mobyone
Member Since: 23 Dec 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Just had my drivers door "keyed"  at Chadstone car park on the weekend... Can't understand what motivates the grey matter between the ears of feable minded dimwits to vandalise someone elses' property by running a key along the length of a door??
Regradless, job's done and now I have to decide whether to touch-up and leave it or respray the door and both adjacent panels. Has anyone used the mobile paint touch-up people? What's the point.... it all comes out in the wash anyway!
85 Range Rover
01 Disco Series II
05 D3 V6SE, Bonatti Grey, 19"alloys
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TDMP
Member Since: 16 Jul 2006
Location: South Gippsland
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scumbags
If its down to metal, I'd get it resprayed ASAP, before the cancer sets in. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
(Epicurus BC 341-270)
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| 14th Jan 2008 6:18 am |
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norto
Member Since: 10 Apr 2006
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Tristan
Did you get a PM from me Pete
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| 14th Jan 2008 7:09 am |
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BLFarrar
Member Since: 02 Aug 2006
Location: Deepest, Dankest, Darkest, Dingiest......Le Halifax, West Yorkshire...with strong links to Ireland
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mobyone wrote: Has anyone used the mobile paint touch-up people?
Yes - here in the UK a couple of times & the results are very impressive - there are franchised guys that go to main dealers & sort thier new delivery cars + others that owners take in. The methods they use leave no trace & cost far less than a panel respray - these always look different especialy if its metallic / pearlescant paint
I would be very surprised if there isnt a crew doing this as a businees in Oz.....I would only use touch up pan as a tempory measure....hope this helps
Look in Yellow pages, net & ask around the dealers. BREXIT - done properly.
Right now ...We need Government - not Politics
Save the Dipstick Flagbearer-keep it simple, less likely to fail campaign-agenda items:Starting Handles, Acetylene Lamps.
Founder: Dipsticks-R-Us Inc
D3 HSE-perfectly formed, passenger friendly...has real DIPSTICK
Jag XK-but sadly no DIPSTICK...HUGE design fault
FL2 has DIPSTICK..."real comfort in rear seats"
VW Golf wondermobile (?)..has real DIPSTICK
Morris Minor..original DIPSTICK technology..and a real KEY.
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| 14th Jan 2008 6:25 pm |
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bashir
Member Since: 04 Jan 2005
Location: Huon Valley, Tasmania
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i had some end of year schoolies egg my rear drivers door and the egg shells had scratch the paint.
so i bought the touch up paint kit from LR service and did the fix myself. 2009 Discovery 4 3.0 TDV6 HSE
1985 LR 110 County 3.5 V8
(what options?!)
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| 15th Jan 2008 3:38 am |
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Ken
Member Since: 20 Feb 2006
Location: Here
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WTF were they EMU eggs 
Said it many times SMART repairs have NO longevity if your selling great if your keeping get it Polished out to the best effect and live with it or a professional repair (Full panel with blends)
SMART repairs will bloom over time
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| 15th Jan 2008 8:17 am |
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BLFarrar
Member Since: 02 Aug 2006
Location: Deepest, Dankest, Darkest, Dingiest......Le Halifax, West Yorkshire...with strong links to Ireland
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Ken wrote:Said it many times SMART repairs have NO longevity if your selling great if your keeping get it Polished out to the best effect and live with it or a professional repair (Full panel with blends)
SMART repairs will bloom over time
I got the details of the local paint touch up man in West Yorks from an LR dealer - they (& many other dealers) use this service on both new (before delivery) & used vehicles. The reason was stated to be "much less cost of repair" as various parts of the airbag/s system don't need to be disarmed for the bake oven & the end quality of repair (which I witnessed as being "invisible"
Longevity - well I suppose its a wait & see exercise with the repairs you know about - the likelihood is that some could have been done before delivery - you may never know.
The repairs I have had done looked A-OK after 18 months BREXIT - done properly.
Right now ...We need Government - not Politics
Save the Dipstick Flagbearer-keep it simple, less likely to fail campaign-agenda items:Starting Handles, Acetylene Lamps.
Founder: Dipsticks-R-Us Inc
D3 HSE-perfectly formed, passenger friendly...has real DIPSTICK
Jag XK-but sadly no DIPSTICK...HUGE design fault
FL2 has DIPSTICK..."real comfort in rear seats"
VW Golf wondermobile (?)..has real DIPSTICK
Morris Minor..original DIPSTICK technology..and a real KEY.
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| 15th Jan 2008 11:04 pm |
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Neil Pettersen
Member Since: 23 Nov 2007
Location: Cutting the grass
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bashir wrote:
...........so i bought the touch up paint kit from LR service and did the fix myself.
