This has got to be some of the strangest luck ever

[techy101]

Well, I spent the day driving around to a few body shops to get estimates on what the car would cost to get painted. The good places were looking about $3000 or so for the whole deal.

So for giggles, I decided to check and see what Maaco would want for their highest end paint job. Normally, I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. But it can't hurt to see.

Well, as I'm pulling into the driveway, a car is backing out of a bay. I stopped, and it kept backing up. I honked three times, and the car kept backing up (this all happened quite fast as it wasn't very far from him to me). The car hit my SVX in the front passenger corner. It bent in the quarter panel pretty badly (but this was the worst one on the car anyway) and broke the corner light, and scratched the bumper skin.

The guy who steps out of the car turned out to be the owner of the branch, and we were able to reach an agreement, since he seemed very anxious to keep this off his business insurance. I can get the parts myself, or pay him to order them/install them, and he'll paint the whole car for free . It will be their highest end (term used loosley with Maaco) paint job, the multi-stage with clear coat.

This has to be the strangest bad, yet good luck I've ever had

I'm sure it's not going to be the best paint job ever, but heck, spray paint would look better than it does right now.

Now, I need to pick a color quickly. Something that will go well with black, since there will be parts that will still be the factory black (engine bay, door jams, etc...) Any ideas?? I was thinking a dark silver, or some kind of dark burgundy. Toss out some ideas...

[michael]

Boy did you step in some crap! That's awesome, I'd stick with the factory color as a color change will be very noticeable especially from Macco. Buy the needed parts from someone here and remove all the lower molding, lights, weather stripping etc yourself and if you have to, pay them to go the extra mile and give you a real paint job. Since your svx is black you have the benefit of not worrying about the color matching, I hope this advise helps and good luck with it.

[odepaj]

neck injuries now! haha just kidding. hopfully this is some good luck, the part I dont get is it seems it was his fault but your paying for the replacment parts (I guess I probably shouldnt be looking a gift horse in the mouth though)? Hope it comes out to be good luck and not bad luck, maaco can make the next paint job even more of a hassle.



Dustin

[techy101]

I'm kinda taking the position that I'm not going to push this very hard. All he's really responsible for is the damage. And the parts are much cheaper than the paint from my side of things.

Its probably about the same price on his side of things, and I really don't want to shoot myself in the foot.

I'll be busting my butt to get her prepped well, cuz I really don't trust them on it. I'll also be pulling all the trim, so they don't just tape it off and leave big lines.

[gwarusee]

Originally Posted by techy101

I'm kinda taking the position that I'm not going to push this very hard. All he's really responsible for is the damage. And the parts are much cheaper than the paint from my side of things.

Its probably about the same price on his side of things, and I really don't want to shoot myself in the foot.

I'll be busting my butt to get her prepped well, cuz I really don't trust them on it. I'll also be pulling all the trim, so they don't just tape it off and leave big lines.

sounds like your bad luck is going to pay off. just watch out when removing all the trim, I would not mess with the plastic pices in front of the trunk lid, they are held on by plastic gromets which are most likly going to break along with the tabs that hold them on. Its a pain to find replacment grommets that will work. Those are the only pieces I would leave. Just twist off the rubber cap on the antenna and call it a day

[It's Just Eric]

I wouldnt take a free paint job from maaco, even if I did the prep work myself....but thats just me