body work (now with less pics inside)

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:10 am

this is why i am pissed each red circle represents a divit or flaw in the work. and this is just in the first 10 minlooking at the front only !!!!

Post by **Francious70** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:04 am

Did you just have your car resprayed?

Audiophiliac · Post by **Audiophiliac** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:10 pm

Get the front end resprayed, and immediately have 3M clearbra installed. It really does work to keep those annoying tiny chips and blemishes away.

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:21 pm

Francious70 wrote:Did you just have your car resprayed?

yes i did in fact i picked it up last night! the body gey didnt feather any of the chip marks he just shot over them! also i have big time cearcoat pudeling neat trim and weather stiping.

bottom line this is a result of piss poor prep ! i feel for 3500.00 i souldnt see a god dam thing but an ocean of smooth fucking paint !

more pics later

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:03 pm

Mastiff wrote:i feel for 3500.00 i souldnt see a god dam thing but an ocean of smooth fucking paint !

DAMN. I must agree with you there. $3500 should result in a pretty flawless job.

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:45 pm

i stoped counting when i hit 70 areas of divits or crap traped under clear and plaint.

brenzbmr@sb · Post by **brenzbmr@sb** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:37 pm

dude you got fucked
for 3500.00
my friend would have gave you a beautiful paintjob.

now the realization that you will have to resand that car and start over.

Audiophiliac · Post by **Audiophiliac** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:18 pm

Take it back and make them do it right.

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:46 pm

I have my state farm guy coming on Monday to inspect it for me

95% of this work was done under 3 separate insurance claims so he will be dealing with state farm on his ass if he doesn’t make me happy with a rework.

Mostly this is all do too shitty prep work and short cuts e.g. just spraying over the chips and not feathering / blending before the spray.

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:56 pm

updated pics my TWO Favs note the depth of the second pic

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Post by **VW337** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:37 pm

.............I think there may have been bad lighting that day..........

I saw a few in the pics you missed however.

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:10 pm

I think its piss poor workmanship. In my book if your going to do anything do it right or don’t fucking do it at all !

There is no excuse for this, I would have been better off going to earl shrive or maco for gods sake.

This is a clear cut case of shitty preparation. Errin there is enough dirt under that paint / clear coat to start a garden.
What absolutely burns me is I looked at it before it was sprayed and I even mentioned to him about the divots on the front valence. He assured me it would be taken care of guess what it didn’t happen.

I can not wait for the adjuster to see this shit because he was such a Nazi when doing the write up during the estimation phase of all this.

What I don’t understand is this body guy came so highly recommended by the people in the local VW club for doing such outstanding work.

I pose this question to all the members here; do you think I am being unreasonable?
I just can not tolerate when someone tries to get one over on me.

Seriously what was he thinking? For gods sake the guy knows I am QC inspector for a living, I get paid good money to find shit just like this !

And yes I found some I missed also and promptly went out to the garage and marked them up.

Audiophiliac · Post by **Audiophiliac** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:02 pm

I say take it in and show the owner/manager what kind of shitty work his employees do. Hopefully someone gets fired too. And your insurance guy should be on your side and go to bat for you as well. And then bring up the L word (Lawyer)....that usually gets shit done.

Ahsmo · Post by **Ahsmo** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:10 am

I ran into a similar situation with a guy when I tried to get my body kit painted and installed.

3500 dollars and you should have had a flawless paint job

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:05 am

Audiophiliac wrote:I say take it in and show the owner/manager what kind of shitty work his employees do. Hopefully someone gets fired too. And your insurance guy should be on your side and go to bat for you as well. And then bring up the L word (Lawyer)....that usually gets shit done.

the guy that did the work is the owner and yes on monday I will more than likely be talking with my Lawyer.

Hontzo_MD · Post by **Hontzo_MD** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:16 am

Yeah, I absolutly would bitch. Even a job that cost half of what you paid. I am a perfectionist, and as it looks like you have done, fine tooth comb the job, well documented with pics. threaten him with a lawyer, see where it goes from there.

ydnap · Post by **ydnap** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:11 am

Mastiff wrote:I pose this question to all the members here; do you think I am being unreasonable?

Fuck no.

spraying is easy, I proved that last year with my taurus.

Prep however is not. I mean fucking hell mast I could have done a better fucking job than that. All it fucking takes is a tube of bondo spot putty FFS you take a sharpie and go around looking for chips and dvitis and draw a light circle around them and then use the tip of your finger to fill them in. then sand the car.

He hasnt done that and that's why you have so many small imperfections.

$3500? fucking hell you could have gotten another fucking car for that !!! Especially when those matierials probably cost $300 or less and he didnt even buy a $10 tube of spot putty.

If like you said it was a $300 maco job I would be pleased with it, but holy moly $3500? my local place quoted me $1500 plus matierals ($500) to do what I want done to my tib and I thought that was outrageous because its 2 days work (one full day prep or even 2) and one day to paint the cunt (infact about 3 hours) then a buff.

$3500 for a stock paint job (by stock I mean just a plain color) is fucking disgusting.

Post by **mr tibbs** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:13 am

Mastiff, you got jacked dude. I don't think in any way you are being unreasonable. You paid full price for a half-ass job. I would be raising all holy hell if that was my car. I would try to be semi-nice at first, but if that doesn't work raise hell!! Get the lawyer involved, and the BBB, and tell everyone that will listen about this place. GO GET 'EM TIGER!!!!!

BTW, nice car! I bet it's a blast to drive!

Post by **VW337** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:07 am

Go in there tell the guy who did the work that you paid for a full ass and you expect it, not just the half assed representation he has provided.

Let him know he will be redoing it again and again until it is right since that is what has been paid for.

ydnap · Post by **ydnap** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:15 am

What would scare me isnt even what you can see now, it's what he left underneath the paint that may haunt you later.

I mean what if the fucker didnt even wash it down with degreaser before painting? answer is in a couple of years paint will start to fall off.

ydnap · Post by **ydnap** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:16 am

Oh and thats a hella sexy car btw

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:36 am

it was sexy untill this fuck wad got ahold of it now it looks like a supper model with frigging zitts and pock marks, but thank you ydnap.

the insurance guy looked at it about an hour ago and agreed it needed redone.

got to call Mr.hack ass painter today and make arangements.

HoseHead · Post by **HoseHead** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:11 pm

It's a VW. Who fucking cares?

Just kidding. I would give him the opportunity to repair it before going legal on him. Everyone has a bad day now and then. A rental ride at his expense while your's is in the shop should be complimentary. A complete refund is another option. At $3.5K, he should be begging you the opportunity to make things right.

Now, if he balks, then pull out the guns, insurance adjustor, lawyer, molotov cocktails etc.

Yes, you're a knob, but not in this case.

HH

Mastiff · Post by **Mastiff** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:46 pm

well I talked with the body guy and about 3-5 min into discussing this with him hes going to make it right. so we wiil see ..I'll keep you guys posted like you really care ...

ydnap · Post by **ydnap** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:23 pm

Dude I care.

Remember the line from pulp fiction? "Never fuck with a man's car" well I feel your pain bro and I hope you get it all resolved.

Man's car is fucking sacred.