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Old Jul 12, 2004 | 09:40 PM
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Well, got my vette back last week, the paint didn't really match, the front bumber wasn't aligned properly and it had a bunch of blemishes in the paint, some dry spots in the foglight inlets & around the turning signals, and I noticed they cracked my rocker panel. So I brought it back to them, talked to Richard (head service guy) and told him everything and he took immediate action, never questioned / argued with me, ended up finding out from him that the front bumber wasn't an OEM part. Stupid insurance company trying to save money put a repro part on there.

wasn't too happy about that, especially since they are supposted to give me the option of paying the difference if I don't want the repro part, which I would have done.

Anyway, he spoke with my insurance company told em' it didn't fit right, paint blemishes, etc and he got them to pay for the OEM front bumber.

And they're fixing my rocker panel, and not giving me any greef about it.

Its supposted to be done wednesday, so hopefully this time everything will be great and as far as the paint not blending properly (if you look at it under a direct light at night) I figure I'll give it a few years and just repaint the entire car mid-night blue like I wanted to begin with.
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Old Jul 12, 2004 | 10:03 PM
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Best of luck getting it done right....since they have to repaint part now anyway, why not negotiate to see how much extra to spray whole car?
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Old Jul 12, 2004 | 10:47 PM
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Best of luck getting it done right....since they have to repaint part now anyway, why not negotiate to see how much extra to spray whole car?
Worth asking the question!!! You just never know.
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Old Jul 13, 2004 | 01:42 AM
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Worth asking the question!!! You just never know.
Yeh, but I wouldn't want to get it done there, plus I probably couldn't afford it right now.

Eitherway, I wouldn't recommend this place for a complete a to z paint job, it'd probably have more orange peel then when it went in. This place is a insurance companies wetdream .. i mean a nationwide blue ribbon outfit. I just don't think I'd feel comfortable leaving it with them for a total paint job.

I did get an estimate from somewhere else on getting the whole car repainted and it was something like $6,000 they said something about it being black and changing the color costing more. I'll wait and when I'm good and ready to spend the 6K on a paintjob, it'll look absolutely amazing.

Thanks for the suggestion though.
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Old Jul 13, 2004 | 08:31 AM
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stay on top of it
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Sounds like they are taking care of you. Good luck getting it all repaired right.
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Good luck in your continued fight to get what is right!
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