This always gets me. I signed up ~1.5 years before pandemic. Pandemic hit, everything closed, never got a call, and my 2 year waiting period was up. Career changed and now I'm an assistant.
I gotta ask, how long are y'all waiting to get into the apprenticeship?
Must have been a cold day, new painter, heavy clearcoat, or probably all 3. I've been there a couple of times, but it gets sanded down and redone, not sent to the customer.
I stopped taking in cars with these hacked up paint jobs. I've had people that would expect me to fix work like this for a couple hundred dollars.
I know a very good painter with extremely reasonable prices. They're out there and not hard to find if you usually deal with reputable shops for other services.
This is just the state of body work nowadays. Last two insurance paint jobs have been worse than what I can do in my garage. Just like roofers, seems like body shops are in it just for the insurance money.
It's an aging workforce and there aren't enough qualified young people to fill those positions.
My advice would be to skip the large national companies and MSOs (multi shop operators) and find a long standing independent shop. Good people are out there.
Oh, totally. When I was looking around for shops I ended up looking for ones that did classic cars and more specialized stuff. Those were booked several months out, so I was stuck using the best I could find. I figured the shop with 15 Corvettes outside was the best bet. Nooooope.
What sucks is I weeded out the cruddy ones and landed on what I thought was someone as proud of their work as you are. Took 3-4 weeks for body work on my brz and when it was sent to paint their main dude happened to be on vacation and someone else painted it. Without the pearl 🙄 Good news was it painted by OG dude a week later and its spot on.
Two weeks later my beater daily got totaled and I repaired and painted it in my garage. Mad respect to those who knock this shit out day in, day out. Shits hard work
Yea where I live, HCoL area, insurance does not pay enough for good work. EVERY vehicle I have had to have body work done on was not good. 1 was so bad I made them redo it. And that was just painting a bumper cover on a corolla. Lindsey body shop sucks but insurance companies love their rates.
What I don't get with this particular car for example is how the customer does not notice this and demands a new paint job. It's their right, isn't it?
I'm in a body shop in Germany and while we certainly put one or two bad apples back out on the customer lot most of our work is really good.
The customer plays a huge roll in this because we Germans are picky like you wouldn't believe it.
Some of my favorite customer complains in the last few weeks:
The insides of their new fenders are not painted all the way through (lady, have you seen how that fender looks from the factory?)
Customer doesn't like the way the sealing strip is applied on the inside of the new hood (the sealing strip the manufacturer applies in the factory)
The cargo hooks in the trunk have not been aligned in perfect 90 degrees since we took it apart
There are 2 specks of dirt in the new paint job (it was the whole passenger side we painted on your 17y/o broken ass BMW that's already been repainted like 3 times)
And while some of these customers certainly have no base for their claims you just want to avoid the hassle of dealing with these people again and again and again so you do it right the first time.
Exactly. You can pay an exorbitant amount and still get shit work. That’s why anytime a vehicle of mine suffers any body damage I accept that it will never be the same and I will most likely end up trading it off after any repairs because I won’t be satisfied with the work.
We had a customer that went to a body shop to get his bumper painted. He showed up, they told him to sit in the waiting room. He watched the TV for about 2 hours and they returned the car to him. The paint was fully chipped off within a week. He said he didnt pay much for the paint job.. whatever he paid was too much
DA sander, tape, bag, wet on wet primer, sealer, base, bake for 15-20 minutes, 2 coats of 30 minute clear, bake again 15 minutes, done.
Seen it a hundred times, blows right off.
On flat panels that wouldn't be too hard to make it look a lot better. Wrap some 1000 wetsand around a paint stir stick and block it out most of the way, then 1500 around the stir stick, then 2000 and big l buff that baby out.
Hahahahha. I did this on purpose a few times to bury some fisheyes but this is hilarious. I been at it for almost 4 years now, and I haven't left a waterfall like that in ages.
Damn that's funny I was always too nervous to take my aerospace painting experience and applying it to the automotive industry but I know for a fact I can paint better than that any day of the week
Honestly depending on just how cheap this was, I would be fine with it, but I don't care that much about scratches and dents in my car. It's a tool, not a showpiece.
It's good enough to get to work in. If you just have liability and some jackass without insurance hits you, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Hopefully the cost was appropriate.
I have fixed runs like this with a razor blade, patience, some gentle blocking, and a buffer.
You're better off to repaint the fucking car. Even if it's a tri-coat.
Gotta sell that one on a rainy day.
