Poor Professional Paint Jobs
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Instructor
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From: Cottonwood Heights UT
Poor Professional Paint Jobs
Hey, all. Just wanted to post a link to the paint shop results, just in case anyone is interested. The paint shop is Nudeez Customs in Layton, UT. The color was great. The quality speaks for itself :
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Instructor
Joined: May 2003
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From: Cottonwood Heights UT
Yes. We had to go through the legal rounds, not much came of it. Oh, well, back to focusing on getting the vehicle completely finished so I can enjoy it.
Race Director
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From: Who says "Nothing is impossible" ? I've been doing nothing for years.
I would be a little upset myself. When I first got my Vette 15 years ago this forum obviously wasn't here. I didn't know squat about Vettes and looked in the yellow pages and found "Stingray" Corvette shop not 10 minutes from house. Took the Vette there and got bent over a desk. Very poor work for very large money. I did give him every opportunity to make things right, he refused.
Anyway to make a long story short, I know many many Corvette owners up here and I have cost that shop 100X over what I got hosed for by steering potential customers away from the shop, which is still in business but the owner probably could have retired by now 15 years later if he had the business I steered away from him.
What goes around, comes around, you could start with a sandwich board out on public property in front of his shop or join every Corvette club and car club around there and spread the word around, word of mouth can be the best or worst advertising
Anyway to make a long story short, I know many many Corvette owners up here and I have cost that shop 100X over what I got hosed for by steering potential customers away from the shop, which is still in business but the owner probably could have retired by now 15 years later if he had the business I steered away from him.
What goes around, comes around, you could start with a sandwich board out on public property in front of his shop or join every Corvette club and car club around there and spread the word around, word of mouth can be the best or worst advertising
Safety Car
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From: Oakland California
Pro
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From: Irving Texas
I go to alot of car shows and always talk to the owners and ask where they got their paint and body.........referrals are always the best way to go....especially when you can see the end result and ask how much they spent.
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Race Director
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From: California
I paid $4k for mine and it is absolutely perfect... NO orange peel,, glass.... 4 coats of clear.... Took every door, handle, spoiler... EVERYTHING off.... you just got to shop around, and look at other work they have done. I will compare my $4k paint to any 10-15K$ job....
Pro
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From: London England
That's bad period but at nearly 17K that's awful.
I got a better job than that on my VW for less than 4K, I wasn't happy with it at that money either.
I hope you got some of your money back, I wouldn't want that corrected. Bad paintwork is a bit like having a botched operation, you don't want the same surgeon to put it right!
I got a better job than that on my VW for less than 4K, I wasn't happy with it at that money either.
I hope you got some of your money back, I wouldn't want that corrected. Bad paintwork is a bit like having a botched operation, you don't want the same surgeon to put it right!
Make him pay.
Team Owner
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From: Redondo Beach, California
Just curious about how much work the shop really did. If it's not to painful of a story to tell, how did they justify the cost?. Did they do any bodywork? I'd guess they didn't, or if they did, their body work is not very professional (i.e. door mismatch). Did they remove all of the previous layers of paint? I'd assume the color coat paint was just a single layer? Back in the days of lacquer, there'd be several layers of color lacquer, which increased labor costs. There shouldn't be that much labor with a single coat.
The reason for asking is just for some learning about what I can expect a shop to say to justify a high price. Thanks
The reason for asking is just for some learning about what I can expect a shop to say to justify a high price. Thanks
