Paintworx Loughborough

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Just had my sportline splitter painted and fitted by these guys. The splitter was delivered to them by Transporter HQ via DHL. They sent me an email with picture confirming it had arrived all ok. I gave them the paint code and they kept me updated by email and telephone of the progress and then booked me in to have it fitted. Definitely would use these guys again and would highly recommend them If your in the East Midlands area these are the guys to use.

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That looks great and just the sort of thing we would be after....don't mind travelling90 mins for a good job. What was the total cost (parts, postage, painting and fitting) if you don't mind me asking? Do you have a photo stood back from the van?
 
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I bought the Sportline splitter from Transporter HQ in Leicestershire who recommended Paintworx, they delivered the splitter directly to them via DHL.
It cost £230 for the splitter from Transporter HQ and £200 for painting with Paintworx. I also had the lower splitter added £120 but that is optional.
 
A lot cheaper than VW and I'm really pleased with the results. Glad to help. Good luck !!
 
Don’t get me started on wheel journey!! :cry: Good luck!!
Im in team sport line front splitter I know most aren’t but yours with that colour looks mint.
 
We should club together and get them to spray a load of parts in Blackberry.... :)
 
As high end commercial vehicle owners, we've come accustomed, almost manipulated into thinking that to have any kind of works on our balls of cotton wool should only be carried out by guys in Volkswagen polo shirts, where the coffee is free and you can watch the BBC news channel whilst your bottom is massaged by leather. A place that has more glass than a Pilkington factory, and you are rewarded for your loyalty with a leather keyring, a load of generic emails and the promise that you are getting exactly what you deserve. Well, all this might well be true for some, but for the rest of us that would sooner spend that kind of money on wheels and power, there are other options.

I'm the kind of guy that leans towards a reputation, an Instagram account that's littered with some of the most famous Transporters in the country. A place where you don't get greeted with a 'Yes Sir' just take a seat. A place where the guy that owns the place pops his head out the spray booth and shouts "wtf have you broken now" with grin that you aren't actually sure is serious or not. These are the guys that you know live, sleep and breath their jobs. The guys that have left school and battled their way to the top of the apple tree.
People, I give you Paintworx Loughborough.

As it would of been noted recently in the 'Wanted' section, I had a fight with a bird on the M6 coming home from Glasgow, and although the bird lost, he did kind of win and by winning I mean that the birds demise cost me several hundred pounds. This was no ordinary songbird, this was a military grade monster that managed to dent the strongest part of a T6 bonnet, in three places.
Ok, so I could of touched it up, or whacked on the obligatory Bonnet Bra that we all use to hide damage, rather than stop it, but how can the host of the 2020 camping weekend of the year deceive my adoring fans. These people have come from all over the UK just to see my Black beauty.... and pick fault with it.
So only the best will do for those of you that are comfortable enough to insult me to my face.

I fired a DM at Steve through his Instagram on Monday, asking if there was any chance that he could paint a bonnet for me quickly. Yeah drop it down tomorrow mate, he replied. This is a place that normally has months of lead times, but as the naughty people of the city next to him were being sent into the corner of the lockdown room for a further 2 weeks, his work had been delayed and this opened up a slot for me.
Of course, it would be insane to just take your T6 into this place and have him fix and paint one panel, so I set my head to thinking what else can I get him to do. I know, my passenger side mirror is scuffed and I have an outrageous idea to ask him to paint my now rusty side bars, but instead of going the normal Satin Black powder coating, let's go full Pearl gloss Black paint to match everything else.
The problem when you own a Black T6 is the Black isn't actually very Black, and when you go down the Piano Blacking all the grills and plastics route, the end result is a hotchpotch of different Blacks that just look wrong in my opinion, so to combat this and achieve what I feel is a luxury appearance, you go colour coded Pearl Black. Having the bars done was only a small change and the main work was repairing my bonnet, which was pure perfection by the way, but the bars made a huge difference to the overall appearance. This flow of Pearl paint gives it a whole new level of quality finish. The paint on the bonnet is absolutely flawless and most of this is straight out of the gun, which when compared to the sides that were painted by my main dealer under warranty, are level 3 compared to level 10. A total contrast in finish and quality.

