In a message dated 06/01/01 11:05:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> One last question, I heard
> > that Maaco is crap for painting cars. I heard they don't even sand and
> > primer
> > your car...they just paint right over you existing paint. Has anyone ever
> > used them and are they really that bad? Thanx all.
>
All I can say is you get what you pay for. Nobody's going to put the work
into a $5000 paintjob for a couple of hundred bucks. Painting a car right
takes a HELL of a lot of time and patients. For that time and patients, you
have to pay for it. If you pay $250 for a Maaco cheap paintjob, it might
last for a few years, but then again, it might start peeling within weeks.
It also depends on how good of shape your paint is in already, if it's good,
factory paint on the car now, Maaco paintjobs will be a little better because
paint holds better to a factory paintjob(because with an aftermarket
paintjob, you never know what is under that stuff) I, personally, have
painted my own car and it took ALL damn summer to do in my off time, but a
close friend of mine got the cheap $400 Maaco paintjob that is awesome for
what she paid! It's been a few years(I think 3) and it looks pretty damn
good for what she has in it. But then again, the doorjambs are the old color
too.
Mike
91 XE with tooo many colors on it!
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