well..im pissed off again with the guys who painted my car, found more things messed up Options

[Valo666]

So, as most of you know, i got rear ended in mid june last year. The result was this

witch led to this

witch led to me gettin a full paint job


any ways, so i have been having problems with these guys since day 1. The garage who did the repair, also happens to own the tow truck company who picked up my car. So pretty much, b4 we could say "i want to take my car to this body shop" they brought my car to theirs. So, i was kinda pissed at that. But, i needed it fixed, i was hurt and wasnt plannin on drivin it for awhile (got wicked whiplash that im still feeling almost a year l8er). Any ways, so they start workin on fixin her, but for some reason it takes them 3 weeks to get the 1/4 pannel from a scrap yard that is no more than 10 min from my house, 25 min from the shop. So i was pissed off at that. Any ways, so all in all it took them about a month and a half to give me my car back, witch they didnt fix the interior plastics that got damaged from the accident too. So what ever..i got it back, but, this is where my year long headache starts. So, first thing that i notice is 1. when they painted my car, my original bumper had been painted over once or twice cheaply, so there was alot of spider web cracks coming through. So they replaced my bumper with an OE style aftermarket bumper..that doesnt fit. The way its all lined up is all off, i have alot of gaps, the bumper looks like some one took a sawz-all to it. So i was pissed at that, then i found a bunch of overspray on the car, a few spots they missed, some runs, a few spots where there are bumps and bubbles in the paint, etc. They also fixed all the rust on the bottom of my doors, inside of the hatch, etc and guess whats coming back. So what ever..its covered under warrenty. Any ways, so i went and talked to the owner of the garage about gettin every thing fixed about 2 or 3 weeks ago. So he said he will fix all the stone chips, try and fix all the paint runs and screw ups, and also "trim my front bumper". But he wont cover these to stone chips on the side of my car at the rear wheel well, and also he wont cover the rust that they didnt do correctly. So im kinda pissed at that and that now im gonna have a bigger gap there now when hez finished trimming. But yesterday, i found some great things. Like 1. where he welded the new 1/4 pannel in on the rocker sill, its all rusting. Also, i found that the screws he put in for the retaining one on my marker lights are the wrong size, that he stripped the bolts for the liscence plate lights, so now i cant change my bulbs and best of all, he broke both of my lowbeams. I got some new PIAA lights from my work yesterday and after work i went to put them in. Found that both the levels/scales for the hight adjusting on the lowbeams are broken. 1 clean off and the other the casing is broken so it just spins. and then i also found out that my drivers side one, some one tightened it down to hard or drilled it or somethin because the bolt that holds it to the rad support up top has alot of play and also the hole for the bolt to be inserted through on the assembly its self, has been reamed down on and bored out more. So yea, im just really freaking happy with these guys and their "A Plus Work"


Note to any one in Toronto, STAY AWAY FROM MASSIVE AUTOBODY AND COLLISION!!!!!


sorry, had to let some frusteration out. Any one else have to deal with a$$holes like this? what did you do? should i report them to the BBB?

This post has been edited by Valo666: May 21, 2006 - 11:14 PM

[94wrc]

When I used to work in a bodyshop, we would not guarantee rust removal unless a new panel was fitted as it is notoriously hard to get rid of permanently, good luck but in the UK I suspect you wouldn't get the rust under warranty.

Nathan