Uh... WOW! Is this my car - I asked myself a few times.

These were taken through a dirty window - sorry... they tell me it will be ready tomorrow so if that's the case I'll take some before I drive it away.

 

I know a guy up in rome that does awesome work, several show winning paint jobs. He was going to paint my truck Candy Brandywine including taking out some small dings for $3k + paint. He painted several of the cars for my friends car lot and his paint always looked perfect no orange peel. PM me if you want his number I can call my friend down there and get it.

Ricky

 

Well...the paint does indeed look most excellent. Unfortunately, that's not enough for me to drive away with the car. You see, they chose to cut the wire for my ZR3 laser shifter, and then didn't even bother putting the rear sensor back on or reconnecting the wires and on top of that killed the power to the head unit of it which was undoubtedly screaming at them due to the cut connection to the sensors. (It does that to let you know there's a problem.) On top of that they put a base model windshield in the car - which I verified by looking at the information printed on the windshield of a base model that was parked right near it. Well that and the fact that no where on it does it say 4.5mm like it used to. So, no car yet. But it was hard to walk away from because it LOOKS FRIGGEN SICK.

 

Why not use shelf liner on the hood? Afraid it will come off?

 

Do a seach on forum. Tons of prev threads and posts. I suspect you could plan on $1000 for the paint itself, as paint is ridiculously expensive.

I spent $450 for paint (plus labor) on a Caddy bumper.

 

Just got a quote for $4000 for a complete repaint, same color for my '86 vette. A top collision shop in NE Florida listed in Corvette fever. I saw the work he did on a friends new DTS and the work was excellent!

 

Typical body shop stuff. That sucks. Hope they get everything right again on your car. Glad you like the paint work. Sure would be easier if they called first before cutting stuff they do not understand or know about huh?

 

Indeed. They put the NAGS(National Auto Glass Specification) part number DW01514GB in the car. (OOPS!) So the glass company is coming back tomorrow. The manager has his best electronics guy tracing the wires they cut on the ZR3 to see if it's fixable - which I suspect not. I'd say that the 12V sent down those phone cables (the TX/RX heads are hard wired, the controller end has RJ45s on it) met a short from being cut and came back to the head unit where chaos immediately followed. That's just one engineer's opinion, of course, but I'm usually right on these type of things. Even if it could be soldered back together I would expect a degraded TX result which is not acceptable for obvious reasons. At any rate, they assure me they will make it right. I just hope no one hurts the paint while they're at it. They're clear on how much I like that part of the deal - it's absolutely the sickest torch red I've ever seen. Something about having a properly prepared surface to paint and a painter who's goal is to not have orange peel really worked out well and I shudder at the thought of people working around that.

 

I have no a lot of local and not so local Vette enthusiasts go to Tim Burke in Orlando FL...
...he does amazing work and can paint same color from $5K+

When he is done...you are absolutely pleased only when HE is absolutely pleased...

...and the comment about what others think about the body shop...does matter

Oh and Tim Burke has done ALL my paint work in and out on 2 corvettes and my prize StuzVette
peace
Stu

 

You are 100% right. blocking out the car, and putting enough clear on to properly wet sand the car makes all the difference. Most people wouldn't know the difference until they were able to compare stock to a good repaint. The only issue is the repaint is less durable, but most of us take pretty good care of our cars, so that is not a big issue.

Sounds like they're stepping up to the mistakes, and that shop will have a satisfied customer.

 

They knocked off $500 so I can get the ZR3 replaced. Here is the finished product. Keep in mind I drove it 50 miles before these pictures were taken so it's not exactly clean: