Re: Paint Tips

From: boydmcguire@mindspring.com
Date: Tue Mar 23 1999 - 19:04:49 EST


Well, I called up Maaco, and since the paint is on a 93, and therefore
faded, it would be CHEAPER to get the whole truck painted than spot by spot,
b/c of the time it takes to color-match and to avoid all the areas that dont
need painting.

Blake
'93 White/Grey(Soon to be blue/white)
4x2 Auto
5.2L 318cu V-8
-----Original Message-----
From: Hemipower@aol.com <Hemipower@aol.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Paint Tips

>In a message dated 99-03-23 17:20:18 EST, you write:
>
><< Alan,
> So you are suggesting I sand, fill and mask (not sure how to go about
> doing that however) the truck, and then get the cheap deal, or the better
> deal?
>
>If he wasn't,I am.
>
>
>Could a place like Maaco just do the touch-up work w/ color matching
> or not?
> >>
>Yes, and I'll even let my fellow DMLers in on a secret.
>When you go to Maaco for a repaint wait for them to have their bi-annual
>sale. When repainting they have to use the same color as factory(using the
>paint codes).So if you have a nice (read expensive) metallic or red
>paint.Thats what you get.
>
>
>Still a few left Guys. See Dakota's at-
>http://web.wt.net/~mclark/html/phones/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:13:20 EDT