The Mitchell or Motor programs are bought and sold by the insurance companies. For instance, a new 2003 F150 bedside replacement paid 14 hours, now pays 9.5. All body and paint times insurance companies are constantly finding ways to cut estimates. Paint times look extra hard to cut. The hourly labor and material is higher per hour than body times. Material is impossible to break even. Cost is not close to keep up. Paint time, for instance, a fender pays 2.5 then blend door to match pays 1.0. One hour door to sand panel, mask area, blend color, and clear. Our area is $52 pr/hr, $38 material. $150 labor, $133 material. My areas here are grouped into Houston labor and material rates. There is no cut and buff, color match, block and prime, etc., every time they cut paint saves insurance $. Blend times are a battle also. The same fender might pay the door, but hood, windshield pillar, etc. panels adjacent are a battle. And if any color says black, according to them, will not pay to be blended. As a painter trying to double pay hours to actual labor hours is getting harder than it was in past.