Just had my rusty wings done by ridgeway in Newbury which they have royally stuffed up. Wrong colour, scratched both headlights, gaps are huge it was just a really poor job :(
Ridgeway have a pretty good reputation of screwing things up
HAHAHAHAHA
i missed that.
Rigdeway are terrible. bunch of pricks.
They did the front bumper, wings and bonnet on my GTI
Wings were done "under warranty" although I had to pay £450 for the bonnet and bumper to be sprayed first or they wouldn't replace the wings.
The overall paint itself wasn't too bad although I did notice
Paint run on bottom of one arch
sanding marks all over the bonnet which were originally masked with filling oils only when I did IPA wipedown did they appear.
Poor fitting of wings (very poorly aligned).
overspray over the whole car and wheels.
I went back and reasonably complained (nicely) and asked them to put it right.
I was told by Sean/Shaun whatever the short barstewardss name was that I was being
"arrogant"
"too picky"
"it's not a rolls royce it's not going to be perfect"
"complaining for the sake of it"
"was not welcome to use their courtesy car"
"my whole car had been painted" (It hadn't, all paint was FACTORY i had checked with paint depth gauges)
Joking (in line with Edition 38 forum banter) I said to my friend we should "PTLB" (poop through the letter box) which they found because they looked me up online, they phoned me at 8am with one of their managers demanding I attend a meeting discussing my posts online.
I refused and told them I was only sharing my views and would not be changing anything.
in the end i wetsanding the bonnet and realigned the wings myself on my driveway.
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Later on one of my best mates partners ended up working there as a receptionist and they found out we knew each other, they told her that I was lying about the experience, trespassed and took lots of photos to make Ridgeway look bad and was marked on their systems as a difficult customer (one to avoid) or something like that.
he actual photo they were referring to when me and 2 friends went along to take some photos just after I put air on the car..we parked nose to tail infront of their building cos it has a big VW logo on it... in public property on a publicly accessible business park.
Some of the pictures have been deleted because imageshack ruined everyones lifes.
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