[Scottwax]

My brother ended up suing the shop that fixed the hail damage and repainted his truck. Runs, drips, sags, fisheyes, overspray (wheels, door jambs, engine, glass and even interior door panels), excessive orange peel, sanding marks visible under the paint, aftermarket hood instead of the factory hood it showed on the invoice and to top it off, the color didn't match...and it was a 3 month old truck! My brother gave them two more tries and each time the truck looked worse. He was willing to have them do it a 3rd time where they were supposed to take it down to the metal and repaint the entire truck so at least the paint would match but they wouldn't provide him a rental for the 30-45 days they'd need the truck.

He contacted a lawyer who had my brother get estimates. The CHEAPEST estimate was $8500 and that was assuming they wouldn't have to replace anything (which by now included severe overspray on the wheels, engine, door jambs and interior panels). The paint thickness measured between 17 and 41 mils! Normal paint thickness on a Dodge Ram is 5 mils, maybe up to 8 with a repaint. Just an unreal amount of paint on the truck. Anyway, he ended up winning a $10,000 judgement which the shop actually paid. $4000 to the lawyer, the rest to my brother.