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Landscapers scratched my paint!! *pics*

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Repo1981
  • Detailer
 So I-m driving down the road minding my own business and I hear a loud PING as I-m driving by some landscaper working on someones lawn. So i get out and i see this:Now i can feel the scratch with my nail so I might need some touch up paint for my Flint Mica...I have some eagle one nanowax but I-m not sure what are the right actions to take as far as repairing this. Does it look that severe?

[#] Jun 15, 2005 05:12pm
InLikeFlint
Lexington
Kentucky, US
  • The Gearhead
 Dude, did you stop and kick his ass? I F*&Kin hate landscaper/lawnjockysYeah, that look like that chip is down to bare metal. touch it up or it will rust.

[#] Jun 15, 2005 09:34pm
sml-27
  • Tech Advisor
 WOW that looks bad, I hate driven by weed wackers there always throwing out rocks and stuff.Anyways, you should see if theres a chips away around your area, they will make it look like new and you wont evan notice there was a chip there. The reason I know this is I work for them and they can do some amazing things without reapainting the whole panel.If you live near west warwick LI I can get you the number for the one in that area.

[#] Jun 15, 2005 10:27pm
Repo1981
  • Detailer
 When I went over to go balistic on the guy, he didn-t even speak any english, so that didn-t do me any good, I just left it alone from that point.I-ve never heard of Chips Away, is there one in Nassau county, and how good of a job do u think they would do on FLINT paint??

[#] Jun 16, 2005 03:12pm
sml-27
  • Tech Advisor
 They can match just about any color, give me your zip and Ill see if there is one in your area. If you put just regular touch up paint on it, I know it will look like crap.

[#] Jun 16, 2005 06:50pm
Repo1981
  • Detailer
 but isn-t there anything that i can do by myself with like some rubbing compound or wax or something??

[#] Jun 17, 2005 07:21am
Nolte
Minnesota, US
  • Vehicle Designer
 Nothing that easy, no. If the following link sounds like too much work for you, than you-re going to need to pay a proffessional.http://clubsciontc.com/mo...=viewtopic&t=3791

[#] Jun 17, 2005 11:29am
Repo1981
  • Detailer
Quote:
Nolte said: Nothing that easy, no. If the following link sounds like too much work for you, than you-re going to need to pay a proffessional. http://clubsciontc.com/mo...=viewtopic&t=3791
It would be my luck that the link doesn-t work anymore.

[#] Jun 17, 2005 11:52am
Nolte
Minnesota, US
  • Vehicle Designer
 Hmm ... their KnowledgeBase is down. Even their own links to it don-t function. Hopefully it will return soon, it-s a really good article on how to repair that stuff.

[#] Jun 17, 2005 05:22pm
bofett5
  • Scion Guru
 What would a repair like that cost? I have a small area on my driver door from my own family members repeatedly slamming their car doors into my tC. Then I try to talk to them about it and they don-t even care... so of course the repairs will be coming out of my pocket...

[#] Jun 17, 2005 05:33pm
iripthekut
  • Tech Advisor
 flint mica-s are so hard to maintain. i have a couple scratches on mine from different things, mostly debris from the freeway. on top of that i have scrape on my front bumper which i took to get it repaired, but the price was too high. they quoted $300-400 for a 8-9in scrape. so im waiting to gather up money to repair it.

[#] Jun 18, 2005 04:08am
bofett5
  • Scion Guru
-iripthekut- wrote:
flint mica-s are so hard to maintain. i have a couple scratches on mine from different things, mostly debris from the freeway. on top of that i have scrape on my front bumper which i took to get it repaired, but the price was too high. they quoted $300-400 for a 8-9in scrape. so im waiting to gather up money to repair it.
damn! why the hell did i buy flint mica?!?! lol it is purdee though.. lol

[#] Jun 18, 2005 05:04am
sml-27
  • Tech Advisor
 Flint mica is only purdee when its clean, wish I got the black cherry instead.

[#] Jun 18, 2005 09:22am
bofett5
  • Scion Guru
-sml-27- wrote:
Flint mica is only purdee when its clean, wish I got the black cherry instead.
it-s always sexy lookin at night. lol all cars are better clean..... don-t diss the flint!

[#] Jun 18, 2005 12:34pm
sml-27
  • Tech Advisor
 I own flint, the reason I dont like it the most is I see them every were.

[#] Jun 18, 2005 06:27pm
iripthekut
  • Tech Advisor
 owning a fm tc is cool and everything but is very upsetting to see surface scratches. i really wanted to read that article that nolte provided.nolte, can you give a summary of what it says?

[#] Jun 19, 2005 03:39am
Legend
  • Window Washer
 When I picked up my FM from the dealer, he showed me where the prep guy scraped the bumper with the buffer. After a few days I took it back to have it fixed. They repainted the whole bumper and it looks like cr@p..blotchy, foggy, small scratches.Has anyone else had repairs to FM paint? Is it really that hard to get right?

[#] Jul 14, 2005 02:36pm

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