Posts in Paint repair

A good friend, Ben, wanted to develope his editing skills so I scratched my own car, a very rare Subaru SVX, so he could film the repair. Get the popcorn and enjoy the movie:  

Stop motion film of a Scuff Sorter repair   You seem to like them, so here is another. A sub 4 minute stop motion film of a 3 hour repair. I started by scuffing the paintwork with a lump of concrete, but that hardly seemed enough so I attacked it again with a disc cutter, […]

I see it about once a quarter, the solution our fathers passed on to us, the abrasive cream in the back of the garage. There is a place for such products, mostly a generation ago, for removing light scratches; but if it is possible to catch your finger nail in the scratch it is almost […]

Mercedes 0, Barbed Wire Fence 1 Very often my Customers do not know how the damage happened to their pride and joy, they come back to the car at the supermarket or office car park to find the damage and no note under the wiper. That was not the case here when the unfortunate driver […]

When a Customer’s fuel filler cap got torn off Scuff Sorter came to the rescue when the replacement arrived un-painted. This is how it was done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJXWHT8UlN4&feature=youtu.be

Badges and Paintwork Repair   This Ford Fiesta had it’s rear hatch and bumper damaged while parked in a supermarket car park. When the owner returned to load the car, there was, surprise surprise, no note under the wiper. The repair itself is quite straight forward, but to get the best result, the tricky part […]

Customer Testimonial It’s always nice when a Customer goes to the effort of writing a Testimonial on a big forum. I was advised to look for this one on the 911uk.com site, thank you Keith T:   996.2 came with small crease in the back bumper. No doubt from defeating the very short-range reverse sensors. […]

Bumper Scuff Demonstration on my own car   I have often thought about filming a typical Scuff Sorter job but thought you would all get very bored watching a 3 hour film of me watching paint dry. With the advent of smartphone apps I searched out a ‘stop motion’ app that would allow me to […]

Working Breakfast Networking Group It being a Thursday morning, I was up early to get to the Regency Hotel at 360 London Road, Leicester for a 6:45am start for the best networking group in the area. This mornings 10 minute presentation was by Dave Crowther, Director of Andrew Bourne and Co and Dave managed to make insurance […]

It was nice of one of my Customers to post on the Scuff Sorter Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/ScuffSorter   I don’t mind the world knowing Pete! Pete came to sort out a “wee contusion” on my current vehicle after Working Breakfast last week. It was freezing cold, blowing a gale and snowing intermittently. Parked neatly on […]