AutoTize Blog When is it a Mistake to Paint Your Car? You Can Avoid These Pitfalls!

Sometimes, it's easy to tell if someone is motivated by cost or value. Here's an example: it's not uncommon for us, or any other wrap shop to get a request to for a quote on a prospect's vehicle. And some of the time, that quote is met with an indignant response. In these cases, the prospect might say something along the lines of, "Why would I pay that for a wrap when I can get my (car/truck/van) painted for a few hundred dollars?!" A Quality Problem It begs the question, why do some people compare an auto wrap to a (low-end) paint job? Why do other people accept the quote or buy a wrap based on the quote? I have to think that some of the reason stems from the fact that neither wrapping nor painting is a standard service. You can have a great wrap job or a really stunning paint job, but there are also providers who will be slipshod about either painting or wrapping your vehicle. When you're getting good work done by either a wrapper or a painter, it's easy to appreciate the quality and know that your investment was money well spent. And at their peaks, an expert wrapper differentiates himself from an expert painter with the small details of the work. If you're having really good work done, the two services don't even compare to one another. But if you don't really care about quality, if the price is more important than the end ...