Any one ever had any thing done from maaco. They are running a 279.00 sale here and i am considering trying it. need input

 

Had a car painted there last summer. Did a OK job. Their prep service isn't the greatest. Your better off preparing the surface yourself. It will come out much better. Other than that the paint quality was decent.

 

X2!!!!!

 

Prep it and tape it yourself. The $300 deal all they do is throw some tape on it and spray/clear.

Tape off and remove as much as you can.

 

Buddy of mine had them do his 92 CTD, it was two tone red with silver, did a pretty decent job. He paid them to mask and prep it properly and it ended up costing about $2K.

I would use them myself, but as stated, I'd do all the prep and trim removal and taping myself.

 

Could some of ya'll post up some Macco paint job pics?

 

there's a 2nd gen (ext. cab long bed) that featured and made the cover in an issue of diesel power from a couple months back that had a $1K maaco job done on it. obviously that must have been the total after having them prep, tape, cost of paint and spray and anything else but, looked it pretty good to me!

 

I had a customer that took his ford 150 to get painted about 4 years ago. The cost for his truck was 700 bucks and they painted over all the dents and missed most of the rocker panel bottoms and the edge of the fenders on the bottom. I suspect they wiped it with reducer, taped and painted it. I would make sure on the price. Usually that cheap price is a car size. I think they get more for a truck.

 

I wouldn't do it. I respect my truck too much. The price seems too good to be true.

 

After about 20hrs of cutting and polishing!











Before the cut and rub..







Original paint from 1993.

 

If I had to do it all over again I would have Maaco paint it and hire some one else to cut and rub it for about $500.00.. Make sure you have them do a base coat clear coat. They lay the clear on pretty heavy thats what all the white chalky stuff is in the photos above. You can turn a $600.00 paint job into a $2,000.00 paint job with a lot of elbow grease.

 

[QUOTE=TLRMAN;2798509]^^ can you please explain to me the "cut and rub" my paint looks like yours did before with all the orange peal and junk. im not afraid of a lot of elbow grease i just would like some education on how to make things nice and shiny

 

That is one good looking truck tlrman!!

 

tlrman thats an AWESOME looking truck. What wheels are those?

 

They look like KMC Rockstars