Yaris paint / finish looks poor - not holding up through the winter.

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by supmet

I don't feel like getting in another paint argument, but it didn't cost half the price of your car to paint it originally.

You haven't posted pictures of the damage, but I'm guessing you could get away with 50-100 bucks in touch up paint and supplies.

The factory cost of painting a car is a completely different thing and naturally costs a fraction of a shop's cost.

In the factory, the car is already in pieces and is painted by robots and it is fresh metal they're working with.

A shop needs to take body parts off, reprep the metal by removing original paint, mask off areas, ect. And do it all by hand.