Hi, everyone. I'm brand new to the forum and very inexperienced with cars. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
My car is a 2001 Nissan Sentra GXE with over 200k miles. I paid $2,800 for this car and it has run well for me since mid 2008. I've been keeping up on the maintenance and only recently had to replace the radiator.
Anyway, my car is white and has quite a few scuffs and scrapes on it, and someone keyed it in the past. My grandmother somehow thought it would be a good idea to try to spray paint over one of the key marks, and did so without my knowledge. Not surprisingly, the spray paint has yellowed. The original paint job isn't peeling or rusting or anything, but with all of the things I listed, it doesn't look great.
QUESTION1: The above considered, would a cheap $300 MAACO paint job be worth it? I don't expect it to come out perfect, and I really don't care if it has some imperfections. I just want a quick, cheap fix for a cheap car.
QUESTION 2: I DO care if there are things like overspray on my windows. I've been reading up, and someone said that if the paint job doesn't meet your expectations, you should not accept the car and make them fix it. Can you even do that?
QUESTION 3: What are things I can do to the car myself to prep it for being painted? How do you sand down things like a ragged bumper? Someone mentioned that you should put in the painting contract that the shops needs to seal the engine compartment with plastic and paper or something like that?
Sorry for all of the questions and the length. Kudos if you read this far through.
