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Originally Posted by Picus

The people saying 10k will buy you a show car paint job in California are crazy. Maybe if you own the paint shop; but labour alone for a "show car quality" job is usually over $10,000. Amazing how little most people know about automotive paint and body work.

Yeah, ain't that the truth.

Not that such work will probably be required to make those Audis sellable...not like most new-car customers notice/care about the paintjobs all that much anyhow IMO, especially the people who are leasing.

Originally Posted by jfelbab

.... No dealership I know of tells their customer that the new car they are buying has had paint damage or even minor body damage repaired. They are not required to do so under current laws in most states.

Yikes, that's too bad. It's a sad situation when they only do what's required by law. Glad I patronize a better Audi dealer.

Come to think of it, the IL Audi dealership where we got our first two was also up front about something like this: somebody had attempted to pry the "S4" badge off the trunk lid while the car was awaiting shipment, leaving some marring that they didn't want to completely fix by wetsanding. The dealership called me up to tell me about it and said that if things weren't acceptable to simply refuse delivery and they'd get me a new/undamaged one. That dealer was Isringhausen Imports (they no longer sell Audis), IIRC the guy who called was Geoff Isringhausen. I might as well give them the plug as it sounds like such honorable behavior is unusual.