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Honda photobomb time! 
Actually there's a point here, a lot of the car is actually painted Toyota Graphite (Honda color was too expensive) so half of my car (trim, side skirts, etc) is painted with Duplicolor. Sorry, bad lighting, the car is parked in a multistory.
This car has been in the family since 2010 and it looks like this now after 4 years. I did it myself the day I got it because Honda wanted something like $1800 to color match and paint the trim pieces, so I just bought them myself and did the painted for $450. Duplicolor I say is a medium quality finish, the finish is well on it's way to being worn and it gets waxed frequently, so it's been taken care of, but the trim pieces that were painted and such are really starting to fade, and it chips easier as well.
Anyway, just a heads up for Duplicolor users, don't expect a factory 10 - 15 year finish for durability sake, but for a few years it'll look pretty good.
All in all, mixed feelings. Duplicolor cans over the years I've used on old cars are crap. They tend to spit heavy splotches of paint which ruin the consistent finish. I remember I had to hang my wheels from the ceiling of the shed so the painted surfaced was parallel to the ground so the splotches wouldn't land on the wheels. However, it was cheaper this way
EDIT: something that a lot of people don't know, you can order some higher quality paints that are much nicer. U-Pol, Omni, I forget the other brands off the top of my head.
i.e. U-Pol clearcoat/primers/etc (used on my old Mitsubishi) is really good stuff. It's $20 a can, but over here Duplicolor is $10 a can, so although double the price, to me it's worth it in retrospect.
Actually there's a point here, a lot of the car is actually painted Toyota Graphite (Honda color was too expensive) so half of my car (trim, side skirts, etc) is painted with Duplicolor. Sorry, bad lighting, the car is parked in a multistory.
This car has been in the family since 2010 and it looks like this now after 4 years. I did it myself the day I got it because Honda wanted something like $1800 to color match and paint the trim pieces, so I just bought them myself and did the painted for $450. Duplicolor I say is a medium quality finish, the finish is well on it's way to being worn and it gets waxed frequently, so it's been taken care of, but the trim pieces that were painted and such are really starting to fade, and it chips easier as well.
Anyway, just a heads up for Duplicolor users, don't expect a factory 10 - 15 year finish for durability sake, but for a few years it'll look pretty good.
All in all, mixed feelings. Duplicolor cans over the years I've used on old cars are crap. They tend to spit heavy splotches of paint which ruin the consistent finish. I remember I had to hang my wheels from the ceiling of the shed so the painted surfaced was parallel to the ground so the splotches wouldn't land on the wheels. However, it was cheaper this way
EDIT: something that a lot of people don't know, you can order some higher quality paints that are much nicer. U-Pol, Omni, I forget the other brands off the top of my head.
i.e. U-Pol clearcoat/primers/etc (used on my old Mitsubishi) is really good stuff. It's $20 a can, but over here Duplicolor is $10 a can, so although double the price, to me it's worth it in retrospect.
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lol I would be slightly concerned if the sun baked paint that fast lmao sunscreen SPF 10,000
