scraped a wall while looking at a hot girl
Your not the first one to do this..............
When I was 16 I was leaving this parking lot while
checking out two honeys.......hit a palm tree.......
palm trees don't give an inch.........told my dad that
someone must have backed into me......had the fender repaired and told dad the truth....yea, it was
dumb but I learned a lesson.....maybe.
checking out two honeys.......hit a palm tree.......
palm trees don't give an inch.........told my dad that
someone must have backed into me......had the fender repaired and told dad the truth....yea, it was
dumb but I learned a lesson.....maybe.
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Man I have come SO close to doing something like that. Sorry to hear about your luck.
That scratch is huge, but here's how to start fixing it:
1.) Wash the car thoroughly, or at least the area of the scratch, and a good amount of area around it. You're going to need the paint around the scrape to be clean.
2.) Pickup a really good scratch remover, I am a huge fan of GS27 Scratch Remover. You can get it here: http://www.autobarn.net/ch49150-06.html
3.) Use the stuff all over the scrape, probably work on section at a time. You want to apply it on the scratch and the paint around the area. Take a towel and just keep buffing on/around the scratch, buff vigorously and make sure you are working around and on top of the scratch.
Basically, the GS27 Scratch Remover moves the paint around and will help fill in the scratch/scrape. You really have to give the product a lot of effort though, it's not like car wax and you won't get results without giving the product a real chance and putting real effort into the buffing. Repeat the application a couple of times to get the best results out of the product. In your case, I don't think it will fix the problem, but it will help out significantly.
From there, you are probably going to have to buy some touch-up paint. If the GS27 barely works then you're probably best off respraying the panels as opposed to proceeding with touch-up paint.
A couple weeks ago my car was parked in NYC and some ***** backed into the front left bumper...first time this happened to the 06, happened a couple of times with the 03. Fugging New Yorkers think it's okay to "kiss" cars when parallel parking but the G doesn't really have real bumpers.
Anyways, I started using the same procedure above. GS27 scratch remover, then filled in with touch-up paint. I used Q-Tips for the touch-up paint which made for a pretty bad application (try a thin paintbrush or whatever will give like the smooothest coat). I don't have any before pictures, but when I'm finished or have fixed it as best as I can, I'll post up the After pictures and procedure I took.
That scratch is huge, but here's how to start fixing it:
1.) Wash the car thoroughly, or at least the area of the scratch, and a good amount of area around it. You're going to need the paint around the scrape to be clean.
2.) Pickup a really good scratch remover, I am a huge fan of GS27 Scratch Remover. You can get it here: http://www.autobarn.net/ch49150-06.html
3.) Use the stuff all over the scrape, probably work on section at a time. You want to apply it on the scratch and the paint around the area. Take a towel and just keep buffing on/around the scratch, buff vigorously and make sure you are working around and on top of the scratch.
Basically, the GS27 Scratch Remover moves the paint around and will help fill in the scratch/scrape. You really have to give the product a lot of effort though, it's not like car wax and you won't get results without giving the product a real chance and putting real effort into the buffing. Repeat the application a couple of times to get the best results out of the product. In your case, I don't think it will fix the problem, but it will help out significantly.
From there, you are probably going to have to buy some touch-up paint. If the GS27 barely works then you're probably best off respraying the panels as opposed to proceeding with touch-up paint.
A couple weeks ago my car was parked in NYC and some ***** backed into the front left bumper...first time this happened to the 06, happened a couple of times with the 03. Fugging New Yorkers think it's okay to "kiss" cars when parallel parking but the G doesn't really have real bumpers.
Anyways, I started using the same procedure above. GS27 scratch remover, then filled in with touch-up paint. I used Q-Tips for the touch-up paint which made for a pretty bad application (try a thin paintbrush or whatever will give like the smooothest coat). I don't have any before pictures, but when I'm finished or have fixed it as best as I can, I'll post up the After pictures and procedure I took.
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Originally Posted by t3h pwnz0r
Now THAT was a very helpful post. Thank you for taking the time to write that. I will definitely take your advice and see how it goes. Thanks.
Hopefully this will help you out more:
These pictures are almost worthless because I never took any "before" shots but I basically followed the same procedure I typed up for you in my previous post and here are my results.
Like I said before, for some reason I decided to use Q-tips to apply the touch-up paint even though I have an unopened pack of 5 thin paint brushes that would have made for such a smoother application of the touch-up paint.
The scratches and scrapes were pretty bad and the parts where you see the touch-up paint applied is where the scratches were thickest and were down to the body. Everything else was filled in by the GS-27 Scratch Remover. After using that several times straight and then applying several coats of the touch-up paint, I went back to using the GS-27 Scratch Remover procedure, hoping that it would even out/smoothen out the touch-up paint application, but I didn't have much luck.
