GRAYDON MOTORS Vehicle Repair Gallery Archive

Welcome to the Graydon Motors online gallery archive. The vehicles shown below are a back-catalogue of a selection of the cars we have repaired in the past. Please feel free to click on the images below to view full size photographs of some of our recent projects:

May 2010 SERIES ONE LOTUS ELISE

SERIES ONE LOTUS ELISE | © 2010 Graydon Motors

Mr R. from Bristol sustained light impact damage to the front clamshell on his vehicle. Car was brought in to Graydon Motors, and an assessment of repair was carried out an faxed to his insurance company.

May 2010 SERIES TWO LOTUS ELISE TYPE 25 LTD EDITION

SERIES TWO LOTUS ELISE TYPE 25 LTD EDITION | © 2010 Graydon Motors

Mr B. from Bristol had someone reverse into the front of his Lotus. The front clam sustained severe damage and the impact also caused the vehicle to be pushed back into a solid object causing further light damage to the rear clam.

April 2010 LOTUS ELISE

LOTUS ELISE | © 2010 Graydon Motors

Mr C. from Bristol had the front end of his Lotus Elise peppered by large pieces of gravel falling from a gravel lorry whilst driving behind it. Vehicle was brought in for repairs under his insurance company and whilst in had minor re-fabrication work carried out to front clamshell at the same time.

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April 2010 LOTUS EXIGE SPRINT LTD EDITION

Mr G. from Nailsea sustained light damage to nsr clam shell and air vent box and alloy wheel after a third party vehicle had lightly glanced his Lotus Exige Sprint Ltd Edition which is his pride and joy!! Policyholder brought his vehicle into Graydon Motors for repairs on 19/04/2010.

April 2010 LOTUS ELISE

Mr F. from Clevedon has sustained light impact damage to the rear clam from being hit in the rear by another vehicle.

April 2010 LOTUS ELISE

Mr B. from Bristol had swerved to avoid an object in the road and ran into a steep bank badly damaging the front clamshell and front crash box assembly. The vehicle was driven into Graydon Motors and the policy holder was happy to leave the vehicle so as repairs could commence, a full assessment of repair was created including a full four wheel alignment check to be carried out by Williams Automobiles of Bristol, to which was sent to his insurance company for approval.

April 2010 SERIES ONE LOTUS ELISE

Mr L. from Bristol had a vehicle drive into the back of his series one Lotus Elise, lightly fracturing the rear clam shell. The vehicle was assessed and an estimate for repairs produced, but both Graydon Motors and the policyholder could not get Aviva Insurance to agree repairs costs due to an engineer not having a good product knowledge of this type of vehicle.

Mr L. then cancelled his claim with Aviva and utilised the sevices of a non-fault accident management company, to which the vehicle was re-assessed and repair costs agreed.

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April 2010 LOTUS ELISE

Mr B. from Clevedon had a vehicle reverse into the front of his Series One Lotus Elise badly damaging the front clam shell, he initially thought about repairing it himself until he removed the front clam and found the front crash box was damaged, to which the vehicle was then brought in to Graydon Motors.

March 2010 LOTUS ELISE

Mr C. from Portishead brought his damaged Lotus in after running over some debris on the road causing damage to the front clam lower section. We were able to reinforce the damaged area and carry out repairs without the need to remove the front clamshell.

March 2010 MERCEDES C220 CDI

A local electrical distributor had sustained damage to his boot lid on his Mercedes by one of their lorries reversing into his parked vehicle. Download Full Questionnaire in PDF format

March 2010 V. W. GOLF

Mrs B. from Bristol had her V. W. Golf recovered into ourselves after a lorry overtook her and pulled in to her path too soon causing extensive damage all through the offside of the vehicle.

February 2010 LOTUS ELISE 111R

Mr M. from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire recently bought his Elise 111R and was very soon involved in a road traffic accident, causing extensive damage to the front clam and crashbox, the vehicle also spun and caused damage to the O/S/R suspension, vehicle had also deployed the airbag system.The vehicle was recovered into his own insurance companies approved accident repair centre, to which they deemed the Lotus to be beyond economical repair. Owner was not happy with that decision and through persistent liaison between himself and the insurance company, and ourselves, the vehicle was then recovered to Bristol and a full and comprehensive assessment of repair was compiled by Graydon Motors, to which the vehicle was repaired to the customers satisfaction.

January 2010 LOTUS ELISE

Mr B. from Weston Super Mare brought his damaged Lotus Elise in after hitting an animal on the road causing damage to the front clam.

January 2010 LOTUS EXIGE

Mr B. from Weston Super Mare had his Lotus Exige recovered at Graydon Motors after sustaining a heavy front end impact resulting in severe damage to front clam & crash box, radiators, and oil coolers rendering the vehicle undriveable.

