wow, my car has been there 2 weeks to get my hood painted. is this normal?

 

1 day for bottom ... 1 day for top ...

 

You've waited too long. Your car still even at the shop?

 

yeah...it should be done. if not...they were too busy to take you in at the time they did....or they are lazy and slow.....or both....make a phone call with stern words.

 

go kick some azz

 

I'd guess it depends on what kind of hood it is and how much prep work they had to do... still seems kinda long though.

 

You sure they even still got your phone number? Mine was in and out in a week. It took longer for Cervini's to ship the hood to MO.

 

i speak from experience, i sent in my hood because it was rusting under the paint, my dealer said i had to go to their collision center because the owner of the dealership and 2 others wanted his paint and body shops in one location. So i dirve over there with a new hood scoop i got from KC and my hood, well they had it prepped and ready within a day plus the scoop. Well their paintbooths went down for some reason and i ended up waiting a week and 2 days. if it was not for the paint booths it would have only taken them 2 days and a few hours, 2 weeks is way to long to paint a hood

 

They are probably short staffed and haven't even touched it yet

 

My whole car was painted in 1 day including the stripes. 2 weeks is way too long

 

first time my stripes went on took about 2 1/2 weeks, now for the collision repair, new hood and stripes....6 months...
Ok there is a lot longer story to it.
Just painting the hood, 2 to 4 days. Solid color stripes add a few more days. Specialty stripes add even another 2 to 4 days. Reason is, is your car the only one they are working on? If it is, I would wonder how good the body shop is if they have no customers. Second, depending on how many coats of paint, it has to be preped and sanded between coats and let it have enough time for each coat to dry compleatly.
With the pearl stripes on my car, it is a three coat process and then two to three coats of clear. Again dry time, sanding and preping between each coat, then buffing it all out at the end. That all does not happen in a day or two for a good job.

 

its the KR hood from Cervini. its to be painted white with 2 blue stripes down the center. im going there tommarow to see whats up.

 

two weeks is way to long !!!! unless they had preperation problems,sounds like they are putting other cars ahead of you. trust me I know from experience on putting someone ahead of you!!!! It has happened to me. never pay for it in advance,then they really get it done to get payed. but once you pay ,they take there time.

 

With the Cervinis hoods they have to be either baked in the paint booth for about 6 to 8 hours at 140, or sit in the sun for 5 days to get the form oils out. Thats in the instructions. I am waiting for the Cervinis 68 hood on mine.