Eh, yeah that was a bit narrow minded of me for sure. My gripe is this, I spent a lot of time looking into who could do the best work for my money and I dished out ALOT paint alone was about 4K, the guy had the car for four months and then it looked great but gave it back to me out of alignment, with tape lines in the door, the front fender still out of adjustment, he just made it a little better, and then a small crack that was causing the paint on the very underside of the fron lip to lift, didn't finish closing a small gap in the facia, the didn't know to reinstall the brackets that hold the rear trim panel in place.
Then he messed up the tint putting my old glass in a new deck lid, then further chipped in when it was on the car hauler.

I asked very politely if he could perform the services I asked. Anytime there was an issue I would humbly say, I'm not rich but if it can be done I'll pay for it. Even thanked the shop for apparently being so good about calling me and diong the work etc. Well that was the best shop in lafayette LA according to MANY people at car shows and who have already used that comany but I guess 12K couldn't cut it for those guys. After being ripped by many previous paint and body shops and seeing the huge commercial operations that have disregarded quality for a service that will just cover the "mess ups" because they have enough over head to do that. I've taken my blue collar hard earned blood money and my sore *** hole home. I'll do the damn work myself. I never nit picked anyone or was rude, just the opposite I didn't want to sound cocky so that they would screw me over. Just my two cents and I have passed my cross on it. Every bit of admiration for man who puts in a damned good days work and it proud of what he does for a living which is what it sounds like you are saying to me! I just am a little disgruntled about that industry and have passed my cross on it. You are very correct i took your comment very much out of context and it was rude of me and an ill formed conlusion based on your comment.

 

Free, as in paying higher insurance soon... if it was really free everyone would have there cars keyed every 3-5 years

 

Thats what i was thinkin, I had my car keyed ya I got a free paint job out of it. But now im going back cuz I hit a dog, so I asked for them to paint it. My insurance said to many claims and it will go up but I have only had one so I may do it...iono though

 

If I had the option to repaint my car any color I'd go with either SOM or a non-factory color like DSG, even if it is a ford color.

 

get the som i love my color. dont see it too much

 

holy **** same EXACT thing happened to me. i got it white w/ a black berger and black stripes. for you id go with the SOM w/ the black, i wanted to do that but i changed my mind

 

 

go with a solid color

 

Som Ftmfw

 

what color is this

 

The person that keyed my car got every body panel including the mirror housings and the rear bumper.

it went from this

to this



SOM/Black 2 tone with a sebring silver stripe to set it off. Looked good... would have looked better on an SS though.

 

Didn't he say he painted it NBM with purple metallic???

 

SOM hands down

 

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!!!!!! TRY A COLOR NO1 HAS! LIKE THE ORANGE THAT IS ON LAMBO . AND I HOPE U KICKED THE **** OUT OF THE GUY ..INSURANCE OR NOT!! THATS NOT ACCEPTABLE... ILL KICK HIS *** 4 U!!

 

I've seen a few people do that over the years.

 

nbm with flat black stripes.

 

I like the SOM personally. Def do somthing now while the car is in the shop. I had my car keyed earlier this year and here is what I decided to do. Instead of paying the bodyshop the 500 deductible, I gave them 750 instead and got some viper blue metallic flames done. here is a pic.

 

hugger orange dumdumdum

 

Resurrect old threads much?

 

I would do the sonic blue color that some of the C5 Z06's came in