A meeting with the minister of paint magic

After I got back from the Dragon this year, a large area of clearcoat on the inside of my driver’s side door bubbled and peeled off. A few weeks later I came out of a store to find someone had backed into my MINI and cracked my brand new rear aero bumper. And then a few weeks ago a valet parking attendant who insisted on parking my MINI, drove the front aero bumper onto a concrete parking stop and scraped off a bunch of the black paint. It was almost enough to drive an Miniac mad!

None of the damage was major but it really bugged me and with the MM4 car show coming up in two weeks, I really wanted to get it fixed. Due to the nature of the damage I was convinced it would require a complete repaint of my rear bumper cover and door panel pieces and therefore cost a lot of $$$. So today I drove to Orlando to see the minister of paint magic, Luis at Glimpse Auto Body.

In a little over four hours he repaired the crack in my rear bumper cover and spot painted it. He fixed the plastic door panel and applied new clearcoat. And he fixed the bottom of my front aero bumper with that special, black-textured paint. On all of it you can’t tell it was ever damaged. The total cost was about the same as I was quoted to replace the door panel with a factory-painted one.

If you need paint or body work, even if you live far away from Orlando, you owe it to yourself and your MINI to bring it to Luis. He truly is a magician with paint.