as most of you have seen and no doubt remember, my S was in for bodywork

upon further investigation and driving the paint is starting to peal off the rear bumper.
so it's going back in for that.

however, it's also become apparent that the wing and boot lid dont match up properly. the wing has been blended in ok to the front part of the wing, but theres a noticable difference to the boot lid.
i've just rang insurance and they are saying that the boot lid wouldnt of been touched because it was not damaged in the accident which to an extent is fair enough, i wouldnt expect them to.

just wondering who's right, my suspicions that it should of been an invisable blend, or the insurance who no doubt are trying to get off with as little payout as possible.

 

you should expect restoration to pre accident condition. That includes matching the paint I would expect.

 

The insurance company is right in that the bootlid shouldn't have needed tp be sprayed if it wasn't damaged. That is assuming that the painter got the colour match spot on, which it sounds like they didn't.

Therefore you would be well within your rights to ask them to either get the colour match to be identical, or to blend in the bootlid so that you can't see that it has been repaired.

 

Paint, you sure its not just laquer?

If they dont do a good job the laquer tends to come off, i have seen this before.

 

nope, deffinately paint pealing.

it's like a pocket of water or something behind the paint. wasnt there when i got it. it's obviously leaked in at the edge (where the side bumper meets the rear wing) and gone behind the paint.
bodyshop reakons a bad pre-primered bumper from honda.

ah well, they've agreed to get it back in and will have a look at the paint mismatch.
they've also found my spare wheel booked in for next monday

 

Sometimes one buys a bad batch of paint, sometimes it's poor prep.

Day in the life of a sprayer, I'm afraid.

 

My car has been in recently for a similar sounding job.
In my case the boot lid and bumper were damaged but they quoted for blending in with both rear wings - so they did touch areas which were not originally damaged

Blending was faultless, I can't see the join at all and the paintwork looks like original.

Gone back in today for work on a couple of scratches they added

 

For what its worth, I have found that with the phasing out of cellulose paint and the use of acrylic this has resulted in poor paint matches, especially on older cars painted with cellulose, which now have to be touched in with acrylic. Certainly on my previous CRX the paint shop guys had to have a couple of goes before the match was right, even using the correct codes, otherwise the paint appeared much lighter than the cellulose coat.

 

You're slighly out on your paint types. Two pack is being phased out and being replaced my water based paint.

The government has actually done it properly this time by preventing the manufacturers from making water based paint, and they did this at the start of last year. So for the last year or so bodyshops have gradually been converting to the new paint systems as the old stock was used up.

There won't be many boyshops left on normal solvent based two pack paint by now though.

 

Don't accept it back until you are happy with it.

Here is my mismatch in paint colour before the insurance company took it away for good.

The one on the right is Moonrock.