Painting over dents, runs in the paint and overspray are trademarks of MAACO reputation.

I’ve had about 5-6 cars painted at maaco over 10 years ago, I’ve learned the hard way, with Maaco, get it in writing and don’t pay until everything is done that you paid for

If you paid for body work it's unacceptable. I used maaco and did the body work myself before I dropped it off. Very happy with their work

Man, take that back! They need to make good.

Put a surfboard on the roof for all those waves

Twenty years ago the shop I worked in wouldn’t have touched it for less than 10k. As far as Maaco goes, if you do all the work, the prep for painting it, to where they just have to squirt it, they can do great work.

I am so glad to see you finish this project and keep this channel going. Having restored more cars, trucks and vans then I can count I have never ever tackled a Range Rover. I did a Rover 350 once and that project almost killed me. The fact you finished that Range Rover is frankly pretty astonishing. You really need to congratulate yourself big time!!! So glad your channel is going to go on!!!!!!

That sunroof leaks due to clogged drains. It has two in front and two in back.Use a rigid piece of wire and compressed air to clear them. That should stop most if not all leaks.

I don’t know how much a typical paint job with body work costs, so I don’t know whether body work was included in the $2,900. But I do love that cool deep green.

Your content actually inspired me to start doing actual bodywork to my projects. Still not the best (no garage, painting panels in a storage closet cause every time I try to paint it’s windy, etc). Always love to see your videos pop up. I’m hoping in the next few years to be able to find a space of my own to really take on larger projects than rusty quarter panels and dented fenders.

Dunno how they remain in business. The last paint job I saw from them was when a friend had their red Miata repainted. About a month later we were washing it and they just sprayed over the old paint on the car and the red was coming off on our wash mits.

Amazon sells a self adhesive 11mm chrome strip kit for about $15. That is the correct size to put back on the side strips. Also, you can use polishing compound to take off the oxidized layer of rubber and put a couple heavy coats of any type of dino oil then let the strips sit over night. Wipe off the excess residue and they will look like new. Thats how I restored the ones on my RRC. Now they look like I just took them out of a wrapper. Oh...the headlights are standard 7" Jeep headlights....LED units are dirt cheap and will throw a bunch of light compared the the originals. Make sure you get the H4-H13 adapters with them and it will be plug and play.

I laughed😂 so hard when you leave and your girl toss them in between the deck opening😂😂

Maaco is great, if you do your own prep work. I have used them before, but I always do my own body work and make sure the panels are straight before having them paint it.

Sad to say I worked for maco here in Phoenix Arizona for about 4 hours and walked because they wanted me to use a red scotch pad to prep a vehicle for paint after I used a DA sander on 50%of the vehicle

A friend of mine suffers from C.P.I.S.; he has a 1972 Mercedes Unimog he's been restoring for 5 years & counting. That Range Rover looks great, you should be very proud! I've can't seem to find your merch page; I've got a BUILT 'jet-tag' hanging from my rear-view mirror that's been there for a few years & it's faded from the sunlight, so I need a new one!

I remember taking my first car to Earl Schieb for one of those affordable paint jobs. What they did was spend time with me circling all of the imperfections on the car prior to body work. The body work came out great but their prep work sucked and the paint started to flake on my bumper. They didn't primer the bumper.

Caleb, you had me laughing so hard in this episode with the oscillating tool sound and I too am struggling with C.P.I.S.! Keep going man! Love your follow through on this one! I’m looking forward to more wide MGB GT content. 😉

I truly dig your videos. I leaned a lot looking for someone to paint my project. I couldn’t afford the prices they wanted so I did it myself. Probably not a good as your maacoo paint job but total cost me almost as much once I bought the sprayer and everything I needed. So I think your price wasn’t horrible but do think they could have done a better job.

In Australia, you could do this project for around $2400. You can buy these for $600 each, take all the good parts, build a half-decent one, and then a nice man in a very old, very dented, very dirty tilt tray will drag the husks away when you're done with them.

I’m a long time subscriber. Ever since I paid for premium, about 2 years ago. You tube stopped sending me your videos. This is the first video I watched in a long time. Kinda forgot about you. Hopefully they keep sending me your videos. Was always a fan. Keep up the good work.

great update, cant wait to see the new build

Keep up the good work, Kaleb! We'll watch anything you do!

I remember about 30 years ago I had a middle school teacher who went to a maaco and taught us all a valuable lesson way back when. ❤

I think you got what you paid for, Marco is what I call a scratch and shoot paint shop and I'm impressed that they took the trim off instead of painting over it. FWIW, I paid $1700.00 to have a fender and hood repaired and painted on a small Honda accord from a small fender bender ctrash.

Take in to consideration that even a cheap paint and all supplies will cost up to and over $1000. 2900 is cheap and you get what you pay for.

"I think I paid for that" says a lot

We feel your pain. Working on Landrovers is tough. But looks awesome! 🇬🇧

Hey man, Great video! I hope this one takes off! If I was you I would contact Maaco, I think they did so so with laying down the paint besides the runs, but you did pay for body work, it doesn't look like they did much or any at all. They better give you some sort of refund or or make it right for you for the hassle & stress. I hope the best! Keep up the hard work.

MAACO use to have a $99 paint job and a $400 premium paint job in the 90's

also, hate to break it to you. depends on if that's a corporate maaco or a franchise maaco, they are going to fight you tooth and nail for that money if you ask for a refund or to fix the terrible work they've done. I would start the sentence with "So i showcased the car on my youtube channel with 315,000 subscribers"....

I'm thinking that you got a prep and paint,If they did all the body work on all those dents it probably would've been double........As far as sunroof leaking on a Rover,mine had broken and clogged drain tubes for the sunroof.

Maaco is fine as long as you do the body work and prep yourself. Lessons for anyone that goes to maaco or any autobody shop. Don't accept your vehicle if its freshly washed. Its amazing how much water on a car can hide. And before you get the job done take pictures of all the dents and areas you'd like repaired. And have everything written down. Not just with Maaco but any shop.

You saved a RR from the dead. It looks more than fine to me. Good job.

That location is particularly bad, me and Eric worked next door for awhile until we moved to our new shop. If you paid for body work, the obvious stuff should have been fixed 100% Not so much the wavy stuff though. Shouldn’t have runs in the paint either. I feel like they could have put in not much more effort and you would have been pretty happy at that price point. Having said all that if they don’t take care of you, hit up Eric and we’ll cut and buff the runs out and fix that one really obvious dent on the quarter. If you want to try to PDR it first Bill Gewalt is the MAN, and local, usually will come to you. I can definitely relate to the “wasnt fun but I’m proud of it” statement lol. But for sure should be proud of it!

Ive had a bunch of paint jobs done by them back in 80s,always satisfied,but you have to make clear what you expect before work is done.then eyeball before paying.most expensive cost for whole car was 400.00 lol long time ago!

I and friends of mine have recently been getting quotes for body work and full repaint on project vehicles. Depending on how nice you want your rig to look the quotes have been $8,000.00 to $15,000.00. $3,000.00 and 5yr warranty is not a bad deal. Your Land Rover looks good to me.

The build looks great!

I've always heard to do your own body work beforehand if going with a maco job

I use Maaco about 10 years ago in Pensacola Florida and they did a Excellent job in my ford truck

i live in switzerland and i paid 2300 chf (2611 dollars) for repairing and painting both sides(the corner from the rear fender and sideskirt) and the front fender. its done very nice. the apprentice did the bodywork so i saved a bit there, but it turned out perfect. if you paid for bodywork and it was included in the price its bad in terms of the dents... but the wavey things are ok for that price in my opinion. its a lot of work and for 3000 i would not even start to sand anything at all for someone else....

Id take it back the dents and waves in that thing are terrible. But it does look decent with the trim back on.

CPIS😅😅😅😂😂😂 Love it! I'm getting better at it and KZfaq helps me complete things.

Those guys don't get enough body work experience. The two other flippers I know who will actually gamble on maaco *_always_* do their own body work. Then gamble on them to spray it. Some locations are better with the resprays than others. So always check location specific customer reviews. Showing how bad their body work sucks doesn't shock any car person over the age of 25.

Always loved the look of a range classic.

Elevator, Elevator you got the shaft!

I’ve had Maaco do a few full paint jobs. Based on the price $2900 you’ve said that does not include body work in my experience. Best way to get your moneys worth from maaco is to get the body straight and smooth and then drop it off 😂

That paint is on par with the dad jokes I inundate you with at GRIP.

lol. that scene is my alarm clock

Just laughing watching your daughter throw those trim pics under your trailer!!🤣🤣🤣

did it get you good tape lines?

It was better when it was "1 day auto" before Maaco bought them. I had Maaco do one of my cars , i got the same as you with the top paint job and good UV protection andddd the UV protection is just not good. Dont care if its in your garage but it tore through it. I wet sanded the car myself ( i used to own detail shop yearssss ago) since they half a$$ it leaving anywhere from a 1/2 to 1 inch around all body lines and edges. The same location when it was 1 day paint and auto actually did a better job, i asked for extra coats of paint and to this day, the UV coat is still solid. I wet sanded that car and it was like glass. Everyone thought it was a $5k paint job or more. $2900 dollars and they didn't do body work , take it back. Also, the paint always looks thin. It doesn't look thick.. I would take it back. If you paid for the dents and bodywork and they didn't do it and its on your order / receipt, take it back.

Had a similar issue at the Maaco in Tempe where I had a Jeep that had lots of little paint chips and I paid extra to get them all fixed and it was like they did absolutely nothing. Guy was a jerk about it too and only redid half of the Jeep (the front half).

You can get the ole Sailor Fred Roller paint job. Sailor Fred is a guy I knew who used to paint cars on his front lawn with a roller. Or Earl Schieb comes to mind.

WOW and they didnt use double side take to reinstall the moldings!

This used to be the $150 special in the early 90s

The first response is right. I would take it back to macco and dispute the finish. The paint and the body repair is good but could've been better for: $3000.00, their is always a few collision places that could do outstanding work for the same price as macco. It's just a matter of finding those gems that believe in their work. These are the same places that break down on paper whatever they'll charge you for. I'm thankful for your video (thumbs down only because macco use to be better) the way they painted your vehicle it may encourage rust sooner than before your paint job. Hopefully they did the prep work properly before the paint job. Hope for the best for you and Land Rover.

Was that with filler etc and flatting as these aren’t the straightest from factory the ding though is a bit shit

I had a guy paint a Dodge neon for me for 600 bucks in his garage of Craigslist did a great job my brother in law bought the car years later and wanted to repaint it took to maaco and it was chipping off within weeks

I would DEFINITELY take it back

Not being in you country, it's a little hard to know what the average paint and bodywork job costs from other panelbeaters as to value for money side of things. Through KZfaq channels though, I have gotten the picture that Maaco is sort of a hit-and-miss result kind of place - sometimes it works well, other times not so much, so I get that its not a high-end, bespoke shop that you'd send a priceless Lamborghini to. In saying that, there is a rule in any western country that if you have PAID for something, you should get it.....and given that the rather expensive two-stage paintwork was less than half the cost of the final bill, something doesn't add up. The rippling effect can be caused by two things (usually) - a) overheating of the panel by sanding too heavily in one area or b) bad technique when skimming the bodyfiller and / or primer layers during prep. In an industry that has learned and changed much in the last 40 years and now has a lot of options during prep to hide places containing heavier amounts of filler - and where guide coats are routinely used to show up high and low spots in the prep - that crap level of finish is no longer acceptable. Similarly, the high and low spots (ie: dents from external or internal sources) in the panel work SHOULD have been taken care of as part of the "bodywork" component of the labour cost. In every job, a prior walkaround and agreement on what is taken care of is usually done if there are any questions about what the bodywork labour component will cover. The runs in the paintwork (and I'll put money on the fact there will be more) are again unacceptable as a "finished and ready for the customer" result. Yes the customer may be able to tidy them up if they know how, but it would be MY expectation as a paying client that they do not exist to begin with. In a recent repair from a panelbeater for my wife's car after being in a minor shunt from behind, the bodywork and prep was good but it was like they had painted it next to the bloke sandblasting the next job. There was so much crap sitting in the paint - and being a silver car, it looked like we had reversed at speed into a huge swarm of mosquitoes. I told them I was not accepting it and it had to be redone. What came back was so perfect that - as well as thanking them personally and acknowledging how great it looked - I gave them a rave review on their social media and website pages, although I did mention that they didn't get it right first time. If you do not complain, you do not get an opportunity for a change in the result you've been given and the company does not get a chance to right the wrong or put steps in place to stop it happening again (if they care at all about repeat business, customer service and their name / reputation in general). If you complain and they basically tell you to shove it where the sun don't shine, well, social media is a pretty good platform for getting the word out, isn't it? Or...at least you know where not to take a vehicle next time if you want it to look good and get what you pay for. The lesson I think is to convey or manage expectation and always make sure you know what work will be done for the money you will be handing over BEFORE they start the job by walking around the car and either noting or marking areas to be addressed. If you did this, then you have grounds to go back and demand either a full refund or that they correct the work - whichever suits best. Also if you did not ask them to remove the side mouldings, then they should NOT have removed the side mouldings and any damage cause by said removal is on THEIR time and dime to repair, not yours. In saying all that, I think the vehicle looks great from a distance, will be awesome inside once completed and was worth the paint job to make it look better.

Damn I got my entire scion xb painted for 6 hundred bucks at Maaco 3 years ago. It's still shiny. No orange peel. No issues

to anyone who cares to understand the opperation at maaco, the one painter on each site is very limited on the paint supplyed for each job, they want a average of 10/12 cars per 8hr shift, the body guys(atleast 5 per site) cant keep up with the demand in the front office. the painter usually knows and has plenty of experiance but when shoved shit in your face day after day, its just another color. before i started painting i payed maaco to do three cars of mine. i knew the shop and had zero issues with anything. i did my own body work after figuring out there rush system. to pay that price they shoulda sent in a guy over the weekend to dial it in. not all maacos are equivelant

For 3k I would not expect the glass removed for painting, but I would expect the dents to be fixed. Runs should have been wet sanded and polished at minimum. I bet less than 5 hours prep was done.

That thing has more runs than a baseball game

Damn i had a car painted by maaco back in 2012. I paid $2k for their top of the line paint with some body work. It turned out great except i opted to paint the door jams. They didn't mask off the door jam stickers very well so theres a ton of overspray on them. Oh well. Now in 2024 the car looks 80% as good as it did when it was first painted. But its been garaged for most of that time.

There’s even paint runs, definitely need to go back and fix it

For a paint shop even though it’s Macco that looks terrible bossy not even done clear coat drips that’s bs that could easily taken down with a razor blade and buffed out idk how thick the clear coat is but it could easily be wet sanded as well and cut buffed and polished with swirl remover.

I had a car repainted by Earl Schibe once, looked great except for they painted over a litte mud on the rear quarter panels but otherwise well worth the $200. Honestly, I kinda like the battle scars and would leave them but they charged too much IMO.

Mako has always done a decent job as long as you find the ones that do a good job they're usually independently owned franchise style and I always find who is going to do the bodywork on my car usually it's a grunt I always talk to him and flipping at least a 20 or a 50 extra in cash to do a little better job than he normally would and I can get a $600 job look like a $1,500 one pay the lowest guy on the totem pole because he's the one that does most the prep work and the lowest amount of money it does the biggest amount of improvement because he is the least paid

Maaco was on that show Undercover Boss and the body guy told the truth and explained the companies thought process. He got fired at the end by the CEO who knew nothing about paint and body work. Most locations are all about quantity and even on the show they filled door panel dents with bondo and just sprayed over it. It's crazy.

