see this is why you will learn from your mistakes... the damage that lighter does to your paint in 60 seconds will represent what the sun will do in 6 months. you keep calling people know it alls. you think because you spent a couple days listening to the dumbasses providing the shitty paint jobs that you know alot about paint?

these guys you talking shit to charge 3000 dollars for a color change for a reason, thats what an oem paint job costs. not because there labor is worth 300 an hour, because there charging reasonable hourly rates and taking more time doing it.

being a mechanic/fabricator, not a painter/bodyman, i get to watch and see the weeks worth of work that goes into fitting a bodykit the right way quality work takes time, and time costs money, end of story.

cheap paint is cheap for a reason, quality paint costs what you spent in paint and labor