Thread: honest opinion on maaco

im thinking about purchasing some things for the racekar and i dont exactly have 800 bucks for paint. what do you guys think about maaco. pics would be awesome too

a hood and a sd lip

ive seen a couple of their cars online but of course i cant tell online and they willl only show good work

Prep it yourself, have them prime it, get it back from them and clean up all their mistakes, have them paint it.

what can I say about maaco....you deffnatly get what you pay for. there prep work is terrible, if you even pay them to prep it. there paintjobs tend to last a few years and then it starts peeling/flaking off.
most people have best results by doing ALL the prep work themselves and having maaco only do paint.

the hood comes primed

cant be much worse when i took my car to get the fender fixed and painted for 800 bucks i got my windsheild wheels and wheel well painted also for free. i was told they would take the fender off to paint. welp i got my money back tho

matt it does come primed, but they also have some sort of sealer on top that must be sanded down and then re-primed for good quality.

ahh ok i figure it would be even cheaper if i did the prep

my parents had a car painted there a long time ago when it was 99.95 for a full paint job, they said it looked good for about a year and then like magic the car was back to the color it used to be before they painted it. no primer or anything.

well the closest one is 30 min away then 45 min away and then a hour away lol

I would never take any of my cars there to get painted. I would do the paint work myself before going there.

just throwing it out there, I was quoted 300 for paint on the top surface of my f1 hood, and that was from the best place in town.

i have a spray gun i dont think it would be that hard i have painted little things before. my only problem would be i have no idea how to blend it all if i needed to