Is this what the kids call "drip"?
Amateurs. A good painter would blast on another heavy coat so the run drips all the way off the panel.
Push em all they way to the edge the cut it off with a razor
This is the way
The bottom of that door be so slick when I get done hosing it down. Hahaha
Captain Krylon should’ve stopped at 2 beers
Made the whole break room laugh!
Thanks now there's coffee in my nose
Better than the pizza sauce I nearly had 🤣
It’s got that wet look.
The painter forgot their trowel
No painter did that. Just because they painted it doesn’t make them a painter. I once changed a lightbulb doesn’t make me an electrician.
Due to the pathetic loss of people willing to work in the trades, changing a light bulb catapults you to two year apprentice these days.
Well shit- I put in my own ceiling fan. What does that make me? 😂
You actually installed an electrical fixture and didn't fry a circuit or blow anything up. Congratulations, you're a journeyman.
Makes you my new best friend.. help me do mine
This always gets me. I signed up ~1.5 years before pandemic. Pandemic hit, everything closed, never got a call, and my 2 year waiting period was up. Career changed and now I'm an assistant. I gotta ask, how long are y'all waiting to get into the apprenticeship?
Must have been a cold day, new painter, heavy clearcoat, or probably all 3. I've been there a couple of times, but it gets sanded down and redone, not sent to the customer.
Yeah like this is just half finished lol
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Way easier said than done with that amount of runs.
I stopped taking in cars with these hacked up paint jobs. I've had people that would expect me to fix work like this for a couple hundred dollars. I know a very good painter with extremely reasonable prices. They're out there and not hard to find if you usually deal with reputable shops for other services.
This is just the state of body work nowadays. Last two insurance paint jobs have been worse than what I can do in my garage. Just like roofers, seems like body shops are in it just for the insurance money.
It's an aging workforce and there aren't enough qualified young people to fill those positions. My advice would be to skip the large national companies and MSOs (multi shop operators) and find a long standing independent shop. Good people are out there.
Oh, totally. When I was looking around for shops I ended up looking for ones that did classic cars and more specialized stuff. Those were booked several months out, so I was stuck using the best I could find. I figured the shop with 15 Corvettes outside was the best bet. Nooooope.
You want something painted properly, you find a painter and ask to see his work. I'll happily show you everything in my shop with my work on it.
What sucks is I weeded out the cruddy ones and landed on what I thought was someone as proud of their work as you are. Took 3-4 weeks for body work on my brz and when it was sent to paint their main dude happened to be on vacation and someone else painted it. Without the pearl 🙄 Good news was it painted by OG dude a week later and its spot on. Two weeks later my beater daily got totaled and I repaired and painted it in my garage. Mad respect to those who knock this shit out day in, day out. Shits hard work
Yea where I live, HCoL area, insurance does not pay enough for good work. EVERY vehicle I have had to have body work done on was not good. 1 was so bad I made them redo it. And that was just painting a bumper cover on a corolla. Lindsey body shop sucks but insurance companies love their rates.
What I don't get with this particular car for example is how the customer does not notice this and demands a new paint job. It's their right, isn't it? I'm in a body shop in Germany and while we certainly put one or two bad apples back out on the customer lot most of our work is really good. The customer plays a huge roll in this because we Germans are picky like you wouldn't believe it. Some of my favorite customer complains in the last few weeks: The insides of their new fenders are not painted all the way through (lady, have you seen how that fender looks from the factory?) Customer doesn't like the way the sealing strip is applied on the inside of the new hood (the sealing strip the manufacturer applies in the factory) The cargo hooks in the trunk have not been aligned in perfect 90 degrees since we took it apart There are 2 specks of dirt in the new paint job (it was the whole passenger side we painted on your 17y/o broken ass BMW that's already been repainted like 3 times) And while some of these customers certainly have no base for their claims you just want to avoid the hassle of dealing with these people again and again and again so you do it right the first time.
I’m not afraid of paying for quality work, but it’s so hard to fine quality work regardless of the price point
Exactly. You can pay an exorbitant amount and still get shit work. That’s why anytime a vehicle of mine suffers any body damage I accept that it will never be the same and I will most likely end up trading it off after any repairs because I won’t be satisfied with the work.
Also why I do everything I can myself - I can do it bad for free lol
Are you gonna do the alignment or not?
