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Car Paint Scratch Panel Repair Process in Hertfordshire, Essex and London
Car body repairs 4 less is a mobile car paint repair service which covers Hertfordshire, Essex and London . A paint repair would be needed if the vehicle in question has a scuff, chip, scrape, scratch, flaking paint or any instance where the vehicles paint surface has...
Car Dent Repairs in Hertfordshire, Essex and London
Dents can appear through a variety of ways, the most common cause of a dent is from a car park dent, where another car door has impacted on the side of another while stationery. Car Body Repairs 4 Less can remove and repair dents depending on their location. Some...
Car Dent Repair Process
Dents are an unavoidable part of owning a car, no matter if you park your car on the moon someone is likely to open a car door onto it. Most dents as mentioned above are caused in car parks where the car is stationery and another driver either bumps a part of their...
Bumper Scuff Repair Process
A customer in Watford called and enquired about a bumper scuff on a Volvo near side rear bumper corner, we advised them to take a few photos and send them via phone message or email. Within 24 hours the customer had a reply with a price and a possible date and time...
Stone Chip Repair Process
Stone chips can be repaired 2 ways: 1. They can be touched in which requires the chip filled with paint by touching it in with a fine brush. The repair is not a 100% perfect finish it makes the damage look a lot less visible. Out of the two repair options this one is...
Stone Chip Repair in Hertfordshire, Essex and London
Every vehicle no matter what age gets stone chips, they are an unavoidable problem. Generally stone chips are caused by day to day motorway and road driving by small objects like stones impacting on your vehicle.. The main areas where you would find stone chips are:...
Car Seat Burn Repair in Hertfordshire, Essex and London
A Car Seat Burn (also known as Cigarette Burn ) would be multiple or single burns on a cars or any vehicles interior seats or upholstery. Car Body Repairs 4 Less would be able to fix the Seat Burn by replacing the fibres lost by the burn damage. Repair time for a...
Cracked Paint Repairs
Sometimes when a car body panel has been scuffed or scratched the impact of the collision can cause the paint work to crack forming stress related fractures around the scuffed or scratched area. The cracks usually form in the shape of lines emanating outward from the...
Seat Burn Repair Techniques
There is only one cause of a seat burn and that is when a lit cigarette falls by accident onto your cars seat fabric. The resulting burn can be a light as a surface burn or go deeper into the foam itself, either way the repair techniques we use are very similar for...
Mobile body repairs vs. insurance
If you have had a knock on your car that’s scuffed your bumper, dented your door or even scratched your wing how should you go about getting it repaired? You can either go throughout insurance or pay for the repairs yourself, which one should you go for and which one...
The Problem With Silver Cars
Of all the cars we have sprayed over the years from blacks and blues to whites and reds it's the silver colour cars that cause us the most problems. It's not only smart repair services that find the colour tricky but body shops also, for example in order for a body...
Our Biggest Repairs to Date
Most dents that we fix on cars are quite small, somewhere between the size of a golf ball to that of a cricket ball. Most dents we use a paint less dent removal system (PDR) to remove them or if they have been scratched or the dent is in a difficult place to remove we...
Simple Bumper Repairs
There's bumper repairs and there's bumper repairs, not all are the same and some are worst than others. Identifying which ones are simple to fix can be tricky and depends upon many factors. It's not always the smallest scuffs or scratches on bumpers that are easy to...
The Perfect Crack Repair
Whether it’s a metal panel or plastic, if its hit with enough force then the damaged area could crack. There are different severities of cracks you can get, which one you could get depends on the force of the impact and what panel of your car takes the impact. Most...
Stone Chip Touch in Service
Stone chips don’t always have to be sprayed to give a good result. Sometimes spraying them is not an option, for example you may have a few on your bonnet but don’t want to spend the sort of money that’s required to get the panel repainted at a body shop. Or if...
Another New Garage
Over the past few weeks we have taken on another garage, this one is in Royston on the boarders of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. They had been previously using a major franchise smart repair service for all there scuffs and chips but were not pleased with there...
Vehicle Vandal Scratches
I have been carrying out mobile scratch repairs on customer cars for over 13 years, and it never ceases to amaze me at how some people can be so mindless with wanton vandal behaviour on other peoples property, in this case their cars. I have had the unfortunate...
Hole Repair on Bumper in Watford
Fixing a hole or void in any panel on a car is a tricky thing to do. Most holes on cars are usually the result of rust on wheel arches or lower door edges where the corrosion has eaten away at the metal. Sometimes they are the result of a sharp object such as a...
Plastic Bumper Repair
97% of car bumpers on the roads today are made from plastic for two reasons, 1) Cheap to produce and replace. 2) Easy to repair. The old style metal bumpers were more expensive to manufacture and costly to repair. The other types of bumpers you can get are...
