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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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Originally Posted by 69bossnine
1. You won't find anything but sub-par painters doing factory and dealership work.
2. You still can't REPLICATE factory paint without disassembling most of the car... Least not if you're going to do it right, and as-factory.
3. No matter how beautiful the job, a repaint diminishes value. Unless it's completely undectable and you don't tell the buyer (which is unethical)
I collect cars, I know good paint.
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I'm going to put this is the most simplistic way I can
No offense, but this is total bullsh*t. If you think factory paint is anywhere close to being better than a quality paint job then you know nothing about GOOD paint.
The only way it will diminishes the value of the car is if you do a color change or its a sh*t job which happens A TON. If its a rare car, then yes it can pending the particular model.
Factory paint is nothing but orange peal and a quarter of the time does not match. A good quality paint job from someone that preps properly and can actually lay paint down will look 50X better (if you know what your looking at. It seems you don't because you think orange peal looks good apparently)
and no over-spray is no issue if you no what precautions to take including underneath the car
AND it will be 20x more durable. At least it is when I do it. & yes I do this for a living. My (MY) company has been doing it now for 31 years for individuals (Some car collectors with muilti million dollar collections) as well as corporate race teams/companies.
and FYI 5th gens have some of the worst paint I have seen. I have re-painted many of my customers cars bumpers, QP's and hoods because there NOT EVEN close to matching. Absolutely embarrassing for a 30k+ car.