Maldonado’s Auto Body & Paint & Towing Service

I’m happy with the paint job and repair of front panel fender and rear panel bumper of my 2007 Toyota Camry. The job was done in less time than estimated at a very good price. It was easy to do business with Raul and Robert; they’re professional and pleasant.

raul maldonados work ethics are so twisted and grimmey. he dont even trust his own dn self his cheap come ups on customers and people in his personal life are so pathetic !!! he and his workers take no pride whatsoever in their work i got numerous stories of what a con artist he and his crew really are;!! but they aint worth the time jus t be ware of his bullshit excuses n lame ways to do anybody wrong!

I picked Maldonado’s after driving past it for 30+ years, and figured that a business can’t stay around that long unless it did quality work. I was not disappointed. I had a 2008 Mercedes, low mileage, that needed the front quarter panel painted due to a parking lot scrap. He said it would take 2 — 3 days, and his quote was ½ of a shop in Palo Alto that I have used and been very happy with. For the price alone I decided to have him do the work. The fender looks brand new, and the paint matches perfectly. I have not a single complaint. I asked him about the other two Unilocal reviews when picking up the car and his side of the story is actually quite amusing. Seems like he can attract the customer from h*ll. I will use him again if necessary.

Maldonado auto body IS currently the worst experience I have encountered. I took my 64 impala for a complete restoration job in September 2011, thinking no less then two years it will be completed. I paid Raul Malodonado upfront the majority of the money and its 2014 going into 2015 and the restoration job is no where to be completed. I finally retained an attorney after Raul keeps lying to me and telling me that it will be completed in a month and stringing me along for awhile now. he was recommened by my cousin who had his car restored there and I thought he will finish my car and I will be a happy customer. My problem was I gave Raul Maldonado the money all upfront and now he feels he doesn’t need to finish my car in a timely matter which is wrong. I have gone back and forth with him showing up there and the car is the same place it was when the last time I was there. I have pleaded with him, begged him, paid him, and all he does is lie and lie and lie. I purchased all the parts that needed for him to finish the car, and brought him the parts after he kept making excuses. I have spent over 20k in parts and paid him over 24k and he don’t care. Very very unprofessional body shop. They don’t care if you are waiting, they feel they have the car and money and you as the customer are on there time. I have put with a lot from the racist rant Raul cursed on me to being really irrated, that I had to retain a lawyer. I strongly don’t recommend them… VERY BAD EXPERIANCE THAT I AM CURRETLY DEALING WITH,

Maldonado Auto Body was the worst experience I’ve ever had in all my years of having trucks painted, I was assured it would be finished in one month, as I had disassembeled it, and didn’t want to wait and forget the assembley process. I paid in advance with trust and Rauls assurance that my paint job would be as sweet as it was when I dropped it off, as a few areas of rust were the only reason for a new paint job. I had insisted the truck be left inside and dash covered as it was immaculate, and my side windows were removed, three times I found the dash uncovered and full of sanding dust, and covered it myself, months later it ended up left out all day, and moved in at night. When he finally removed my front and rear windows I removed my dash cover to see my cherry dash had 3 cracks in it, and Raul denied it was his fault saying it was old and brittle, I told him he was a liar because I had just replaced my instrument panel bezel and a water filled oil pressure guage and used Aerospace 303 on the dash as I always do to keep it conditioned. I spent 320.00 for a dash & it will be a nightmere to install. They some how ruined the silver paint on the edge of my ash tray and dash next to it, peeled paint off my electric brake controller, and used something to clean the satin black glove box that ruined the paint on that as well. They got overspray on my leather steering wheel cover my girlfriend spent hrs. doing the baseball stitching on, by not covering side windows, overspray on my rear sliding window and black glass frames, that took me an hr. to clean as I didn’t want them to touch it after that so it wouln’t end up scratched as well. Raul painted the inside of the bed and it was sweet except for a small dent on the fender well I saw before they painted it and brought to there attention, he painted over it, then refused to fix it threatening to quit working on it altogether, then fixed it. He painted the hood and sides of the bed next and didn’t get full coverage on one side and left a small ding in the other side I noticed before painted, but painted over anyway and had to repaint both sides over again. This time he painted the entire truck, excluding inside the bed and black particles show up in the silver paint, his other painter said it had to be from the black they added to mix the color, passing through the filters that have to allow the size of the metallic particles to pass through. I was so discusted by now I didn’t know what to believe but was not accepting this quality of a paint job, Raul got his PPG paint rep. to asses the issue with me and he told me that was acceptable with a water base paint now as these would have disolved if it was the solvent paint that were used before. Raul refused to repaint it and threatend to charge storage fees if I didn’t get it out of there. I filed a complaint with the BAR and met him there, he took pictures of damaged dash, dr side lower edge of cowl that was not straight, psg. door edge with chips under paint, lower front fender small chip painted over, ding in side of bed painted over, sand scratches in the tailgate painted over, and black particles in the paint, as all this wasn’t even there when it was dropped off. They lost a bracket and bolt clips to a fender, left parts in baggies they removed for me to figure out where to install them, removed the insulation from my roof, instead of covering it and told me particles would become airborn when painting the inside of the cab. Raul was also going to remove my door speakers so they wouldn’t get damaged, he never did and the driver side speaker has a hole in the center area now, and hard to believe it could have been accidental, as this happened after they paint issue. I even went as far as offering Raul another 2500.00 to repaint the truck, he repainted the tailgate and fixed the sand scratches, but made sure the black particles were there again and excessive dirt on the paint that when polished out still looked worse that anyone could do without a booth or experience. I was advised by the BAR that if the tailgate didn’t turn out right to get it out of there before anymore damages occured. I consulted a PPG salesman and advised black particles are not in the paint, they are contaminants from the spray gun not being cleaned thouroughly, Then took my truck to another paint shop for an estimate and assessment and advised he would be embarrased to present that quality of paint job to a customer, and poor workmanship before painting it as well. He tried to measure paint thickness and there was too much for the magnet to stick and get a reading. He used a magnifier to analize the paint and showed me the black particles were alot larger than anything in the silver metallic and layed on the surface and confirmed the black particles were from the spray gun not thouroughly cleand properly. it will cost another 6000.00 to repair areas mentioned and repaint, with no gaurantee as not responsible for previous

They may take awhile to get done but their work and price is second to none.

This auto body shop has been around for a long time and offers competitive and high quality professional service. Mr. Robert & Raul Maldonado were instrumental in repairing and having my 2008 Nissan Altima back in pristine condition after a hit and run accident. The turnaround time and workmanship was more than I would have ever expected and would recommend their service to anyone on the Peninsula.