Miata Mailing List: January 1997, Message #109
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Subject: Re: Paint Advice Needed

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I too had a similar experience with the rock (gravel?) guard material

that was redone on my lower front fender.  The stuff the shop used is a

little bit smoother than the Mazda OEM.  After pressuring them they said

they used Ford stuff.  I didn't force the issue for having it redone

with OEM material because their job had a lot of other problems (mostly

ended up fixed) and my experience is that the more a paint shop does the

worse the results.  



The Ford stuff they used is white and they told me the Mazda is black,

so due to the base color somewhat bleeding through the color shade of

the result didn't match too well -- they repainted to better match. 

Mazda parts should have the OEM stuff.  



I noticed it helped quite a bit to write out the defects and give it to

the shop  and then mail a copy to the insurance company.  Allstate took

a real strong interest in the problems I had and when they visted the

shop the shop really got interested in doing the job right.

Good luck.   





>>Greg Bassett  Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:39:33 wrote: 

Tues. evening I went to pick up the car.  Suprise, it wasn't even

close...



The biggest problem was the texture material that they attempted to use

on

the bottom of the replaced fender in no way, shape or form resembled the

original.  The crap they put on the car looked like handfuls of sand,

gravel and sticks thrown up against some wet glue, then painted over.  I

explained that THAT was TOTALLY unacceptable, that they should be able

to

find the original stuff, or something a LOT closer to it.  



So, the $64K question is:  does the OEM texture material exist, and

where

can it be found?



Greg<<





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