- Mar 27, 2008
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Throughout the year that I've owned this car, it seems like if I just look at it crooked a scratch will shopw up. I have never in my life seen a car that is so freaken fragile, it's rediculous. Maybe I just have a color that shows imperfections like a goddamn magnafying glass or something?
Anywho, the reason for my rant is this. The other day I noticed a spot on the right rear quarter of my car where there are 3 or 4 tiny rock chips that are through to primer. I figured oh well, it happens and I was forced to DD the car through winter so it's expected. Then, over the next day or two I noticed two more spots with similiar small groupings of chips, both on the left front fender. I made the same conclusion here though. But I noticed that the ones on the rear are VERY obvious when the car is clean. Even though they are so tiny, the contrast between the primer and the alloy (nice job painting a nearly black car on whire primer...) makes them stick out like a sore thumb. So I decided to look into getting them repaired. I read about the method of using touchup paint and wetsanding it to make these marks dissapear, and spoke with Emay about it and he confirmed sucess with this. Since I have no balls to touch my car with sandpaper, I emailed a local body shop that paints a lot of race cars and does wicked good musclecar restorations. He said that that method works great with solid cars like black, but on my mettalic car it would look like ****. he suggested that it may require partial repainting of the panel, but that he'd have to see the car. So I decided at that point that I'd just have to color the primer with touchup paint to make it a little less obvious and live with it.
But then today I noticed a few chips on the leading edge of the hood. I inspected further and there are countless tiny chips all over that part of the hood, the bumper, the fronts of the fenders around the headlights, and even a few on the top of the hood. I KNOW that that **** wasn't there last week. And there is some kind of orange powder on the bumper that is kinda stuck, that I am sure will come off with a claybar but I dunno where the **** it came from. I don't remember going through anything that would have thrown a lot of **** up, or behind any trucks or anything, I usually avoid dumptrucks and plow trucks, and keep rpetty good following distances. I don't know where the **** this **** came from. But it doesn't matter where it came from anyway. So add those chips to the list that already includes 2 dings (one that I found in a parking lot, one my fault), a few scratches, and one uglier scratch on the rear bumber. I know that this **** happens when you drive a car all the time, but I think that after only a year and 11k miles this is just a little excessive. My brothers Camaro that has 135k miles on it is in better shape it seems. WTF!
I also know that most of these things are little tiny blemishes that probably wouldn't bother most people. But this is my first new car, my first nice car too. I try so hard to keep it that way and it seems like I'm just cursing myself or something. Every time I see pictures of peoples cars on here that look so perfect and shiny I wonder how the hell you guys all avoid this ****. But I always just tell myself that these little things don't show up in pictures (I doubt they would), and imagine you all have **** like that that bugs you inside lol. I dunno. I just feel like there's no point in doing visual mods (like the wheels I am about to order, lowering it, hoodpins, etc.) when it's just gonna get progressively more scratched, dinged, etc.... I feel like I shoulda just kept my rusty ass ****ing Dodge Ram, life was much easier when I didn't give a **** (and even so, it barely even got scratches from rubbing trees and whatnot offroad. Plenty of them from rocks though lol) about how my car looked. But I remember when my brother had his new edge (long time ago, engine blew up and he sold the car as a roller. now has the LS1) it had all kinds of scratches and stuff too, but I was in love with the thing. So I guess I'll just get over it and accept the facts of life, it will still look bad ass regardless right? Maybe someday when my debts are all paid and I have a house so the girlfriend is happy and whatnot I can save up and get all the little things fixed. Justa ll winter I couldn't wait until it got warm so I could clean the car real nice and wax it and stuff again. Now I feel like what's the point.
[end rant]
Sorry for the long, useless, assanine post. I just had to let all that out and figured I'd spare my girlfriend/parents/dog the agony.
Anywho, the reason for my rant is this. The other day I noticed a spot on the right rear quarter of my car where there are 3 or 4 tiny rock chips that are through to primer. I figured oh well, it happens and I was forced to DD the car through winter so it's expected. Then, over the next day or two I noticed two more spots with similiar small groupings of chips, both on the left front fender. I made the same conclusion here though. But I noticed that the ones on the rear are VERY obvious when the car is clean. Even though they are so tiny, the contrast between the primer and the alloy (nice job painting a nearly black car on whire primer...) makes them stick out like a sore thumb. So I decided to look into getting them repaired. I read about the method of using touchup paint and wetsanding it to make these marks dissapear, and spoke with Emay about it and he confirmed sucess with this. Since I have no balls to touch my car with sandpaper, I emailed a local body shop that paints a lot of race cars and does wicked good musclecar restorations. He said that that method works great with solid cars like black, but on my mettalic car it would look like ****. he suggested that it may require partial repainting of the panel, but that he'd have to see the car. So I decided at that point that I'd just have to color the primer with touchup paint to make it a little less obvious and live with it.
But then today I noticed a few chips on the leading edge of the hood. I inspected further and there are countless tiny chips all over that part of the hood, the bumper, the fronts of the fenders around the headlights, and even a few on the top of the hood. I KNOW that that **** wasn't there last week. And there is some kind of orange powder on the bumper that is kinda stuck, that I am sure will come off with a claybar but I dunno where the **** it came from. I don't remember going through anything that would have thrown a lot of **** up, or behind any trucks or anything, I usually avoid dumptrucks and plow trucks, and keep rpetty good following distances. I don't know where the **** this **** came from. But it doesn't matter where it came from anyway. So add those chips to the list that already includes 2 dings (one that I found in a parking lot, one my fault), a few scratches, and one uglier scratch on the rear bumber. I know that this **** happens when you drive a car all the time, but I think that after only a year and 11k miles this is just a little excessive. My brothers Camaro that has 135k miles on it is in better shape it seems. WTF!
I also know that most of these things are little tiny blemishes that probably wouldn't bother most people. But this is my first new car, my first nice car too. I try so hard to keep it that way and it seems like I'm just cursing myself or something. Every time I see pictures of peoples cars on here that look so perfect and shiny I wonder how the hell you guys all avoid this ****. But I always just tell myself that these little things don't show up in pictures (I doubt they would), and imagine you all have **** like that that bugs you inside lol. I dunno. I just feel like there's no point in doing visual mods (like the wheels I am about to order, lowering it, hoodpins, etc.) when it's just gonna get progressively more scratched, dinged, etc.... I feel like I shoulda just kept my rusty ass ****ing Dodge Ram, life was much easier when I didn't give a **** (and even so, it barely even got scratches from rubbing trees and whatnot offroad. Plenty of them from rocks though lol) about how my car looked. But I remember when my brother had his new edge (long time ago, engine blew up and he sold the car as a roller. now has the LS1) it had all kinds of scratches and stuff too, but I was in love with the thing. So I guess I'll just get over it and accept the facts of life, it will still look bad ass regardless right? Maybe someday when my debts are all paid and I have a house so the girlfriend is happy and whatnot I can save up and get all the little things fixed. Justa ll winter I couldn't wait until it got warm so I could clean the car real nice and wax it and stuff again. Now I feel like what's the point.
[end rant]
Sorry for the long, useless, assanine post. I just had to let all that out and figured I'd spare my girlfriend/parents/dog the agony.
