The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Paint and Body Shop Paint Quality Issue

For what it's worth, I visited a couple Maaco's yesterday and agree 100% with MARTINSR that though they carry the same company name, they are like day and night. One acted like I was bothering them by asking too many questions, while the other asked more questions than I did. The latter took me out to their shop and showed me a single stage painted vehicle and then a two stage one. I saw examples of each stage (in progress) my truck would go through from complete paint removal, sheetmetal repair, various stages of priming, etc. They said I can either pick out a paint color from their book or I can give them a paint color or bring in a color to match.

I can also bring the truck in as disassembled as I want, assuming it would still be driveable around their facility.

Though I'll still look around at other places, I at least went away from this one shop feeling pretty good.

As I mentioned in another thread, I don't know if two stage paint will be worth the extra $$, since my truck will not be a show truck.