Dust art will
not affect the paint if you have a couple of nice thick coats of wax on her. Having a weekend place in the Cal high desert I know this. A buddy of mine all drunk one night decided to do a dust art flame job down the entire passanger side of the rig, when I saw it the next morning I f
cking blew a gasket! Luckily I had paste waxed the truck the weekend before so after a simple wash that sunday when I got home there was not a trace of dust art scratches. WAX my friends WAX!!!
The paint horor stories aren't all as bad as you read! I believe they are posted by extremely pickey vehicle owners.