Body Work

Our highly skilled and experienced body technicians produce superb quality body and paint finishes

The use of modern paint finishes with their excellent durability combined with traditional panel beating and lead loading techniques make our body work simply the best.

BODYSHELL STRIPPING & E- COATING
On major body restorations we can now offer full chemical stripping & Electrocoating of the body shell. This is a 2-stage process, the first stage strips all existing paint coatings & rust from the body by complete immersion in a purpose built tank. The body is then passivated to prevent new short term corossion. All necessary metalwork repairs can then be carried out on the completely rust-free body.
In the second stage the body passes through a multi-stage zinc phosphate immersion paint process where the material is Anodically attracted to the steel giving a 1000 hour salt spray protection (Electrophoretic primer or E-coat)
The major advantage of this system is that all the enclosed box sections are coated & protected & the primer penetrates better than anything else available.

RUST PREVENTIVE WAX
For even more effective rust prevention we now use Mike Sander rust protection grease. In long term tests by the German classic car magizine AUTO BILD all the commonly available cavity waxes were tested & the Mike Sanders protection out-performed all the other products. The material is difficult to use as it must be heated to 120 degrees Centigrade for spraying. At this temperature the grease becomes a very thin (& very hot!) liquid which penetrates to all the nooks & crannies & as it cools returns to the consistancy of a grease, but continues to 'creep' after cooling.
If your German is up to it, you can see the Auto Bild report at http://www.autobild.de/wartung/werkstatt/artikel.php?artikel_id=1193&artikel_seite=0&A_SESS=82bb0a4b15b50edc6791acc28185f2a0

ACCIDENT REPAIR WORK

Major insurance companies now use us regularly for accident repairs to valuable classic Jaguars