Looks okay, maaco is cheek city brother

Idk I brought a few cars in there to get them painted and what I’ve learned Atleast for the stores here is the reason they get such a bad reputation is because they do cheap paint single stage jobs when a lot of people won’t. Then people get upset that their cheap paint dosnt last. It’s like paying a tire store to put on dry rot tires. But if you spend more like I have they do great work. But that’s the store where I live. Every stores different with different people and different standards.

Looks like something a golden God would drive

Anytime you have paint and or bodywork done, never accept it on anything but a sunny day. If that’s not possible request an inspection indoors and that the vehicle is dry. Look from multiple angles and distances. Use reflections to check for straightness. And always take your time.

i have had 6 cars painted by maaco,only one bad job and that was just overspray,i had my buick gn painted there and was satisfied with the job,it also depends on the maaco location

Did you pay for wet sanding, compound and polish? That will remove the waves.

Always a good day when you upload 😎

You can't expect a range rover of that age to look perfect and it just looks like a love tap on the side of the car so I wouldn't worry about it.

3k is a very cheap overall. The material cost alone at a “real” body shop would be a significant part of that alone, even at cost. Im fairly certain Maacao is a mask and spray place, the “body work” you paid for is probably mostly for the labor time for the “r&i’s” of all the parts taken off, not necessarily to swipe and block every panel on the vehicle. I work at a dealership body shop, unless your doing it yourself your paying 2-3 times that but it would look good.

The paint is good from far, but far from good! You do great work, please do it again, maybe an international Scout!

Bro you should have asked the especific body repair you wanted, went with a paper with the problematic spots to be repaired.

an excellent finisher car for a golden god

If you paid for bodywork, it's not acceptable. I learned my lesson with MAACO: when they do the estimate, make sure you point out EVERY SINGLE DING AND DENT that you want repaired, and make sure they circle each one on the vehicle itself with their yellow marking crayon AND have written it down on the estimate - "dimple in left rear quarter panel," "dent in right front door," etc etc.

Maaco is economical, it's why you went there.. Same as me...... I think it looks very nice for 2900. I do agree that those dings could have been filled in 5 mins for min effort.

I hate to tell you this but you should have got the paint stuff sorted out before reassembling the vehicle if you are considering having them rework it. Looks like you got the short end of the stick when it comes to bodywork and the paint work is just okay.

I could have done spa bad ass paint job for five hundred you got took my man

If you prep and then let them paint is the way to do it. It's not hard to smooth. It takes time. Time that macco can't afford to take. In and out is their motto.

Paint looks pretty great but I would call them and speak to the manager. It doesn’t look like they did any bodywork. Personally I would want to bring it back and have them do what you paid for rather than getting a refund. A good PDR tech can take care of a lot of that stuff but that one sharp ding on the left quarter panel might be tricky.

Sounds like you got a good deal on the paint but definitely not on the body work. Excited for the future of the channel and good work pushing through the end of the project!

Looks like you made a big discovery!

I've seen some great paint jobs come out of Tijuana Mexico and it's about half price but you have to watch what shop you go to .

I once took my old truck to Macco, they said it would be 1000 bucks or something to strip the paint, prep and repaint everything. So i did all the prep work myself and they proceeded to charge me 1300 with runs included.

Yes take it back it is bad dude

Holy crap. You can see the runs in the paint in a separation of metallics. I would take it back and have them respray it let them know you're a KZfaqr and that you will post another video of how they treated you

Jees - thats a lot for that outcome. I will get the rattle can out for that.

Great job!

Run Forest, run.

Sounds like they charged you by all the drips in that paint job, Lots of drips!!!

What does a paint job usually cost in the US? I feel like $2900 would be usual price. You can get a sketchy closed door respray in Australia for around $2500 and things are generally twice the price over here.