The factory paint on cars nowadays simply sucks. I heard that competant paint shops paint jobs are much better than stock. there are many dings paint chips and swirls on my car (its even been keyed) so i've been thinking. Whats do you guys think i should do? should i get it repainted?

 

Totally untrue. The problem isn't with the factory paint jobs, it's with the federal government mandating the use of water-based paints. Since they banned all those nasty chemicals in paint, it made the surfaces much softer and way more succeptible to chips, scratches.....

Unless you're gonna pump $6,000 - $7,000 into a paintjob, don't bother. Have your chips and scratches filled by a professional detailer and dings removed by paintless dent removal.

Take a look at Scooters (Chris') car after having it professionally detailed. That thing looks good.

 

There's more and more auto makers with US plants moving to environmentally safe (and approved) powercoat technology. It's used for the base coat and clear coat.

Too bad Honda isn't using it on the ouside of our cars (well, not my car):

http://www.epa.state.oh.us/opp/gov/fact67.html

http://www.uscar.org/pngv/technical/painting.htm