I took my car to a recomended shop to have a Home Depot lumber cart incident fixed. I had an insurance check to cover it. I needed to have my air dam and trunk deck painted also. So anyway I get a quote for "out of pocket" Sounded reasonable so I left my car. I picked it up Friday, they jacked the price 200 bucks which I am going to fight BTW.
When I get home and park it in the sun I begin to look it over. Well I notice a fish eye, then another then another, a dozen later I am pissed off. Then I notice the trunk lid had paint missing on one edge, the buffer burned one edge on the trunk lid. The sander knicked my black pillar between the two doors. I open the trunk and there is over spray in the rain channel outside the weather stripping, plus over spray on the weather stripping. Then I otice my tailight lenses are messed up. Mine are tinted and I painted the top moulding peice black and clear coated it. They mustve oversprayed on it because it was dull like someone scrubbed he heck out of it. And on one there still was red paint on part of it. Oh and I have overspray inside my door jambs.
The kicker is I stressed many times, before I left the car, that I show the car and need show quality work done.

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http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2619487
2008 Spring Autofair "Best Of Show"
2007 Fall Autofair " Best Of Show"
2007 Spring Autofair "Cleanest Engine Bay"

Earl Sheib $99 special FTL. j/k. Man that sucks, when the work done leaves your car in more distress than the orginal condition. I say put it to them.

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04 Indy SS build #972
XP, TOG's, Lightning injectors, 2.8 pulley, 105 CC springs, Wizaired, 3.29 gears, tripleedgeperformance ported blower, machined LIM, 180* tstat, RS12YC@.053, FP rewire, Alt rewire, stage 1 V boost, PRJ wires, Stage 2 IC

Indeed. Go for the jugular and make them do it right.

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Scotty Hall
Bartlesville, OK
2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP
It whines a lot, but I like it.

The only limitation you will ever face in life is yourself!

fish eyes show poor prep work or you use too much silicone (I bet no wax and grease remover was used) next time try and get it delivered under flourecent lights, they show more flaws than sunlight

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Steve
'97 GTP VS cam, ZZP PCM, and not much else yet

did you sign the papers when you picked up the car? my parents are stressing to me look over the car with a fine tooth comb. cuz once you sign for it....they pretty much dont have to do anything.

Good luck!!!!!!!! I hope you get them to redo the work!!!

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2001 GTP street car- GT45 turbo,Stage 4 Intense turbo cam,FMIC,150 wet, double roller timing chain, Diamond forged coated pistons 8:0:1, Diamond piston rings, cryoed L32 connecting rods, Cryoed crank, Clevite77 main bearings, Clevite77 cam bearings, Clevite77 L32 rod bearings, ARP Everything, Intense/meizere true billet Flexplate, Custom UIM, Intense oil pressure kit, Cometic 4 layer head gaskets, OE-R lifters, Cryoed L67 block, ATI turbo dampner, MUCH MORE, 6 more to choose from ASE Certified

Have appointment with owner in the morning.

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http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2619487
2008 Spring Autofair "Best Of Show"
2007 Fall Autofair " Best Of Show"
2007 Spring Autofair "Cleanest Engine Bay"

There aren't many good body men anymore period. I had to ***** and moan to get my damn hood and spoiler painted right. I dread the day (hope its never honestly) I have to get the car repainted. I expect a flawless finish, i'm super picky too. Honestly, nobody wants to do good work anymore, especailly when it comes to paint and body.

Sorry for you troubles. ***** and get the BBB on your side if you have to. Maybe even further, show him you mean business. Good luck...

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Shawn W. Larsen


'99 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP ___ '00 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP ___ '07 Chevy Trailblazer SS

too many shops are production only, and forgot how to do quality work. First sign of a production shop is cars are bing worked on with mud anywhere on them. I worked at one, and were were told not to fix anything that wasn't specified on the work order (including rock chips)

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Steve
'97 GTP VS cam, ZZP PCM, and not much else yet

Well, we went round and round. He tried to blame the blemishes on previous existing conditions, ie chips small dings. I called BS since I know every inch of my car. His excuse for the over spray in the trunk was they couldnt figure out how to get my remote to pop the trunk. Now granted I have a new alarm, but the trunk pop is obvious. he said they stuffed paper in as far as they could. My reply was " is your phone broken? Because if you dialed 7 digits I couldve told you how to open the trunk" He offered to repaint and fix all issues after much arguing. I declined to fix my tails as I dont trust them. He is refunding part of the bill instead.
I dread when I decide to get the whole car done. This shop was highly recomended by a few people and area businesses. I thought I did my homework. This guy has been in business for 40 years. Unbelievable!!

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http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2619487
2008 Spring Autofair "Best Of Show"
2007 Fall Autofair " Best Of Show"
2007 Spring Autofair "Cleanest Engine Bay"

even if it had chips and dings any good shop should fix them, but as I stated earlier they just don't do it

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Steve
'97 GTP VS cam, ZZP PCM, and not much else yet