I will second the David McDavid. They took an almost totalled Ody and made
it look damn near new. the paint is nice, the person buffing killed it
afterwards. but they stood by their work for the warranty period, no
questions asked. my insurance bill was $17,000 just to give you an idea.
All front end work.

Scott
<jmattis@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1122313096.543060.239040@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...
> 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.
>