proxlamus© Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 http://my350z.com/forum/lounge-off-topic/389628-horrible-body-shop-experience-details-inside-350z-ruined.html example... new sideskirts installed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woldson Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Ooohhhh Yyyeaaaaa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue72 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I just saw that on a forum somewhere not too long ago. That's not even the worst part. That car is tweaked, blundered, bungled, mangled, spindled and folded all over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNkEyT88 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 My friend bought a 350z. Supposed to be clean. Was washing it maybe a day after he got home, noticed some paint on the rubber stripping around the window. He kept looking closer and finding more things, like over spray on the headlight, and slightly orange peeled paint, nothing like this guys though. He checked the carfax report and sure enough, it was in an accident. He called the kid back, and was pretty pissed. The kid said that it must have been the previous owner, because he had no idea. Yeah, this is the worst I've seen though. But, it's never as good as new. Unless you're paying BIG for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeero Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I saw this about a week ago and I got upset for the poor guy who owns that Z! I am not a body guy but I KNOW I can do better than that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMWHYR0HEN Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Wow.. I thought I sucked at body and paint... That work is absolutely rediculous even for a geo metro. And common, wood spacers for a car?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nando280zxt Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Its despicable about the lack of effort, and attention some people put into their work. And it sickens me more that someone would do that horrible of a job to someone else's car. I really feel bad for that guy.... :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB26powered74zcar Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 To heck with that, if that were me .... I'd already be locked up after snapping both his femur bones with a bat.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowCarbZ Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Uhhhhhh... wow... Just wow. I've never ever in my life seen that terrible of body work. And i've seen some pretty shitty body work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmny1999 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Without it even being test fitted, Mike had already quoted me at $250. That included all prep, installation, and paint. He should of known since he got quoted $200 bucks..... $700 total should be just enough to repair a spot on a car lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZX2+2 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 holy cow! I would go down there and kicked someones ass for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-Z Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I've seen worse. A piece of steel, some rivets and a tube of silicone would of done wonders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Fiberglass mesh screening as a 'foundation for the bondo to stick to' over newspapers stuffed up into the A-Pillar through the large rust hole at the base 'to keep the fiberglass mesh from buckling when you apply the bondo'..... It was at that moment, being 'given instruction' by a self-taught auto body whiz (all the while never letting on at 2 years instruction I had undergone back in Michigan before joining the service...), that I decided anybody doing the body work on my vehicle will be watched very very carefully...and as for amatuers? No thanks, unless I've seen their work and know how they work, I don't even consider it. The post is actually funny in a sad sort of way. He's a bit uninitiated in thinking he would have gotten any kind of decent install on that kind of a kit for the price he ended up paying. I got a laugh out of his 'rust rant'---you can tell he's from SoCal...LOL There is an old adage (which he says is ignorant to point out) that "You get what you pay for." I doubt he would have gotten much better for that price. And with all his expectations of the installer, personally I would have turned the job down. There are some people who expect the sky and don't want to pay for that kind of quality. I suspect from the post content he is one of these sorts of customers. Workmanlike job aside, I wouldn't have quoted even $750 for a full skirt install on rigid fiberglas parts much less urethane. That's less (or at most) 10 hours of work. No WAY that kind of install can be done in 'a day' including painting. A week, maybe. But then, that would have cost too much. "If you can't afford to do it right the first time, how will you get the money to do it over?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tech9 Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Wow that is amazing, that's why you also take your stuff to a nice professional shop. I have clients that are body repair and they get reamed for little things, nothing AT ALL like this. Hope he got this fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Challenger Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Thats reallly sad. But the owner of the car didnt do things in the "optimum" way. Signing off at night, genius... Did anyone read enough to see where the guy responds or does he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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