Bad experience with lip paint job

Zboy89

Hey guys. So I bought this lip from ebay for $109 including shipping. I wanted to paint it myself but after lots of warnings I decided to get it done at a shop.

So me being new to Houston and this game didn't have a referral to a paint shop so I found a guy on Craigslist who had a shop on Aldine Bender road. He agreed to paint the lip Pearl white for $170.

I drove up there with my black poly urethane lip and he asked me to come back later. At my second visit the lip had been painted pearl white as per the written procedure that came with the lip, which was exactly how he intended to do in the first place (sand,adhesion promoter, primer, base coat, mid coat, top coat and clear). When we put it up we realized it looked way too white. He said he'll sand the clear coat down and add more pearl color to it and also took off my gas tank lid for reference.

Btw I could see some uneven surfaces under the lip and towards the far left and right edges where the lip is screwed on to the bumper near the wheels. It was pretty obvious. He said that 'you ain't paying me for body work so I'm just going to paint. This requires a lot of sanding. So I'm only painting. I'm like well....meh.

I return for the third time today, the lip is not as white but the color difference is obvious. I partially think that it's not the guy's fault since under bright light the gas tank lid and lip match. But under normal light the lip doesn't match too well with the car. I guess that's how pearl is. .. what really disappointed me was how he wasn't able to stick the lip using double sided tape. It kept coming off...he was being lazy or just plain dumb and I had to say 'dude you wanna clean the dust and paint on the back of this lip before trying double sided tape?'.

He did that..and then his microfiber towel that was soaked in a paint thinner left green stains on one end. He chipped the paint while trying to fix that.

And now he asked for the remaining half of payment and said you can come back and I'll fix this. I'm not running anywhere.

Phew....thoughts...musings?

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