cheap ECONO/MAACO paint job review! CHEAP vs EXPENSIVE paint job. Is it worth it???
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2022
- Not every Econo (or any other chain) shop is the same, and the results from my car may be very different than the results someone else gets. I can not stress this enough!
I've heard horror stories from cheap paint jobs, but i've also heard the same from expensive options. It's honestly a coin toss. I am only speaking from my personal experience! - Zábava
This goes back about 20 years ago, I bought a used 77 L82 corvette, the guy I bought it from also had a silver anniversary edition 78 and had this 77 painted 2 tone gold. I wanted it black but every paint shop started at at least $7k because it was a vette, went to Marco, they did the color change for $1200.00 it look great the day it came out of their shop and still looked great 10 years later when I sold it.
Bro that looks phenomenal.
Years ago I had a Mitsubishi Mirage and had a body kit put on (Yeah those days) and took it to Maaco. Paid $499 and the car came out phenomenal. Sold it years later and the paint was still holding up.
I’m trying to imagine a body kit on a Mirage haha. But yeah man, people are sleeping on the cheap paint jobs
@@nyarinyax -- It just looked like an Evolution V body kit. Actually looked cool but it was slow as hell 😂.
Honestly, for everyday driving around town, can't beat the outcome. The one tone also gives it a modern look. Great choice.
Once you wax/polish it the paint will look great. That's a killer price my man, $306 is well worth it. I paid $1100 to paint my 95 Corolla a month ago and the car isn't even worth that haha
Hahaha yeah that’s usually how it goes
How’d it go and what package did you get? I have a ‘00 Chevy Prizm which is basically a corolla and I’m planning on getting their cheapest plan over the whole car but I don’t know if I should just spend the $ and go with the top plan Base+Clear
@@LUHSHUAH I spent the extra $$ for the top plan which was full removal of old paint, complete sanding/dent repair, primer, paint and dual stage clear. It came out great in my opinion and for me personally it was worth the extra money (because I love the car and wanted it done right). The car is undergoing a full restoration mechanically and physically so this just made it worth me dumping the money into. At the end of the day it depends on each car, whether its worth it or not. A 2000 Prizm will always be a 2000 Prizm but if its reliable a paint job to me is worth it (better than buying a new car at $25k+ and paying for 6 years).
Looks awesome! I would love to get my Tacoma done. Thanks for the review!
Congrats.you just renewed your car.nice color and enjoy your new ride.🙏😁
Idk how long ago this service was done but right now (06/2023), i just did an online estimate for the most basic paiting (same color, no rusty, no inside doors and inside hood painting) and the estimates ranges from $1.1k - $1.7k 🫤
Dig the vid.
Good job and thanks for the information here.
God bless you and have a nice day.
I would have painted the door handles and the mirrors red too, but from the grey bumpers it's a major step up. And also, for 300...damn
same painted door handles would of really cleaned up the car abd made it look modern. the mirror is fine since its blends in with the window tint.
Looks Good ! Thanks for Sharing.
Oh wow it looks amazing
I think it looks great man. I've always had good results from maaco. Obviously you're not gonna bring the lambo there but to just get a new paint job on your daily it's a great option.
Shoooot I’d take a lambo there haha
I’ve had many cars painted at econo the key is to do any of the major sanding and prep your self and the paint will come out looking good
Looks great 👍. I got the same one 2003👍 runs great.
That's what's up. That came out good bruh. I see you in Spartanburg. Me too. I got my car painted at Affordable on 176 and they changed the color of my car. Told me I can get it painted again for $200 since they changed the color. Next time, I'm go to Econo for my other car.
Dang that’s the worst. When I asked them about what color it would be, they let me know it would be a bit darker.
Yeah definitely go to econo next time👍🏾
looks great!
In 2001 I had Earl Scheib paint a car of mine for $400. It looked decent. But I went from white to blue and anytime I got a chip in the paint the while would show through.
"Wasn't even sure I was going to get my car back." 😅🤣😂
Amazing 👏
Two years ago , Maaco did have a paint sale for $299 . Now nowhere near, everything is $1200 , $2000 and up . I hardly do single stage overalls , It’s all basecoat / clearcoat .I’m a painter at a Maaco, so I know.
what’s the difference? i heard to go to econo cause it’s cheaper than maco but they say econo is only single stage while maco is base plus clear coat
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Hey Lance, could the mirrors have been painted? I’m planning on painting my vehicle. Ty
@@johnfeather5405 Yes It sure can
I literally just got an email today from econo for 350 bucks for single stage
Wow that looks good for the price 👌
Looks damn good bro
Might want to check the nearest Walmart, most of them do headlight restorations for like $50 or something, and they do a good job.
