stripping the wagon for new paint

I tried to talk her in to letting me black out the trim. She said she wants to try rubbing compound but i highly dought it will make a differnce. Im thinking ill black it out anyway because i want to get the smoked window visors, Im tired of not being able to crack the window in the rain. Would like to find the in channel ones. im thinking smoked head/tailights will look good with the paint also.

Definitly go with the window channel style.I had the tape ons for years on my OCC until 1 day the
passenger side dropped off.The in channels look better to me personally as well.

Ok so went to maaco this morning said its not his problem refused to fix the wheel well where it was chipping and the mirrors since i did not want them to do my doorjams. i wouldnt let them touch my car again with a 10 foot pole. he gave me my 500 for the doorjams back and i went to walmart and bought a real camera. going to upload some good photos of my car now.and because the Maaco corperate office wants to see pictures might get some more money back.uploading pics of new camera to my mothers laptop. its going to take me a little bit to figure out.

got a new battery with some of the $500 i got back from macco

definetly going to black out the chrome

Wow, looks like they scuffed it with 60 grit! Holy crap. And a blind dude taped it... You gotta be careful with MAACO's... Look at their finished work. And request the painter that did any good work that came out of there.

That said, it looks pretty decent. I like the color!

Jamb it with rustoleum satin black brush and spray. It'll take you a day or two, but it'll look nice.

Don't black out the belt line trim, you'll be sorry!

yeah im going to paint window molding black and im thinking of doing the door jambs a dark blue

Should have got a group 78 optima, not the 75/25. Same price, more CCA.


Both are good though.


Looks decent - better than it did before at least. Hope Maaco corporate helps you out.

a you talking about a yellow one stingroo

Hate to mention this,... if they were that lack luster about sanding it right, your going to have paint peeling out of every groove around the door handles and key holes. Truly sucks.

ill deal with this for a couple years gives me reason for a smoothed rear gate

It will look good once you get it all back together.

What a pitiful deal! Amazing they were that sloppy when sanding the car down. I for sure would send it to the corporate offices. For $1300, if they did that to my car I'd be livid.

Well it sounds like you're on the right track to getting everything figured out. Glad to see you got at least some of your money back

hey guys this is robyn mike at work and im going to suprise him i dont know what sizes speakers for the car all the way around can someone help me please thanks

went to a maaco 80 miles away they took picture and told me that it was a very bad job they called main office and sent them pictures now just waiting for office to call me back

Hope you get it figured out.
for future paint work: talk to the collision repair places in town first, they will know who is good and who sucks, down to which franchises do good work and which ones don't :-)

Rear speakers are 6x9s, fronts are probably 6.5's for your Roadmaster.

k thanks

I really like the color. It's too bad they messed things up. The window moldings will look good blacked out. Maybe paint the door handles body color like the OCC has.

nice color , hate they messed up your chrome , my cuz got a paint shop here and he just started working for macco on the side , he said alot of the guys that work ther dont know crap , and dont care bout the customers cars .

Wow. I really like the color. I sorry they screwed up your trim and such. I hope things will work out in the end with corp. I'd keep fighting it until i got the car fixed up right, especially the trim.

-shawn

Any completed pix yet?

so no luck with corp finally gave up so i could do stuff myself.
still working on the petty things.
found a sparkle blue paint almost the same color and did the drivers side door jambs looked good till it dried turned a wierd purple in areas?????????
took off all the black sill plates and vents, latches painted chrome.
waxed it up and realised that my chrome luggage rack was installed backwards.
its a working progress had to put stuff on hold couse the wife wanted the windows tinted before it gets any hotter so its going in the shop tomorrow morning.
went to ten diiferent tint shops. 1 person out of ten actually tok the time to measure all windows and siad about unbolting the wings to do it right. Alitle expensive a 250 but i liked how he conducted the estement.
as for pics ill try to post some l8ter today.

roady man what tires are those in your pic im thinkin of going with white letters instead of white walls when these wear out?

heres some pics for ya roady man

blacked out the tails a little


ran out of paint for drivers door

Wow, looks good! The chrome really goes well with that blue. And your wife is right, it needs tint. I always thought that tinted lights and clear windows looked a little bizarre (I had mine like that for a bit). What % are you gunna go on the tint? One thing to remember: this car has very large windows, and lots of them. Lots of light gets let into the interior. This will make the tint, especially on the front 2 windows, appear lighter than it actually is. You also have a dark interior which works in the other direction, making the tint appear darker.

I think it'll look killer with some 20% tint

wanted to limo the cargo and back doors with 35

on front doors

but im weighing the options pa can be aholes about tint

Yeah. You guys have recurring inspections too, so I can see why you'd want to do that. No sense in spending $250 on a tint job if they're just gunna make you take it off every 2 years.

I've had my car tinted twice because I got a ticket for having it too dark, and had to take it off. When I went back to get it redone, I got a darker film.

The point being, if you're gunna get illegal tint, it might as well be dark

See now as a whole it looks really really good,.. and the little things don't stand out anymore.

inspection every year theres ways of getting around that though

thanks guys im trying to get it right