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How to ruin a nice 350z
02GF74 - 7/10/08 at 12:38 PM



[Edited on 7/10/08 by 02GF74]


UncleFista - 7/10/08 at 12:44 PM

I saw that last night, criminal.
It might be funny if it was an old shed of a car, but I quite like the 350.

I've *never* seen anything quite so shonky....

[Edited on 7/10/08 by UncleFista]


carpmart - 7/10/08 at 12:45 PM

God that is horrendous!

My 14 year old son could have easily done a better job!


nick205 - 7/10/08 at 12:48 PM

Jesus

How could anyone let themselves turn out that standard of work. It looks like the whole job was done with bits from Screwfix including woodscrews to attach the body kit

Has to be said though, dicking about with bolt on bodykits never IMHO does anything for the look and finish of a production car. Would have been better left alone in the first place


02GF74 - 7/10/08 at 12:56 PM

yeah, but the clue may have been in the price quoted $ 250 (approx $ 6.78) for fitting and painting.... should have set the alarm bells ringing surely?


nib1980 - 7/10/08 at 04:08 PM

well I can garuntee thats his corrosion warranty straight out the window!


meany - 7/10/08 at 04:54 PM

anyone else read every post

ive registered and linked to here.


Mark G - 7/10/08 at 05:35 PM

I'd cry if that happened to my car!!!


blakep82 - 7/10/08 at 06:35 PM

for some reason, my interweb only opens half the pictures


Hadders - 7/10/08 at 06:48 PM

Sadly it's nothing new. We see this all the time. Latest example was an RX7 which we had to respray the (aftermarket bodykit) sills on as they had used too much hardener in the filler and the metallic blue paint was a blotchy green and yellow mess! You should have seen the lacquer runs and drips under the mirrors too. So big they looked like outside air temp sensors!


indykid - 7/10/08 at 06:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
for some reason, my interweb only opens half the pictures


it's for your own protection

tom


blakep82 - 7/10/08 at 06:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by indykid
quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
for some reason, my interweb only opens half the pictures


it's for your own protection

tom


hmm, sounds fair


matt.c - 7/10/08 at 08:18 PM

OMFG!!

And people wonder why Pro bodyshops charge so much money to a job properly!!


blakep82 - 7/10/08 at 08:40 PM

has the ARB been disconnected here or something?!


MikeR - 7/10/08 at 11:03 PM

that may have been taken when they where trying to raise up the height. He lowered it so it had around 1" ground clearance.


NS Dev - 10/10/08 at 02:40 PM

oh my goodness me................


DarrenW - 10/10/08 at 02:52 PM

i feel for the owner. No matter how low the initial quote is you dont expect it to turn out like that.
I wonder what posessed them to use wood screws and butcher such a car?

Ive often whinced when ive seem some of the home modded corsa's etc dne by the younguns that maybe dont know better, but even most of them are better than that so called pro bodyshop. No time to read the posts but i hope he gets sorted out.


Hellfire - 10/10/08 at 05:10 PM

Words just fail me. I just cannot get my head around that. I mean............ fancy using countersunk headed screws instead of round ones......

Phil


Fred W B - 10/10/08 at 09:29 PM

Help me here....

These body kits, skirts etc the wide boys add to their cars, how are they actually meant to be attached?

Rivets?
Double sided tape?
Bonded on with sikaflex or similar?

Cheers

Fred W B


jabbahutt - 14/10/08 at 07:03 AM

if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't of believed that a company would do something that shocking to a car.