Paint shop spoiling chances at bring car to ZCon 2011

[bpilati]

This paint shop has had the car for over 1.5 years, and it looks like another convention will pass by without the Z finished. I'm so frustrated, I don't know what to do. Their bread and butter work is collision, so I sit at the bottom always.

:disappoin

[JLPurcell]

I know the feeling. Four years, five months, ten days, twelve hours, fifteen minutes.:cry:no end in sight. jlp

[d240zx2]

Fire 'em. Take the car elsewhere. I'm gettin' too damned old to put up with delays like that. But maybe you're young...

[Arne]

Yeah, I'm with Frank. I fully expect a complete paint job to take longer than they promise, but that kind of treatment won't cut it with me. I'd have yanked it away from them a year ago.

[Diseazd]

Come clean Brian. You really don't own a Z.......do you?

[Casey_z]

I was getting anxious after 3 months.

I caught a break there was a 2 week period where there was no collision work and a lot got done.

Also the shop owner is my brother and he hated to see a grown man cry on a sunny day

Casey

[Bonzi Lon]

First attempt my guy did the body work and some primer then left. It sat for 26+ years.

Hired another painter. Done in 11 days.

Bonzi Lon

[Gary in NJ]

Unless they are doing it for free, there is no reason to have to wait that long. Their "business" is to earn money. If your job isn't worth their time (that is the message they are sending you), go else where.

[signal34]

When I took my Z in for paint the bodyshop owner told me that they would need it for three months. I took this with a grain of salt and figured that I would be without the car for six months. Five months and three weeks later the car was done. I would have to agree though that unless you are getting this work done for free or very close to it, I would pull the car and look elsewhere.

[EScanlon]

This paint shop has had the car for over 1.5 years, and it looks like another convention will pass by without the Z finished. I'm so frustrated, I don't know what to do. Their bread and butter work is collision, so I sit at the bottom always.

:disappoin

Bryan, sorry, you CHOOSE to sit at the bottom.

Why do I say that? Because you're not offering the kind of incentive they need to do the job. What kind of incentive? Simple, MONEY.

Go back to the shop, ask them for your bill and then mention that it has taken far too long and that you will be pulling your car and going elsewhere since this is obviously beyond their skill/ability level or that they're obviously too busy to effect the work needed. If they are or look relieved... you've done the right thing, get it out of "jail" now.

If, on the other hand, they offer objections and claim that "blah-blah-blah", then ask them for a FIRM date based on a FIRM dollar amount. Then mention that any "slips" past that date will be subject to deductions from the amount they quote. And establish that amount up front and do visit them often.

Then it's up to you to either accept their bid/date or not.

But, and no offense meant, I'll bet that you've NOT been dilligently stopping by every week or so to check on your car. If you had, you would have bugged them enough to know that you were serious and wanted it done now.

If you have visited however, then I wouldn't hesitate in pulling the car, they obviously aren't going to finish it any time soon. It's become a car they refer to when others bring in business as "We're currently "restoring"....." with the intentions of showing how "good" they are.

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[pjoe]

In 1.5 years I could get really good at painting it myself.

[d240zx2]

Escanlon said it best.