First post and what a bummer!
 

We had our Chicane yellow 370Z for 600 miles when a guy pulled out of a parallel parking space and clobbered the passenger side rear wheel well and bumper. He said he didn't see us! I thought better of asking him how long he had been legally blind.

I took the car to my dealer's body shop for the $1500 fix. Besides the body work, they had to repaint the passenger door, the passenger rear quarter and the entire bumper.

The body shop finished the car yesterday but I couldn't get there before closing so they sent it to their dealership for my pickup today.

My wife and I took one look at the car and almost fainted. We now have a 2 tone Chicane Yellow Z! The paint did not match by a long shot! Note the repainted areas in the attached photos and see if you can see the difference in the paint.

I refused to take the car but the body shop is closed till Monday AM.

Any suggestions for a civilized discussion with the body shop???

They could have at least re-painted the splash guard...

I'm staying away from you- apparently you make people go blind....

sorry to hear the bad news, you would think they could see bright asss yellow

side skirt and splash guard looks a bit of a different shade.... maybe it's just the pic


was the driver blinded by the bright yellow'ness of ur Z........lol

The middle picture shows the paint difference, at least to me. Follow a line from the top of the passenger windows along the rear hatch line(which wasn't repainted) to the tail light and you will see the difference in the colors.

i see what yout talking about, sunlight plays a big role i think

Sorry to hear about that.:mad:

Hope all goes well with the body shop. I'd tear them a new ..:shakes head:

Good luck.

Stop payment immediately!

If you have to: Contact a lawyer!

That is upsetting, that is piss poor work!

is this a dealership body shop?

Yes, this dealer has many franchises including Nissan and this is his body shop.

ask them if they just learned how to paint, because they need more experience, and not on the Z

Blending................
 

It looks like the body shop was trying to BLEND the new paint into the old paint. It also appears that the painter did a poor job using the technique of BLENDING. This is a common practice of body shops when repairing body damage since insurance companies will not pay for a complete (panel - door - fender - etc.) paint job. The bad part about this kind of a repair is, if you polish and wax your car repeatedly like what we do. The repaired area tends to begin to stand out the more we polish and wax.
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dooh...

This is Post-damage shots. Look at the tint of yellow on the car.

should have resprayed the whole car. atleast that way the paint is all the same