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A quick blow-over with the spraygun...... - Sofa Spud

I've noticed that secondhand car dealers are almost routinely giving a quick blow-over with the spraygun to the sills, wheelarches and door-bottoms of even quite recent secondhand cars. The problem with this is that this usually leaves an area of matt overspray where the new paint overlaps the original. This rather defeats the object of the exercise, which is to make the cars look smarter!

I can understand this with old bangers or cars that have had repairs done, but on 5 or 6 year-old cars?

A quick blow-over with the spraygun...... - Hamsafar

There are companies which go round doing all the cars on the forecourt. Smart repairs, they do interior repairs too. I imagine it fools 80% of folk I meet, if not more.

A quick blow-over with the spraygun...... - pd

A lot of dealers, particularly franchised ones, do the bumpers and front of the bonnet as a matter of course. They don't even look at the cars - they get shipped to their reconditioning people directly as they come in before they reach the dealership.

Every single car which has passed through the hands of my local Ford dealer group for example will have had the front bumper repainted.