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Thread: HORRIBLE body shop experience! HOLY FUK

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sport1.3
    he paid $750, he got a $750 job
    qft although it looks like a 400.00 job.

    i especially love the deck screws and it looks like he rattle canned it.

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    lol, wow

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    very few shops around here do business ethically....i lost trust in shops long time ago

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deke
    I hope you're wrong about this.
    Quote Originally Posted by rubicant
    Another instance was with someone in Japan. He liked Mike's good work so he paid for a plane ticket to paint two of his cars in Japan. 2 weeks later, Mike finishes and takes off back home. The guy in Japan finds a lot of things wrong with the cars and to make a long story short, he sold the parts in the cars and scrapped them. He demanded a refund of the plane ticket and labor. Mike has only paid him back about 500 to this day. This happened earlier this year.
    Some other stuff is posted throughout the thread, pics of the car on page 22.
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    Quote Originally Posted by UpSideDownDesi
    very few shops around here do business ethically....i lost trust in shops long time ago
    Val for president!

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    I would seriously burn that sh1t down...whole shop....him in it

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    Did Rockstar Motorsports do this? JW, after a few paint jobs I've seen on here by them
    Ballin' on a Budget

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    so y would u paint the tires??

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    Quote Originally Posted by josh green
    Thats all I would have done for $750.
    I'm not in the body work business but are you serious?

    Learning everyday.

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    $750 - $500 in supplies and overhead = $250 = a good three days of hard labor.

    That looks like anything but that.

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    Holy shit ! Bad paint runs, missing screws. The killer is the wood screws !

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    Um did the guy even do research on the shop or on different shops. That just seems very dumb to me, I would ask to see the shops work before I chose them.

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