KEYED...such bad luck!!!

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:26 pm

vvn_ng wrote:Does anyone have any suggestions where I could go to try and get the car detailed. See if it can be polished out before I look at re-painting the whole car.

Need your location before we can give you any suggestions on where to go :mrgreen:

Depending on how serious the keying, i.e. pressure applied & sharpness of object used, detailing is probably going to be of limited use. Repainting is about $300 per panel.

Steampunk · Postby **Steampunk** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:28 pm

No idea where you are, but make friends with people who race MX-5's. Offer them a part exchange with $$ their way. I would assume racers would happily swap a minor-damaged panel (assuming they will paint it anyway) with good panel and pay them the difference in $$.

Sorry to be a bearer of bad tidings, but the rear quarter panel cannot be unbolted.

Is the damage all over the place? Consider placing racing stripes to cover it?

You can look into getting some sort of vynil wrapping.

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:32 pm

Sorry to hear this happen to you.

As someone who's experience the same thing a few years ago, I can symphatise.

That is why I am very careful where I leave my car, to the point it's almost anally retentive.

Locutus · Postby **Locutus** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:30 pm

if you want the job done properly, check out hume smash. they are a forum sponsor (link in the site footer) and mick at hume is a fellow mx5 enthusiast.

very highly regarded on this forum and when i've needed his services in the past, he has never failed to disappoint.

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:01 am

Locutus wrote:....very highly regarded on this forum and when i've needed his services in the past, he has never failed to disappoint.

Locutus · Postby **Locutus** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:25 am

JBT wrote:
Locutus wrote:....very highly regarded on this forum and when i've needed his services in the past, he has never failed to disappoint.

i was referring to mick @ hume.
search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=topics&keywords=hume+smash

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:38 am

another vote for Mick/Dennis at Hume Smash.
very professional, and pointed me in the right direction to use a replacement vehicle whilst car was getting fixed. :mrgreen:

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:53 am

Locutus wrote:i was referring to mick @ hume.
search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=topics&keywords=hume+smash

I guessed that. I was referring to your stated disappointment in him - which I expect you are not.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:23 pm

Locutus wrote:iwhen i've needed his services in the past, he has never failed to disappoint.

I think is what JBT was referring to. Presumably you meant, he has never disappointed you/never failed to please.

Locutus · Postby **Locutus** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:44 pm

Benny · Postby **Benny** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:37 pm

Some people think it's funny to do that to a car.
I had it done to my Mercedes some years ago, and just after I had a new bumper put on the back after some twit ran up the back of me.
It was so shiny and new looking, when I parked it in Marrickville, and some drongo keyed it over 3 panels!

On my 21st birthday, my father had just gotten a new car a couple of weeks before (a special ordered Valiant wagon with the 360cu in V8, power windows etc., and yes, it WAS that long ago) and as a favour to me, my parents went out for the night and left me with my 21st party.
My parents went to their favourite club in Bondi, and when they came out, some bastards had thrown big rocks at it and dented and scratched every single panel, and scratched every piece of glass.
My father was gutted!

Don't feel too bad about the keying, as often a good panel beater can just touch up the scratches, and if done well, you'd hardly notice them.
That's what I had done to my Mercedes, and you'd be hard pressed to see where the scratches were.