In February 2018 the worst happened, my typhoon was shunted from the rear at a roundabout by an idiot driving way too fast on approach to the roundabout.
The paintwork on the rear bumper was badly damaged on the offside, the rear bumper pod was taken off completely and the offside tailpipes were damaged and had to be replaced.
Had a lot of headache getting this sorted, first with the insurance getting them to pay out for the repair and then being let down by the initial garage that was going to do the work who messed up with their quote. Luckily due to this I found out they were going to bodge the repair anyway so took the car back from them.
After some recommendations through people I know, I took the car up to a sprayer in Newcastle to have the bumper resprayed. Next headache was the one place we could source typhoon from didn't match my original typhoon colour, the new paint was darker than the original so it the decision had to be made to either respray the whole car or not bother at all. Bit the bullet and went for the full respray.
I also had a bit of very good luck, whilst the car was up at the body shop I managed to get hold of a set of genuine mki rear bumper pods, the proper plastic MG Rover ones which run right up to the rear bumper heat shields! Couldn't believe I managed to get hold of a set, as I'd been looking for some for the last 4 years. I think these are pretty rare as I've only ever seen them fitted to a couple cars and that was only in photos, never seen a set in person. So that was lucky and at the right time as well.
This however did not go smoothly as although half of the car was done very well, the other half was done very badly. Took the car back to have the problems sorted only for it to be bodged and come back worse!
However this week I took it to Daniel at Cleckheaton Body Repair who worked his magic and sorted all the bodges and badly painted and finished areas, and the respray is finally now done.
Can see my full post on the finished respray here:
https://the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/s...d.php?t=300123
