1995 Honda Accord with Microchecked Paint

This 1995 Honda Accord was still performing well when it came to us in 2019. But the paint looked like hell! The paint had develop a problem called microchecking. Over time microchecking leads to paint failure and rusting. It is characterized by small cracks (or "checks") in the paint. They look like lots of small razor cuts and are usually the result of temperature extremes. So it is common to first see the problem over the car's radiator where the paint experiences the most extremes of heating and cooling. The cracks allow water to get under the paint so metal body parts start rusting.

This post provides a very nice photo progression of the car going through sanding and masking processes in the shop.

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1986 Toyota Pickup Paintjob!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1986 Toyota Pickup. We began beautifying this beast by first cleaning up all of the exterior surfaces with a rough hand pad and a degreaser to ensure no grease, wax, or other contaminants were clinging to them. Once that step was complete we began masking all of the trim, windows, and other unpainted parts to protect them from overspray.  Finally the Pickup was ready for its new paintjob, we applied its original color, in our most affordable Enamel Paint!

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IROC Camaro brought back to life!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1987 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z. This is an Iconic muscle car, sadly it was not treated like one by its previous owners, it had lots of old primer and unfinished body work that made the car look terrible! We started on this car by removing all of the old stickers and decals, we then scuffed up the existing primer with an abrasive pad. Once the basic prep work had been done we layed on a coat of our own primer sealer so that the new paint had a better surface to adhere to, and refinished the entire car including both door jambs! The owner chose to change the color of the car to "Frost White" a color right out of our paint catalog!

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2004 Toyota Highlander

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 2004 Toyota Highlander, it came to us with a badly damaged rear bumper, it left the shop looking like new!

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1993 Ford Explorer Clear Coat Oxidized

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1993 Ford Explorer, this vehicle had issues with delaminating/chipping paint and was repainted to match the original factory blue

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