Forum Madness: Body Shop of Horrors
You have a 350Z and a kit that you want to put on it, what would you do? For most enthusiasts, I'm guessing they'll take it to the body shop. Especially if the kit needed to be paint matched. Well this 350Z owner decided to take his car to a local bodyshop here in SoCal - actually in my hometown: iDesign/Import Image off Fairway in Walnut, CA. Our owner, CrimsonRockett, dropped $750 to get the kit painted and installed on the car, then proceeded to wait it out as weeks passed by. Like most times I dealt with bodyshops, they'll give you a date to pick-up and end up maybe bumping it a day to a week. I was given 2 weeks to get my car fixed and ended up waiting 3 1/2 weeks. So that I would understand, but when waiting that long you would expect a pristine job right? And most places deliver that extra care, but this place in Walnut man, puts me at a loss for words. Especially when they do something like the picture below to tack on a side skirt.
You can tell the time they spent into this project since the woodscrews (wait what?!) aren't even in a straight line or evenly spaced. Even with that, it's not the end of this CrimsonRockett's problems: crappy fit, disaster of a paintjob with bad orange peel, overspray all over the car including tires and lights, misaligned body panels, missing parts, panel dings, more woodscrews and even found a piece of wood between the panel and woodscrew. Go ahead and join our owner, CrimsonRockett, at his home at my350Z.com and see more pics and more details about this story. Hopefully Mr. Rockett will be able to get his car back to snuff - another shop quoted him $4k to fix it all. Get iDesign/Import Image to pay it cause what you got was not worth $750. Beware of rabid posters who are quick to blame the victim. Come on, whether the owner deserves it or not, it should be as bad as this.