It seems the Maaco's, etc. vary by owner, one is good, the other sucks.  My
advice would be that you sand it yourself and take all the parts off the van
yourself too.  If not, they will just do a crappy tape job on your flashers,
etc. then spray a coat of paint over your last wax job.  Once again, it
varies by shop the quality job they will do.  I would do Maaco WAY before I
did an Earl Scheib, but then again...

A good paint job is $4000 and by going to one of these cheap places you are
giving up allot, mostly prep work so that is why I recommend doing that
yourself.

I'm sure I'll catch allot of heat from the list even mentioning using Maaco
but I myself would not pay $4000 for a paint job, sorry. I could muck easier
get a Zetec price tag passed "she with the look" then  telling her I want to
spend $4K to make it one color and shiny.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Brendan Slevin
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:24 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: paint?

So when we sell our Blazer (soon, please-I can't stand it,)  I'd love to get
Totoro new paint in it's original light blue.  Any luck-good/bad-- with a
discount place like Maaco or Earl Scheib?  It sounds to good to be true, but
I am not expecting a show quality finish, just a good, fairly shiny coat to
freshen it up.  I plan on doing the little body work it needs.  Any
thoughts?

Brendan Slevin
84 GL Totoro
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