In conclusion, yeah you can use a main dealer to have your paintwork done and maybe you won't know any different and all will look totally fine, but shift slightly in the other direction and you will get a perfection that sets a benchmark higher than you can jump over, making this the new norm in your small world.

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As high end commercial vehicle owners, we've come accustomed, almost manipulated into thinking that to have any kind of works on our balls of cotton wool should only be carried out by guys in Volkswagen polo shirts, where the coffee is free and you can watch the BBC news channel whilst your bottom is massaged by leather. A place that has more glass than a Pilkington factory, and you are rewarded for your loyalty with a leather keyring, a load of generic emails and the promise that you are getting exactly what you deserve. Well, all this might well be true for some, but for the rest of us that would sooner spend that kind of money on wheels and power, there are other options.

I'm the kind of guy that leans towards a reputation, an Instagram account that's littered with some of the most famous Transporters in the country. A place where you don't get greeted with a 'Yes Sir' just take a seat. A place where the guy that owns the place pops his head out the spray booth and shouts "wtf have you broken now" with grin that you aren't actually sure is serious or not. These are the guys that you know live, sleep and breath their jobs. The guys that have left school and battled their way to the top of the apple tree.
People, I give you Paintworx Loughborough.

As it would of been noted recently in the 'Wanted' section, I had a fight with a bird on the M6 coming home from Glasgow, and although the bird lost, he did kind of win and by winning I mean that the birds demise cost me several hundred pounds. This was no ordinary songbird, this was a military grade monster that managed to dent the strongest part of a T6 bonnet, in three places.
Ok, so I could of touched it up, or whacked on the obligatory Bonnet Bra that we all use to hide damage, rather than stop it, but how can the host of the 2020 camping weekend of the year deceive my adoring fans. These people have come from all over the UK just to see my Black beauty.... and pick fault with it.
So only the best will do for those of you that are comfortable enough to insult me to my face.

I fired a DM at Steve through his Instagram on Monday, asking if there was any chance that he could paint a bonnet for me quickly. Yeah drop it down tomorrow mate, he replied. This is a place that normally has months of lead times, but as the naughty people of the city next to him were being sent into the corner of the lockdown room for a further 2 weeks, his work had been delayed and this opened up a slot for me.
Of course, it would be insane to just take your T6 into this place and have him fix and paint one panel, so I set my head to thinking what else can I get him to do. I know, my passenger side mirror is scuffed and I have an outrageous idea to ask him to paint my now rusty side bars, but instead of going the normal Satin Black powder coating, let's go full Pearl gloss Black paint to match everything else.
The problem when you own a Black T6 is the Black isn't actually very Black, and when you go down the Piano Blacking all the grills and plastics route, the end result is a hotchpotch of different Blacks that just look wrong in my opinion, so to combat this and achieve what I feel is a luxury appearance, you go colour coded Pearl Black. Having the bars done was only a small change and the main work was repairing my bonnet, which was pure perfection by the way, but the bars made a huge difference to the overall appearance. This flow of Pearl paint gives it a whole new level of quality finish. The paint on the bonnet is absolutely flawless and most of this is straight out of the gun, which when compared to the sides that were painted by my main dealer under warranty, are level 3 compared to level 10. A total contrast in finish and quality.

In conclusion, yeah you can use a main dealer to have your paintwork done and maybe you won't know any different and all will look totally fine, but shift slightly in the other direction and you will get a perfection that sets a benchmark higher than you can jump over, making this the new norm in your small world.

