Maaco Paint Review Over At www.maacopaint.info

LOL!!! Read the fine print at the bottom, everyone,..... brilliant!!

GW

It's nice to see someone fight back. Did that guy get screwed over!

It does *appear* that he got screwed-- but there is a lot lacking there. [Like the customer's name [not a big deal, but anonymity is a cop out if you want to be taken seriously], the city [a major deal as all Maaco's are not created equal & TPTB at MAACO can pull a franchise] and what efforts the owner might have made to resolve the problems.

Here's my Maaco story-- I post with my real name & it was the Schenectady, NY Maaco.

Had my daughter's 99 Grand Am painted. There was a dent in the hood. It is black, so there were lots of minor scratches. 99 Grand Am so there was a rust spot by the gas cap.

Bought the middle quality paint job-- without looking it up I think it was about $500 all told. Dropped it off Wed morning-- got it back Friday noon. Over the weekend I noted some roughness by driver's door. [clearcoat over some dust?]

Brought it in Monday & they buffed it out.

The next week I noticed a blister by the gas tank where they had welded a piece in for a patch. Brought it to the attention of Tom [the owner] and he wrote up a slip to have it re-done when she got back from school. [she was leaving the next day]

She got home a couple weeks ago & I called Tom. He remembered the car & did it up in short order. No whining, no excuses. He explained that they needed to cut a larger piece out than they had originaly.

It isn't a $4000 paint job on a sports car--- but it *is* a good job and the service I got was excellent. [nothing like an unforseen problem to really tell you if a business wants to stay in business for a while]

When Earl Shibe painted my 63 Chevy for $30 you could tell it was an Earl Shibe job from about 100 feet. [unless I was going over 30mph]

You'd have to spend a few minutes with a sharp, experienced eye to tell that this Maaco job wasn't from a custom shop.

Jim