[Landshark]

don't follow the sand truck!
i suspected the front spoiler on my old Lesabre T was painted by MAACO, because the paint would peel off in strips, and the screws were painted over. if you do get a cheapo paint job, make sure they use some flex agent on the plastic pieces - or after a while it will be much worse than a few chips. you get what you pay for.
if you shell out the $$$ for a good paint job, you could get that 3M clear paint covering applied to protect it. i don't like bras, and not just the way they look - if you don't remove them when they're wet (every time it rains, washing) and let the car dry real good, they'll mess your paint up as well. you could just put a bra over the already bad paint and not worry about it as a cheap solution.
when will Subaru learn to put a good coat of paint on their cars?!?!?! on the i-club, people complain about the thin paint on the new WRX's, too.