infinity5
07-11-2005, 01:25 PM
There are 5-6 small (less than a dime sized) paint chips on the passanger side doors of my car from door dings.
I headed on up to my local SprayGlo to get an estimate. The lady was real nice on the phone, so i was optimistic.
After I got there she took one look at the dings and said, "to fix these, we will need to paint the entire door, and then blend the paint into the surrounding body pannels, which is a huge ammount of work"
"oh yeah?"
"yep, and it'll cost about 500$ to do it. What i reccomend is letting us repaint the ENTIRE car. It would be cheaper and then we would fix all the other small rock chips on the bumpers/hood/etc"
Interesting, but she was right, including the front grill, and both bumpers, theres a ton of microscopic chips and scratches all over that would be nice to get rid of.
"Heres an esitmate (*type type print*). For $300 we can paint your entire car with our "Supreme Urethane" paint service, featuring "catalyzed primer-sealer," "Full polyurethane Technology," and a 4 year peel/crack warranty plus a 2 year fade warranty."
um... ok... so.. you can't just dab some paint on the little chips, buff/sand it down, and blend it into the area right around the chip for like.. a 100$?
Ok, i didn't actually say that, but thats what i was thinking.
What do you guys think? i mean... hahahah.. $300 to paint my bimmer and a whopping 2 year fade warranty! geejolly, where do i sign up? she said the clear coat and paint were the same thing, and they were applied together. Its only one coat of paint total.. and primer. She said the sanded down the body pannels first though... I forgot to ask about their sophisticated drying process *cough sit it in the sun cough*
She showed me some examples. the paint looked nice, but it wasn't smooth to the touch the way my paint is now. It wans't super rough, but... still... it wans't super smooth.
If i was going to paint the entire car, I'd pay thousands of dollars and have it done the way it was at the factory. All i want is some glaring (starting to rust) chips fixed!
Guess i'll look else where.
Oh, and i asked about having the side-skirts/lower bumpers painted to match the body and she said the plastic those are made out of is meant to not let stuff stick to it and if they tried to paint it it would just peel off in a little while.
I headed on up to my local SprayGlo to get an estimate. The lady was real nice on the phone, so i was optimistic.
After I got there she took one look at the dings and said, "to fix these, we will need to paint the entire door, and then blend the paint into the surrounding body pannels, which is a huge ammount of work"
"oh yeah?"
"yep, and it'll cost about 500$ to do it. What i reccomend is letting us repaint the ENTIRE car. It would be cheaper and then we would fix all the other small rock chips on the bumpers/hood/etc"
Interesting, but she was right, including the front grill, and both bumpers, theres a ton of microscopic chips and scratches all over that would be nice to get rid of.
"Heres an esitmate (*type type print*). For $300 we can paint your entire car with our "Supreme Urethane" paint service, featuring "catalyzed primer-sealer," "Full polyurethane Technology," and a 4 year peel/crack warranty plus a 2 year fade warranty."
um... ok... so.. you can't just dab some paint on the little chips, buff/sand it down, and blend it into the area right around the chip for like.. a 100$?
Ok, i didn't actually say that, but thats what i was thinking.
What do you guys think? i mean... hahahah.. $300 to paint my bimmer and a whopping 2 year fade warranty! geejolly, where do i sign up? she said the clear coat and paint were the same thing, and they were applied together. Its only one coat of paint total.. and primer. She said the sanded down the body pannels first though... I forgot to ask about their sophisticated drying process *cough sit it in the sun cough*
She showed me some examples. the paint looked nice, but it wasn't smooth to the touch the way my paint is now. It wans't super rough, but... still... it wans't super smooth.
If i was going to paint the entire car, I'd pay thousands of dollars and have it done the way it was at the factory. All i want is some glaring (starting to rust) chips fixed!
Guess i'll look else where.
Oh, and i asked about having the side-skirts/lower bumpers painted to match the body and she said the plastic those are made out of is meant to not let stuff stick to it and if they tried to paint it it would just peel off in a little while.