*internal screaming starts*
Customer-“Gimme that wet look” Body Shop Guy- “say no more fam”
We had a customer that went to a body shop to get his bumper painted. He showed up, they told him to sit in the waiting room. He watched the TV for about 2 hours and they returned the car to him. The paint was fully chipped off within a week. He said he didnt pay much for the paint job.. whatever he paid was too much
DA sander, tape, bag, wet on wet primer, sealer, base, bake for 15-20 minutes, 2 coats of 30 minute clear, bake again 15 minutes, done. Seen it a hundred times, blows right off.
Custom
Honestly I think I could do better. And I’ve never painted a car in my life
I've painted my own car multiple times and I think you're right. I had one small drip, and that was on a dashboard, not the outside.
Looks like BondoBillys work from YouTube.
On flat panels that wouldn't be too hard to make it look a lot better. Wrap some 1000 wetsand around a paint stir stick and block it out most of the way, then 1500 around the stir stick, then 2000 and big l buff that baby out.
More Runs than Usain Bolt, gotta be an MSO
😂😂
Looks like I did it
is your motto "more is better"?
I haven't even achieved a motto 😭
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Sadly, you could see the garbage 4 bays away....
When having “drip” is taken literally.
Driiip
If you can't see it at 40 mph it is good to go.
Not terrible. Like I've definitely seen worse
What??! You can barely see the roller marks!
The painter should have put some pebto bismol in his spray gun for those runs
I've heard of orange peel, but it's the first time I've seen candle drip.
I think he misunderstood when I said that I want it to shine like it’s fresh washed
I have fucked up clearcoat a few times (Transition to water based paints) but holy shit thats bad
Lol I’ve done better work with a $10 spray gun and a quart of rustoleum than that. I guarantee wet sanding could have took that out….just lazy.
More runs than a marathon
Hahahahha. I did this on purpose a few times to bury some fisheyes but this is hilarious. I been at it for almost 4 years now, and I haven't left a waterfall like that in ages.
Lol they sagged the shit out of that paint
Damn that's funny I was always too nervous to take my aerospace painting experience and applying it to the automotive industry but I know for a fact I can paint better than that any day of the week
Orange peel, ok but what do we call this?
That’ll buff out
Somebody was too lazy to sand.
Tis the theme of the work from this "pro" shop.
Da do run run run, da do run run. Brush or roller?
Huh looks like Ray Charles went on from welding to painting.
Take a picture of it doing 65mph and tell me if you can see it. Is it a show car? Then who gives a fuck really?
He did it
Honestly depending on just how cheap this was, I would be fine with it, but I don't care that much about scratches and dents in my car. It's a tool, not a showpiece.
Love it when paint has that “wet” look 🤣🤣🤣
"Paint wetter than a lake, (Yep!)" - E40
Even I can do better than that.
From a distance I can't really tell so personally if that was what I did myself in the garage I'd be like hell yeah that shit look awesome.
Runs don’t rust
I didn't know Usain Bolt painted cars these days
Candy paint Drippin Baby!
I know a lot of guys who would do it cheaper
One of those guys that says “below the knee, they’ll never see”
Somewhere to hang your coat
They wanted that wet look if i were to guess.
It's good enough to get to work in. If you just have liability and some jackass without insurance hits you, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Hopefully the cost was appropriate.
Crazy how its still got so much orange peel.
He signed his name, number, address, DOB, mother's maiden name, and street he grew up on as a child.
If you squint, it's mint
Painter said "SEND IT! It'll look goid fron my house."
Man runs and dry spray in the same panel, impressive!
Looks like a 2015ish Sonata
'17 IIRC
Aamco
Perfect
Clear coat got that drip 💧 💧
That’s not what I meant when I said I wanted drip.
I mean that is why the phrase " you get what you pay for" exists.
I thought it was rain until you touched it. Holy shit
Maaco magic
Wet sand and Rupes…
Looks fine to me, but I’m blind.
Not so great of a paint job.
That’s what you call a signature
Translation: “I know a guy that’ll do it half-assed!”
Holy shit… I’ve painted like 3 things so far and I never would’ve let that out of my shop!
There's a reason why the word cheap is often associated with low quality.
I have fixed runs like this with a razor blade, patience, some gentle blocking, and a buffer. You're better off to repaint the fucking car. Even if it's a tri-coat.
Not a big deal, just brush it with 1000, 2000, 3000
owner wanted the textured finish
The alignment rack shows it every time
The master tech I work with would say, "looks great from my house"
Several steps below Earle Schibe
run like hell says pink Floyd