graygun
Hunter
What do you think of there work and paint jobs...quality,durability?
Maaco
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You get what you pay for. The more prep work you do the better it will turn out.
Eric
Eric
buckeyeshooter
Blackhawk
Same quality as putting on house paint in your barn!
If I had a 'beater' I wanted to unload and it needed paint they would get my business. If it was my car, that I planned to keep, I would go elsewhere. I and my brother, who paints and restores cars for a living, have painted a couple cars of mine and the cost of just the paint and needed 'other things' exceeds MAACO's price for the entire job. As was said, you get what you pay for.
ChiefMuzz
Blackhawk
I've had one car that was redone by them. My grandfather had it repainted and I bought it from him about 3-4 years after. It was a 91 Buick Skylark that I bought around 2005 when I was in college. The paint job looked great. It was affordable and the car lasted about 5 years after I bought it and no issues with the paint job during that time.
I worked in a body shop for a while, and know what a good paint job requires. I'd like to watch a vehicle go thru their process.
mohavesam
Hawkeye
eric conrad said:
Never more true than with body & paint work. :!:
Anybody remember Earl Scheib?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtjdHaMeiiQ
Maaco is the 21st century version of the old $29.95 Earl Scheib paint job.
I've had a "few" cars over the years with these paint jobs. As good as a 3-thousand dollar paint job? Nope. As good as a factory paint job? Usually nope.
But in every case, the cars that I owned with these economy paint jobs were far better off than before they were repainted. If I had a not terribly valuable car that just needed a simple paint job, and it wasn't worth a high dollar paint job, I'd put Maaco paint on it and not look back.
prairieviper
Single-Sixer
Exactly! The old adage "You get what you pay for" is not always true. Sometimes you pay a lot and get very little and other times you don't pay very much but are pleased with what you got. If I had a vehicle that's value did not warrant spending a lot of money on body work and paint but wanted to improve it's appearance, I would give MAACO a shot.
Good luck!
Automotive paint can be inexpensive or expensive depending on what you want. The majority of the cost of painting a car (unless there is a lot of body/rust work to be done) is the prep work. The better the prep work (and corresponding cost) the better the finished product. My grandfather, dad, 2 uncles and several cousins were/are in the auto body business and I learned early on that prep is the base for good end product. IIRC MAACO's prep is just some sanding and degreasing/dewaxing and then painting. I do not know where they get there paint from (is it high or low quality?). But in auto painting, you do get what you pay for. Would I use them? In my case probably not but I know how and have the equipment to do it myself. However, for the average person, if it's a car that is not worth a great deal, and a paint job will help it last a few more years (or get a few more dollars selling) then they should be ok. I can say that the average car salesman will be able to tell pretty easily (if you're trading it in) that if has or has not had a well done paint job and that affects the trade in value.
That is why, when people ask me why a Cerakote job on a firearm is so "expensive" I tell them, one the Cerakote is not cheap and most importantly, the prep work MUST be done correctly to get the best results, just like painting a car or even a house.
Wayno, I believe Earl Scheib is still around (at least I've seen their shop in the NorthEast. Probably not $29.95 any more though
That is why, when people ask me why a Cerakote job on a firearm is so "expensive" I tell them, one the Cerakote is not cheap and most importantly, the prep work MUST be done correctly to get the best results, just like painting a car or even a house.
Wayno, I believe Earl Scheib is still around (at least I've seen their shop in the NorthEast. Probably not $29.95 any more though
Yes I remember Earl Scheib in Columbus Ohio in 1959. Yep 29.95
Hard to describe his work
A lot of the time the chrome also got painted bumpers and all.
I was dumb enough to have my Daughter's 1984 Z-28 painted by Maaco in 1990.
What a joke. I knew I should have painted it but didn't have the time. Yep ya get what you pay for.
Beginning in July 2010, the company closed certain locations and franchised off the remaining locations to shop managers, giving them the opportunity to become small business owners. Specifically, the company offered them the rights to purchase all the equipment and fixtures in their shops and to use the Earl Scheib name for their own business. Many managers took advantage and agreed to the terms, resulting in today's independent Earl Scheib paint centers. These modern Earl Scheib centers now offer paint jobs and most of today's Scheib shops also offer custom painting, collision repair and pin striping.
My work.
Hard to describe his work
A lot of the time the chrome also got painted bumpers and all.I was dumb enough to have my Daughter's 1984 Z-28 painted by Maaco in 1990.
What a joke. I knew I should have painted it but didn't have the time. Yep ya get what you pay for.
Beginning in July 2010, the company closed certain locations and franchised off the remaining locations to shop managers, giving them the opportunity to become small business owners. Specifically, the company offered them the rights to purchase all the equipment and fixtures in their shops and to use the Earl Scheib name for their own business. Many managers took advantage and agreed to the terms, resulting in today's independent Earl Scheib paint centers. These modern Earl Scheib centers now offer paint jobs and most of today's Scheib shops also offer custom painting, collision repair and pin striping.
My work.
^^^^ HMMMM, I know I have seen that paint scheme somewhere before
WAYNO said:
" . . . AND FOR AN EXTRA FIVE BUCKS WE'LL ROLL DOWN THE WINDOWS BEFORE WE SHOOT IT!"
