Car Resprays & Paintwork

From a single blended panel to a full colour change, our resprays are done in a professional heated spray booth with paint mixed to your manufacturer’s exact code — the difference between paintwork that lasts and paintwork that peels within a year.

Paintwork we handle

• Panel resprays — doors, wings, bonnets and tailgates, blended into neighbouring panels for an invisible match.
• Faded or peeling lacquer — common on older bonnets and roofs; stripped and refinished properly, not painted over.
• Full resprays & colour changes — quoted per vehicle after inspection.
• Stone-chip fronts — bonnets and bumpers refreshed before resale or lease return.

How a proper respray works

1. Colour match — paint mixed from your manufacturer’s code and test-sprayed before it goes near the car.
2. Preparation — the old finish is sanded back or stripped, chips and defects corrected, panel primed. Preparation is 70% of a respray that lasts.
3. Booth application — colour and lacquer applied in a heated, filtered booth — dust-free, then baked to cure.
4. Blend & polish — blended into adjacent panels, machine-polished, inspected under daylight lamps.

Why booth-sprayed matters

Aerosols and driveway jobs fail at the edges: visible tide-lines, orange peel, lacquer that lifts in the first hot summer. A booth bake cures paint the way the factory did it — which is why we stand behind every finish.

Why drivers choose Thames Autos

• Heated spray booth and manufacturer colour-code matching — metallics, pearls and tri-coats included
• Honest advice on blend vs full panel vs full respray
• Courtesy cars on multi-day jobs
• Refinishing done properly — no peeling, bubbling or colour mismatch

Resprays near you

1A Spencer Road, Seven Kings — serving Ilford, Barking, Goodmayes, Gants Hill and Romford. Send photos of the panels and we’ll quote by return, usually the same working day.

Respray questions