Progress Thread Pearl To White - Paint Time

Rdub6 said:

I bought my smoked headlight set from lmr. One came with a small crack, and was no hassle to have them replace it. They also shipped pretty quick. That’s the stuff you may not get from CJ…… both their shopping and customer service can be hit or miss.

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I've read nothing but great things about LMR's customer service, might be the reason I go with them.

Dropping off my car today at the paint and body shop. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. I'm trying to gather a list together of everything I want them to address other than the normal stuff.

Dropped off the car yesterday and was talking to the owner/painter of the shop. We went over the car talking about what I want done and one thing he mentioned was not being able to guarantee that the side moldings on the doors could be completely straight. My stock ones are rolled a little on the edges and need to be straightened. I know LMR sells some replacement ones but have read bad reviews on them. I told him if they have trouble getting them straight to let me know before painting them so I can give my attempt on trying to work them out. Any of you fellas had any luck with this?

Was just looking at these. Which did you go with?

bird_dog0347 said:

I bought the 10 piece molding kit from LMR, @95steedamustang would have to say what the quality is as I haven't seen them yet.

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Was looking at the side moldings from LMR but read bad things about them, that was a while back though so not sure if they have changed.

I went by the shop yesterday to drop off some parts and got to talking with the owner who is also the painter. All this time I had been dealing with the my friends cousin who is the one that takes care of the pricing and handles all the office stuff. It's not a big body shop and only 3 employees there. The painter, body man and the office guy. Last year they painted my buddies car and did a great job on it, he's the cousin of the office guy. So I had him come out to look at my car and give me a price of doing everything I wanted done. He told me he would hook me up with the same deal that he gave his cousin just not to tell other people about it. The price was $4200 cash and I was perfectly good with that.

We went over everything I wanted done including some rust repair which included cutting it out and welding in some new rust free panels I had removed from a parts car. Well yesterday when I was dropping off those parts he was already gone so was talking to the owner and I guess he wasn't aware about the deal I was getting so told me, that rust repair can't be included in the $4200 price I got because his complete paint jobs start at $4500. Told me he didn't think my buddies cousin was aware of the rust. I told him yes he was and that I had showed him the rust and what I wanted done. He went on to say that it's a lot of work having to cut out and weld in making it all look like factory and blah blah blah.

I just told him to talk with his office guy and we will figure it out. So now I'm debating on what I should do. Part of me just wants to pick up the car and take it back home just based on principal that I was given a price and now it can't be done for that amount. But I do know that the rust repair that needs to be done is a little extensive and other body shops of the same size would charge me at least $5500 and up to do everything I want done, I've had other estimates done in the past. The body man their is really good, he's friends with my uncle and has been in the business for a long time and the painter (owner) is good too.

What would you fellas do in my situation? I have a budget for the whole color change of the car that had taken me a very long time (years) to save so depending on how much more he wants it might and probably will exceed my budget. I'm going to reach out to my buddies cousin later today and let him know about the conversation that took place and see what he says.

Here is the rust that needs to be cut out and repaired with the ones I got off the parts car.

Thanks, I do trust the shop. The body man is really good at what he does, his brother paints as well and they had a small shop in the past and always turned out really good work. They use to do a lot of low rider cars back in the day with candy colors and all those patterns. Originally wanted them to do my car but his brother went to paint for a larger body shop. This shop did my buddies 97 Mustang, was a total color change and they tore it all the way down. Car came out really good with no issues. I plan on seeing how much more they want and will go from there.