Annoyingly,LRA don't bring in paint kits or spray cans anymore 
I got a cousin in Widnes Cheshire to post me an Atacama sand kit from Guy Salmon Knutsford.
LRA suck
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| 16th Jan 2008 1:57 am |
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bashir
Member Since: 04 Jan 2005
Location: Huon Valley, Tasmania
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really ??? i bought mine middle of last year ....
that's very annoying ... 2009 Discovery 4 3.0 TDV6 HSE
1985 LR 110 County 3.5 V8
(what options?!)
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| 16th Jan 2008 9:38 pm |
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mobyone
Member Since: 23 Dec 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Thanks for the tips guys,
Fortunately my panel repair from last year has developed some defects in the paint and after seeing the LR approved panel beater this afternoon he has agreed to respray the affected panel for nothing and also repair the scratch for a small fee.
Regardless, i think I would have gone the whole hog and had the door re-sprayed...
Cheers and here's to running over a vandal.. 
 What's the point.... it all comes out in the wash anyway!
85 Range Rover
01 Disco Series II
05 D3 V6SE, Bonatti Grey, 19"alloys
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| 17th Jan 2008 4:09 am |
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White Disco
Member Since: 15 Jan 2007
Location: Gondwana. It's raining. We'll All be roon'd.
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mobyone wrote:Thanks for the tips guys,
Cheers and here's to running over a vandal..
HEAR HEAR.  .
I got supermarketed on Wednesday. Door to my drivers side rear door. No car next to me when we got back to the car.
 these little 's .
I would love to them up the with a broken bottle, rough end first. Then insert a glass rod up the eye of the . and then drop a brick on the . Then a soldreing iron would be heated to it's highest temp and . .
Then I might be a little less grumpy. Did you think I would leave you crying,
When there's room in my D3 for 7,
Climb in here Joe we'll soon be flying,
I can go just as fast with 7.
2005 TDV6 S with Terrain Response (& all that entails), Tasmods (gorn). 2008 TDV6 HSE (gone). A Dark Side umbrella (here) & car (here).
Volkswagen Golf (SWMBO's)
Datsun Insult (SWTSMBOBIO22SHOMSAH)
Datsun Insult (SWTSMBOBIO19SHOMSAH)
4 BMW's (Stents, not the silly cars)
Formerly RED DISCO
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| 20th Jan 2008 2:35 am |
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SKP
Member Since: 07 Feb 2007
Location: Melbourne
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HEAR HEAR. .
I got supermarketed on Wednesday. Door to my drivers side rear door. No car next to me when we got back to the car.
these little 's .
I would love to them up the with a broken bottle, rough end first. Then insert a glass rod up the eye of the . and then drop a brick on the . Then a soldreing iron would be heated to it's highest temp and . .
Then I might be a little less grumpy.[/quote]
Thats a bit harsh, RD 
Why not just strap them UNDERNEATH your D3 and take them for a drive,
on a rocky fire trail 
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| 20th Jan 2008 2:46 am |
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White Disco
Member Since: 15 Jan 2007
Location: Gondwana. It's raining. We'll All be roon'd.
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Ah didn't think of that one .
Have to remember that for next time.  Did you think I would leave you crying,
When there's room in my D3 for 7,
Climb in here Joe we'll soon be flying,
I can go just as fast with 7.
2005 TDV6 S with Terrain Response (& all that entails), Tasmods (gorn). 2008 TDV6 HSE (gone). A Dark Side umbrella (here) & car (here).
Volkswagen Golf (SWMBO's)
Datsun Insult (SWTSMBOBIO22SHOMSAH)
Datsun Insult (SWTSMBOBIO19SHOMSAH)
4 BMW's (Stents, not the silly cars)
Formerly RED DISCO
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| 20th Jan 2008 2:57 am |
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Ken
Member Since: 20 Feb 2006
Location: Here
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BLFarrar wrote:[
The repairs I have had done looked A-OK after 18 months
Oh the lord has spoken again  wtf do you know I do this for a living and your qualification is talking
There is a reason the repair is cheaper is not done to the same standards simple
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| 20th Jan 2008 8:48 am |
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pbhawkin
Member Since: 14 Dec 2006
Location: Mudgee
Posts: 377
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Ken,
Please refrain from dropping the Aussie thread to the same standard as the UK ones by using the ever increasing personal attack that some of the more vocal and long standing identities seem to do.
It is becoming increasingly off putting to see this in the other threads.
IF your comments were in jest then I apologise in advance for taking them the wrong way . regards
Peter
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Oct 2013 SDV6 3.0 HSE.
2007 TDV6 SE E-diff, adaptive lights sold 1/2014
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