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.

[DerFlosser]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

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.

Exactly....but supmet wants people to work for free. Good bodyshops won't touch a Yaris for less than $4K. That's just what a full repaint would cost done the right way.....period. Comparing a factory done paint job and a bodyshop is comparing zebra's and unicorns. Robots, modular units, assy line, watered down paint, computer controlled min clear etc...etc...etc.