$1500 + 500% ferrari tax paint job

Good Lord! I would be on the phone to my lawyer if someone did that to my car. What a disgrace. A $500 Maaco job would probably be better.

 

That's just sad. Any attorney's in you local FClub area?

I would not, but there might be some law that says you have to give them a chance to make it right.

 

Wow. That's pisses me off just looking at it. What a freaking crime! I'd be sick.

 

Only thing that would come close to making it right would be a full refund.

It will cost more money to undo what they did than if they had done nothing at all.

 

That's always a tough choice. Give them a chance to make it right, or run the risk they make it worse.

It would be worth investigating Canada law though.

 

Wow Paul, that was a great price for all that work.

 

You..... Your client.......had better take the rust areas back enough so you can discern whether or not they really fixed it vs slathering on the filler. No point in putting effort into the car just to have bubbles popping this time next year.

As to letting them have another go, hell no. That is what court is for..... Full refund. That car was sprayed by a child, and masked by a clown. You can bet any metal repair is pure crap.

A high price does not necessarily equal quality, and a low price does not necessarily equal crap. You had better just know the quality of work of the guy you are having do your car.....whatever the price. This poor fellow was clearly clueless in that regard.

 

I mean really, did they just close their eyes at some point? That is just sad. They should be ashamed. A plastic bumper cover repair on a Toyota Corolla usually comes out better than that.

 

..and here I thought Earl Scheib went out of business...

 

Personally, he got what he paid for.... I don't understand the problem here.

 

That's what I was thinking. Had one of those $99 deals on my VW 412 (1987ish). They tried to upsell and I said no I want the $99 special and they did it. Turned out about like what is shown in this thread.

 

I would publish the guy who did this...the Public Court of Opinion should do a good job...the real question is did you learn anything here? In life...cutting corners always catches up to you sooner or later....

 

My mommy always told me, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.

Surely, for 7k you can't expect a 10k or 20k job....you should expect for 7k you will get a 5k job. How else can you stay in business....you won't be in biz long doing 10k jobs for 7k.

 

The orange peel almost looks the same as the factory paint on my QV...

 

You know, that is exactly the sort of work that scares me to death. I'm usually the guy who pays the $7 grand and gets the $ 99 job. Last paint work I did myself. It aint perfect but it's damn good and certainly better than that. Granted it's on my E-Type but to a great extent, painting is painting.

Wow.

Lester

 

I would take the shop to court, but then i am a litigator and that's what I do for a living.

The damages here are not the price paid for the job, i.e. not a refund. It is the cost to fix the work to put the car in the condition he had a right to expect it to be in following the new paint and body work. That could be more or less than the price paid, depending on how much work was done right and how much new damage was inflicted.

I get that $7k is not a lot by Ferrari standards, but its actually quite a bit in the scheme of things. Most judges would view that as sufficient to expect a pretty solid job. And the pics tell the tale: the job was done to a very substandard level. Seems like a fairly easy case.

The problem is at $150 to $500 an hour for good legal representation, he'd burn up the recovery in legal fees. So I'd take the shop to small claims court. Cheap and you don't need a lawyer in most jurisdictions. Bring the photos and the shop manager who is redoing the work as a sort of expert witness on what was done right and wrong and on te cost to set it right. Not much to lose...

 

I saw this debacle live, it looks ten times worse than the pictures can even remotely depict. If that is even possible. Its in the right hands now!

 

I have a problem with statements like this,.. you really have no idea what your talking about except to antagonize, My Family owned a Body Shop for over 40 years and this individual damn sure didn't get what he (or she) paid for, not by a long shot!
I agree with John M's post, and go one step further and strip the car to metal and start over because there is bound to be so much material on the vehicle at this point that I would be concerned with the top coat cracking and high build primers and fillers shrinking after a year in the hot summer sun. Newman gave the owners a very good estimate for the amount of work being done for sure, but this is criminal.