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tiddy,  nobody said easy, but it is not difficult, and it is not Rocket or Aerospace Science.

 Sorry but please do not try and teach your Granny to suck eggs.

actually when you are a trained and qualified painter and refinisher it is just something that is what you do as your job.

Some of us have gone through our working years working with paints and finishes with many materials and to more exacting standards and tolerances than in the Vehicle Manufacturing industry and in the motor repair and renovation trade.

 

If you are a Competent Spray Painter then why not just go and DIY, or go to the expert that you are getting your information from to do it. 

As far as it goes it seems lots of talking and thinking is being done and checking the car before purchase properly

might have been a good idea.

tiddy,  nobody said easy, but it is not difficult, and it is not Rocket or Aerospace Science.

 Sorry but please do not try and teach your Granny to suck eggs.

actually when you are a trained and qualified painter and refinisher it is just something that is what you do as your job.

Some of us have gone through our working years working with paints and finishes with many materials and to more exacting standards and tolerances than in the Vehicle Manufacturing industry and in the motor repair and renovation trade.

 

If you are a Competent Spray Painter then why not just go and DIY, or go to the expert that you are getting your information from to do it. 

As far as it goes it seems lots of talking and thinking is being done and checking the car before purchase properly

might have been a good idea.

Yes I am a very competant sprayer? Does that mean I have to fix problems of an automotive giant?

 

In reference to factory paint thicknesses I am going on exactly what PVWI stated to me when I called them.

 

You state that you have worked with finishes that are beyond tolerances used in vehicle manufacture, this being the case you are saying that approved vehicle refinishers are respraying to the same micron level as when the car left the factory?

 

I could agree with you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But then we would both be wrong

Edited 15 August, 201510 yr by tiddy

I served my time over 3 decades ago in the car trade and then was an Industrial Sprayer and Worked in Quality Control in Paint Factories, 

and then went back doing Vehicle Finishing in a Transportation Workshop.

I know what i can do and those i worked with.

No idea what you can do.

 

Maybe take all that Experience and knowledge you have and direct it back to Skoda, because i know that the song and dance is not necessary If you approach someone like me you can get a Independent Specialists report.

 

Or you write it & have a Legal Representative go forward with that in a case again Skoda.

If this is the case that you could refinish a body panel to the exact same thickness that it left the factory, can you explain your process to achieve this ?

I can tell you quite easily, pay professional fees and you will get a professional service, 

or maybe come to a forum and ask for advice nicely and remember and say thank you and many people might assist.

 

have fun with it, its only a Yeti with a Manufacturing Paint process failure, and as such gets covered by the Warranty as many have had over the past few years.

Best not turn a Skoda Failure into a crisis.

 

Skoda UK Customer Services are simple to deal with directly.

08457 745 745 ,  

Get your Communications to Alasdair Stewart Brand Director Skoda UK,

Ex Bentley & Porsche, included Customer After Sales, Warranty etc etc

 

David Allen   *01908 548000*

Head of Customer Quality and Network Development

Skoda UK

Yoemans Drive

Blakelands

Milton Keynes

MK14 5AN

I can tell you quite easily, pay professional fees and you will get a professional service,

or maybe come to a forum and ask for advice nicely and remember and say thank you and many people might assist.

have fun with it, its only a Yeti with a Manufacturing Paint process failure, and as such gets covered by the Warranty as many have had over the past few years.

Best not turn a Skoda Failure into a crisis.

I am at a loss here, I have not been rude or offensive, my focus is at the VAG care and quality. My experience and expertise has been called into question, to which I will back up my knowlege on these subjects.

An example of my work,

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Nice i like Beetles.

Lost your point there though, did you renovate and spray with Water Based Paints.?

Have done water based in the past.

 

This particular car was sprayed first with a Zinc Phosphate coating then a 2k epoxy primer, as the body is not galvanized there is a need is to seal the bare steel from the elements, the top coat was a Two part Epoxide Acrylic developed by HMG coatings.

 

This car was renovated by myself, welding, painting no one else has touched it.

 

Water bases paints require massive through-put of air to dry.

Edited 15 August, 201510 yr by tiddy

Time to stop the bickering gents?

 

Fred

Time to stop the bickering gents?

 

Fred

 

Quite.  This whole 'my spray gun is better than yours' is getting a bit boring and not really taking Tillys warranty claim troubles forward in any way.

 

Tilly - I think you've been unlucky with your dealer.  Ours was excellent and backed our claims all the way.  Have you tried going to another dealer and seeing if they'll help you out?  If my dealer had been this obstructive they'd never have seen me or my car ever again.  It's hugely frustrating to get given the run around on something like this.  It should be so easy - paint problems on the lower doors of Yetis are well known by Skoda and well documented on here.

Quite.  This whole 'my spray gun is better than yours' is getting a bit boring and not really taking Tillys warranty claim troubles forward in any way.

 

Tilly - I think you've been unlucky with your dealer.  Ours was excellent and backed our claims all the way.  Have you tried going to another dealer and seeing if they'll help you out?  If my dealer had been this obstructive they'd never have seen me or my car ever again.  It's hugely frustrating to get given the run around on something like this.  It should be so easy - paint problems on the lower doors of Yetis are well known by Skoda and well documented on here.

 

Thanks, I didn't want a bun fight, just some constructive experience others have had from Skoda, I honestly don't want to build my own yeti, just get the right customer service from its parent company. In any case its my fathers car and this is all stressing him out, he bought the car, im just trying now to get him the backup he thought he was entitled to when buying a quality car.

 

To clarify the dealer is on my side, so is Skoda customer care, all information from both of them plus the bodyshop has to be sent to central VolkswagenAG, it is VolkswagenAG who keep throwing the claim back to Skoda, first time they said they had taken the wrong pictures, now they are saying the paint is too thin. It is at this point I have sent an email to Skoda Brand Manager UK and at this point I posted my Customer Care so far. SO far this has gone on for 6 weeks

Edited 15 August, 201510 yr by tiddy