Scottish Elises

Got my undertray powdercoated black this week at Coatech in Carnoustie. It was a very reasonable £30 to clean it up and coat it. The owner of the place has an Esprit and a TVR Griffith so knows his cars

Also fitted the black fuel cap surround and I reckon they both look bloody cool

That looks nice.
Where did the black fuel cap surround come from?

Jim

Came from Derek

looks

Craig

Looks, Cool Si .For an S2


Mags

Been done before Noobie



Mac

I have given it some thought...
Think I am gonna do that too.



err... I take it that I have to remove the bit and take it to them rather than turning up with it attached to the car?

Jim

renmure wrote:I have given it some thought...
Think I am gonna do that too.



err... I take it that I have to remove the bit and take it to them rather than turning up with it attached to the car?

Jim

Yup.

looking , nice work!

Looks very cool Simon.

Is it the entire undertray you got done for £30 or just the diffuser bit at the back? That's a damn good price.

Do you think it will show up scuffs/scratches from stones and other debris more? Or is the coat quite thick?

Like me you need to get the grilles on either side of the number pate done now - mine look pretty weathered compared to the diffuser.

mac wrote:

Been done before Noobie

So have stripes

Dezzy, it's just the rear section, you can't see the other bit so there's not point.

Jim, you need to take it off unless you want them to coat the whole car

simon wrote: Jim, you need to take it off unless you want them to coat the whole car

Hmmm. oh well. I guess I had better buy myself a Boiler-suit and get down to some *real* mechanicy stuff. Suppose I should get some tools as well. Think I bent the spoon last time I was being mechanicy

Jim

simon wrote:

mac wrote:

Been done before Noobie

So have stripes

Dezzy, it's just the rear section, you can't see the other bit so there's not point.

Jim, you need to take it off unless you want them to coat the whole car

I don't have stripes

Looks good - as did IainF's car albeit it Iain's was black paint IIRC.

These are the boys who refinished my summer alloys a couple of years back, great job done and not a sign of any deterioration since. Ewan (owner) is a car nut, as Simon says, and takes a real interest.

I've been plugging them since they did this work for me.

Good to pass some business their way through this group, keeping the small, honest local firms alive

Campbell

PS - I took the Elise rims up to him in the Golf (which has 18 inch BBS mirror finish rims as per its 25th Anniversary spec). He took one look at it and said "you'll be back here with those in a year or two tops"...I was crestfallen, as they seemed unburstable and from VW you'd expect the best. Sure enough, later that year the corrosion started, we are now on our 3rd warranty set and that's the end of the line as warranty ran out last year. The fronts in particular look dreadful, with brake dust ingress from the back of the rims. As Ewan explained, this is because the wheels aren't lacquered and sealed all the way through by BBS...or many other alloy suppliers. But they are when he does a refurb Coatech here we come !!!