Sorivity Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Right okay then! time to write this complete mission of a post... I'd been wanting a body kit for some time for the car.. basically since before i even bought it and was toying with the idea of getting one, it was always going to happen! so i had the funds to do it and didnt really have much else planned for the time being so i thought screw it why not! So i dropped Leon over at EPRACING a message to see if we could cut a deal with getting the car in and out as fast as possible, with them painting and fitting the kit for me, and did a fabulous deal for me including the new indicators i'd need. took the car down on Friday after work to Neil at DHD (Leon had organised for him to do all the paintwork and fitting) and was going to be picking the car up on Monday evening. Neil said to give him a call Sunday evening to see how things were going as 3 days to prep paint and fit is a tough one.. so i gave him a call Sunday evening and got no answer as he was busy. about 1 hour alter he called me with bad news. I'm sure any self respecting S chassis owner should be able to guess what has happened. the moment he took the touring side skirts off to fit the new skirts he has seen what any S chassis owner fears, yes, rust.It didn't look too bad so the gave me a quote for the rust that i was happy with and me and dad were on our way home (a 45 min journey from Wigston to Gaddesby! again!)He said the car would probably be ready Friday so i had to arrange for transport to and from work which thankfully wasn't too bad as one of the other lads lives just around the corner Got a call on the Wednesday and as i had feared... they had cut back more and basically put the sills were pretty rotten, i have pictures but im not sure if ill put them here ill decide when ive finished typing, its actually quite embarrassing! The worst part is, had i known about it id have got that all sorted before id gone for the body kit! (note to anyone out there, dont assume the car is clean until you take off your plastic side skirts!) I was left with 2 options, either a complete sill replacement on both sides, or they can cut back and treat the 'not so bad' bits, and weld new plating.. However much i'd have liked to have had the complete sill replacement i just simply could not afford to do it. the price he quoted me was 'not much change from 1000'. which is reasonable for the work that needed to be done. so i went with the repair and they've done a fantastic job of it, Neil is a welder by day-job and a painter by night-job so his work was second to none. They got all the welding done and things were almost finished, they wheeled the car out with the kit completely intact and ready to be mopped for collection that evening... i get a call from Leon down at EP saying there is an issue..... the colour isnt right!! now to cut a VERY long story short, this happened TWICE.. to no fault of Neil at all, I have at this point been without a car for around 2 weeks (apart from 2 days where i needed the car). yep.. 2 weeks, time flys! I spoke to Gary who you will see i have mentioned previously in my posts where he got the paint for his rear spoiler and he said he went to Central Car Paint in Leicester town center and they sorted him out, passed this message onto Leon and him and Neil went down the very next morning (tuesday), they were there for 2 hours. the guy came out with the shades of BN6 (my cars code) and not a single one of them matched. they had to mix a completely custom colour adding purple to a certain shade of BN6. they eventually figured out my car has had a respray at some point in its life. i have been through every single receipt, and that is a hell of a lot, the car has a full Nissan service history and there is nothing i can really see regarding it. I dropped Leon a message to see how they were getting on and said they would let me know ASAP if the colour was right, i am now without a car for 3 weeks and am set to pick it up Thurs/Friday. I get a message from Leon saying 'call me mate' at this point im absolutely s**tting it, ive had so much bad news its ridiculous.. thankfully Leon only said call me to completely s**t me up and said they have the right colour but want to let it cure for as long as possible due to so much paint being on the kit there has been a bit of a paint reaction so will be looking at saturday for it.. no problem for me ive waited 3 weeks, whats another day! Go down satuday and Neil rocks up in the car and im like YOOOOOOOOOOO!!! car looked F**king SICK!! Neil pointed out there has been a bit of paint reaction on the inside of the drivers skirt where the door covers so will be popping back in a couple of weeks to get that sorted, and also had no front plate fixed as i hadnt told him where i wanted it, and the front indicators didnt work because Leon forgot to give him the wiring, he gave me the wiring so i could do it myself which is no problem. So i now have the car, i got the indicators working to some extent, the standard ones are halogen bulbs and the new ones are LED so car is not seeing the bulbs as LED draw hardly any current, so waiting on some resistors to turn up which will hopefully be here tomorrow. Now it sounds like a right bloody mess whats happened, and yes, it is a right bloody mess. but a huge huge thanks to Leon and Neil for there insane communication skills i have always been in contact with them be it via phone text or facebook and the quality of the work done by Neil and his sidekick Stitch is bloody amazing im super super happy with it! let the pictures roll!! ^^^ This is a picture of when i had the car for 2 days. you can see the colour is wrong! ^^^ Side Skirts, Wrong colour ^^^ Rear Bumper (wrong colour) ^^^ Sample of the rust, im not putting anymore of it Finished product for following pics Will obviously have a few more in coming time, really happy with the work Comments, roll! 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Chandler Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 looks good mate!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shafzzz Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Yo who's DC5 is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roj Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 2001 called, they're casting you for male Letty. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiNK43 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 It's old and it's a Nissan course it's got a bit of scrot rot. Standard. Glad you've had a good job done by them. Never been to epr. Its in Loughborough yeah???If makes ya feel better about the timing. I've not had my car for 4 months now. p**sing me right off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorivity Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Yo who's DC5 is that?hur hur whos ep3 is that? adams? It's old and it's a Nissan course it's got a bit of scrot rot. Standard.Glad you've had a good job done by them. Never been to epr. Its in Loughborough yeah???If makes ya feel better about the timing. I've not had my car for 4 months now. p**sing me right off.yeah man looked clean when i got it! amazing what you find out! yeah they are based in loughborough, good sized unit aswell, Leon there is such a sick guy will hook you up with anything you need and reasonably priced too, i ended up getting about 250 quid discount on all the work i had done! damn man that sucks what you having done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiNK43 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 I'll have to check em out think they can get carbon bits for me eg. Mines being resprayed. Suprised not seen you about. Would defo recognise the car looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_broon Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Shame about the hassle but the car looks top! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krzys Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 My EK was in for five weeks for a full respray! Looks good in the end and at least the sills are solid again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roj Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 hur hur whos ep3 is that? adams? It's mine, p***k. j/k @Shafzzz already started false hype in my build thread I wont bring it here. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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