know a good body shop?
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March 18, 2003 03:47 pm UTC
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Eric Chen
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need some advice on a good body shop in the toronto area.
someone decided to do a st patricks green beer 6 point u-turn into the side of my car. :<
thanks.
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Re: know a good body shop?
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March 18, 2003 06:08 pm UTC
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brought it into valenca autobody. they work on showcars and gave me a decent price.
he's done some great work on the usual show car rice machines as well as porsches, bimmers, audi's etc.
i'll take some pictures of the before and after.
heh, my first question to him was, how much do you like bondo, reply: we don't use cheese in this shop good day.
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Re: know a good body shop?
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March 18, 2003 11:47 pm UTC
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Ronnie Fung
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Originally posted by Kevin McDonald: If he doesnt use Body filler what does he use then, Lead? I would assume...metal.
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Re: know a good body shop?
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March 19, 2003 11:44 pm UTC
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Originally posted by Kevin McDonald: If they are just using metal its not cheap than. Ive never seen a body shop not use some sort of filler.I know cause thats what I do. Factory cars come with body filler so its not that bad a thing. He didn't ask for cheap. He asked for good. Why would a factory car use body filler? Where does a factory car use filler? Valenca Auto Body builds show cars and does insurance work for Ferraris and the like. Filler is evil. When doing straight factory work, that does not require custom work or mods, filler shouldn't be needed, right? I'm asking, not telling BTW. *edited to add last line*
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Re: know a good body shop?
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March 20, 2003 07:45 am UTC
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Shamir Joshi
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to touch on what kenin was saying, theres a common misconception that body filler is bad, this is mainly because most hack bodyshops use body filler to fill in huge rust spots, dents, and as a cheap substitute to changing a panel, some rip off body guys call bondo "quarter panel in a can"... Bondo wasnt meant to be used any thicker then 1/4 inch to fill in minor defects, most real body shops put on less then that, then sand off half of it...
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Re: know a good body shop?
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March 24, 2003 05:11 pm UTC
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Eric Chen
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sorry, when he said 'we don't use cheese' he meant they don't fill entire dents and holes with bondo. all shops say that, but a lot of them don't mean it (bastards). Luis at Valenca has a good reputation and offered to let me watch him working. There was almost no bondo used on my big ass dent.
bondo isn't allowed within 1000 ft of show cars, ferraris, etc. they get lead filler.
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Re: know a good body shop?
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April 30, 2003 09:23 pm UTC
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They get the meatl as straight as possible by hand (hammer) and then use build primer to build up the surface and then they sand that down smooth. Build primer is expensive but more stable than filler.
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