People generally get their cars painted for one of two reasons: An old auto paint finish that's tired, dull, cracked or chipped calls for painting the entire car. If the auto paint finish is fine, we can help maintain resale value by repairing only the damaged areas and then matching them to the existing surface.
In spot painting, a multiple masking process ensures an accurate blending of the new and old auto paint, and protects the undamaged areas of your car's finish.
The age and condition of your car's auto paint finish can greatly affect the formulation for color match. To color correct accurately, the professional spray painter must measure the formula within one-tenth of a gram tolerance, spray test panels, and if necessary color correct by eye to achieve the best possible auto paint color match.
Precise mixing techniques are
used to match over 10,000
colors and effects.
Spot painting requires a special multi-step application process to ensure a quality blending of the new and old auto paint finishes. This blending process requires we sequentially blend up to three separate applications beyond the original area. A clearcoat is applied to ensure an accurate gloss match and a seamless, durable auto paint repair.
All our spot painting is designed to maintain the resale value of your late model car.
What is Auto Paint?
Learn why auto body paint is complex
Auto paint is the most complex paint made. Its purpose is to enhance and protect the beauty of the auto body design. It also comes in 10,000 colors and effects, and has greater luster, shine, depth, and weather resistance than any other type of paint. Yet it is only .003” thick! It’s easy to see why auto paint repair requires great skill, experience and expertise.
Light metallic paints
Light metallic paints (silver, for example) have a lower percentage of pigment - which means they’re more likely to break down and fade with exposure to UV rays. That’s why Maaco recommends its more durable paint systems for cars with light metallic paints. It’s the ability to protect against the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays that really defines the difference in quality and price among auto paints.
Click here to learn more about paint materials.
Sometimes, it’s because the elements have noticeably aged a vehicle. Its surface is faded, shows cracking or peeling, or doesn’t shine or wax up anymore. Many times, a vehicle runs really well and is in good shape, so its owner wants to keep it looking good for four or five more years.
Some Maaco customers want to get more money when selling their vehicle, or get it sold quicker. Others are giving a car to a family member. Whatever your reason, we have all kinds of approaches for painting your vehicle. With more than 10,000 auto paint colors in quality formulations that range from high-grade enamel to single-stage urethane to basecoat/clearcoat urethane, Maaco provides the price and quality you want for your car.
Besides painting, Maaco has always done expert auto body repair work. We straighten metal, fix dents, repair dings, replace parts and eliminate rust.
How can your Maaco body shop do all this for just a fraction of the price of other shops? We can charge less because we do more auto paint jobs than anyone else. Each Maaco body shop paints many cars every week, which lowers our auto paint and auto body repair cost per car. And no one can match our buying power on materials.
Why We Spot Paint
The Cost of Spot Painting
- Precise mixing techniques are
used to match over 10,000colors and effects.
All our spot painting is designed to maintain the resale value of your late model car.
What is Auto Paint?
Learn why auto body paint is complex
Auto paint is the most complex paint made. Its purpose is to enhance and protect the beauty of the auto body design. It also comes in 10,000 colors and effects, and has greater luster, shine, depth, and weather resistance than any other type of paint. Yet it is only .003” thick! It’s easy to see why auto paint repair requires great skill, experience and expertise.Light metallic paints
Light metallic paints (silver, for example) have a lower percentage of pigment - which means they’re more likely to break down and fade with exposure to UV rays. That’s why Maaco recommends its more durable paint systems for cars with light metallic paints. It’s the ability to protect against the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays that really defines the difference in quality and price among auto paints.Click here to learn more about paint materials.
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Whole Car Painting
Why do people paint their whole car?
Sometimes, it’s because the elements have noticeably aged a vehicle. Its surface is faded, shows cracking or peeling, or doesn’t shine or wax up anymore. Many times, a vehicle runs really well and is in good shape, so its owner wants to keep it looking good for four or five more years.Some Maaco customers want to get more money when selling their vehicle, or get it sold quicker. Others are giving a car to a family member. Whatever your reason, we have all kinds of approaches for painting your vehicle. With more than 10,000 auto paint colors in quality formulations that range from high-grade enamel to single-stage urethane to basecoat/clearcoat urethane, Maaco provides the price and quality you want for your car.
Besides painting, Maaco has always done expert auto body repair work. We straighten metal, fix dents, repair dings, replace parts and eliminate rust.
How can your Maaco body shop do all this for just a fraction of the price of other shops? We can charge less because we do more auto paint jobs than anyone else. Each Maaco body shop paints many cars every week, which lowers our auto paint and auto body repair cost per car. And no one can match our buying power on materials.
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