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verb
[WITH OBJECT]Spray (something, especially a vehicle) with a new coat of paint.
‘they have resprayed their cars to avoid detection’- ‘The graffiti damaged almost the whole passenger side of the car, which the family believe will cost hundreds of pounds to respray.’
- ‘A former driving school car is also easily spotted by the poor panel gaps and resprayed bodywork that come from the numerous minor prangs of learner drivers.’
- ‘Then I sent the tank and side casings away to be resprayed in the proper paint.’
- ‘Every time a stone hits one of those vans, I know that is £500 worth of respraying, and I ask myself who is paying, and the answer is we are.’
- ‘If you do find some they'll probably be resprayed write-offs.’
- ‘I'd had it resprayed a beautiful powder blue and put in a loud sound system and used to rock around the trendy parts of north London feeling pretty smug about myself.’
- ‘It's not like a stolen car that can be resprayed and given a false number plate.’
- ‘I had my Porsche resprayed last year by an approved Porsche body shop.’
- ‘One of my clearest memories of my early years as a car buff was when my Dad’ s friend Clive resprayed his Morgan in our garage.’
- ‘Gardaí now say that the car, which is described as ‘sparkling blue’, was recently resprayed and are anxious to talk to anyone who may have worked on the car.’
- ‘He was on his way to a garage to have his car resprayed when it spun out of control and went down an embankment.’
- ‘While the fact that a car has been resprayed doesn't necessarily indicate its vendor is trying to pull a fast one, it does start to raise concerns.’
- ‘It was resprayed on Friday and got done again on Saturday night.’
- ‘One store manager quoted in our story today says that his company's premises are regularly targeted and only the other day they had to have a van resprayed.’
- ‘A police spokesman said that a sharp implement was used to gouge deep scratches in the paintwork of the cars, and some are so badly damaged that they will need to be completely resprayed.’
- ‘The entire car will now have to be resprayed costing thousands of euro, in what's been a rather frightening ordeal for the owner and residents in the area.’
- ‘The car was taken to the body shop where it spent the next 14 weeks, being totally disassembled, taken back to bare metal and resprayed.’
noun
An instance of respraying something.
‘the cost of a respray’- ‘He was looking at garaging, bodywork and a respray, minimum.’
- ‘If the paint is as bad as it sounds then a respray might well be the best fix but could be pricey.’
- ‘How much would a respray cost?’
- ‘Up close, though, the shiny black paintwork was revealed to be slightly uneven, with small bubbles under the surface - indicating a shoddy respray.’
- ‘If you've had an accident in it, had a respray, changed the wheels, done much more mileage than you claim, bought it as an import then say so.’
- ‘She says the wheel-arches of her car are ‘almost white’ with chips and the vehicle needs a complete respray because the wings and bonnet have also been damaged.’
- ‘I've fixed a lot of minor bodywork problems which have amounted to a virtual respray of the car.’
- ‘However, if you compare these prices against a quote for a respray from a quality bodyshop you may find a difference of at least a thousand pounds.’
- ‘Will a respray be perfect?’
- ‘I have booked it in for a respray at the end of this month. I want to have all the panels done in a shiny black.’
- ‘So I am nearly at a stage where the frame is ready for a respray.’
- ‘The long term plan is for a respray and some new wheels.’
- ‘The defendant was not liable for the cost of the respray because, having damaged an already damaged car, his negligence was not the cause of the loss.’
- ‘Vandals caused thousands of pounds of damage, because full resprays are required.’
- ‘They quickly found it wasn't just a case of cars being a bit cheekily priced - but of resprays, write-offs, dubious documents and suspicious owners.’
