If it's just the clearcoat that's scratched, you can have somebody buff the scratch out for you. You may be able to tell by just running your finger or a cloth over it (press hard) and see if the scratch starts to fade. This is exactly why I'm scared to get a new car anytime soon. Especially since I live in an apartment. No telling who wanders around my car.
You're no fun man just tell the people how to make them. Actually those things would scare the **** out of somebody today. And I see you dont want some crazy kid to go around scaring people with them. But I on the other had dont give a **** so here is what you do you need Dry Ice, Water, and ... Okay fine since ROXRAN doesnt want to tell you guys and since he has more posts then I do I'll respect his opinion. Email me if you really want to know how. (Its really Cool)
Dude, I feel sorry for you. And that car thing was a bummer too, I guess. I remember some guy in my high-school actually had some idiot put sugar in his car tank. Now whoever did that was one mean SOB.
DoD, I hear you on this one. My first brand new car was a Honda CRV (please don't laugh, I've gotten rid of it). Well I lived in an apt complex with no access gates. Although, I don't think access gates do a lick of good, except to bug me when they aren't working. Anyway, someone stole the H from the back, and then came back for the H in the front the following week. Same thing happened to my friend when his car was parcked in front of his house. So, I wouldn't let living in an apt complex stop you from getting a new car, if that's what you really want. I still wonder to this day, what the hell ppl do with those H's.
I've seen elementary school kids walking home with symbols on their backpacks. Someone should tell these kids that a Honda symbol is worthless without the car. KIDS...
Coma, Smokey, DOD ( ) thanks for your advice. I think it is the clear coat that is scrathed. I mean you cant feel it. I wouldnt care if it was a small one. But like I said it basically goes from bumper to bumper. Smokey - I also tried the factory touch up paint when I had a different car. They probably made the scratches look uglier if anything. They do SUCK big time. Coma thanks for the curse you put on those bastards! Flat tire driving through 5th ward!
Dude -- people can be just mean as sh!....just because they can. A friend of mine was keyed a few weeks ago. Someone "penned" a gigantic letter B on the hood of her car....she thinks that it happened in her apartment complex. I was once parked in the grocery store parking lot in Kerrville (lots of retirees live there) waiting for my wife and some grey-hair pulled up and slammed his door on my car right in front of me. I wanted to kill this guy, but I "settled" for yelling instead (I later felt guilty because my mom taught me better). He could care less what he did and that made me boil even more. You might do what the lady on the Lexus commercial does with the shopping carts!
Let's see, while we were in Houston: 1. Our Firebird was keyed. 2. Someone broke into our Firebird and tried to steal it in the Astrodome parking lot during game 1 of the 1986 Astros - Mets playoff series (the crack dome security staff prevented the theft). 3. Shortly thereafter, our Firebird was stolen from our driveway. 4. My Jeep Cherokee was broken into. 5. My Jeep Cherokee was stolen from our driveway. Because of the above, State Farm tried to cancel our insurance even though we had no accidents or moving violations. After a lot of complaining they decided to keep us as policyholders (they didn't even raise our rates).
These hoodlums should be tied, dragged through manure, castrated by a pit bull, pissed on by homosexuals, and shot in the head repeatedly with a BB gun until one penetrates their useless brain.
Can I dos the plinking off the noggin?...I'll use my 7mm REMINGTON MAGNUM snipping rifle...I use 165 grain nosler partition bullets.
Damn you guys sound more pissed about it then me. I think I can get if fixed for around a hundred or two, so lets hold back on shooting these fellows.
Sorry to hear about your car. That sucks. 2 weeks ago, I was at Bellaire HS, and some one plowed into the side of the truck I had parked there, then drove off. I didn't see it happen, but I saw the aftermath . . . The drivers' side door is all busted up now . . . bastards!
I like coma's suggestion....can we go ahead with that one? Could it be a branch slid along the side of your car and caused the scratch? I know I've done that one before pulling out of my long arse driveway. I heard it all the way....that scratching sound....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk. After all was said and done, I looked at the damage....oh well...hehe. Hell, once I even backed into my house and ruined some bricks along with my bumper. It was an old VW van...I was young and our driveway was difficult. Maybe I could use coma's suggestion on myself there....eh? LOL Surf
I just saw a black 2000 Camry in my apartment lot that someone keyed the **** out of. You can't buff that out. I didn't park next to it either.
The first truck I ever bought got rammed by a kid on a bike (carrying his girlfriend) the seventh day that I owned it. Looked like a big key-job down one door. When I lived at some apartments in Houston in the '80s, someone stole a banged-up driver-side door off of a guy's old Monte Carlo. Everyone assumed he did it himself so it would get replaced. The next week, they stole the new door. Sorry to hear about that, ROckets03. Bet the Lexus folks (or the body shop they refer you to) could get it looking like new.
They could, but the price they would quote me...well lets just say I would be able to buy another car with it. I know this another place that is really really good and much much cheaper.
I understand. I have a BMW and my knees knock when I think about the warranty ending (I just bought a new battery for $220).
