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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 06:28 AM
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Ok guys I got my car painted a year ago and have had nothing but problems with the idiot painters that did it. For the most part the car looks good. I was waxing the car yesterday and notice a lot of "junk" under the clear and in the paint. Is this due to a a shitty gun, a shitty paint booth, or both? I still owe the shop money and I am really debating on fighting with them to respray the car. Can someone give me some insight thanks?
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 07:49 AM
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pics would help
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 08:23 AM
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pics will come but basically there is **** under and in the clear coat, there are areas where it was wetsanded and polished and whatever was in the clear, took the clear and paint off with it. There is also a lot of what appears to be dirt (or specs) of something in the paint.
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 11:50 AM
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Sounds like poor prep work left dirt and "junk" on the car which they painted over.

How do you owe the shop money a year after the work was done?
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 11:52 AM
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LOL LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG story, and if I keep it, someone owes me a new paint job....
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 12:36 PM
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....so, are you going to post pics?
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 12:41 PM
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when i get my lens back, I cant get close enough pics with my 55-200mm lens.
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 01:13 PM
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man. that sounds like poor prep work, bad guns, and a bad booth. you should either get a respray for their poor work.
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 01:16 PM
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i got pics hold on
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 01:22 PM
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It sounds like you got a little over spray on the base coat and the clear coated over it, and second it sounds like they didn't mix the hardener right not mixing the hardener can cause chipping of the clear coat in some cases . With the over spray they must of sprayed some other job by your car and it got on you paint .

All in all a body shop is suppose to get the customers approval and OK about the jobs they do, if there is anything wrong upon picking up your vehicle we as body shop owners are suppose to correct it to meet your satisfaction, i run a body shop so i dealt with little complaints .

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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 01:32 PM
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It sounds like you got a little over spray on the base coat and the clear coated over it, and second it sounds like they didn't mix the hardener right not mixing the hardener can cause chipping of the clear coat in some cases . With the over spray they must of sprayed some other job by your car and it got on you paint .

All in all a body shop is suppose to get the customers approval and OK about the jobs they do, if there is anything wrong upon picking up your vehicle we as body shop owners are suppose to correct it to meet your satisfaction, i run a body shop so i dealt with little complaints .
thats all i needed to hear here are some pics... this is throughout the WHOLE CAR









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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 07:36 PM
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 07:41 PM
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trash in the paint/ under the clear... :thumdown: kinda looks like ash to me... were they smoking while they painted? that would suck if they did!!!! no matter what it is.. complain to them.
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 05:34 AM
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no its not ash, that is the result of the nip and buff and the wet sanding taking off the clear and paint.
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 06:09 AM
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damn that blows mikey... that paint job was super expensive too!
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 09:41 AM
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damn that blows mikey... that paint job was super expensive too!
It's dirt under the undercoat.
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 10:26 AM
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thats booty
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by TunerN00b
Sounds like poor prep work left dirt and "junk" on the car which they painted over.

How do you owe the shop money a year after the work was done?
same thing i was thinking
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 11:27 AM
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well whatever it is/was its definitely avoidable and should not be there?
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 12:55 PM
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poor prep and a dirty booth....did you see the booth they used? some1 prolly opened the door or left it open when they were painting the car and you got stuff iin the base and clear.
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can you feel bump when you rub your finger over them or is it kinda sharp? bump means its under the clear kinda sharp is in the clear.
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 12:59 PM
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thats def not normal. Trash in the paint and in the one pic it looks like there was a few paint drips on it
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 02:00 PM
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its both in and under the clear
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Old Mar 16, 2009 | 07:45 AM
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i think they also had a bad gun, that's where the dark spots of the blue is coming from.
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Old Mar 16, 2009 | 08:19 AM
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so regardless of what exactly it is, the fact is that it shouldn't be there and the car should be resprayed?
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Old Mar 16, 2009 | 11:59 AM
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i would not blame that on the gun, the light and dark spotting is the painters fault for not having even coats with equal overlap on each spray pass.

those spots and will not come out the are under the clear coat, i bet they sprayed the base coat then waited a while before the clear coat so dust and junk could settle down on the base coat before the clear was applied. i would go complain right away. i know i would not let a car i painted leave like that!
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