This has got to be some of the strangest luck ever

Well, I spent the day driving around to a few body shops to get estimates on what the car would cost to get painted. The good places were looking about $3000 or so for the whole deal.

So for giggles, I decided to check and see what Maaco would want for their highest end paint job. Normally, I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. But it can't hurt to see.

Well, as I'm pulling into the driveway, a car is backing out of a bay. I stopped, and it kept backing up. I honked three times, and the car kept backing up (this all happened quite fast as it wasn't very far from him to me). The car hit my SVX in the front passenger corner. It bent in the quarter panel pretty badly (but this was the worst one on the car anyway) and broke the corner light, and scratched the bumper skin.

The guy who steps out of the car turned out to be the owner of the branch, and we were able to reach an agreement, since he seemed very anxious to keep this off his business insurance. I can get the parts myself, or pay him to order them/install them, and he'll paint the whole car for free . It will be their highest end (term used loosley with Maaco) paint job, the multi-stage with clear coat.

This has to be the strangest bad, yet good luck I've ever had

I'm sure it's not going to be the best paint job ever, but heck, spray paint would look better than it does right now.

 

wow... lucky bum...

ACtually I'm curious to see what there highest end paint job turns out...let us know the before and after pics...

 

Yeah, I'm not expecting it to be very good at all. But it can't be worse than it is right now.

Here are your before pics.....

 

their paintjobs wont be bad IF the vehicle has been prepped properly beforehand.. laying paint isnt rocket science unless you wanna get into HOK and candy paint etc...

I can see now... I line up of primered cars just waiting outside for the owner to be backing a car out of the bays...

just as well you didnt have the Hellas installed on the SVX... ha hah a

 

It's got some work that'll need to be finished before it can be sent in to be painted. So that's my weekend I guess.

 

I'll be taking car of my body work with two buddies of mine who are body techs. Its gonna be roughly $800 for material, possibly more. Proper automotive base,clear, reducer, activator, filler, etc is not cheap. Thank goodness I won't have to jam it :eek3:

 

That's the nice thing about staying with the same or a VERY close color

 

That IS strange luck. Hopefully the owner is honest and keeps his word. If it's staying there overnight, make sure they have cameras or other security so your car won't get broken into while it is at the shop.

What color will it be? Tell them you want it to have [Silver Surfer] paint. Mad Bling-YO!

 

thats so neat! congrats

 

Got the car back from paint tonight. It's definetly not perfect. But it is pretty decent. I opted not to have them fill and block sand the hood, event though it needs it. It's going to be cheaper to replace the hood than they wanted to block sand it all. So that's why you'll see waves in the hood in the pictures. They flash seems to have made them look much much worse than they do in person. You really have to catch it in just the right light for them to show up.

It's surely a Maaco paint job. But it looks tons better than it used to. It was in the garage for pictures, and it was getting dark out so the color isn't really well represented either. I put the rear tail lights all back in tonight, and hopefully I'll have the rest of it put back together in the next week or two.

Next thing, get rid of those white wheels.

 

rockblocker everything you can.

maaco paint comes off easy.

 

very nice color choice though. I actually like the white wheels with that color though, refinish them with a nice flat white and it'd look sharp.

 

Looks hawt. Again, nice choice in color. It complements the factory tails.



In my book, if it looks the same color all around, you have something going for you :biggrin:

 

that looks fantastic! you just added a ton of value to the car.

 

clean your garage

 

not bad for an almost free paint job.,

 

dude, you should talk...
remember what your place looked like before we cleaned it?!?!

 

What I really want to know is where do you come up with this stuff?? :laugh:

 

wow...techy that looks alot better! nice choice in the color too...

 

Ha ha i love the trail threw the stuff... thats classic.

 

Yeah yeah. It's a total mess. Once this car gets put back together, the garage is next on the hit list. I've just been so darn busy with the new job and whatnot.

 

I understand that, it looks really nice.

 

Wow, not too bad at all. I'm with the previous statement about protecting that paint, invest the cash into some 3M paint protection...

 

Needs some gold BBS's

 

And a proper exhaust to hear the H6 hotness.





BTW, I have a 6mt shift linkage sittin here if you want it for real cheap.

 

Congrats on the almost free paint job.

As others have stated, get some paint protection on there as soon as possible.

My friend got the top-end Maaco paint job on his G20. Within 3 months it was peeling along the front bumper. Now, I cannot say for certain that Maaco prepped the car properly, but regardless 3 months later peeling paint.

However, it was almost free, and it definitely looks better than when you started.