Case Studies
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Honda Jazz Car Body and Bumper Repair - Customer in Linby Nottingham
Honda Jazz brought into the Scratchmaster workshop for a repair to the tailgate and rear bumper.
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The bumper was removed and repaired structurally at the rear then more cosmetically at the front.
In the meantime Jason set about removing the paint from the damaged area in the tailgate.
To keep the amount of body filler to a minimum he used our dent puller to pull the panel back into a good shape as near as possible to its original pre damaged condition.
The bumper was painted and lacquered off the car.
You can see the tailgate repaired and in primer before we went onto finish by painting and finishing with high quality Ultra High Solid lacquer.
The rear bumper was fitted back to the car and everything polished.
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VW Golf Car Body Repair - Customer In Nuthall
A mini collision with another vehicle suffered by this VW Golf.
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An after market replacement bonnet supplied by the customer.
We painted the underside of the new bonnet first then a day later we prep’d and painted the top.
We lacquered the bonnet using a very high quality UHS (ultra high solid) lacquer as this looks really good especially on dark colours and black.
We also repaired and painted the front bumper.
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Car Body Repair BMW 320d - A customer in Hucknall
Further to the previous pictures we have now finished the body repair to this BMW 320d.
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Front end partly removed revealing a few more broken parts. The headlamp brackets were broken meaning repair to the headlight needed. Fairly common to have these brackets broken and quite a fiddly repair but if they an be repaired it saves lots of money.
The splits in the front bumper were repaired and painted.
In Summary:
Wing removed and replaced with new
Front Bumper Scuff and split repaired
Headlight Repaired
New Bumper kidney Grille
New Brackets
Bumper, wing and door painted.
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Car Body Repair BMW 320d - A customer in Hucknall
Bought in this BMW 320d with light collision damage 31-01-26.
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We will remove the front end panels, take a look at the damage, and put on some more pics when we get more into the repair. -
VW Car Body Repair - Nuthall
VW Golf into Scratchmaster from a customer nearby in Nuthall.
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Wing removed it’s too far gone to be economically repairable.
New wing primed, painted on inner edges and fitted to car.
Wing painted on the car and the door and bumper used as blend panels for colour matching purposes.
About 3 days here at Scratchmaster. -
Mitsubishi L200 Car Body Repair - Hucknall Customer
Mitsubishi L200 into Scratchmaster for Bodywork on the near side rear panel.
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Very big Dent and ideally needed a replacement panel but considering cost our customer opted for a repair.
We could only offer a repair to return the panel to approximately 70%-80% of its original form. The dent was around 500mm around with various other smaller dents around.
The panel is very stretched from the impact and had lost its integrity.
The colour black also highlights the very smallest of imperfections.
We used a couple of different techniques to pull out the steel to as near original shape as possible before finishing off with Car Body filler.
Quite a few hours of laborious rubbing down but eventually we got a shape back in the panel wh... -
Ford Kuga Bodyshop Repair - Replacing Kuga Door & Side Repair
Ford Kuga into Scratchmaster for repairs to the passenger side and new door.
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The colour is Race Red which is quite a technical colour to match into the existing car body colour.
With most manufacturers colour schemes this will be either a three stage colour or possibly a colour finished off with tinted lacquer.
At Scratchmaster we use both systems.
These types of colours are most often these candy red colours but can also be white or sometimes blues.
These colours are considerably more expensive to use when re-finishing a vehicle.
With the tinted lacquer system the car has to be painted then the base colour coat gradually tinted with potentially many coats of the tinted clear.
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Jaecoo Car Body Repair - Split Bumper on Jaecoo
Location: Nottingham
The front bumper on this Jaecoo was badly split on the front driver side.
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A replacement bumper is very expensive and difficult to get hold of.
We cleaned up the crack and drilled holes either end of the crack to prevent it from travelling further.
Heated staples were melted into the crack to stitch it up.
The ends of the staples are then cut off and ground away.
The repair is finished off using plastic car body filler and primed ready for paint.
The car is driven into the spray booth and masked using polythene sheeting. Only the repair area is left uncovered.
The colour is applied to the corner followed by several coats of high quality ultra high solid lacquer.
Baked and polished to a mirror finish and saving well over £... -
Ford Fiesta Car Body Repair - Ford Car Dent Repair at Scratchmaster
Body Repair to this Ford Fiesta on the 1/4 panel and fading the colour into the door for colour matching purposes.
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When painting silver and other similar light metallic paints larger areas need to be painted to ensure good colour matching of the repaired area into the existing paint.
We pulled the panel as close as we could to it’s original shape then finished off with a premium Car Body Filler.
The shape of the panel was restored before we applied two or three coats of Roberlo primer.
Even though we knew what the colour was we still took an image of the paint using our colour spectro camera.
The match was very good so we mixed the colour and away painting we went.
The job took around 3 days beginning to end. -
Fiat 500 Car Bodyshop Repair - Car Dent Repair
Dent Repair to Wing and Bumper Scuff.
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Repair to this wing rather than replacement and small Bumper Scuff Repair.
Took 3 days. We used our dent alignment equipment to straighten out the wing before using smallest amount of Car Body filler to finish off the shape.
Primed, painted and lacquered using Roberlo products then painted in the Scratchmaster Paint booth before being polished. -
Hyundai Car Body Repair Nottingham - Dent Repair to Doors
Dent and Repair to this Hyundai door with the paint blended into the rear door for colour matching purposes.
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The before damage pictures were taken inside of the Scratchmaster Body Repair workshop but the after repair images were taken outside in better lighting conditions.
We removed the dents and creases before finishing off the repair with minimal amounts of car body filler.
The repair area was primed with Roberlo premium car body primer before going into the Scratchmaster spray booth.
We used a new colour spectro camera to take images of the car’s paint colour and mixed the paint.
The car was painted and lacquered with two coats of Roberlo Ultra High Solid top quality lacquer then baked and polished. -
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.
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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.
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Volvo Car Body Repair - Dent Repair
Volvo 1/4 panel and door been scraped along a window sill.
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Sharp dent on this Volvo 1/4 panel with a crease running pretty much full length.
Small dent repair to the door.
Pin pulled into near original shape then finished off with thin layer of glaze.
Primed pretty heavily then sanded with 180 and 360 grit abrasive. Finished off with 600 grit.
Painted, lacquered and baked before machine polished. -
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.
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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... -
Fiat Panda Car Body Repair Nottingham - Car Bodyshop Repair In Nottingham
Fiat Panda with front end damage.
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Front bumper not repairable so removed and replaced. Same with wing.
All painted and fitted here at Scratchmaster.
Headlamp also replaced.
Paint not blended into adjacent panels (as would be usual) but this was at the request of the customer.
Thankfully colour match was very good. -
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.
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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.