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
RoninPA said:^^^^ HMMMM, I know I have seen that paint scheme somewhere before
Ron on Daughter's car they left out a couple of those steps
My folks had a Dodge truck painted at Maaco. It lasted for the next 4 years or so until they traded it in. It held up very well and for an older truck was pretty darn good.
Question??? Does it matter the color as to how good the paint job looks? Their truck was silver. Do some colors just naturally look nicer over time than others???
To the OP: what color is your truck?
Question??? Does it matter the color as to how good the paint job looks? Their truck was silver. Do some colors just naturally look nicer over time than others???
To the OP: what color is your truck?
Wyandot Jim said:RoninPA said:^^^^ HMMMM, I know I have seen that paint scheme somewhere before
Ron on Daughter's car they left out a couple of those steps
Yeah, they seemed to do that a lot. Maybe I should have said paint scam
Actually I was referring to the airplane in your avatar. Somewhat similar paint scheme to your car picture (BTW, VERY nice work). Was the airplane done before or after the car in the picture?
Kevin said:
Yes, some paint colors won't show mistakes or thin spots as readily as other colors. Just like in Cerakote, the bright colors (Zombie Green, Prison and SIG Pink, Purples, Yellows, etc.) are really hard to get right unless you do really good prep. A lot also has to do with the underneath color.
Rick Courtright
Hawkeye
Wyandot Jim said:Yes I remember Earl Scheib in Columbus Ohio in 1959. Yep 29.95
Hard to describe his work
Hi,
When I was a kid and Earl was really popular (late '50s-early '60s), the next door neighbor had a couple of "go to work" cars painted by Scheib. He was a professional mechanic, and knew what went into a "good" paint job, but used Scheib for the beaters just so they'd be the same color all over. He laughingly told us kids the bumpers got painted cuz they hooked the cars up on a crane and dipped them.
As for you get what you pay for, well, not always...
I bought a '92 Camry which the previous owner, a friend, had completely repainted because she'd had some body damage to the front air dam/spoiler area, and the slick salesman at the body shop (a large, well known chain here at the time) told her the repaired area wouldn't match the rest of the car perfectly. Yeah, so? It's UNDERNEATH, so who cares? I tried and tried to talk her into leaving the pristine factory paint alone (garaged all the time, hand washed weekly) and just have them fix the damaged area. Deaf ears got my pleas. This was about 2001.
$2000 later, they'd "taken the car completely apart" (I'm skeptical of that claim, though there are a number of things that never again worked right after it came home) and painted it. She had a nice shiny car all over. I bought it from her in 2004, and it still looked ok. But within a year of being parked outside, the clear coat was bubbling. Badly. The "lifetime" warranty, of course was no good: the car didn't have the original owner, nor did the shop. The big chain had gone b/k. The car went into garaged storage for five years, and when it came out to sell, a MAACO job of the same age couldn't possibly look any worse.
Rick C
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I have seen some fine work come out of MAACO and I have seen junk.
As others said it is prep and how much ya pay.
I have seen worse come out of some body shops.
As others said it is prep and how much ya pay.
I have seen worse come out of some body shops.
caryc
Hawkeye
When I was a kid, I got one of the Earl Sheib paint jobs and it was quite good. In those days they used real pigmented paint.
Now they just slap on a thin coat of cheap color then clear coat the whole thing. After a few years the clear coat starts to go, then the cheap pigment color is left unprotected and starts to go also.
I have a 1979 Toyota Carolla that the yellow paint job on it is still good. I have a 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan that the clear coat is almost all gone from the roof and the front of the hood. The color is starting to come off now. Cheap A$$ way to paint a car.
Now they just slap on a thin coat of cheap color then clear coat the whole thing. After a few years the clear coat starts to go, then the cheap pigment color is left unprotected and starts to go also.
I have a 1979 Toyota Carolla that the yellow paint job on it is still good. I have a 2004 Dodge Grand Caravan that the clear coat is almost all gone from the roof and the front of the hood. The color is starting to come off now. Cheap A$$ way to paint a car.
I had a '78 Chevy Blazer that MAACO painted. As Ron said, most of the cost is in the prep work. I did the prep myself and MAACO squirted it. Came out just fine! The next owner a couple years later liked it too. The Earl Schibe car I had painted on the other hand was not so good....
Dave
The Earl Schibe car I had painted on the other hand was not so good.... Dave
Colonialgirl
Hawkeye
caryc said:
Chrysler/Dodge has had a real problem with undercoats, color coats and clear coats for a long time; I use to do touch up on used cars (until 2002) and they always had peeling on the roofs, hoods and trunks; GM switched primers (thanks EPA) and had a problem on several of their Chevvie models, especially the 1996 Corsicas.
Cape Cod Terry
Single-Sixer
If you take it to Maaco leave the windows down and they'll paint the interior for free. Leave your dog in the back seat and they'll paint him for free too. About one step above a rattle can paint job!
Cape Cod Terry
Cape Cod Terry
RSIno1
Hunter
I bought a truck with a fresh Macco paint job - 6 months later it was chalking no matter how much wax I threw on it. I had a beater commuter car painted at Sheib once - lousy job (runs and thin spots) said they would redo it but they could only redo 1/2 at a time on their warranty program.
