear about the artwork.
You are a victim of CRAP!
I would try Johns route.
 
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