My husband and myself were in search of a place in town to get his car repainted and a few dents taken out. (He had just bought it as a project car) Maaco was suggested to us as a, 'good company that does really good work.' We headed over there, paid for both a paint job and to get the dents removed, and a few days later we dropped the car off. Only a few days after we were told it wasn't completely dry but it was done and we could pick it up in the morning, so we did. First thing I noticed was that the dents they were suppose to remove were still visible, even under the new paint job. When we got home, and looked closer at the car we noticed something else. Before we got it painted we had done a complete engine rebuild. The car itself is a '92, so the engine was pretty dirty and old. The parts that were not replaced were taken out and shined. The entire engine was brand new looking. When we got it back it was covered in overspray. The black vents on the front of the car were oversprayed (and the edge of the white paint at the edges of the vents were sticking up). All of the black rubbers on the car (roof, doors, etc) were oversprayed. Even inside the doors and the window glass was oversprayed. I don't know if they just didn't tape and cover very well, but they didn't bother to even attempt to clean any of it. They suggested a product to remove the overspray, however it ended up removing paint period.... That was around 4 months or so ago. A few days ago my husband ordered a new set of the rubber stripes that fit along the car door (sorry don't know what they are called), and as they arrived yesterday he went to put them on. This morning one of them was slightly crooked so he went to take it off to line it up better and a huge chunk of paint came off, then another, and another. At this point the entire area under that stripe is gone as the paint peeled off in big chunks. I asked him if paint is suppose to come off that easy, as i'm not the kindest to my own car and have never had paint come off. He showed me other areas on the car were the paint is already peeling away. And the areas were large portions have come off you can clearly see the old paint right there, absolutely no primer in between... All-in-all we will NOT be taking any of our other cars to Maaco, nor will I ever suggest them to anyone. We are now in the process of finding somewhere else to fix the paint, again.
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