Its the painted mud flaps thats killing it for me lol
Hahahaha yeeaahh I should have told them to make those black. They asked me if I wanted any gray left on it and I said no, but I didn’t think about those 😂
looks great
Night and day difference! I bet you feel better riding around in it. I like the color matching bumpers, door trim and mud flaps. It makes it all cohesive. For $300 thats .82 cents a day if it even only lasts a year which is will definitely last depending how it is parked in florida sun.
Right!? I think it was well worth it!
@@nyarinyax 100%
Looks good. Wish someone would review a maaco around my area
Looks good.
Looks Great! How it holding up.
It’s not bad for the price. Just keep up with maintaining them as you state and you will be ok I guess. Enjoy it
Interesting. Do you know if they used any adhesion promotor on your plastic (trim, bumper etc)? This is usually a cause for peoples peeling bumpers that you commonly see riding around (poor prep).
I’m honestly not sure, but I treated all the trim with some protectant afterwards. So even if they did I wouldn’t know
looks excellent for such a cheap price; amazing actually.
Yeah I was honestly very impressed
Looks. Great bud great deal
boiled linseed oil(walmart $10) for those faded black trims . brings em back to black .
Nice!
The car looks great now. I've heard that it's not as bad as some people say. The money you spent was well worth it
I hear it has a lot to do with how you treat them too. Kindness goes a long way. Especially when someone is working on your property
looks sweet .. with those rims
thats amazing
You get what you pay for I had a bumper repaint it some years ago at Meiko and the color did not match 100% and there was paint overspray. I recently had a brand new car repaired at a Geico express in New York and I ended up with something called orange peel. I think in general the best thing to do is go to a independent body shop with lots of positive reviews you will probably get a better job
That’s for sure! Nothing tells the truth like reviews do!
I love that color, Im looking for an older toyota rav 4
Where I go in Florida they have Macco and a place called Factobake.
econo is cheaper than maaco
Maaco used to paint your entire car for $29.00. That was quite a while back in time !
Upon reflection, I believe the $29 paint jobs were by Earl Scheib, a firm that has evidently folded -- but it WAS real.
$29!?!? Wow!
Yep the ad was $29.95 if I remember.
In 1944
I was talking about this to my local Maaco when I was picking my car up. He said he knew of Earl, and apparently he went crazy, opened a gas line in the shop and blew it up with him inside.
Depends on the Maaco you go to. The one I went to in St. Pete Florida did a horrible job - and refused to make good on it... till I showed up with someone from the State's Attorney's office.
Had a very good experience with Maaco years ago. Dirt cheap. Was impressed. Regular body shops are really insane. They have become insurance job dependant. They want big bucks. They use the excuse oh the paint this and that. No they don't wanna do it cause they make more on insurance jobs.
get a metal polish (mothers mag polish) for those headlights . take that right out with a buffer .. make em shine
Damn thats a nice ass $300 paint job…..right one homie, you won big on this job!!!
How long ago was it that you got this done for that price? Even the maaco around here doesn't do anything under like a grand. But I'm up in the Chicago area.
They painted the car about 4 months ago. I think they’re cheaper because of location, but 300 to $1000 is kind of steep haha
For the money.....you did great.
I think that looks amazing. I mean really good....By the way I read you can use WD40 to clean your headlights.
The headlights were fogged up on the inside as well as the outside. So I had to replace the entire unit. But they’re very inexpensive so I was fine just replacing them
That's in Macon? I wonder if they can do that with my car, it's a silver but I want. A different color
They’ll definitely do it but I wonder if the quality would change at all. If you do it let me know
Macco the Spirit Airlines of paint shops.
Bro it really does look amazing
Thanks. It still blows my mind how quickly they did such a good job. Hope other people get the same quality
Congratulations
It was cheaper to paint it than it is to wrap it. Looks great 👍
I thought about getting a wrap, but it was going to cost like $4k. Couldn’t believe it
@Nyarinyax Maaco here you come. 👍✌️
@@nyarinyax There's no need to wrap an 03 Rav4 if you have to pay someone the labor. There are plenty of cheap ways to get it painted though.
It’s clean!!!
You came out waaay good on that paint job. $300? All day long!
hellllll yeah
Someone’s gotta tell the owner of Econo and body works that it’s 2023 not 1930
What do these guys charge for a cup of coffee,
5 cents? And ready in 2 days to boot.
Haha noooo. I need the secret alive so I can keep going back
Wow!!!
Bro- phone got a good camera.
So probably just a solid color enamel with no metallic and certainly no clear coat. No wet sand, no buff.
Yeah exactly. Im hoping to hit it with a little wet sand and a proper buff soon. I was told to wait the 30 days for the paint to settle first
In the 50s these cheaper paint jobs were 29.95 and lasted a few years.
