Is There An Honest Auto/Body/Painter In SoCal?

True, I can't lump them all into one category. But I can speak from my experience, and others that I have met. Flakey bunch indeed.
In regards to fumes...Not even close bud. These guys are around deadly chemicals all day, me not so much. Not even close.

We had one like that that just went out of business in Gray. You could look at the guy and tell he was a meth head. Everybody knew it. The city council, all the commissioners, because he was trying to get a license to haul cars for the city. "They KNEW" what they were dealin with and never put him on "the list". I never saw a job that came out of that shop that wasn't crappy looking. Now he's gone to Milledgeville and is just towing cars. He'll mess that up if he doesn't get help.