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I went by today to see how my baby is doing. The bumper was completely taken off and they did all the prep work this morning. By afternoon it was in the paint booth. I also purchased new badges for the car. Funny thing is....neither the front badge or the rear badge were in poor condition. I may be wrong (I'm not), but if I'm going to paint that front end, the badge has got to look or be new. I'm a retired teacher and my hobby is building furniture. Not the cheap stuff, but the Gustav Stickley Arts & Crafts furniture from the turn of the century. Finish is everything.....I can build the most incredible piece of art on earth, but if my finish is poor, I failed. So.....with saying that I'll look over the paint job and bring my dog in case it's not done correctly. And.....the whole bumper is being painted completely. All chips and scratches to be eliminated. The badges/emblems are no longer supplied by GM, so they had to order them from a company online. They looked hard because they wanted the exact emblems that are on the car.
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My collision guy quoted me $1000 to paint just my hood because of a blemish near my headlight. He stated that was the ONLY way to ensure no problems down the road. This place does really good work, they just did $9800.00 in repairs to my wifes Rav4 and it looks like new, it should, it's a 2009.( rear-ended by a Hummer...ouch!)
Anywho, I'll betcha that $500 is to paint the problem area and thats all, but if warrantied for life...why not do it. If the paint peels up where it's blended to the exsisting paint, your covered.
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Anywho, I'll betcha that $500 is to paint the problem area and thats all, but if warrantied for life...why not do it. If the paint peels up where it's blended to the exsisting paint, your covered.
My $0.02.
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I went by today to see how my baby is doing. The bumper was completely taken off and they did all the prep work this morning. By afternoon it was in the paint booth. I also purchased new badges for the car. Funny thing is....neither the front badge or the rear badge were in poor condition. I may be wrong (I'm not), but if I'm going to paint that front end, the badge has got to look or be new. I'm a retired teacher and my hobby is building furniture. Not the cheap stuff, but the Gustav Stickley Arts & Crafts furniture from the turn of the century. Finish is everything.....I can build the most incredible piece of art on earth, but if my finish is poor, I failed. So.....with saying that I'll look over the paint job and bring my dog in case it's not done correctly. And.....the whole bumper is being painted and blended. All chips and scratches to be eliminated. The badges/emblems are no longer supplied by GM, so they had to order them from a company online. They looked hard because they wanted the exact emblems that are on the car.
Hope everything goes well and you cannot tell if the car has been painted! At least you know they are doing it halfway correct by taking the bumper off...
I wonder if it will have the slight orange peel look that Corvettes have?= from the factory?
