Threw $300 at a cheap paint booth filter kit and instantly regretted it

I was trying to save some cash on a weekend respray job for a customer's Civic and bought a no-name filter set off Amazon. The intake filter started sagging after just two hours of drying time and let dust all over the fresh clear coat. Ended up having to sand it back down and re-spray the whole hood, which cost me an extra 4 hours of labor. Anyone else get burned by cutting corners on booth supplies?

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tara74526d ago

Man I felt that one in my soul lol. Did you check if the filter had any kind of certification or just went off the Amazon reviews? I did something similar last year with a cheap 20x20 intake filter and it collapsed after one job, coated everything in that fine fiberglass dust. Ended up spending way more time cleaning my booth than I saved on the filter itself.

andrew85426d ago

Right there with you, tara745. It's like the whole "you get what you pay for" thing applies to EVERYTHING nowadays. Filters, phone chargers, even that cheap box of trash bags that split open the second you lift them. I fell for it with a 5 dollar air filter for my truck and it basically turned into confetti inside the engine bay. Feels like saving a few bucks just costs you TWICE the time and aggravation down the road, every single time.