December 2009 LOTUS EXIGE

MR H. from Yate, Nr Bristol was directed to Graydon Motors from his insurance company after being hit by third party changing lanes on motorway. The car sustained light damage to n/s/r clam area and n/s sill. (The initial damage is difficult to image as most of the damage is G R P light fractures)

November 2009 TOYOTA AVENSIS

Mr B from Bristol was directed to Graydon Motors by his insurance company after third party vehicle pulled out of a side road and collided as he was driving past, causing moderate damage to drivers rear door and wheel arch.

October 2009 CITROEN RELAY

Mr H. from Bristol was directed to Graydon Motors by his insurance company after having sustained extensive damage to off-side-rear pillar area of his Citroen Relay Van. The impact sustained was so severe that the off-side-rear side panel had also buckled and distorted.

October 2009 LOTUS EUROPA

Mr M. from Bristol had sustained light impact damage to the near-side sill section on his Lotus Europa and light scuffing to near-side-rear alloy wheel. Graydon Motors carried out repairs to the sill section and refurbished the damaged alloy wheel to an as-new condition.

September 2009 LOTUS ELISE SERIES TWO

Dr B. from Wells, Somerset was involved in a collision with a deer which resulted in the shattering of the front clam assembly and also causing damage to drivers door.

Dr. B : "Thank you very much! I will try and avoid deer in the future!" Download Full Questionnaire in PDF format

October 2009 FORD TRANSIT

Mr H. from Bristol was directed through to Graydon Motors directly from his insurance company - All necessary repairs were carried out on his Ford Transit 100 Short-Wheel-Base panel van.

August 2009 MERCEDES B CLASS 150

Mrs P. from Bristol sustained damage to her Mercedes B Class - The vehicle was recovered in from sustaining heavy front end damage including damage to front chassis legs.

Mrs. P : "Excellent levels of communications through out the repair process." Download Full Questionnaire in PDF format

July 2009 LOTUS ELISE WHEEL REPAIR

Lotus Elise series two booked in for alloy wheel refurbishments. These wheels have the tinted anodised gun metal silver finish to which Lotus can no longer match.
Graydon Motors have developed a unique technique in order to refurbish this style of wheel, for further information on this technique please do get in touch.

July 2009 LOTUS EXIGE

Mr M. from Bath sustained light impact damage to the nearside front wheel arch on his Lotus Exige, and whilst in for repairs requested that all stone chips and scratches on the vehicle were repaired at the same time.

Mr. M : "Highly delighted with the work that has been carried out, having all the stone chips done has really tidied up the car ."

June 2009 LOTUS 111s

Mr N. from Bristol brought his Lotus 111s in for examination as he had just had this vehicle repaired through his insurance company approved repairer and was unhappy with the alignment of the new front clam.
It was agreed that Graydon Motors would fit a new front clam, however when vehicle was stripped down have found the new front crash box was bonded in wrong position!

Mr. N : "I will only use a Lotus approved repairer next time, this has been a nightmare with the car being off the road for some two months, thankfully Graydon Motors have been able to sort this out, what a great relief."

June 2009 MERCEDES A CLASS

Mrs C. of St George Sustained heavy damage to the near-side of her vehicle after being hit by a large 4x4 vehicle that had driven into her.

Mrs. C : "Graydon Motors have done a lovely job, very pleased to get my vehicle back."

March 2009 LOTUS ELISE 111R

Mr B. from Fishponds in Bristol brought his vehicle in having suffered light to medium impact damage to front clam assy. The front clam was removed, repaired and repainted.

Mr. B : "Brilliant repair to bodywork - I've looked hard but still can't see what area was damaged and what's original. 10 out of 10." Download Full Questionnaire in PDF format

March 2009 FERRARI 360

Mr J. booked his damaged Ferrari 360 in with Graydon Motors to have the numerous front bumper stone chips removed and panels repainted.

Mr. J : "Fantasic job, and brilliant colour match, nice to have a garage that can carry out a first class repair."

January 2009 LOTUS ELISE SERIES TWO

Mr H. brought his damaged Lotus Elise to Graydon Motors after suffering frontal damage to the fibreglass construction of his vehicle. Graydon Motors were able to remove the damaged body pannels and repair the car to a like-new condition.

Mr. H : "A real pleasure to deal with such an efficient and courteous company."

December 2008 LOTUS ESPRIT V8 TURBO

Mr E. from Axbridge in Somerset booked in for repairs to all stone chips across front end and light abrasion damage to NFS door.

Mr. E: "Excellent job done all round, very good colour match, would certainly use Graydon Motors again."

Sept 2008 LOTUS SPORTS RACER

Mr. T. from Weston Super Mare was involved in a rear end impact by third party vehicle and required a new rear clam assembly for his Lotus.

Mr. T : "The car was returned in pristine condition, the colour match was spot on and the final finish first rate. From my experience I would recommend the Graydon Motors team to all the drivers."