I know this had been talked about before, but:
I bought a black used Infiniti I30. It had a lot of rock-chips on the hood. Well, long story short, I tried fixing it myself and really screwed it up. I wetsanded too much and took off the paint. So, I had a shop repaint it. They had a good rep from other people that had went there. They offer a lifetime warranty on the work. They use BASF-RM paint.
The job wasn't bad but I noticed some small fisheyes in the clear. They are very small but there are about 20 of them spread throughout the hood. They are only in the clear. They said they do three coats of clear so they could be at any layer.
When I first approached the shop about it, he said they could sand it (deja vu, the same thing the other forum member was told). After researching I discovered that it was due to his negligence and I asked him to stand behind his lifetime warranty, which he did.
What confuses me though, is how could this happen to begin with? I know "what" causes it but why would the shop be so careless? Particularly if it would just cause them to have to repaint it anyway. Do most people not notice or care? Am I being too picky? The car has various other paint damage on other parts of it from the fact it is three years old (bird etching, water damage) that I am not fixing (at least not now). The hood though bothered me the most, mainly because I screwed it up worse than it was. But, I felt I was justified in demanding a repaint because I paid to have a perfect hood.
These guys are not a Maaco and their rep is good. I got a really good price on the repaint, $250. Perhaps that is why they were careless, I don't know (although they told me $250 and then tried to charge me $305 when I came to pick up the car). Maybe if I took it to a more expensive place it wouldn't have these problems.
So, am I just being to picky or was this shop just careless?
I bought a black used Infiniti I30. It had a lot of rock-chips on the hood. Well, long story short, I tried fixing it myself and really screwed it up. I wetsanded too much and took off the paint. So, I had a shop repaint it. They had a good rep from other people that had went there. They offer a lifetime warranty on the work. They use BASF-RM paint.
The job wasn't bad but I noticed some small fisheyes in the clear. They are very small but there are about 20 of them spread throughout the hood. They are only in the clear. They said they do three coats of clear so they could be at any layer.
When I first approached the shop about it, he said they could sand it (deja vu, the same thing the other forum member was told). After researching I discovered that it was due to his negligence and I asked him to stand behind his lifetime warranty, which he did.
What confuses me though, is how could this happen to begin with? I know "what" causes it but why would the shop be so careless? Particularly if it would just cause them to have to repaint it anyway. Do most people not notice or care? Am I being too picky? The car has various other paint damage on other parts of it from the fact it is three years old (bird etching, water damage) that I am not fixing (at least not now). The hood though bothered me the most, mainly because I screwed it up worse than it was. But, I felt I was justified in demanding a repaint because I paid to have a perfect hood.
These guys are not a Maaco and their rep is good. I got a really good price on the repaint, $250. Perhaps that is why they were careless, I don't know (although they told me $250 and then tried to charge me $305 when I came to pick up the car). Maybe if I took it to a more expensive place it wouldn't have these problems.
So, am I just being to picky or was this shop just careless?