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Black Beauty indeed! :thumbsup:
 
Often we read people asking for recommendations for a bodyshop on here, and more than often this is normally followed with the phrase 'local to me'
Well, I'm in a very fortunate position to live near some of the best Transporter businesses in the country, but that should really be irrelevant because these things are not just a daily driver, or a runaround. You should be prepared to hunt out the best businesses and to travel if you want what everyone else raves about. Businesses like Bognor Motors, Transporter HQ, Absolute Audio, VW T5 Upgrades and many others that get constantly mentioned on here and loads of other forums or social media. These businesses get this respect because they aren't just a garage, or a parts website, or a bodyshop. They are specialists that have a passion for Volkswagens and more importantly they understand the way we are about what everyone else just thinks is a 'van'

I've been using the same bodyshop since I left school, and most of the paintwork on my van was done by these guys, but during this last year, Covid has hit them hard and they still have their staff on furlough and their oven hasn't heated up for almost a year.
So twice now, I've had to use a different shop, and for me and my paintwork it's not easy to trust a job will get done to how I want it. This isn't because a different bodyshop would do a poor job, it's more because many bodyshops are used to doing 'just' the job required, nothing more. You damage a wing, they repair and paint a wing, you damage a bonnet, they repair and paint a bonnet. Nothing wrong with that, this is just how this industry seems to have gone with the constant squeezing from insurance companies giving unrealistic timescales and no extra budget for 'anomalies'

This is where you need to be using businesses that are highly recommended, because they don't charge extra for the 'anomalies' They already know through experience that painting a wing might need the door blowing in to match the paintwork, painting a bonnet might need the wing tops blowing in to match the paint (you get my point) So they've already anticipated this and added that to the overall price, which by the way, doesn't automatically mean they will be more expensive.

It goes without saying, that Paint-worx Loughborough do the job right, actually 'right' is the wrong term, because that implies that everyone else does it wrong, when they don't. It's better to say the team at Paint-worx know we can be fastidious and they naturally work to that parameter. Not as a one off, but as a standard. You only have to take a peek at their Instagram to see they've been instrumental in some of the most famous show vehicles in the scene, both here in the UK and in Europe.

My van was in for what I'd call maintenance paintwork, but that's not strictly accurate. Being low has drawbacks:rolleyes: as is obvious. One of these being factory front mud flaps don't work because they just drag along the floor and that novelty quickly wears off. So if you want mud flaps to hopefully stop some of the potential damage caused by our delightful roads, you need to look at aftermarket. Sadly the front flaps I had were definitely not suitable, and they still caught on driveways or speed humps. This in turn, makes the flaps move around and that in turn removes any paint in contact with the flaps, down to the bare metal. Also, if you combine a front flap with the extra door seals we all know and love, the adverse effect of this is stones get jammed between the seal and the flaps, and this destroys the paintwork inside the door shuts and mine were terrible. This is why my van was in the bodyshop.
Paint-worx not only removed both doors, so they could paint right underneath the doors, also allowing plenty of access to the door shuts, but they also repaired and painted a deep scratch on the top of my door caused by me catching it with an airline by mistake. I never asked them to do this because all of the actual flap problems were right at the bottom corner, nothing too obvious, but the thought of bare metal is enough to need it fixing.
I didn't ask them to repair a few other chips and scratches on the other door, but they did because why wouldn't they.
This is the second time these chaps have worked on my van and both times they've done way more than I expected, all within the price they quoted. I have a strong moral loyalty to certain businesses that I've used for years, and my original bodyshop is one of those. But I might just keep letting Paint-worx Loughborough do the paint work on my van, and my other bodyshop can do my 'runarounds'

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I know my reviews and generally my answers within the forum can go on and on and on, but it's the only real time my brain gets exercise and I genuinely enjoy reviewing good businesses with a little more detail.
 
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Often we read people asking for recommendations for a bodyshop on here, and more than often this is normally followed with the phrase 'local to me'
Well, I'm in a very fortunate position to live near some of the best Transporter businesses in the country, but that should really be irrelevant because these things are not just a daily driver, or a runaround. You should be prepared to hunt out the best businesses and to travel if you want what everyone else raves about. Businesses like Bognor Motors, Transporter HQ, Absolute Audio, VW T5 Upgrades and many others that get constantly mentioned on here and loads of other forums or social media. These businesses get this respect because they aren't just a garage, or a parts website, or a bodyshop. They are specialists that have a passion for Volkswagens and more importantly they understand the way we are about what everyone else just thinks is a 'van'

