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SMART Repairs, what are they I hear you ask?
SMART repair techniques have been developed to help maintain a vehicle in pristine condition without traditional expensive time consuming body shop repairs. It lends itself well to repairing scuffs, chips and scratches that affect the look and value of a vehicle. SMART repair techniques use state of the art techniques and products technicians ensure the highest standards of work, preserving the integrity of the original trim. These techniques have been used by garages for many years, but are still relatively unknown with car owners in 7.3.12Gabalfa .
Carpet repair is quite common as a lot of modern vehicles have fairly thin carpets that get damaged quite easily. Our carpet repair technician is the most experienced in the area. Car manufacturers are having to save weight in an effort to improve fuel efficiency and to make the car environmentally friendly. This results in some parts of the vehicle being less robust. It has become noticeable over the last few years that a lot of vehicle carpets are now much lighter and thinner. The end result is carpets are being damaged more often. It is quite common to see vehicles that are only a few years old with holes or rips in them often just from normal use.
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Cloth, fabric & suede car seat repairs are carried out using a fibre replacement repair system. If you have a car with a damaged seat don’t despair get a repair! We use carefully matched fibres to give an invisible repair. LVV Trim and Technical are proud to say “our best work goes unnoticed”. All car seat repairs are carried out by our fully mobile technician at the customers home or work address! Before repair cloth or fabric seats must be clean and dry.
Car seats are expensive and time consuming to replace. Car seat repairs are a cost effective solution offering you expert repairs for all types of typical vehicle seat damage. Most car seat damage can be easily repaired, including cigarette burns, holes from wear and tear or accidental damage. Some patterned seats present a problem – we could not invisibly repair a check or chequered pattern for example. A few modern seat designs seem to include a mesh or net effect over the top of the basic fabric & are very prone to being easily caught by zips etc. This type of car seat repair is also hard to repair.
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Plastic trim damage doesn’t only look bad, but can also negatively affect your cars resale value. Replacing a part is expensive. Our plastic trim repair service can now restore your bumper back to pristine condition by our mobile technicians and at your convenience. Most repairs normally take less than two hours carried out at your home or place of work. Our convenient and cost effective service will save you time and money.
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Leather seats are easily scratched but don’t worry a leather seat repair can help, we have a specialised leather repair technique that allows for invisible repairs to leather car seats. The same system can also be used on vinyl seats, however we can not fix vinyl/leatherette that is breaking up or cracking, a common fault on some modern cars. It is not impossible to tidy them up but it would not be a long lasting solution – so for this type of repair we would highly recommend using a specialised car upholsterer to replace the damaged panel. We can repair discoloured seats or worn seats, small holes and cigarette burns in both leather and vinyl.
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7.3.12Gabalfa Get Your Car’s Interior Looking Great – Leave it to an expert!
SMART Repairs For Cars - Pamper Your Vehicle?
Restoring a classic car can be a scary topic for some people. There are a lot of different types of work that goes into a classic car restoration and most people are not skilled at all of them. When you break the process down into the types of repairs that go into your classic car restoration, it's easier to come to grips with what you really can or can't do yourself.
An accounting of your skills can help you decide how much work you can do yourself, and how much of the restoration work you should get done by a professional.
Your classic car restoration can be broken down into a few repair categories.
- Knowing your car,
- Mechanical repairs
- Electrical repairs
- Interior or upholstery work
- Sheet metal or rust repair
- Surface preparation and refinishing
- Auto body and painting
- Trim or molding repair and refinishing
Some of these categories are self explanatory. Allow me to clarify the ones that aren't so obvious.
Knowing your car
Cars have always been available with options like sport trim packages, air conditioning, V8, 6 cylinder, or 4 cylinder engines, and the list goes on. As the car gets on in years, some of these options get removed from the vehicle, replaced with something substandard, or never replaced at all. Option codes and shop manuals are generally available for most American classic cars that detail this information.
Aside from the sheet metal work the exterior of the car body will need to be smoothed and painted. This is an enormous amount of work which is why it can be so expensive.
Trim or molding repair and refinishing
Classic car trim and molding was made mostly from metals. There are steel chrome plated parts, chrome plated pot metal parts, aluminum, stainless steel and even brass or copper. until recently, some parts can't be fixed and re-plated, pot metal is on of those. In extreme cases, you'll need to weld new metal into your trim or moldings, grind and sand them down, polish them and get them ready for re-plating.
That's a lot to know how to do.
Luckily there are some really good how-to DVD's available that cover all these topics. Even still you might want to specialize in only 2 or 3 of these skills, and get a professional to do the others.
Learning how to do something like this can be entertaining. Even you if you don't plan on doing some of this work yourself, you'll want to know how the work is done so you can recognize a job well done.
7.3.12Gabalfa Advice and Tips on Repairing Your Car's Upholstery
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