Post your macco paint job and success/fail story.*Got a quote for $1444*

[greywolf]

if your doing the bodywork use a guide coat/block sand the shirt out of it and make it perfect

 

[bailey9r]

Every town in America has a good ole boy that someone knows that can paint well and will knock out a great job on the side for pocket change, 1200-1500 you might even get ahold of the maaco painter, and assuming he is one of the good ones that are just rushed at work, he may do some moonlighting for you at home in the barn over the weekend and do a lot better job. Worth checking out.

 

[wazzabie]

it took me a whole day of sweat and bloody knuckles to get my rear bumper off because of seized nuts and bolts...it's a PIA to get anything in there to cut them loose

I would have paid $100 for somebody to have removed my rear bumper alone...

I had the same problem also. One of the bolt was so rusted that it snapped as I was taking it off. I'm going to replace the bolts with the stainless steel aftermarket ones.

 

[y5mgisi]

Something that's been interesting to me is noting how much orange peel is on my suburban and on other cars. At first I thought there was too much orange peel on that pickup I posted a pic of. But now, I think It's at least normal.

 

[CGT80]

My guess is that an orange peel free paint job requires running the paint a little thinner, going heavier on the paint so it flows, spraying more coats, or color sanding. It might require a combination of those, and they all take more time and cost more money. Also, at least in Southern California, the aqmd is constantly trying to reduce emissions (or make more money) which can effect how paint acts due to reformulations.

My truck was sprayed in 2003 by macco and the orange peel isn't too bad.

Anyway you slice it, dealing with paint and body work sucks. I would rather have great paint and have to deal with changing out an engine than visa versa.

 

[y5mgisi]

Me too! Thanks for the input.

 

[Chief Brody]

Me too! Thanks for the input.

I looked at a co-workers brand new KIA...the whole paint job is orange peel...almost looks like that "hammered" stuff...in fact, a lot of the new cars have orange peel...I wonder if they stopped dipping cars and went to spraying or if the texture is intentional?

 

[y5mgisi]

I noticed that too. And is kinda the reason why i stopped worrying so much about it. Yesterday during some running around i parked next to a chevy Colorado. It too had enough orange peel that from my car I could see it in the reflection. Naturally, i want mine glass smooth. But seeing how many factory cars have orange peel and how much my truck already had that i never noticed before, i think im going to be happy with it. Im going to ask them about the possibility of a near no orange peel job. If it costs a few extra bucks, i might spring for it. We'll see.

 

[CGT80]

I have heard of cars being dipped for corrosion protection, but not for finish color. I have seen a number of documentaries about auto production. I think it was Kia that dips the whole car for corrosion. I think it was the Camaro (probably others as well) that gets it's color in an automated spray booth. Robotic arms spray the paint. The paint is charged the same way powder coating is, so it is attracted to that car. They can spray a yellow car right behind a red car and not get over spray on either one, even when they are one car length behind each other. After that, the paint is baked/cured. After cured, they are inspected by hand. The inspectors polish out any defects.

I don't know why the texture would be intentional. Maybe some manufacturers just don't put that much work into the paint.

 

[Blue85]

You have to expect some orange peel - the question is just how much is "normal". What's more important (within the "normal range") is how consistent that texture is across the vehicle. If it's like glass on the big areas and roughens up around door handles, bodylines, etc. that can really catch the eye.

 

[y5mgisi]

This thread has alot of good maaco reviews.

http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=1563066&page=40

Looks to me like overall through all my searching everywhere, they seems to have about 90% satisfied customer rate. Lets just hope im not part of the 10%!