I had my car painted by an ex-macco (?) shop. They have many different levels
of painting to choose from. The very cheapest was about 200 bucks. They
basically roll your car into the booth and spray it. Possibly they wash it
first and maybe scruff the underlying paint a bit. In order for them to even
remove old pinstripes, your paint job is going to increase in price upwards of
$500-$600, but even then it's highly unlikely. My paint job was $350 for the
initial priming/trimming and then another $375 for the final coat, with me
spending a month doing prep work including sanding and bondo, and there are
STILL little dings we missed. If I had paid somebody to do the work I did and
end up with the finish I got, this paint job would cost closer to $2000. The
only way to get a cheap good paint job is to do it, or at least most of it,
yourself. That's just my .02.
adrian
"Haynes, Mark" wrote:
> As with anything, you get what you pay for. If you expect a shop to do a
> bang-up paint job for $200, well you've got another think coming. The deal
> for a good (relatively) job from these hacks is to do all of the prep
> yourself, leave nothing to chance, and hope they pay attention to your
> wishes. Even when you do all of the prep, it doesn't mean that they'll paint
> everything you want, and not the things you don't (you know, lights,
> windows, chrome,etc.). If you want a first rate job, PAY FOR IT, it's worth
> every penny.
> Provided of course that's what you can afford, for the rest of us, we paint
> our own, and do all the prep work ourselves, and live with the consequences
> (results)
> Mark Haynes
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Metallian6@aol.com [SMTP:Metallian6@aol.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 4:35 AM
> > To: curtiseads@geocities.com; spitfires@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: new mg
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 5/13/99 3:09:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > curtiseads@geocities.com writes:
> >
> > << Oh yeah - I'm considering having the Spit painted. Are there any good
> > national chains, or can somebody reccomend a place in the Denver area? >>
> >
> > Hi Curtis. I can tell you one place not to take your Spit. Macco. I think
> > that's how you spell it. They are a national chain. I made the mistake of
> > taking my Trans Am there one year ago and they did a terrible job. They
> > didn't take the old paint off, didn't even rough it up, left all the rust,
> >
> > paint is bubbling and peeling everywhere. There were runs in it. Oh yeah
> > the
> > paint started peeling two weeks after I got it back. Didn't take it back
> > for
> > two reasons. 1: I moved to Wisconsin. 2: I swore they would never touch
> > another one of my cars again. They have cheap prices and they do cheap
> > work.
> >
> > James
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