I dropped my maxima off to get repaint back in September (warranty work ) and I didn’t get it back till December. I called them many times to find out exactly what is taking so long and their replies were, "we have to may cars to paint and have not gotten to yours yet but we will give you a call when we finish it". So I finally got the call to pick it up and man was I surprised when I saw it. Since I waited so long the guys at Maaco felt they needed to do something so they went ahead and took all dents out, sanded all paint off the body, primed and then painted 3 passes of metallic black paint onto my beautiful maxima. All I can say is I was truly amazed So since were having a heat wave I charged up the battery drove it around the block (not on main roads since I don’t have valid plates, I need to re-register it) and then gave her a nice wash/wax. Over all the car ran great for sitting since September but there are some trany grinding that has gotten worse only because its been sitting . Here are some pictures. I will be probably posting more often since the warmer weather is coming ill be fixing up little things here and there.

 

 

 

Hot damn, looking sharp. Best Maaco job I've seen, ever. They should have touched up the window trim since they went through the trouble of fixing everything else.

 

 

(using Ben Stein's voice"
Wow

 

Looks great! Where did you get that done?

 

Yes it did really come out beautiful. It was a warranty job I had Maaco do since the first paint job started to peel after 6 months

 

I'm going to have my car painted other than black.... Too many black cars

Looks good though. I'm quessing it was Omni?
The little specs, is that the metallic or is it dust?

 

Damn, 6 months and it started to peel? At first I thought that was the original respray they did about a year ago. Hopefully it doesn't start peeling again, warranty is probably up soon..

 

nope it was re-issued for another 2 years since it was repainted.

 

those are metallic specs.. they are really hard to see on the picture but in person its a differnent story

 

OMG Dust on such a Paint job

 

Nevermind

 

Holy wheel gap, Batman!!
you gotta fix that!

 

around here, that gap is too small

it's literally 10x worse now. you can't go 3 blocks without hitting a pothole.

 

i thought the road outside my house was bad. Imma shut up about it...

 

Wow! And I thought that 315 in Columbus had some bad holes!

 

article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...,1285349.story

 

WOW I wouldnt want be the guy/girl that has a hot coffee in the cupholder when they go over that pothole

 

I dont miss that at all....I had some fun times dodging those in my lowered 240

Todd that paint turned out amazing!!! Not bad for a couple of bills at all!

Now that the maxima is back time to get a turbo kit and coil overs for da other ca! Lets see it!

~Alex

 

Looking good man! Lets hope the same thing doesnt happen otherwise you're gonna be maximaless 2 months every 6 months

 

If it wasn't so cold I'd take a pic of the street around the corner. it looks like this:
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o.0.8...oO...9...()
@...6.**8.oO0..()
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yes it looks that bad.

 

I would love to see that one
We dont have may potholes here

 

Ok so I know this whole pothole talk is OT and we should make a picture thread called "show us your holes" but I'm gonna go ahead and take one pic of my street about 7 blocks from my house and post it....man! its better than autocrossing cuz it adds adrenaline of going in front of oncoming traffic

 

looks like it was worth the wait

 

What kind of tires are you running, Todd?

 

Those are Hankook K106 225/45/17 but they look huge in that picture

 

If you just had your car painted, you shouldn't wax it for a few months. It actually takes a while for the paint to fully cure.

They should have told you that at the shop. Most shops that have paint with a warranty will make you wait 5-6 months and then they will wax it for free, that way it will usually extend the life of the paint quite a bit longer.

It looks nice and it's good that even Maaco will stand by their warranty.

 

I just recently had my trunk redone professionally and was told that with the way paint is now, I only had to wait 2 weeks or so before I could put on a coat of wax.

 

It was done back in Decemeber I know about the cure process

 

looking good....what Rank did you get?
they offer rankings such as....ambassador...president....sorta like....good /better/best/excellent

 

I originally had the presidential paint job but they upgraded me since they had my car so long. I believe they painted as excellent (Signature Package)

 

Very nice!

Just to humor, what is the difference between the ranks? Do they use better quality paint, more clear coat, or what?

 

I think the sprayer opens his eyes for more money.
Level 1 : Both eyes shut
Level 2 : One eye open
Level 3 : Both eyes open but wearing sunglasses
And so on. Then we can get into how drunk he is.

 

nice paint job. ive been thinking about getting the stillen kit but ima get a full paint job done on mine again, also in black. But i work at a body shop my self so i wont be waiting for 2 months ;]

 

lmfao