Basically the previous owner of my car had a 'smart repair' done on the NSF wing which involved having the full wing resprayed. It's a pretty poor job in terms of matching it to the rest of the nearside of the car and it's starting to annoy me more than I thought it would when I bought the car.

So the question is; will a trip to the body shop to get the wing redone end up with me having to get the whole side of the car done to get a decent match, or will a decent body shop just be able to just do the wing and keep me happy?

From memory when my old Race Blue Vrs had some rear wheel arch damage they had to blend one side of the car to get it to match.

This will largely depend on the condition and age of the paint on your car-probably stating the obvious but the older and more damaged it is by the sun/atmosphere etc the more difficult it will be to match, though a good bodyshop will be able to advise you what is/isn't possible. As an example they may also need to polish the rest of the car after respraying the wing to accomplish a good match. From personal experience I'd avoid the big multi bodyshops who are the 'preferred' insurance companies choice and go for personal recommendations-maybe your local main dealer uses one they could recommend?

Before taking it to the bodyshop, you could try getting one of those electric mops and some cutting compound paste and go over the whole car if the new wing is looking abit too shiny and new. I know you have to be really carefull though as you could burn through your paint if you dont use enough water.

I had my spoiler painted, the body shop said it was very easy match and most blues are.

Silver and white are a lot harder.

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So the question is; will a trip to the body shop to get the wing redone end up with me having to get the whole side of the car done to get a decent match, or will a decent body shop just be able to just do the wing and keep me happy?

A good bodyshop can match it perfectly. If colours are hard to match they sometimes mist it onto the adjacent panel to blend any changes,

they will paint into the door then lacquer the whole door and possibly do the same with bumper to get it to blend, they will do that with most colours these days not just metallic to ensure a good match.

just had my Candy white rear arch done and they did the door and rear bumper and it's a 100% match, couldn't be happier really and I'm very anal when it comes to paintwork.

Bring it to just car clinic in bradford,and ill paint it!!!.

The problem with smart repairs is they work on the paint code and that's it. A painter in a bodyshop will play about with the mixes a bit if needed. Also alot of bodyshops a have magic eye, that looks at the paint then will give a paint mix formulation that could be way of from the origional colour mix, due to ageing, weather, hard life.