Matth3w
09-13-2008, 10:19 PM
Here is the deal...
I had SpoiledMan detail my car a while back, and let me just say he does a FANTASTIC job. Unfortunately I was driving the Vette to Tucson when we got hit with an unexpected monsoon that nearly flooded the road. I lost all traction and hydroplaned off the road and into a ditch.
Well, the entire car is being repainted (this happened a couple weeks ago) and I am supposed to get it back early this coming week. The problem I foresee is that I doubt this body shop pulled the car out after each panel and checked it in the sun.
They say they have a lot of experience doing cars but I`m skeptical. Really, I should wait to worry or be upset until after I pick up the car, but that`s just my personality (to worry ahead of time).
What I`m hoping to find is a perfect explanation as to what buffer holograms are caused by with pictures before and after on black cars in sunlight to show to them if the car is jacked up immediately when I pick up the car...
In other words, I need a great amount of information and pictures to show them the job they did (if it is indeed bad) warrants a refund so I can take a drive out to Cali to have Spoiled Man work on my car again.
What better place than Autopia for that information?
UPDATE:
I just picked up my car for the second time this morning, get home (73+ mile drive) and look. TERRIBLE. They did a complete repaint of the car when I wrecked it. It took about six weeks to get it back the first time. To no fault of their own it had to be brought back up for more work (someone backed into my front bumper, but the front bumper needed repainting anyhow due to the fact that the insurance company made us use a remanufactured the first time)...however there were some imperfections in the paint that was their fault and had to be fixed, and the rear bumper started cracking about two weeks after I had it. Four weeks later it`s "done" (again). I gave it a pretty good look at the shop but still evidently overlooked a lot of points (or light was playing a trick on me at the shop). Get it back home, again, and it looks like ****. Someone scratched the heck out of the driver`s mirror with a cable or something (the part that faces the inside of the car). The front bumper they just repainted has several huge scratches not to mention you can see where they buffed up and down and left and right (the actual marks, as if you were vacuuming your house). There is overspray on my windshield (that I saw at the shop but mistook it for just a dirty windshield), overspray on the front of my driver`s door, clearcoat (?) drops or something that is rough but won`t come off on the driver`s door in about 15 places, overspray on the driver`s quarter panel, and the rear bumper I can see the scratch marks from the wool pad. It looks like the sides of my rear bumper were buffed with a Brillo pad. I also have a huge buff mark about midway under the driver`s door that is about 4 inches long where it looks like a 300lb person leaned into the buffer.
This is all after I paid extra over the top of what the insurance company paid when I wrecked it to have "extra" clear coats and "better" buffing job.
I`m so sick of this BS I seriously don`t think I even want the car anymore. It`s gotten to the point where there are so few competent people out there without a reasonable distance that can work on my car that if anything happens it`s months and thousands of dollars later before I can get it looking the way I want, which is just "normal." I shouldn`t see holograms in the paint. I shouldn`t see overspray.
I know I`m an adult, and I know it`s "no big deal" but I`m seriously borderline tears with this damn car. Why is it so hard to find someone that knows *** they are doing when it comes to paint/body/buffing work?
I had SpoiledMan detail my car a while back, and let me just say he does a FANTASTIC job. Unfortunately I was driving the Vette to Tucson when we got hit with an unexpected monsoon that nearly flooded the road. I lost all traction and hydroplaned off the road and into a ditch.
Well, the entire car is being repainted (this happened a couple weeks ago) and I am supposed to get it back early this coming week. The problem I foresee is that I doubt this body shop pulled the car out after each panel and checked it in the sun.
They say they have a lot of experience doing cars but I`m skeptical. Really, I should wait to worry or be upset until after I pick up the car, but that`s just my personality (to worry ahead of time).
What I`m hoping to find is a perfect explanation as to what buffer holograms are caused by with pictures before and after on black cars in sunlight to show to them if the car is jacked up immediately when I pick up the car...
In other words, I need a great amount of information and pictures to show them the job they did (if it is indeed bad) warrants a refund so I can take a drive out to Cali to have Spoiled Man work on my car again.
What better place than Autopia for that information?
UPDATE:
I just picked up my car for the second time this morning, get home (73+ mile drive) and look. TERRIBLE. They did a complete repaint of the car when I wrecked it. It took about six weeks to get it back the first time. To no fault of their own it had to be brought back up for more work (someone backed into my front bumper, but the front bumper needed repainting anyhow due to the fact that the insurance company made us use a remanufactured the first time)...however there were some imperfections in the paint that was their fault and had to be fixed, and the rear bumper started cracking about two weeks after I had it. Four weeks later it`s "done" (again). I gave it a pretty good look at the shop but still evidently overlooked a lot of points (or light was playing a trick on me at the shop). Get it back home, again, and it looks like ****. Someone scratched the heck out of the driver`s mirror with a cable or something (the part that faces the inside of the car). The front bumper they just repainted has several huge scratches not to mention you can see where they buffed up and down and left and right (the actual marks, as if you were vacuuming your house). There is overspray on my windshield (that I saw at the shop but mistook it for just a dirty windshield), overspray on the front of my driver`s door, clearcoat (?) drops or something that is rough but won`t come off on the driver`s door in about 15 places, overspray on the driver`s quarter panel, and the rear bumper I can see the scratch marks from the wool pad. It looks like the sides of my rear bumper were buffed with a Brillo pad. I also have a huge buff mark about midway under the driver`s door that is about 4 inches long where it looks like a 300lb person leaned into the buffer.
This is all after I paid extra over the top of what the insurance company paid when I wrecked it to have "extra" clear coats and "better" buffing job.
I`m so sick of this BS I seriously don`t think I even want the car anymore. It`s gotten to the point where there are so few competent people out there without a reasonable distance that can work on my car that if anything happens it`s months and thousands of dollars later before I can get it looking the way I want, which is just "normal." I shouldn`t see holograms in the paint. I shouldn`t see overspray.
I know I`m an adult, and I know it`s "no big deal" but I`m seriously borderline tears with this damn car. Why is it so hard to find someone that knows *** they are doing when it comes to paint/body/buffing work?