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Originally Posted by 69bossnine
You must not know much about paint, car values, and the instrinsic value and quality of factory paint.
A "repaint" would be WORSE than poor-quality factory paint, and would totally screw the value of his relatively new car. Mask lines in all the jambs, overspray down inside every panel gap, and all over the underside of the car, if they skimp on the sanding/prep you get adhesion issues down the road, potential fish-eyes, dirt in the paint, sanding marks under the paint, inconsistent texture and orange peel, and on and on and on...
Having a dealer repaint your car is NOT fixing a factory paint job. The only real fix is getting a replacement car with good factory paint, or ditching the car for a fair price given the pro-rated service its already provided you.
Factory paint is applied by robots, in atmospherically-maintained-optimal conditions, in clean-rooms that are more dust-free than a surgery ward.
Dealer re-paints are done by Bubba, in the dealer's old poorly-maintained beat to hell booth, weather be damned...
Asking GM to re-paint your car is asking to take a bad situation, and make it five times shittier.
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I'm not a professional automobile painter, but I do have two friends who are. I do know that you get what you pay for. If you go to Maaco and get a 500 dollar paint job, it is going to look way worse than a factory paint job (stating the obvious, I know) But I also know, and have personally seen cars get repainted (usually custom / color change) and the high dollar, paint job came out looking superior to the factory paint. GM/ Ford/ Audi/ Honda, etc.. Haven't somehow created a superior painting process. An "aftermarket" paint job can often times be way better than a factory paint. Especially when you can specifically request a thicker paint job, more clear coat. Where as you get what you get with the factory paint job.. And as the G8 crowd learned. Sometimes you get crap.
Keep in mind the problem wasn't just one's and twosie's with the G8 crowd, It was pretty much a common complaint. The painting process, thickness, what-have-you was a sub par coming out on the G8s.
I don't want to get in a pissing match with you, or anyone else on here. I am just stating that "IF" the paint was as bad on his Camaro, as it was on many of the G8s. That getting away from the car, before it became a resale problem was a smart thing. I won't pretend to know how bad this guy's paint was. Obviously the dealership he traded it in at, didn't mark him down too much for it, because it still brought nearly 30K for his trade.
PPS I just traded in a 2008 Mustang GT for the 2012 GT, and that 08 had new paint on the roof, hood, right front fender, and rear deck lid (all because of massive hail storm). It had 84K miles on it, and the dealership gave me
over Excellent Trade in value on KBB for it. While I do realize that "trade in value" is pretty much whole sale value, I was given a HIGHER value, and my car had tons of aftermarket paint on it. So, It appears that particular dealership didn't knock me down all for having aftermarket paint.
PPPS (sorry, tons of after thoughts)-- I had my 2004 Yamaha YZF-R6 custom painted by one of the above mentioned friends. Somehow "bubba" in his nasty dust filled garbage bin of a paint booth, made it look MUCH better than the factory paint job. (Yes that alittle sarcasm and snarkiness, but only a little.) I'm honestly completely okay with you disagreeing with me, I have my experiences with aftermarket paint and you have yours. But its going to be very hard to convince me that aftermarket paint is inferior to the robots over at GM. Especially since those robots don't take special orders, "Bubba" does. Bubba will also redo any F ups he makes, once said car leaves the factory, Good luck getting GM to send it back to that Robot to "fix" the thin paint issue.
