Finally getting my truck painted (a horror story)

[usocazy]

on a side note, how do you like that grill, I had one on my black truck and took it off cause I just wasn't feeling it

I'm digging the grill for now.

 

[usocazy]

Finally getting my truck painted

pix aren't blowing up for me but OMG that fender, a cut and buff wont be fixing that, wow

Reloading pics for better resolution.
pic sent from shop
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pic I took day after picking up truck; they literally painted over a dent they needed to fix
pic I took day after picking up truck

 

[usocazy]

Paint issues




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[Csanders1992]

Damn did they even prep that thing before painting?


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[Rustycowl69]

man! who painted this? Earl Sheib?
I will paint any car for $29.95!

 

[Ram444]

Bummer

 

[joeygster]

That's brutal.

Your roof looks like 10 year old paint & the orange peel/fish eyes of the paintwork on the fenders /rockers looks like it wasn't prepped at all before painting.

 

[ST-8]

Idk how much money you saved the ********* it sounds like youve had to go thru makes it not sound justifiable.

 

[usocazy]

Finally getting my truck painted

As painful as this is for me, I plan on making it very painful on this guy and his shop in getting this right. It doesn't have to go that way but based on his past behavior I wouldn't be surprised if we wound up in small claims court. He did a half ass job so I should get half of my money back. At least I think so.

Would really prefer to just have the truck painted correctly.


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[Lil_Ram]

As painful as this is for me, I plan on making it very painful on this guy and his shop in getting this right. It doesn't have to go that way but based on his past behavior I wouldn't be surprised if we wound up in small claims court. He did a half ass job so I should get half of my money back. At least I think so.

Would really prefer to just have the truck painted correctly.


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To be honest I don t believe you'll get very far with that.
The bed liner doesn't look like a half bad looks dirty from dust but that's it. That alone is a hefty price tag around here. Along with the installs on the headlights, tailights, and grills. Not to mention the dent repair. Why yes the paint looks like crap. I'd say you got your money outta it. You get what you pay for in the auto world.
I think if you pursue the matter it will only get thrown out of court when he puts this forward as evidence. I hate to bust your balls and all but gotta see that first.


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[usocazy]

Finally getting my truck painted

To be honest I don t believe you'll get very far with that.
The bed liner doesn't look like a half bad looks dirty from dust but that's it. That alone is a hefty price tag around here. Along with the installs on the headlights, tailights, and grills. Not to mention the dent repair. Why yes the paint looks like crap. I'd say you got your money outta it. You get what you pay for in the auto world.
I think if you pursue the matter it will only get thrown out of court when he puts this forward as evidence. I hate to bust your balls and all but gotta see that first.


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Yeah there are some good parts like the Bedliner however it is NOT Linex or Rhino and they had to respray the whole bed again because it already started to flake off because it was applied so thin. Looks nice now.

The headlights and taillights I provided and all he had to do was hook them up. 15-30 minute job max.

None of that takes away from the poor job they did prepping and painting the truck. Their problem, not mine so I'm gonna get them to fix the paint issues.

 

[07MegaCabRam]

Those are some crazy fish eyes in that paint. That is contaminates in the paint. I have a feeling in less than 2 years your paint will be flaking off.

Man...


I am painting a VW bug right now and I have spend more then 4 weeks doing body work and prepping it. And that isn't even touching color yet.. haha

Wow.. from a painter perspective... That is a mess. IF I owned a shop, I'd take it all down before I'd even touch it. $4K+ to get a decent paint job on it.

Too bad you're not in my area. I'd help you out!

 

[usocazy]

Latest text exchange with the paint shop owner today (he won't answer my calls and doesn't have voicemail set up):




I'm just building my case for small claims court if we have to go that route.


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[Rustycowl69]

I don't want to burst your bubble, but that shop is not going to be fixing that. You're going to have to hire another outfit to redo that "work", and it ain't going to be cheap. And the new shop isn't going to do it on the promise of being paid later, when the court case is decided. So that is more money out of your pocket. All the trouble this is going to cause you is not compensable. Even IF you win your small claims case, you'll never collect a dime. Sorry, but that's the way it looks to me.

 

[Rzrman328]

Sorry op but I'd chalk this one up as a loss. You're gonna go crazy dealing with small claims for this.

Good luck though.

 

[usocazy]

I don't want to burst your bubble, but that shop is not going to be fixing that. You're going to have to hire another outfit to redo that "work", and it ain't going to be cheap. And the new shop isn't going to do it on the promise of being paid later, when the court case is decided. So that is more money out of your pocket. All the trouble this is going to cause you is not compensable. Even IF you win your small claims case, you'll never collect a dime. Sorry, but that's the way it looks to me.

Ugh. Probably true but here's to hoping for a different result. [emoji30][emoji30][emoji30]

 

[Rustycowl69]

hey, I totally sympathize with you. I wish you all the luck in the world. If you fight the good fight, and win, I'll be happy as hell for you. But I've fought the good fight many times in my 60+ years, and maybe won 25% of them. I'm just too tired to do that anymore.

 

[Bullitt5339]

I'd be absolutely pissed if that were my truck.

I've seen cars painted outside that had less issues in the paint. This is supposed to be done by professionals?

 

[usocazy]

So the weather finally cleared up enough to wash the truck and take a few more pics.

they literally wet sanded the side view mirrors [emoji35]

bad paint around door handles

yep, those are white PITS in the rear quarter panel paint



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[usocazy]

Finally getting my truck painted

The roof was the main reason I even considered painting my truck in the first place (see earlier pics). It had tremendous paint fail and was almost entirely white.

overspray on roof without fixing the dent

paint runs

more crappy paint

tried to get a shot showing the roof and the flaws from the existing paint failure and the "new" paint. You can see a line where they didn't take the paint all the way down and just shot the paint anyway. [emoji35] It doesn't show up well in this pic but believe me, it's there.


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