i have 3 things to say:

$50 - i am

$5000 - i am over the $ i could have done this for $50 why did i do this

$8000 - i am about the $ over the paint, my car would end up being a garage queen

Quite honestly, the issue is what you want as a end result, and what you'd be happy with... Marq has it nailed perfect, not even a factory job has no flaws, and when your painting your own car, your your worst enemy, your right up to it, looking directly at it all the time as your working, but you don't put yourself in the perspective of just seing the car in a parking lot at the store, if you do you'd be . that's why i told exit to have a few buddies over, and say i just had my car painted, what you think, i bet $ they would be too. There are 2 things that make these methods work out good, that is 1. skill, 2. time. you need both.