This will not end well for someone, probably you. You are going to be out a Mustang, a "friend" and all the time, money, hope and energy you you have put into your car. Plus all the crap you will have to deal with on the paint job you already have. Cut you your losses. Get your car back and move on.
I feel sorry for the spot you are in, once a project goes bad it will always be bad since you have to start over from scratch for it to be right Like the guys say find a new shop and talk to some people who have had work done there to be sure how good they are That's a tough gig trying to work with a person that you know when things go bad !! DND
What Belair said--cut your losses and check out the next place in depth. Went thru this a few yrs back on a 40. Took it back and had the car reshot--very time consuming and costly-turned out great but cost was excessive and had to take apart and reassemble the car. Just helped on another one with the same issues/same results-take apart and reshoot-not fun!! Cheap isn't good and good isn't cheap.
Jasonl47; It sounds like what you wanted was help & you got plenty of that. But it sounds like enough has been said & it's time to make your own desision. Some of these comments are going off in-to left field now. Good luck getting satisfaction from the guy...
There are ways to "try hard" and "hurry" to get something done. Stay off the phone. Keep working. Lock the door. Have pizza delivered under the door. Work 1/2 the night. However if you don't know what you're doing, it's just headed down the wrong road even faster.
Don't give him the title to the car!!!! I don't have a paint both have to spray in a garage. Never got that bad of a job! Couldn't tell you last time I got fish eye. Thing of the past. Other replies on the mark. All the problems are from poor prep from the start! What did he paint? Base coat clear? Acrylic enamel? Single stage urethane? Self etching primer for sure then the 2 k epoxy primer heck then I even use sealer before I paint. Clean the garage good! Bug zapper too long with but spray. And you don't spray at the time of day when bugs come out. Clean the gun before you spray,use in line filter at gun. Thin paint properly and use good spray Technic. Color and buff. I've gotten many a nice paint job. Good luck! Sent from my QTAQZ3 using H.A.M.B. mobile app
Ok, not trying to play devil's advocate here, but no one has mentioned it that I read.....the parts he painted were previously painted, correct? The chips I'm seeing are down to bare metal, which would indicate to me an adhesion problem with the underlying paint, not an adhesion problem with the new paint to the old. Am I missing something here? I'm not saying the job was done right, just saying maybe some are looking in the wrong areas for the adhesion problems and that maybe the job needed stripping to bare metal before refinishing. I'm not a profesional painter, btw, just someone who tries to get it right in my home garage, so be easy on me.
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