A body shop website that opens with "it will show"
The factory lays six coats onto the panel, including a dip-applied cathodic primer no workshop can reproduce — after a repair the panel carries a different film thickness, and a two-hundred-złoty gauge will show it, ten years later, when the car is sold. This site says so in its headline, before anyone books the car in, and draws from it the trade's only sensible rule: repair when repairing pays. The calculator therefore states the cost not in złoty but as a percentage of the car's value, because two thousand on a hundred-thousand car is nothing and on an eight-thousand car is half of it. Five verdicts include two that workshops rarely utter: at thirty-four per cent the page advises against the repair, explaining that a resprayed panel will cut the resale price anyway, so the owner would pay twice; above seventy it says plainly that this is a write-off in all but name. Where a third party's insurer pays, the threshold disappears — and the page warns instead against accepting a cash settlement in place of the repair. The graphic motif is a cross-section of the coating: six horizontal bands of differing thickness, returning in the paint section, the favicon and the error pages. The palette comes from two states of steel, cold zinc and rust, with the rust reserved for damage and refusal. What stays manual is the queue for the spray booth — the workshop's real bottleneck, not the hammer.
