Whatever you do, DON"T use Service King. They screw up the wiring in my
truck.
<jmattis@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> I dunno.
>
> But at least one of the Honda dealers (Frisco?) sends their bodywork to
> David McDavid Acura in Plano (They'll work on anything. The Saturn
> dealer next door sends theirs over too).
>
> McDavid used to do really, really class work, and assigned one
> individual to take it all the way through. It was literally "better
> than new." They'd find the smallest problems with a microscope and get
> it fixed properly.
>
> Now McDavid has a new multi-million dollar downdraft paint facility,
> and everything is now done piecemeal by lots of people.
>
> The result is: the paint has a pretty decent finish but they put clear
> coat on too thick. They scraped my perfectly good spoiler by dragging
> it on the ground (!) and the fix was quite substandard. A lot of the
> little details were not addressed, even after I pointed them out. They
> took substantially longer to fix the car than they estimated. And, the
> delay wasn't all caused by the 2 supplements from the insurance company
> to address the damage they should have found in the first place.
> Apparently if you have a non-Acura, they don't always get
> miscellanenous clips and do-dads in-house, on time, to finish the
> project.
>
> In short, a fairly poor showing for $4,600. I would have been
> extremely put out, but ultimately sold the car and the problem. They
> would be my first choice, but this experience in October 2004 ended
> that idea.
>
> At least they could put on a good finish. Sewell on LBJ (previously
> Meiers Infiniti) did a real poor paint job and tried to send me away
> with a broken fog light, on a $5,000+ job a few years ago. That
> location is now closed, for good reason.
>