I've seen, in person, a Silverstone S2000 that was "repaired" by True2Form. It was atrocious. I wouldn't let them paint my lawnmower. I can find out which of their stores she used, if that would be helpful.
As an aside, I've been led to believe, over the years, that the insurance company can't require you to use one shop over another. But that's probably a question for Cline.
Anyway, I thought this was interesting:
Aaron Buckley wrote:
I know a lot of people love Lloyd and Colors on Parade. After going there to have a front & rear bumper covers done on my Celica, I wouldn't recommend anyone going there. They "blended" into the sides of the car along with clearcoat. Problem is that they never sanded between coats. I now have a nice flaking of clearcoat coming off the driver door... underneath the layer that flakes off is beautiful clearcoat (original Toyota), which tells me (and other body shops that have looked at it) that they just kept spraying clear without any prep in between.
I'm sure others have had good experiences there, but I thought mine was good at first, but years later, I realize it wasn't. - AB
That's crazy, Aaron, because my experience has been exactly the same. The work was pretty half assed.
Colors on Parade has done my front bumper twice. The first time, it needed to be replaced altogether, and best I can remember, he did a pretty good job. The second time was another matter. I made the mistake of picking up the car in the evening. Later, I discovered that there was some overspray on both kidney grills to either side of the radiator opening. I brought the car back to him and pointed out the problem. He explained to me that it was a difficult area to mask. I guess I looked at him incredulously, because he walked off, and returned with something that looked like a black Sharpie, but may have been a touch up pen. No matter, though - he was trying to apply black to something that is supposed to be bare plastic. It's not supposed to have any paint on it at all. I kindly suggested to him that I'd try to fix it myself, got in the car, and left.
Later on, I continued to find shortcuts and mistakes. The nose of an S2000 includes a lot of interlocking black plastic undertrays. I've found silver overspray on nearly all of them in one place or another. Which is strange, given that he told me part of the time he needed was for taking the bumper off the car. I also found several pieces of masking tape - all easy to spot - that were left in there. Easy enough to remove, but I shouldn't have to do it myself.
Then there was the grill in the radiator opening. I found that to be attached to the car with double stick tape, rather than with the clips that are supposed to be there. He suggested to me that this was something the last shop that worked on the car had done. When I told him that the last shop was HIS shop, well, he didn't like that.
The impression that I get is that he's become mostly interested in working on old Mopar stuff. I felt like he didn't want to be bothered with me. I even recommended him to friends of mine, and Lloyd told at least one of them that he didn't want to do the work, because "the car isn't worth very much and it's a waste of money."
I need to have some work done again, and have found a place in Burlington that I'm going to try. Several local S2000 owners have used him, and the work that I've seen so far has been excellent. I spent a day detailing a car that had been fixed there, and came away very impressed. It was a Rio Yellow S2000, which is a notoriously hard color to match. The match was dead on, it had been properly masked, and I didn't find any loose grills or masking tape. I'll let you guys know how he does with mine.
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