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wouldnt maaco be okay just to make the car look a little better?

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nickgpgt

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I know im going to get alot of negative comments about maaco, but I know you get what you pay for, and me being a high school student that doesnt make a whole lot cant afford a show room paintjob lol, and wouldnt spend that much for my 16 year old grand prix that has 130k miles on it. Now they cant be that bad just to make it look better right? I have faded clear coat, mismatching paint(same color just stands out) and just want a full match over the whole car, ill probably have the car another year or two so thats all im looking for, what do you guys think?
 


I went there for mine and I think my local maaco did well...I paid a lot more then I should have....but it looks good :)

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I have said this 100 times or more by now, but I will say it again.

I had over $700 in materials alone on painting my Stealth. This was with a "family discount." Without the discount I was looking at around $1300 just in materials. Those were not top of the line materials like HOK or the like either.

Maaco charges $400 for their cheap paint job and that includes LABOR and materials. I wouldn't entrust Maaco to paint a Huffy let alone a car. They use garbage paint, and they do garbage prep, and the paint looks like sh!t in less than 6 months.
 
nickgpgt said:
how long has yours held up?
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I got it painted in march I think. So, I guess I have not had it long enough to judge, but so far only minor imperfections have surfaced. It needs a good coat of wax right about now though.

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When I was 16, my first car was a 1989 Oldsmobile 98. It was repainted for me when I turned 17. The cost of that paint job in 1999 was $1200, not from Macco. And it looked fantastic. The painting isn't the issue, it's the prep work that you pay for. That is where most of the labor it.

On a side note, I intend to do a vinyl wrap on the Grand Prix eventually. While the paint is in good condition, you could get the materials for around $500, and for a weekend worth of time have a new color on the car that is fully reversible if you go to sell it.

matt
 
This is one case where you get what you pay for. A bad paint job that looks good at first, will make the car look worse than before it was painted in less than a years time.
 
orange57 said:
When I was 16, my first car was a 1989 Oldsmobile 98. It was repainted for me when I turned 17. The cost of that paint job in 1999 was $1200, not from Macco. And it looked fantastic. The painting isn't the issue, it's the prep work that you pay for. That is where most of the labor it.

On a side note, I intend to do a vinyl wrap on the Grand Prix eventually. While the paint is in good condition, you could get the materials for around $500, and for a weekend worth of time have a new color on the car that is fully reversible if you go to sell it.

matt
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Paint is an issue too. Use crap quality materials and even the best prep job will start to look like crap in a short period of time.
 
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