Sounds like a dream too good to be true haha
totally changes the look
I worked for a used car wholesaler years ago- we'd use $200 maaco jobs and then color sand the paint.
Made the Toyota!
I’ve heard someone mention the same thing! The good ole days
@@nyarinyax
People don't color sand anymore?
Forgive me, I'm in my 50's and only drive Toyota trucks with manual transmission, use rattle can if I need to.... 😆
That's how we did it in the early 90s on the lot- what do people do today?
@@GardenerEarthGuy haha no they definitely do. But it seems like many people are scared to get a paint job done at an affordable price, and then go through the color sanding process to make it shine like a lot of us were taught to do.
And I drive a manual s10 so I’m with you too haha
Not a bad deal went to auto body collision school. It's called body work cause it it's. .
Get a new cover for the rear tire and it’ll be mint
Brooo tbh this is good just do them headlights
Man it looks better than my buddies $4,000 maaco paint job he had done on his bronco..
Isn’t that crazy? I couldn’t believe it when I got it back haha
@@nyarinyax it is crazy! How did they make any money? Lol but at the same time 4,000 is waaay too much for a maaco paint job but my buddy couldn't find anyone else that would do it. Two shops told him 18,000 to even consider it. It's ridiculous, these body shops get 4-5k to repaint and swap a bumper so they're not in the market to do repaints anymore.
What is the orange peel? Mixing of the paint?
I’m not 100% sure what causes it, but it’s the texture in the paint. It’s the same textured look you see on oranges (the fruit) hence the name. When I zoom in you can see it in the video a little bit.
Luckily you can usually only see it when you’re very close to the paint
Can't beat it for 300
Exactly!!
Single stage will last up to a year before it goes bad
If you leave it how it is yes. But if you get it the paint corrected, and add ceramic afterwards, it’ll last much longer
Damn!
You technically got a $1500 paint job for $300. Try going to Maaco today, lol. I'm on the east, and you can't get anything like that for under 1k. Doesn't even look like the same car kudos to you, bruh 👍
How is the paint holding up now it's been a year?
So I actually sold the car a few months ago, but when I sold it, the paint still looked really good!
The material olone for that color probably will be over $200 theres no way that. Paint jop is $300
WOW FRESH
Did u prep at all sanding etc
Nope. They did everything. The before photos were from moments before I drove to the shop to drop it off
For 300 they probably just painted over the previous paint (1 coat) and then painted 1 coat of clear and called it a day.
Haha be as it may I’m not mad😂😂
@Nyarinyax Yeah let's just see how long it last. It actually came out okay.
How long did it take to get the car back.
2 days
@@nyarinyax wow thanks! Very nice. I have a 2005 silver pathfinder and looking to get it painted black.
painted a car for 3k drove it for a week accident insurance wrote it off wouldnt cover the paint job, got another car used maaco 300 there was over spray scrapped off looked great till I sold it
I had the same experience with the Maaco. Over spray almost everywhere, but a blade and some soap got it right out.
That’s pretty crazy about the accident tho. I would have been pretty upset if the same thing happened to me
@@nyarinyax black ice on multiple overpasses 36 cars wreaked 12 at mine alone but yes very upset my car hit the car in front spun out into oncoming got hit by truck so not much left but not a scratch on me
What city
Spartanburg
Maaco in S.C where I stay they paint job start at $1500 and up
In SC!?!? Dannngggg that’s crazy. I’ll have to check if these guys have changed the price any since I had mine done
@@nyarinyax I got my car painted a few months ago at maaco I paid $2300
@@Sam-un5km dang bro. Where in sc are you?
Great Video, Dude WD40 those Headlights. Simple.😂
Haha I had replacements ready to go in. I replaced them shortly after making the video. But the crust was from the inside 😬
Damn, wtg man. I've spent $300 on a lot worse shit. Gotta be ecstatic with that. 👍
Definitely was! I knew it was a risk, but I figured it would be worth it. Couldn’t be more pleased with how it turned out!
i went to maaco and they would not accept my car, I sand the whole car, but dude was like you need sand it more or i can pay them to do it and it would cost me like $1000.. wtf
Wow that’s crazy. They sanded mine down for me and everything. Where are you located? Maybe the policies change depending on where you are? Or dude was just having a bad day
@@nyarinyax Hayward, CA.. where you at ? dude said it needs to be sand to the metal otherwise the paint won't adhered to car that well and cause they guarantee the paint job so if its not sand the way they want it they won't do it..
@@aznmien1871 hmm that’s interesting. I’m in Spartanburg SC. They didn’t ask any questions or show any concerns. They just took my keys and said they’d call me when it’s done haha