Buy-A-New-Car Bodyshop in Va Beach.

 

lol are you for real. I worked there for a year or so started in 2003 .. The painter then and I where the only MONEY makers HIDUST ever had. I just stoped past there a month ago to say HI. the only thing good about that place is MISS DEBBIE

 

YEP!!! Joey is a good guy Ive known him for many years even before we all worked in Paint and body shops.

 

my dad works there and the majority of the work i see come out of there work is not "so-so." i was there saturday painting my car and seeing some of the things these guys fix is amazing. there are some awesome painters there too. one of them is doing one of my motocross helmets.

 

Auto Elite. va beach.

figure if the porsche and ferrari guys can trust them with good work, I can too

 

ya i know IAN your dad... and all them guys.

 

yes another good shop.. thats my old crew from checkerd flag days just befoe brian opened that shop.. Brain. tony. butchie

 

Franklin Collision, in franklin, go see tyler and eric "cash", they both have built show winning cars, cars in magazines, and his is prob. the most anal guy i have ever met in my life.

he paints all the dub.fresh cars, all the wagenwerks cars, and of course he painted and did the body work on mine

 

Sorry I disappeared on you guys. For some reason I stopped getting e-mails when a response was posted so I assumed there were no new posts.

Door jambs were not painted - I was on a budget and the car is for driving not showing (and the repaint is in the original factory color...to a T. Which is nice because in my experience no two Nautical Blue W126's look exactly alike, even with factory paint jobs, and this one looks exactly how it used to look), so he did for me like how MB did it from the factory back in the day and feathered the door jamb to make it look like the rest of the car in color but not shiny (i.e. it's cheaper, it's not how show cars do it, but it's how MB used to do it).

To be fair to the price ($6,850), a lot of it was in repair - there was a rusted out fender that apparently had been damaged at the dealer before we bought the car new with only 12 miles on it (they had repaired it with bondo, which after 20 years has a way of giving out), one shock tower was completely rusted out, $340 was labor to replace the front and back glass which themselves totaled $1319 in parts cost, and they replaced $750 worth (thank you Mercedes Benz parts pricing) of lower molding and repainted a portion of the underbody. Oh, and there's $240 in towing on the bill (had to go back and forth to my exhaust guy - I wasn't living in the area anymore near the end so I wanted it all done so I could come down in one trip and pick it up). It was also nice to see my car sitting next to AMGs and Porsches (there is another shop that gets the areas Ferraris), and it was the shop that every exotic car dealer in the area recommended (except for Ferrari, though the used Ferrari dealer did recommend them)

I don't remember which Glasurit was used - I know he told me, though it's not on the receipt. When reading your post the number 55 sticks out in my head so that may have been it.

I'll be checking out the various recommendations. Part of my desire for Glasurit is that's what's on the car, that's what came on the car from the factory, and given how hard it seems to be to match Nautical Blue in all levels of sunlight for some reason, I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. If that's misguided thinking, oh well, it's my thinking.

I also got some recommendations from people in the MB Club - do you guys have any thoughts on these?

Harmon’s Body Shop 1003 N King St Hampton VA 23669 757 728-9700 – Tysinger uses them
Autohaus (yorktown car dealership...I know where it is so I didn't copy down the address when copying these to a word file) – 757-898-7015
European Autowerks – 757-558-7881 5461 Virginia Beach Blvd. Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Ebby’s 535 2nd St Williamsburg VA 23185 – 757-220-0797

 

Do you use Glasurit at your shop?