[vishnu-man]

Happened to explore this workshop in my neighborhood on a weekend when we were hunting for an apt place for my friend's Swift's rear-right bumper's and front-left bumper's paint job.

We were not sure about how this would pull off in terms of quality, time and pricing.
Akram, the owner gave us a quote and detached the fuel-lid from the car, which would help him pick the right shade paint, though it is Granite Grey.
Sunday morning my friend reached there at sharp 10 am.
Akram is equally punctual about timings. I appreciate this!

Here's the damage on the rear bumper:


And here the the work-in-progress pics:

Phase 1: Scrape out the bad protrudes


Phase 2: Lamby it up


Phase 3: Primer it nice and easy


Phase 4: Paint


Phase 5: Lacquer


The Front Bumper:


The Workshop:


The Map:


Google Map Coordinates:
https://goo.gl/maps/si4aJDdpdY22

Pricing:
Reasonable

Execution Time: ~3 hours

Hope this helps!

[audioholic]

Good matching of the paint!

A few clarifications:

1. Did he paint the whole bumper or just a part of it?
2. Was the clear coat(lacquer) applied to only the painted part or was it applied even to the rear quarter panel?
3. How much was the cost for these two jobs?

One flaw here is that he seems to have used excess filler which was not necessary. Next time there is a scrape in the same area, the filler will come off as a single piece and will look annoying. Have seen this happen in my neighbours car. The entire section of filler just fell down when the repainted area was scraped by a biker.

[Vid6639]

From the photos, isn't there a lot of orange peel on the newly painted section?

[vishnu-man]

Originally Posted by audioholic

Good matching of the paint!

A few clarifications:

1. Did he paint the whole bumper or just a part of it?

He painted the quarter bumper to contain the damage.

Originally Posted by audioholic

2. Was the clear coat(lacquer) applied to only the painted part or was it applied even to the rear quarter panel?

Yep, the lacquer was applied to the rear quarter panel.

Originally Posted by audioholic

3. How much was the cost for these two jobs?

Let's say an approx and very well within 2.5K

Originally Posted by audioholic

One flaw here is that he seems to have used excess filler which was not necessary. Next time there is a scrape in the same area, the filler will come off as a single piece and will look annoying. Have seen this happen in my neighbours car. The entire section of filler just fell down when the repainted area was scraped by a biker.

Oops, that's bad.
Will pass your valuable inputs to him on the next car we are planning in my gang - A Punto (Pearl White).
And hey, thanks for the inputs

Originally Posted by Vid6639

From the photos, isn't there a lot of orange peel on the newly painted section?

It's the angle and the camera quality may be.
The front bumper pic was taken with the car parked very close to a white wall, and ergo, the roughness we see here is the reflection of the wall.
Otherwise the finish is smooth.
Let me go back and get us some more daytime pics here.
Thanks for observing