Body shop recommendations in northern NJ
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DCMC
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Frazee's Landing Autobody near the southern end of Lake Hopatcong, Don is the owner and he started in his garage. All the shops in the area tried to recruit him but he stayed on his own and built his business.
DCMC
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I know Don because we grew up together, went to July 4th parties and New Years plus other occasions. He repaired quaternary panels on a Cordoba I had and later was going to paint a 74 Roadrunner of mine but I got married instead (should have kept the car instead). Later a van I had went to his shop after a accident but was totaled. If you read reviews people claim the prices are reasonable and Don has a soft spot for classics.
Sounds like a good one thx for the info
There's three things that would be ideal at a body shop. Good quality, fast and cheap. In reality, you only get to pick two of those things.
JC68vert300
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Good work is not cheap. Cheap work is not usually good.
Samplingman
Old Man with a Hat
@polarnj, let us know how it works out. I'm in South Jersey, plenty of shops around but I can't find one that will simply lay a coat of paint down on mine.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
When you only have one choice that one choice is always the cheapest.
Also the most expensive.
Will do, thx for your help
75LandYacht
Yank Tank
Samplingman
Old Man with a Hat
Is this the one doing your car?
bigmoparjeff
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Maaco is one of the few places that I know of that will paint a car that's been prepped by the owner.
I've seen some pretty nice jobs done this way, but you have to find the right location and make sure the right guy does the job.
The Maaco in Montgomeryville, PA. is supposed to be a good one, at least it was 10 years ago. I have a friend who would farm out paint jobs to them that he didn't want to do. I could check to see if he still has a relationship with them and if they still have a good painter.
There's another guy near me that may do it too. Though, right now he's not taking on any additional work until he gets his personal project finished. He did a nice job on my coworker's truck, and I believe all the body and prep work was done by someone else. He's in the same general area as the Maaco, which isn't terribly far from you.
Jeff
any halfway decent Maacos in the North NJ area? You never know how it will come out with them
DCMC
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We used the Maaco in Dover NJ about 5 years ago to paint metal chair bases. They had them 3 days, painted them the morning I was scheduled picked them up and a week later they started peeling.
I've owned a car paint by Maaco (or so I was told) and honestly, it looked like it was painted by Helen Kellar in a sand box. We painted my youngest son's truck in the driveway with Rustoleum thinned with acetone sprayed with a Harbor Fright gun and it came out better. Spent a whole hour prepping with another hour masking.
I've owned a car paint by Maaco (or so I was told) and honestly, it looked like it was painted by Helen Kellar in a sand box. We painted my youngest son's truck in the driveway with Rustoleum thinned with acetone sprayed with a Harbor Fright gun and it came out better. Spent a whole hour prepping with another hour masking.
when a paint job comes out that bad, can it be wet sanded and improved?
Depends on the paint. Full disclosure... I'm not a painter and there are pros that know much more.
That said, if the car was painted with a single stage paint that has no metallic in it, you can sand and buff, just have watch for cut throughs on the edges. With metallic colors, you can do some, but it won't cure common problems like tiger striping where the paint is laid down uneven. You may easily make it worse. The issue with Maaco too is they use a minimum of paint, so the thickness is going to be minimum.
I got the metallic paint on that car so it looked good at 10 feet and not bad at 5 feet. I wet sanded and buffed another car that had a crappy backyard paint job (not by me) and it came out OK... Good at 5 feet.
Of course, no amount of buffing gets out a ding that was painted over. LOL
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