When is it good to Sand/ Media blast your car?

if you want the car completely redone and re-coated with something, you should take all the old off. now whether or not it is worth the money to you to have someone else do it, or take it off yourself, has to be your call. i would never send out my car to have someone else take it apart. i have always torn down my own cars for these reasons; i can bag and label every nut/bolt/fastener to each piece that it came from. i can take pictures of the disassembly and document the order in which each piece came off in. if a piece gets broken or bent or twisted, i can only blame myself. i will learn something new every time and i will be able to take my time and do it right. there are to many inexperienced body shops that dont have a clue how to take apart a mopar without jacking something up. if you have it blasted, you can pinpoint any damage or rust that may have to be replaced. if you do it by hand, it will be time consuming and tedious but hey, you would have the bragging rights to say you did it completely yourself. the last car i did, i disassembled it , sanded it down , took off the undercoating, did the bodywork, bedlined the interior and the bottom, painted the car, then re-assembled it. i probably saved 5000 bucks in labor and time alone.