[This message has been edited by davylong86 (edited 08-25-2014).]

Well, I went to MAACO yesterday to get the car, Again..... and they had not touched it during the week from what it looked like. The owner, Giovanni said that they will be open tomorrow (Saturday) from 9am to 1pm, and I should come back tomorrow and it will be done. I asked if noon would be good and he said yes. So I asked again just before I left, are you going to call me, or should I just come by at noon..... He replied to come at noon and get it.

So, today I stopped in at 12:15 to pick it up, and they were putting the deck lid back on the car. They said they had to take it back off to repaint underneath, where the paint was all bubbled up. I looked underneath to see the newly fixed paint.....It was not really a shocker to see that the paint is still 100% bubbled up, as you can see clearly in this photo:


It looked like absolutely nothing had been done. He tried to assure me that they had completely sanded down the area and repainted. I asked how, if it was sanded it could still be bubbled up in the same exact same way and spot. If the bubbles had been sanded, even poorly, then there would be small circles, (craters) and not bubbles with domes on them. He said if I want to pay for it, they can re-strip and paint it! Seriously! ! ! The crack was still above the tail light,, and the door jams are still a mess, Overspray, and where there is no paint all the way down to the original color, where it looks like someone attempted to remove the overspray, as you an see:


I had taken off the headlight doors, and made it very clear that they forgot to paint underneath of them last time. I showed them pictures of them on a table (not hung up next to the gas door assembly), but laying flat when they were painted. He assured me they would take care of that. Well, they decided to put the headlight doors back on for me, looking like this:



Both the drivers and passenger doors are warped where the Mr. Mike's lower door panel cardboard had gotten wet. Again, as you can see:


Luckliy I had typed of a list of 15 things that they were to do to the car when I left it there almost 3 months ago. Most of the items on the list were not done. I gave the store manager Dominick a copy, and had him sign another copy, that I have here in my safe

One of the items on the list, was to fix the belt line molding on top of the back bumper. When they originally painted it, the did not prep it at all, and the paint literally just flaked off. After going back 4 to 5 times, they finally painted it in the past few days. Well they DID paint it, however they did not sand, or prep or anything at all, other than take a spray can to it. Here is an example of the quality craftsmanship of their work..... So sad..... (The white you see, is the original color that the previous owner painted it, and is still that way after being "painted" twice by them now)



I told him, enough is enough, and I want the car back now, and I am going to have to get a lawyer to get this resolved. He said he can't do that as it is blocked in. I said well move the other cars then, and he refused. I actually had to get on the phone with the Sheriff's Office to get him to move the cars blocking mine in, and the then told the guys to get the piece of crap out of his shop. They pushed the car around (the battery dead due to leaving the trunk and doors open) and half pushed it into a parking space and said there. It was 12:25 at this time, and they closed up the shop, and all left me there with the dead battery.

I had to go back to the house, and get a pair of jumper cables. While I was jumping the car, someone that works in the same plaza was telling me that they left my car out in the rain with no windshield. I was like Yea, I know, the interior of the car was soaked, and they denied ever leaving it out in the rain. He said..... ready...... Seriously.... are you ready for this? "But I have a video of it! ! ! ! ! Wow, I never have good luck like this. He blue-toothed me over the video, and sure enough... the car was left out in the pouring rain, no sunroof, windows down, and no front windshield. He said he was watching them, and they hurried when it started raining and pulled a few other cars in, and left mine sitting there. In the screen capture below, that I took from the video, you can see an employee just standing there with his hands in his pockets looking at my car in the rain. Clearly they 100% knew it was out in the rain, and not just an oversight. Here is a screen shot from the video:


This does a few things, first I have them on video saying over and over and over again that the car was never left in the rain. This little video now proves without a doubt that they were lying. Secondly it shows sheer negligence on their part, and total disregard of one of their customers property. I forgot to mention that the rain shorted out a couple of the gauges in the dash. The speedometer now shows the car doing 100 MPH with the engine off. In the picture I posted a month or so ago, of the car covered inside and out with dust, you can clearly see the speedometer reading at 0 MPH as it should.

[This message has been edited by JohnWPB (edited 09-10-2014).]

Holy crap man. What a bunch of b.s.

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