Heck no talk about shit paint they use I have seen some of their stuff that remains rubbery never hardens or it fades in a few years

 

So the guy paid $3500 for Maaco to fix all the body work, prep and paint the entire car in base/clear and he thought he was gonna get quality work and materials?

This is definitely a case of "you get what you pay for".
I agree they should stand by their warranty but I also think this guy was delusional from the start.

 

$3500.00 is about half of what the paint and materials cost for a paint job on a car that size, never mind the labor cost.

 

Yea I am lucky my BIL owns a body shop and gives me materials at his cost or I wouldn't be able to do anything anymore.
I am almost ready to paint my kids 68 Camaro and he just wants straight white ( going with Toyota 040 Super White). We are going to mix it off the machine but to buy it was like $700 a gallon for just the base.
I don't even wanna know what a gallon kit of clear with activator is gonna cost.

 

He's a Whiner and a Dumbass...???

 

Some maacos are good,some are bad.
I would have a car shot there just to get it one color if I had to,lol.
I wouldnt expect much,unless promises were made,and not kept.

 

Painters at any MAACO should eventually get good at what they do because of the volume of cars they paint. It's the prep and body work, that most customers don't want to pay for, that causes them to get a shitty job done for that "spray it one of our colors" deals.

If you disassemble your own car first, door handles, mirrors, emblems, mldgs., lights, etc....so they don't just mask off those things, and even do the sanding and prep yourself, the paint job should at the very least be acceptable.

In the video, look at when they give you a close up of the door lock cylinder, (3:00 mark)...because it was left in and masked, the old chipped paint around it never got sanded and feathered out, so it was just painted over......just one example.

 

Took my '51 Ford to Earl Scheib in 1975. What a mess.

 

My Dad had an old work truck done in the mid 50's. Earl special 🤮 Prob $29.99 back then

 

 

 

My first 72 camaro I bought back in '86 for 800 bucks had an earl scheib paint job.It had a vinyl top.Mystve been loose on pass side sail,they cut it oncar and sprayed.

 

My first car was a 73 Camaro. I added a front and rear spoiler and a 78 Z28 hood scoop and brought it to MAACO for a paint job. The car was already maroon met. and I chose an 80 Camaro color to paint it with, which was a similar maroon met.

The paint job was great, I must admit, but they didn't do the jambs or the body colored Camaro Rally rims. Since they were already maroon, I think they tried to pull a fast one over on me by not doing them. So I went inside and spoke to the guy in charge,...told him that they didn't do the jambs and wheels, and there were runs on the front spoiler.

He came out and realized I was right, that was no fresh paint on those wheels and jambs, and there were runs on the spoiler.

They had it done for me the next day.

 

SPEED
QUALITY
PRICE
Pick any Two.

 

I used to hit all three everyday.

 

Back in 82 my buddy had his 66 mustang coupe painted at macco. Was like 299.00. Rootbeer brown over the original gold color. When he drove it in the rain (5months later) the spray from the tires took the paint off. 😝

be safe, schick

 

Can any NJ brothers tell where this is located?

 

That be like price shopping plastic surgeons for your wife's tit job.
You might get lucky but most likely she will end up with franken tits.

 

because macco was so cheap my dad would do the body work and have it painted by them back in the 70s

 

In Miami there was a paint shop called Johnnie & Mack. Back in the 60s-70s I remember their advertising jingle on TV/Radio "Johnny and Mack by the railroad tracks, the worlds largest and that's a fact". I don't know when they opened/closed but my ex-wife's sister had her car painted there in the early 80s. I never saw the paint job, the car was mysteriously stolen 1-2 weeks after it was painted. I'm sure we can all guess how it was stolen.

 

I had my work truck painted at the Tampa Maaco location about 5 years ago. They way outdid my expectations. The paint job was smooth and very shiny. It still looks as good today as it did when they painted it. I had an accident about 3 years ago. I again took it to the Sarasota Fl location that is owned by the same person. They repaired the damage and painted the hood, fender and door. The paint color and finish matched perfectly. The masking was not the best and it is not a show vehicle but it looks great and I get compliments on the truck all the time. I guess some locations are better than others.

 

Hardest car I've ever painted was a VW bug! Those hoods & deck lids are hard to paint and not get a finger or two running off the bottom where the paint collects at the lower edge of the indentations!!

I knew this ahead of time (a painter friend warned me about it) and tried to keep it from happening.......but still got one run in the front, and one in the back. Had I just opened each of them, or laid them flat on stands prior to painting, I probably wouldn't have gotten them.

It was the factory baby blue color, no metallic, so I sanded them out and buffed it back.......couldn't even tell it happened!

 

My spray booth back in the day (late 70's) that I built under one of my Dad's barn wings........I was really getting into painting then, but work, college, & chasing girls got in the way. I still have some projects that I will get started on this winter, so I will need to figure out what I want to do about a spray booth again.....that one was definitely not EPA or safety approved, but it worked damn good! That 48" barn fan worked excellent!

 

2nd car that I prepped & painted by myself.......I still have it.......covered in a thick layer of dust........and the paint still looks good, once you clean the dust off!

 

I know a number of people who put the money in the drive train and went to MAACO for paint and pulled it off. That was in the 80’s. Don’t think its the same game now.

 

This is in 1976 . Original 427 Cobra. Car had a ummm ummm challenging life Bought it in primer an a few day's later a friend painted it red for $300. so I could drive it for the summer .

 

This is in 1976 . Original 427 Cobra. Car had a ummm ummm challenging life Bought it in primer an a few day's later a friend painted it red for $300. so I could drive it for the summer .

Damn imagine what that car would be worth Today?

 

LOL! He pays for the cheapest paint job that you can get but he wants a warranty for a $25,000 job. Mind boggling......

 

I have seen halfway decent spray jobs come out of a Maaco, but they just sprayed the paint, all the body work and prep was done prior and there was nothing to mask off. That was also 20+ years ago

They blow through 55 gallon drums of paint, working a paint gun is one skill their crew might have.

 

I think this is key. Do all the prep, let MAACCO spray it.

 

30 years ago my friend had Maaco paint his 69 Camaro black. He did most of the prep work and took off the trim and door handles. He paid extra for some more prep work. He was in it for $2000 iirc, and it came out really nice, and it still looks good.
Brian