Swinging for Divorce…
Car loaded up and drove 1.5hrs away.
The good. The guy sounded like he knew his stuff, with matching body panels, body lines, little mud, where corrections would be needed, attaching panels with new gaskets for prep and using new gaskets when putting the finished car together. Etc. talked about different stuff that I didn’t know anything about? Who knew there were multiple types of pearls?
The bad. The guy made it seem like he was starting his own shop, which I’m all for supporting the new little guy, heck that’s my office as of a couple years ago. But He wanted to paint my car out of his garage, no big deal if the garage allowed for it. Unfortunately his garage was a 1 bay garage, didn’t have good ventilation and would be insanely hard to keep the car clean (wasn’t the cleanest garage) and very little air movement in the garage while I was standing in it besides the slight breeze from having the door open.
He said it would cost around 15k but leave room to go up a bit. Ok no big deal, I was expecting 15-25k for a paint job now days.
I just don’t think it will be the right environment for a 15-20k paint job? Maybe I’m wrong? I will go and look at another place next week.
A plus note is no body panels flew off the car, trunk or hood didn’t fly off and I didn’t lose any parts. Woohoo.
Car loaded up and drove 1.5hrs away.
The good. The guy sounded like he knew his stuff, with matching body panels, body lines, little mud, where corrections would be needed, attaching panels with new gaskets for prep and using new gaskets when putting the finished car together. Etc. talked about different stuff that I didn’t know anything about? Who knew there were multiple types of pearls?
The bad. The guy made it seem like he was starting his own shop, which I’m all for supporting the new little guy, heck that’s my office as of a couple years ago. But He wanted to paint my car out of his garage, no big deal if the garage allowed for it. Unfortunately his garage was a 1 bay garage, didn’t have good ventilation and would be insanely hard to keep the car clean (wasn’t the cleanest garage) and very little air movement in the garage while I was standing in it besides the slight breeze from having the door open.
He said it would cost around 15k but leave room to go up a bit. Ok no big deal, I was expecting 15-25k for a paint job now days.
I just don’t think it will be the right environment for a 15-20k paint job? Maybe I’m wrong? I will go and look at another place next week.
A plus note is no body panels flew off the car, trunk or hood didn’t fly off and I didn’t lose any parts. Woohoo.