The pictures really highlight the way it looks now, but in person (day or night), it is very hard to spot. Where you see the swirl marks is where all the smaller scratches used to be, and how the paint was moved around/filled in. Unfortunately, as I've posted in the Auto Detailing section of this forum before, it is soooo hard -maybe impossible- to remove swirl marks from black G Coupes, if not any color (they are extremely visible on a black car). The GS-27 will cause swirls after a certain amount of applications on the same area, and strips all the wax/polish of the area you apply.
Ultimately, I think you should just use the GS-27 Scratch Remover, let it do whatever it can to improve the scrape, and then take it to a body shop and have it professionally repaired, as others have suggested. The scrape looks too big and too deep to be filled in with touch-up paint and have it come out looking even decently acceptable. Again, the pictures of my car's bumper show a level of detail that is much sharper and clearer than how it looks in person. The only one who notices it is me, but I can live with it.
Btw, I only wanna see pics of this girl if she is the one repairing the scrape.
Last edited by MrElussive; Sep 12, 2006 at 01:41 AM.
Originally Posted by D87
Did you at least get her number?
Better yet blame it on her. Distraction while driving.
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Originally Posted by MrElussive
My pleasure dude.
Hopefully this will help you out more:
These pictures are almost worthless because I never took any "before" shots but I basically followed the same procedure I typed up for you in my previous post and here are my results.
Like I said before, for some reason I decided to use Q-tips to apply the touch-up paint even though I have an unopened pack of 5 thin paint brushes that would have made for such a smoother application of the touch-up paint.
The scratches and scrapes were pretty bad and the parts where you see the touch-up paint applied is where the scratches were thickest and were down to the body. Everything else was filled in by the GS-27 Scratch Remover. After using that several times straight and then applying several coats of the touch-up paint, I went back to using the GS-27 Scratch Remover procedure, hoping that it would even out/smoothen out the touch-up paint application, but I didn't have much luck.
The pictures really highlight the way it looks now, but in person (day or night), it is very hard to spot. Where you see the swirl marks is where all the smaller scratches used to be, and how the paint was moved around/filled in. Unfortunately, as I've posted in the Auto Detailing section of this forum before, it is soooo hard -maybe impossible- to remove swirl marks from black G Coupes, if not any color (they are extremely visible on a black car). The GS-27 will cause swirls after a certain amount of applications on the same area, and strips all the wax/polish of the area you apply.
Ultimately, I think you should just use the GS-27 Scratch Remover, let it do whatever it can to improve the scrape, and then take it to a body shop and have it professionally repaired, as others have suggested. The scrape looks too big and too deep to be filled in with touch-up paint and have it come out looking even decently acceptable. Again, the pictures of my car's bumper show a level of detail that is much sharper and clearer than how it looks in person. The only one who notices it is me, but I can live with it.
Btw, I only wanna see pics of this girl if she is the one repairing the scrape.
Hopefully this will help you out more:
These pictures are almost worthless because I never took any "before" shots but I basically followed the same procedure I typed up for you in my previous post and here are my results.
Like I said before, for some reason I decided to use Q-tips to apply the touch-up paint even though I have an unopened pack of 5 thin paint brushes that would have made for such a smoother application of the touch-up paint.
The scratches and scrapes were pretty bad and the parts where you see the touch-up paint applied is where the scratches were thickest and were down to the body. Everything else was filled in by the GS-27 Scratch Remover. After using that several times straight and then applying several coats of the touch-up paint, I went back to using the GS-27 Scratch Remover procedure, hoping that it would even out/smoothen out the touch-up paint application, but I didn't have much luck.
The pictures really highlight the way it looks now, but in person (day or night), it is very hard to spot. Where you see the swirl marks is where all the smaller scratches used to be, and how the paint was moved around/filled in. Unfortunately, as I've posted in the Auto Detailing section of this forum before, it is soooo hard -maybe impossible- to remove swirl marks from black G Coupes, if not any color (they are extremely visible on a black car). The GS-27 will cause swirls after a certain amount of applications on the same area, and strips all the wax/polish of the area you apply.
Ultimately, I think you should just use the GS-27 Scratch Remover, let it do whatever it can to improve the scrape, and then take it to a body shop and have it professionally repaired, as others have suggested. The scrape looks too big and too deep to be filled in with touch-up paint and have it come out looking even decently acceptable. Again, the pictures of my car's bumper show a level of detail that is much sharper and clearer than how it looks in person. The only one who notices it is me, but I can live with it.
Btw, I only wanna see pics of this girl if she is the one repairing the scrape.
Dude, that's nasty looking. I am for sure going to get a clear bra now.
I once pulled out of a gas station with the pump still inside my tank b/c I was checking out this hottie (who was looking back as well...) needless to say, after i pulled out, the clattering/clanking of the pump being ripped out and flailing on the floor of the station just about got everybody's attention. I felt stupid as $hit, but the girl sure got a good laugh out of it..