repaint job on 90 Volvo 740 turbo by MAACO

Just a question for expericne concerning a repaint I am considering?

The body is overall in good shape (no dents, clean body) but the (red
non-metalic) color has fainted and on the roof a paint job was done by the
previous owner's years ago and now the surface glossy layer is coming off,
as well at some of the edges the car has been polished that much that you
can start seeing the grey primer layer.

MAACO made a estimation for a paint job including striping the hood, roof
and trunk at more or less 1000$, they do give a 3 year warranty (I do not
have warranty conditions yet) ultra-urethane level coating (including value
prep) whatever that means neither do I have a description of the paint layer
tickness/quality.
At this price they will not take off the windows/accesories except the side
moldings that I would do by myself.
A local paint shop would do a thorough repaint (take everything off) for
3500$ but that is to high compared with the value of the car (I guess
somewher between 3 and 5000$)

So my question are:
1) does anyone experience with the quality at MAACO (might be center
dependent?) www.maaco.com
2) how can they guarantee 3 years with stripping the roof till bare metal
without taking the (window) moldings off
3)any other issues I should think about?


Thanks for your input

Philip

 

You get what you pay for. Value prep is just as it sounds; cheap.
Preparation is a large part of a paint job, and if they cut corners there
(and they will), then the final result will be affected. There's no way
around that.
My sister got a Maaco job on her car a few years back. It looked terrible in
2 years, peeling paint around where they masked instead of removed trim,
etc. I'd be looking hard at their warranty to see exactly what it implies.
If you are only planning to keep the car a couple more years, then go Maaco.
But if you love your car and want it to look good for a while longer, spend
a bit more and get a good job somewhere else.

 

Friend of mine had his Hyundai Excell painted by Maaco - the body was in
generally good shape, minus a couple points with some rust which were fixed,
sanded, primed etc...

The paint looked okay for about a week, until he took it to the carwash and
paint started peeling off. They fixed it... It happened again, he took it
back, the guy said THIS IS TE LAST TIME WE WILL FIX IT (on the three year
warranty) The current fix isn't as bad as the one before, but no there is a
drip mark, and one slight peel.

No one was particularly overly impressed with the overall job, but it made
the car look better then it did.

 

Can it be repaired? Sometimes you can re shoot the clear coat. Being non
metalic, You can wet sand the paint and not worry about messing up the
flakes.

Mike aka terrible Ted

 

Good suggestion but I do not know the answer, I should look into it!