I've been using the same bodyshop since I left school, and most of the paintwork on my van was done by these guys, but during this last year, Covid has hit them hard and they still have their staff on furlough and their oven hasn't heated up for almost a year.
So twice now, I've had to use a different shop, and for me and my paintwork it's not easy to trust a job will get done to how I want it. This isn't because a different bodyshop would do a poor job, it's more because many bodyshops are used to doing 'just' the job required, nothing more. You damage a wing, they repair and paint a wing, you damage a bonnet, they repair and paint a bonnet. Nothing wrong with that, this is just how this industry seems to have gone with the constant squeezing from insurance companies giving unrealistic timescales and no extra budget for 'anomalies'

This is where you need to be using businesses that are highly recommended, because they don't charge extra for the 'anomalies' They already know through experience that painting a wing might need the door blowing in to match the paintwork, painting a bonnet might need the wing tops blowing in to match the paint (you get my point) So they've already anticipated this and added that to the overall price, which by the way, doesn't automatically mean they will be more expensive.

It goes without saying, that Paint-worx Loughborough do the job right, actually 'right' is the wrong term, because that implies that everyone else does it wrong, when they don't. It's better to say the team at Paint-worx know we can be fastidious and they naturally work to that parameter. Not as a one off, but as a standard. You only have to take a peek at their Instagram to see they've been instrumental in some of the most famous show vehicles in the scene, both here in the UK and in Europe.

My van was in for what I'd call maintenance paintwork, but that's not strictly accurate. Being low has drawbacks:rolleyes: as is obvious. One of these being factory front mud flaps don't work because they just drag along the floor and that novelty quickly wears off. So if you want mud flaps to hopefully stop some of the potential damage caused by our delightful roads, you need to look at aftermarket. Sadly the front flaps I had were definitely not suitable, and they still caught on driveways or speed humps. This in turn, makes the flaps move around and that in turn removes any paint in contact with the flaps, down to the bare metal. Also, if you combine a front flap with the extra door seals we all know and love, the adverse effect of this is stones get jammed between the seal and the flaps, and this destroys the paintwork inside the door shuts and mine were terrible. This is why my van was in the bodyshop.
Paint-worx not only removed both doors, so they could paint right underneath the doors, also allowing plenty of access to the door shuts, but they also repaired and painted a deep scratch on the top of my door caused by me catching it with an airline by mistake. I never asked them to do this because all of the actual flap problems were right at the bottom corner, nothing too obvious, but the thought of bare metal is enough to need it fixing.
I didn't ask them to repair a few other chips and scratches on the other door, but they did because why wouldn't they.
This is the second time these chaps have worked on my van and both times they've done way more than I expected, all within the price they quoted. I have a strong moral loyalty to certain businesses that I've used for years, and my original bodyshop is one of those. But I might just keep letting Paint-worx Loughborough do the paint work on my van, and my other bodyshop can do my 'runarounds'

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I know my reviews and generally my answers within the forum can go on and on and on, but it's the only real time my brain gets exercise and I genuinely enjoy reviewing good businesses with a little more detail.
Great review and thanks for sharing @Tourershine. I have been looking at the fuel flap delete on my van and Paint-Worx are always mentioned.
They will be doing my work even though, like you say, they are far from local to me.

You travel for the best, especially when the company goes the extra mile like Paint-Worx. Long may it continue :thumbsup:
 
Great review and thanks for sharing @Tourershine. I have been looking at the fuel flap delete on my van and Paint-Worx are always mentioned.
They will be doing my work even though, like you say, they are far from local to me.

You travel for the best, especially when the company goes the extra mile like Paint-Worx. Long may it continue :thumbsup:

They've done quite a few fuel flap deletes now and got it down to a fine art.
 
A good paint shop is a rare beast, you’re lucky to have one near to you.

The guys that fitted my front/rear spoilers went pop during the last lockdown, a real shame as it was a small family owned business that had specialised in VW’s for years and were still small scale and very much hands on.
 
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