Cheap Car Body Repairs
Car Body Repairs encompasses a wide range of services from Smart Repair service to an Accident Repair Centre, choosing the one that’s right for you is the difficult bit. No one likes getting damage on there automobile especially if its new or its your pride and joy,...
Smart Repairs on Performance Cars
There are a lot of high-end performance cars on the roads today and with more of them around the likely hood of them getting some kind of scuff or scratch from minor collisions has increase. The common myth around the high cost of bodywork repairs on high performance...
Maximize the value of your car
When buying a used car from either a trade supplier or a private seller the first thing you notice and what draws you to the car is its appearance. Not many people know that much about the cars interior workings and when confronted with an open bonnet most of us...
Simple Wheel Arch Repair
Most light collisions on cars usually occur on the front or rear bumper areas of your car. These types of repairs can be a standard type of repair where the only affected panel is the bumper, but some times if the collision is hard enough or the object that the car...
How the summer heat can affect repairs
Everyone loves a hot summer, especially at the weekends when you can sit back, relax and unwind in the summer heat. Most people think that with the increase in temperature that the summer brings our job would be a hell of a lot easier, paint, primer and lacquer would...
What can our specialists fix
Car Body Repairs If you thought that SMART repairs was just limited to the odd small scratch or stone chip repair and that larger areas of damage such as a bumper scuff of a key scratch are just to big to repair, well then think again. Our SMART Repair specialist are...
Smart Repair Service Near Me
If you have had a knock, scratch or dent on your vehicle and need a specialist repair service to fix it and your not to sure what to search or look for on the internet then this article should provide you with all the info that you need to source the right repair...
The Future for Smart Repairs
SMART REPAIRS as a business has been around for over 20 years and has seen varying degrees of change in its time from the type of paints that are used to he speed of curing of lacquers, but what does the future hold for the progress of this repair technique? In The...
Car Seat Upholstery Repair
Fixing car seat upholstery has been a steady progressive part of our business over the last decade that has seen an increase year on year. With the new law change in 2015 (that prohibited drivers or passengers smoking in the car with young children) we expected a...
Local Car Body Repair Service
Large dented scuff in Colindale NW9 Although our main source of work is from minor collision damage such as bumper scuffs, seat burns and cracked bumpers we do on occasion fix slightly larger damaged areas like the one below for example in the local areas we cover....
What do you do when someone damages your car
It's not a nice feeling when you return to your parked car to find that someone has damaged it. Although you might try your best to keep your car away from possible trouble, sometimes no matter how well you protect it there will always be the possibility of an idiot...
Fixing Bad Repair Jobs
For the past 15 years we have been repairing all types of damage on all types of cars from dents and scratches to seat burns and cracked bumpers. Most of the jobs we carry out are straightforward to fix and very rarely do we encounter unforeseen problems. It just goes...
It’s All About The Finish
When it comes to getting a car body repair carried out on your car, the first thing you will notice is the finish of the paintwork repair. It’s the most important aspect of fixing bodywork on cars and if you get it wrong it doesn’t matter how good the prep work was it...
Winter Paintwork Protection
Winter can be especially harsh on your cars exterior; it damages everything from your gardens to your homes so your vehicle is no exception. Considering that a car is the second most expensive thing that we probably own it makes sense that we should take care of...
Local Scratch Repairs
As a business we do tend to travel over quite large distances to different areas in Hertfordshire Essex and North London to carry out our scratch repairs. We are based slightly north of ware but perfectly positioned from the A10 or M11 both of which are great...
Car Bumper Repairs
Out of all the panels on your vehicle no other will receive as much damage over its lifetime than the humble bumpers. Whether it’s the front or rear bumpers they are both in the firing line. Car manufactures have always known this and as a result produce more bumpers...
Beware DIY Repairs
DIY Nightmare Mistakes Car Body Repairs 4 Less has been running since 2002 and in that time we have fixed a variety of scuffs scratches dents and chips, out of all these different types of repairs the trickiest to fix is the dreaded DIY repair. The main reason...
Lease Returns
FAQ Returning your Lease /Hire Vehicle How meticulous can car hire companies can be? Lease or hire car companies all vary on how meticulous they are about their vehicle inspections when they are returned. On the day you might have one technician inspect the car while...
Split Bumper
A split plastic bumper is probably one of the most difficult types of repair to carry out on a vehicle. Not only do you have to completely seal the split to an airtight finish but you also have to reshape a highly flexible area that’s not always flat. The front...
Paintless Scratch Repair
Cleaning your car shouldn’t be a hazardous activity and it’s not something that usually warrants a smart repair afterwards. It’s a simple job of continuous soap and water till your vehicle is clean and shinny. Its also a great way for the young ones to earn a...