Bodyshops suck. Check this out:

[cvp0917]

Recap: i hit a fairly large racoon at about 3 am. he was big enough that the car went airbourne. wasnt an experience i wanted when i was half asleep after working 15 hours. anyway, i went to take my lip off to sell it and i found that the bumper was cracked so im like crap, guess ill call progressive and have them fix it since i give them over $2k every year. I just went to pick her and up and she looked ok, wasnt too happy with the fitment as seen in pic #1 or the crappy edges in pic #2. what really concerns me is that i thought silver was a really hard color to match so bodyshops usually blend the color over the hood and down both fenders. apparently at Jeff Wyler they dont do that, either that or progressive didnt let them. check out pic #3 and #4 and tell me what you think.

[JCell]

can't really tell from the pics, but look at it this wau, if u r paying for it, get it done right, no bs

[deaconfan34]

i would have to say take it back to them.

Unless of corse they told you something about the color not matching before hand then you might not be able to do anything about it.
and if they said nothing of this then take it back. It never hurts to ask.

[ForceFed]

Did Jeff Wyler Eastgate do that!

TAKE THAT SHIT BACK!
Totally different color....tell them to match it better or get to blendin!
I bought my car from Jeff Wyler eastate and I hate that FUCKIN place!

[Shane5425]

bring that shit back, thats 2 differant colors...

[cable43]

f that!

[ForceFed]

I hate to say it ,but the way i am ...my car would have never left the body shop lookin like that...I would have took one look and turned and walked to talk to the big man...I would be like....I thought you guys were gonna call me when it was done....I know that aint finished right there...cuz that paint doesn't even come close to matchin'!

[skilletrx]

did he do 3 stage paint? btw really sorry to thread jack, but my dgm lip goes on like that... is it really supposed to be like that...see the gap on the very first pic...?

[skilletrx]

im sorry i browsed thru ur post... yeah my shop didnt take off my windsplitter and riveted the lip on... so i had to take it off, clean off the tape...blah blah... after putting down a shit load of tape... mine looked good... after 1 day of driving, it slide back down and looks like what you have in pic 1... my lip's cut where that tab goes into the grill area doesnt look symetricall... so we may have the same fitment issue...

as far as ur paint goes, i cannot tell towell due to me using a laptop... but my guy had absolutely no prob matching... he didnt even have to blend...

please keep us posted on the fitment issue, as i seem to b having the same problem. it looks like ass, but for the time i took to remove the rivets and remove all that fucking double sided tape........ i'll deal..sad to say.

[cvp0917]

in the light that was there it looked ok. after the pos they had me driving almost caused me to wreck twice i was more then ready to have my car back. when i got home i sat on the ground and did a through investigation and discovered all this shit and the light changed, thats how i saw the paint. jeff wyler is never getting my business, im taking my shit elsewhere to fix it

[Matthew]

btw, your bumper will ALWAYS be a slightly different color than the fenders because the bumper is a diff material.

when i bought my p5 there was something wrong wtih the fogs that it started to bubble the paint under the fogs. they repainted under warranty, and it was a very slightly different color (dealership not some joe schmoe). long story short they repainted the thing another time then so did a different dealer, same results, with TINY unoticable variances.

wehn i got my urethane lip done it was the same story. i dont think you will match it up unless you just get lucky. if they match the paint up correctly i think it will always be a tad different. i didnt believe them but then i looked at a few of the cars stock and they did indeed have slightly diff tones to them. but if you werent looking or trying to point out you would never notice...which brings me to say i cant tell in the pics.

[skilletrx]

matthew is entirely right, ur body / urethane = diff material... so it'll be a bit off... also check ur door handles / maybe the spoiler... being that the door handles are plastic i think, it may be a slightly diff shade w/ diff lighting... just my op.im sorry ur unhappy tho, i guess u live and learn... donjt take it to the same shop...

[MazdaSpeedTurbo]

Did Jeff Wyler Eastgate do that!

TAKE THAT SHIT BACK!
Totally different color....tell them to match it better or get to blendin!
I bought my car from Jeff Wyler eastate and I hate that FUCKIN place!I Fucking Agree 100% i bought mine there as weel and got FUCKED BY WYLER!! as of right now i have lawyer talking to wyler about my car.. FUCK JEFF WYLER

[skilletrx]

stupid question if wyler sux so much y does every1 from cinn seem to go there?

