a few years ago I sandblasted my M8000 back to bare metal, then self-etching primer and some random metallic spraybomb I found at the autoparts store that matched the Warn OEM. i even called Warn, and got them to send me some OEM labels.
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only now, 2-3 years later, is the paint starting to weather, and show a little bit of rust around the seams.