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DefTrap wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:40 pm My bike fell over and just clipped the front of my 'nice car'. (yeah - schoolboy error)

I looked at both of them and went "yeah it's not that bad". I've got some touch up paint - whether I ever do it is something else.

DefTrap wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:52 pm The 'christmas bunting' I ordered 3 weeks ago is stuck in the post somewhere. No tracking either so who knows where the merry feck it is. Why is it that UK post is totally screwed? At the moment stuff I've ordered 'free postage' on ebay from flipping china is arriving more quickly.

Yeah I know - christmas bunting. I like bunting.

DefTrap wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:52 pmWhy is it that UK post is totally screwed?

cheb wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:02 pm Poke some tinfoil into the hole.

Supermofo wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:34 pm

Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:52 pm

Supermofo wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:29 pmStuff

Few years ago a mate had a similar problem. The phone call to chips Away resulted in it being sorted out to a very high standard, and groveling apologies.

So I call Chips Away again and still waiting for a reply. I text matey and say don't come today as I've lost faith and I want to see what chips away say.

Matey turns up anyway and says let me have a go at polishing it. I say no. He says let me try and then see.

So against my better judgement off he goes. 1.5 hours later he's done. And its still not right. Its much better but as this goes on I'm getting more into looking.

So there's still a slight line at the bottom of the panel where there's a join in the paint. In places the finish is still mottled/pitted along the top of the wing, top of wheel arch and bottom of the panel. A glance and you'd probably not notice but once seen is hard to unsee. Here's a small example

20201217_115952 by Graham Vincent, on Flickr

Then I'm looking at the bottom of the A pillar and see this chip out of the paint. Presumably where he re-finished it and whilst polishing its come away. Might be hard to see in pics but given this is a 3rd attempt I'm not happy with it.

20201217_112606 by Graham Vincent, on Flickr

20201217_121325 by Graham Vincent, on Flickr

Then at the front of the wing is a paint run.

So he's said another rep will contact me. At this point I want to talk to chips away first. I had a small dent (which you can still tell was there but not terrible) now I think I need the wing redoing. Not sure if I'm expecting too much? But wasn't expecting to so obviously tell its been done

Trinity765 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:58 pm

DefTrap wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:52 pm The 'christmas bunting' I ordered 3 weeks ago is stuck in the post somewhere. No tracking either so who knows where the merry feck it is. Why is it that UK post is totally screwed? At the moment stuff I've ordered 'free postage' on ebay from flipping china is arriving more quickly.

Yeah I know - christmas bunting. I like bunting.

Say it one more time for me. I like it too.

slowsider wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 4:20 pm

Trinity765 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:58 pm

DefTrap wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:52 pm The 'christmas bunting' I ordered 3 weeks ago is stuck in the post somewhere. No tracking either so who knows where the merry feck it is. Why is it that UK post is totally screwed? At the moment stuff I've ordered 'free postage' on ebay from flipping china is arriving more quickly.

Yeah I know - christmas bunting. I like bunting.

Say it one more time for me. I like it too.

Is that some dodgy slang term in your neck of the woods??

Supermofo wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:34 pm
Long post with pictures

weeksy wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 4:10 pm
That's a god awful job there ! I'd be very very unhappy.

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:08 pm

Supermofo wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:34 pm
Long post with pictures

That needs spraying, no amount of polish is going to get that back, it will just make it worse.

Supermofo wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:14 pm

weeksy wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 4:10 pm
That's a god awful job there ! I'd be very very unhappy.

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:08 pm

Supermofo wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:34 pm
Long post with pictures

That needs spraying, no amount of polish is going to get that back, it will just make it worse.

Indeed. And this is after the 3rd go.

I've now had an email from Chips Away so replied with pics and we'll see. At this point I want a re-sprayed front wing.

weeksy wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:15 pm I'd be taking it to a proper body shop and billing chips away.

Trinity765 wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:01 pm
Not that I was aware of but since you asked, I looked it up in the Urban Dictionary.

Bunting
Obsessive. Stuck in the loop. To become obsessed in a pointless, addictive, creative task to the detriment of the everything else in your life.
He's gone completely bunting looking for his bunting.

Horse wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 3:02 pm

DefTrap wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:52 pmWhy is it that UK post is totally screwed?

Post to my mate in France is typically well over a week, often two, for a letter and several weeks for parcel. Even a tracked parcel just got lost into the void.

Noggin wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 6:27 pm

I was sent a small parcel over two weeks ago, to arrive 10 days ago - still not here

Other stuff seems to arrive ok. Maybe they’ve lost that one