** not instigating... just wondering if its price or friend hookup or?

[peepsalot]

i can't tell a difference in colors

[daedalus]

the color on my stock bumper and lip is off a hell of a lot more than that. And that was from the factory... fucking mazda.

[Matthew]

see. yea, i would say the other stuff sucks but the color isnt your problem.

[cvp0917]

in person its a lot worse. its not silver, its grey. and they were supposed to blend the paint over the hood and down the fenders so you dont notice. i even held my original lip up to the new one and you could tell the difference there.

[bazooka joe]

so i guess it's safe to say...you're not selling the lip now?

[skilletrx]

is the gap supposed to be that bad on the dgm lip? (see first pic)

[Hughes412]

All of the DGM lips i've seen sag. I think they are just to heavy for tape. But for the color I can see a big differance. I would call the insurance company and tell them. May be they can call this guy and have him redo it, after all they payed him.

[cvp0917]

gotta take it back tonight. if only the guy would listen to me... bs...

[dominoy2k1]

actually you dont blend onto the fenders or hood. since bumpers are usually painted off the car.unless the insurance company tells them to do it. if its a place like maaco or earl shives or whatever one of those "economical" paint/body shops they will fuck your shit up.



in person its a lot worse. its not silver, its grey. and they were supposed to blend the paint over the hood and down the fenders so you dont notice. i even held my original lip up to the new one and you could tell the difference there.

[dominoy2k1]

good thing they are gonna try to fix it.


gotta take it back tonight. if only the guy would listen to me... bs...

[cvp0917]

its a big dealer. they have like 10 car brands there. i dunno. took it back last night and no one said if i was supposed to get a rental so i had to drive the car home cause my fiance and i both work today. so much bs. i just want my car fixed...

[RallyeRedSi]

hope everything turns out ok

[BOOSTR]

No excuse for the paint not matching. The material difference can be accounted for by using a special product for the paint to adhere to the plastic and blending the fenders and hood. Dealers have shitty painters. Should have gone to an independent shop. Good luck takingit back.

[cvp0917]

for some reason progressive wont pay to have the front blended. im not sure why but if it comes back again and it doesnt match im going to demand that it gets blended because its bs if it doesnt match. now the shop and progressive are fighting over who has to pay for the rental when i take the car back. fun fun...

[JHew84]

i can't really see the difference either, to me it looks like it is mostly shadows screwing with the picture... and the lip fitment, blame mazda for that, mine fits SO shitty , i have far more gaps than you do... sorry you feel your car got screwed up though, if you really feel that way i would definitly take it back and at least speak your mind to them... good luck with it all...

[cvp0917]

Back to the bodyshop on my way home from work to give this another try. wish me luck.

[snowblazin]

good luck! let us know how it looks, and don't forget more pics!

[Hughes412]

I looked at a yellow MSP and it didn't have any of the tell tell signs of body damage on it and the stock bumpers didn't match. Maybe it is just something that you have to live with.

[MSPRO]

I'm sorry you are going through all this ..I have been told by several people not to take anything to Jeff Wyler. Hell they called me for months after I bought my MSP-somewhere else- to ask if i wanted to buy one still lol

[cvp0917]

Even the Enterprise guy was bashing their body work last night. said it took them 4 tries to get it right and that pretty much everyone who works there is either a dumb ass, an asshole, or both, with a few exceptions. i know im not taking the car back till im happy with it thats for sure. nor will i ever go back there to buy a car or get bodywork done. oh well, live and learn, right?

[cvp0917]

WOOHOO! After a week of wondering where my car was Wyler called me this morning and told me i could come pick up. My adjuster also told that in the week that they have had it they tried painting the bumper twice more (total 3 times) and they couldnt get the color to match. i had no idea our paint was so hard to match but its silver and silver is hard to match but damn... anyway, since they couldnt get the paint to tint right to match progressive went ahead and had them blend the hood and fenders (which is what i told them to do in the first place...). the cool thing is i had a few rock chips on the edge of the hood and a nasty one about a foot up the hood that went all the way to the metal. progressive made wyler use the money that went towards the paint tinting to fix those chips and a scratch on my driver side fender. that made me happy. it just sucks that progressive had to pay to have it blended though. oh well. im going to pick it up about 5ish. ill post pics if i can! hopefully it matches this time.