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How to remove trim, molding, and glass on a Suburban? Prepping for paint.

Stopped by to check on the truck today. They maintain that it will be started tomorrow and done by the end of the week. I told him that at this point i was pretty disappointed with the amount of time that it has taken and the number of missed delivery dates. He gave me another sob story about how the shop is like a machine. To which i replied, "I understand that, I also understand that when a machine is broken, you have to take your product and get it completed at another machine". At that, and after i further expressed my displeasure at the amount of time that it has taken, he offered to take 10% off. I told him i would take it and that went a long way to show that you are willing to make an effort to make things right, but that for him to have to make things right means that something wasnt right to begin with and that he needs to really look into fixing that problem if he wishes to stay in business. I told him that if the truck wasnt at least started on by the end of the week that i would be coming to pic it up and take it elsewhere.
 
Hang on now......How bad do you need it right now?

Wait a little longer, and they may wind up paying you for the privilege of painting it........
 
eclipse85k10 said:
Man at that speed bring it to me and ill paint it while you swap an LS in my burb :screwy:
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I know! The only thing that pisses me off really is that at this rate i could have done some of the body work myself to at least get the price down a little more.

Fordum said:
Hang on now......How bad do you need it right now?

Wait a little longer, and they may wind up paying you for the privilege of painting it........
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:haha:
 
y5mgisi said:
Stopped by to check on the truck today. They maintain that it will be started tomorrow and done by the end of the week. I told him that at this point i was pretty disappointed with the amount of time that it has taken and the number of missed delivery dates. He gave me another sob story about how the shop is like a machine. To which i replied, "I understand that, I also understand that when a machine is broken, you have to take your product and get it completed at another machine". At that, and after i further expressed my displeasure at the amount of time that it has taken, he offered to take 10% off. I told him i would take it and that went a long way to show that you are willing to make an effort to make things right, but that for him to have to make things right means that something wasnt right to begin with and that he needs to really look into fixing that problem if he wishes to stay in business. I told him that if the truck wasnt at least started on by the end of the week that i would be coming to pic it up and take it elsewhere.
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Such suspense!

At this point this paint job has been so worked up and talked about that Maaco is ruining the interwebz for me! :D

I want 10% off too! :D
 
Speaking of maaco, i got an update from them today. THey say the body work will be done by the end of the day and the truck should be done midweek next week(aka friday im sure). Kind of a reilef. I was going to be worried if they could do a 3 day turnaround... Might go check it out tomorrow.
 
Looks like we are both going to have Maaco paint jobs....:dunno:

It's a bit of a disappointment for me because I will always wonder what the problem was that I couldn't do it myself...I was able to learn how to do body work, but I just didn't quite learn how to spray the paint....
 
Well ya havent had alot of experience yet have you?! Thats the big reason i chose to not paint my truck. There was no way i was going to LEARN to paint on something as big as a suburban that was full of dents and dings and is a base/clear job and that i wanted to look good. No way. Now, i might paint my 78 myself and just do single stage. But, i dont care half as much how the 78 looks as compaired to the burb. So, for a learning vehicle, it would probably work out good. I always wanted to get a crappy little honda car for like $300 on craigslist and use it as my paint guinea pig. Then when it was done, sell it off for whatever my materials cost ended up being.
 
I went to tech school for it in high school.. than the resto shop at 19... collision at 24...
 
Chief, the point of my post was not to be down on yourself. From what i gather, painting is an art. We can all make stuff look decent with a rattle can, but when it comes time for the gun, it takes some experience. You cant get experience with out having some experience. You get what i mean. Now, if you had someone there teaching you how to do it and still after 10 cars, you still cant lay down some paint worth a poop, then you could be down on yourself. You pulled the trigger once for all intents and purposes. Thats only step one into getting that experience! You must make mistakes in order to learn from them.
 
right.. for me, school gave me enough knowledge/cahonies to dive right into things i had never done before when I went to the resto shop...

paint a mixer with 5 gallons of Imron in a pressure pot? sure, I'll do that! :haha:
 
This mixer you speak of, is it what the dinosours used when they were making dirt?!


















(get it, your old)

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Im sorry, i dont know why but that just had a "your old" joke written all over it to me. :dunno:
 
:haha:

that job was the most amazing school I could ever go to... :bow:
 
y5mgisi said:
For the record i dont think your old.
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oh, I'm f*ckin old, no question... dinosauric! :woot: :doah::whistle::haha:

the skating/hotrods have always kinda kept me young at heart.. but slamming in the deepend for yrs has the body giving up the ghost! :haha:
 
y5mgisi said:
Oh thank goodness. I thought for a minute that instead of this, :haha:

I was gonig to get this! :angry1:
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nah, we're always good... :bow: very few people in this forum have ever gotten the fireface from me... :haha:
 
I have an "Associates Degree" from the School of Ryoken in bodywork....but the paint / clear thing just not enough homework....can't afford homework....

I have a sneaking suspicion that just like body "prep" is the secret to a good finish...."setup" is the secret to laying down the paint...and something just isn't right with my "setup"....my stupid old glovebox looks much better than my interior paint job...

If i were in a pro paint shop right now and they handed me the paint gun, would my finish still look the same....that's the question...that would tell me if it was my "setup" or not....my technique can't be that bad....I hold the gun perpendicular...oddly..my first coats tend to look ok....the later ones don't....maybe I am spraying too soon or too late...dunno
 
ryoken said:
nah, we're always good... :bow: very few people in this forum have ever gotten the fireface from me... :haha:
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I came close when I commented on your seam sealer....:haha:

I am the same age as Paul....I keep thinking that if don't get this thing finished soon I won't even get to drive it before they take my drivers license away and put me in the nursing home....
 
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