Paint correction

[AZVET]

Last year I met a local body/paint guy who said he could repaint my sun damaged hood for a very reasonable price.  I dropped the car off at his back street shop.  The shop had no signs but had a  paint booth and a good sized compressor.  It looked fairly clean.  

He said that they were trying to open a satellite shop here in Kingman, AZ.  Their main shop was in Phoenix.  I asked that they paint the hood and the tops of the front fenders from stripe to stripe.

When I picked the car up it had some clear coat runs.  The painter said to give it a couple of weeks to harden and then bring it back so he could correct the job and fix the runs.

I returned in 2 weeks to find the shop empty.  I did not have a business card so it looks like I was screwed.

I then watched a few videos and tried to wet sand the two areas of concern and respray with a good quality clear coat and a buff/wax.  I guess that I am just a cheap old codger and hate to pay twice for a job.

Here is the worst spot.  As you can see from the first pic I have broken through to the original paint.  I want it to look nice so my choices seem to be:

1.  Take it to a professional.  2.  Cover it up with a fender stripe (see 2nd pic only my stripe would be charcoal in color)

Any other suggestions?  I have a spray can of the matching color to the rest of the car but the hood paint is slightly darker than the rest of the body.

 

 

[AZVET]

The bad spot is just above the driver side wheel well.

 

[Ronnie]

Why don't you call their Phoenix main shop and see if they will correct their mistake?

 

1 hour ago, AZVET said:

I guess that I am just a cheap old codger and hate to pay twice for a job.

 

You know what they say... Good work ain't cheap and cheap work ain't good.

[AZVET]

9 hours ago, Ronnie said:

Why don't you call their Phoenix main shop and see if they will correct their mistake?

 

 

You know what they say... Good work ain't cheap and cheap work ain't good.

I cannot remember the name of the shop.  They did not give me a receipt and it was a cash transaction.  It looks like they were rip off artists.  Their old building is now a used car lot and the folks there have no idea who operated the place before they took it over.

[JFranklin]

Can you get clear in a rattle can?

[Ronnie]

4 hours ago, JFranklin said:

Can you get clear in a rattle can?

 

Yes.

[AZVET]

And it comes with a fan spray nozzle.

[stall]

I'm not a paint expert but recently had a surprising experience. An old lady backed into the front fender on my 70 Chevelle with a prize winning 30 year old lacquer paint job. I took it to a local 3-man shop and the fix was perfect. The new paint matched the very old paint exactly; at any angle, in any light it matches. They used a camera tied to a computer that aftrer taking many pictures the computer adjusts the original paint formula to match.

 

I have since found out that there isn't a shop in town that doesn't use a system like this. BTW, the paint fix over lacquer wasn't lacquer but a modern mix.

 

Just information, Murray