Originally Posted by CaGui1223

I was also rear-ended Late November of last year. Long story short my panels are mismatching. As others have suggested, view your vehicle under various light conditions:
Sunlight / Natural light
Fluorescent lighting, ETC.

Take my car for example.. Panels weren't so obvious in the morning but at night, what an eyesore!
In an effort to "blend" in the new paint they've already painted over all my fenders, so half the car is red-orange, the other half is the original Milano red. Gotta wait until March to get the FULL car resprayed by another shop.

Originally Posted by Lara_Lockhart

I went to check out my car in hopes of picking it up on Tuesday, but no dice.

I found a bunch of fish-eyes on the blended left quarter panel, which they did not have to repaint.

No overspray since all paint jobs are done in this painting room Not really. Overspray can even affect cars that are parked outside.

They were going to fix it today, but it turns out that one of the guys burned the paint while polishing so they are repainting the left quarter panel and I should be able to check it out hopefully tomorrow.

Annoyed that I saw swirl marks on my paint protection film (which is still new), so they will use a liquid wax on it so hopefully that helps some. Liquid wax will just hide the swirls. No real way to get rid of swirls on PPF short of using new film.

I had them take off the trunk trim to examine the paint job underneath to check if they cut corners, and it looks really good. I felt like everyone was holding their breath as it was being taken down and I was examining it.

Bumper and deck lid looks great. No fish eyes. Peel was on point. Just a little uneveness between the gaps of the bumper and taillight by 1/2 of an index card. Not a big deal, but they offered to adjust it. The surface behind the license plate looks a bit suspect

It was too bright to be able to tell any mis-matched panels. All the pictures I took had a reflection. I'm hoping to drop by after work tomorrow and look at it in florescent light.

I was so stressed about the fish eyes I forgot to double check if the exhausts are the same distance to the floor and check my tint for any scratches. Car interior looks excellent compared to what it looked like when they were working on it.

Saturday is when I'm picking up my car. Hopefully for real this time. They're paying for the extra days of my rental they had to exceed to fix the fish eyes. They'll have my car on a lift when I go in to check out the waffle/clamp marks.

Originally Posted by ceb

See my comments above. What's the deal with the last photo?

Originally Posted by Lara_Lockhart

Last photo is the markers on where they had to re-do the fisheyes, but it didn't matter since they had to repaint anyway. I went to look at the car on Friday and they had the car lifted, for me to check out the clamp marks. The owner told me their job is to restore the car back to original, so they had repainted to get rid of the scratches.

I'll take another look on the trunk, but it could be my shadow

Hopefully today is when I can pick up my car...

Originally Posted by Mr. Niceguy89

the bitch was probably texting! Hope you get it fixed quickly! If their insurance is gonna pay for it! I would just go to Acura!

Originally Posted by opboarding

The molding on mine almost came all the way off. The clips came unglued/broke after owning the car for about a 1.5 years. Took it to a dealer and they replaced the clips (or glued it?) for free.