Case Studies

Kia Car Body Repair Nottingham - Kia 1/4 Panel Dent & Paint Repair

These are the after pictures of the damaged Kia that we posted recently.
Please look back to see the before pics.

As a repair we estimated that we might only achieve 70%-80% pre-damage condition.
Ideally this car needed a replacement 1/4 panel but our customer didn’t want to claim on his insurance so we did our best which we think is pretty good.

The job took around 4 days start to finish.

Vauxhall Bodywork Repair Nottingham - We Repaired The Repair !!!

Vauxhall insignia into Scratchmaster to rectify best as possible an effort by a customer to paint his own cars rear bumper.

Should be a new bumper really but we thought we could get a decent result by trying a repair/paint job.

Not quite sure if the Black stripe effect was intended but clearly this needed removing before we could start to repair any underlying damage and re-paint the bumper professionally.

It took best part of a day to remove the customers own paint job and prep the bumper ready for a few new coats of primer. The primer will seal the previous poor paintwork and when sanded give a good surface for the new colour base coat to stick to.

Once the primer is dry and sanded the area is cleaned up with solvent and wate...

Renault Car Body Repair Nottingham - Renault Megane Repairs

Scraped down the side of a fence this Renault is here at Scratchmaster for Body Repair on the passenger wing and door.

What you can’t see from the pictures is that the door and the wing are catching together badly when the door is opened.
We tried to move the wing back but the initial impact had made this impossible. We also looked at adjusting the door but there was not enough adjustment available.
Eventually we had to shave a small amount of material off the wing edge (plastic wings on some Renaults) and this worked.

After that the Scratches on the wing, bumper corner and door were repaired and painted.

Approximately a three day job.

Paint Chip Repair - Stone chips on Skoda Bonnet

If you have a bonnet with stone chip damage there is no miracle fix.
There are no types of touch up sticks or brushes available from the well known internet stores that actually work.

A few years ago some of the quite well known mobile services offered stone chip repairs. From the back of a van they used tiny airbrushes powered by 25 litre compressors to colour in each stone chip individually. No lacquer applied after just the solvent based paint.
Reality is that two weeks later the paint washed out and you were left again with the original stone chip.

That process was designed to service the used car trade who had forecourt’s full of used cars that needed ‘tarting up’ to take prospective buyers eyes off any chips or blemishe...

Mercedes Car Body Repair - Bumper Damage

Location: Nottingham

Heavy Bumper Scuff on this Mercedes E Class.
Ideally a new bumper but the cost of replacement was high.
Quite a few hours re-shaping the bumper as this type of damage creates too much plastic and sends the bumper high. Several big coats of 2k primer after the repair which helps get back the styling line.
We promised the customer maybe a 80% repair but in the end it was pretty much 100% and saved £££’s.

Body Shop Dent Repair - Colours with Tinted Lacquer

Location: Scratchmaster Nottingham

Ford Puma into Scratchmaster with a Dent and Scratch to the Driver Side 1/4 Panel.

Simple Repair but in order to achieve the Correct Colour Match Several Coats of a Tinted Lacquer need to be applied.

This differs from the usual straight base colour coat that’s lacquered with a clear lacquer.

Sometimes called a Candy Colour or Tinted Base Coat or perhaps a Three Stage Colour.

More complicated and time consuming to work with.

VW Body and Dent Repair - Near-Side Body Repair

Repairs to:

Near Side Front Bumper- Near Side Wing- Near Side Door- Near Side 1/4 and Rear Wing.

After repairs Primed, Painted and Lacquered.

Baked in Oven then Polished.

Google Review one *

As per our response to the recent Google one star review by Matt Edwards here are images of the finished work to the front door that he has given a poor review for.

As we were not aware, until his review that he was unhappy, the pictures are not as detailed as we would have otherwise made them they are simply general images that we usually take before and after pics.

Matt hasn’t been in touch since he collected the car thus we had no idea there was a problem.

We always guarantee our work and materials 100% within parameters agreed with our customer and would always put right, without any hesitation or argument, any issue if one were to arise.

The crease to this door was sizeable and towards the front of the door close to the...