Yesterday, I was backing into my parking space in our driveway there happens to be a pipe of some sort (looks like an old gas pump with a crank handle). Well, I was using my mirrors as I always do for backing up, and I misjudged where the pipe handle was..... :dunno:
There is now a scratch, down to the metal, on the rear passengers side of the Cat. (http://emoticons4u.com/sad/494.gif) The scratch, is about 8" long, actually there are two from when I had to pull away from the pipe.....(http://emoticons4u.com/sad/310.gif)
So, how can I fix this temporarily, until we can get her painted?
Roger suggested nail polish, wither in a color close to the color of the paint, or clear.
Is there anything else I can use so it doesn't start to rust?
Women drivers :hick:
(http://emoticons4u.com/mad/206.gif)
BTW, I have a clean driving record, no accidents, no tickets.... so :shakeass: :D
Find some primer and touch up in the nail polish size bottles at an auto parts store (or dealer if you can't get a match). Spread it in there with a toothpick, plastic ones work best for me. With a little patience and maybe some polishing no one will know it's there but you.
http://www.paintscratch.com
They have a touch up kit at Pep Boys that includes a bottle of clear coat touch up, polish, and find sand paper.
Use touch up paint till it is higher then the surrounding paint, sand down, then clear, then polish. I did it in a deep gouge on my Cougar's old front bumper. The only way you could tell something was wrong was because the paint didn't match perfectly.
Thanks guys! I'll let Roger know about this so we can get it fixed right away.
Guys
Notice how she says "I'll let Roger know about this so
WE can get it fixed right away"
That’s funny, what a coincidence "WE" is also my wife’s pet name for
ME.
We are going to do this, We are going to do that... yet when the time comes SHE is nowhere around.
Uh oh... everybody GET DOWN!
{from under the desk} already there. :D
LoL!!! I was ducking too...all they way in Californina.
Not anymore! LOL:shakeass: :hick:
go to napa and they can mix up the matching piant for it and put it in a rattle can for you.
Chickens!
Are you guys forgetting “Women’s Lib” and the whole “just because I have a pen 15, does not mean I’m better than you” and the “anything a man can do a woman can do” that I have called BS on guys on this site a time or two . (And I believe LittleAngels comment was something to the effect of “you go Jim”)
Well I firmly believe that BS, and have became willing to embrace it….
However, It’s a two way street… She dented the car she can now get her “equal rights” “do anything a man can do” “able to vote” “you go Jim” pretty little fanny out there and fix the dent!
Homey don’t play that “Equal Rights, Woman Power…..(unless were talking about taking out the garbage then that’s MENS work)” .
So looking forward to hearing how that repair job goes Angel… We want PIC’S
p.s.
And YES the toilet seat stays UP at my house, and I also cook, do laundry and the dishes. YAY Women’s lib… I love it!
Actually Jim.... I would do it myself, however, my husband is the type who thinks that shouldn't have to work on cars or run power tools.:rolleyes: :shakeass:
BTW, Jim, there is no dent... it's a
scratch.
I will be happy to fix the scratch.
If I can do the sanding on it, since I've been in tremendous pain this week. I said "we' because we are married, 'we' is the marital unit we have together. We
both own the car, so we will fix it
together.
I've never ever said that one thing or other is a man's job or a woman's job. I also never burned my bra for equal rights. Just because I
can do something doesn't mean I will do it, or that my husband wants me to do it. i respect him. He is the head of the household. He treats me as an equal, however, he is in charge. I like it that way.
Ummm RJ, since when is a scratch considered a car accident?
Hey, if I wanted to be a biatch about it, I have full coverage on it, I could turn it in to insurance and have it repaired! :D
lol. i know what you mean.
Did you do it on purpose? :shakeass::evilgrin:
maaaaaaaaybe :burnout: :shakeass: :rollin:
Good thing, too...you could see that fire from space. ;)
The best brush I have found for touch up is the torn side of a paper match. Trick I learn from my dad.
Don't think insurance will cover it, if you run over something. It will if it flies out of nowhere and hits you. For example if you run over a ladder in the middle of the freeway you are out of luck. But if the ladder falls off a truck and hits you then they will cover it.
To make you feel better I hit my T-bird with my mini van last year. I was backing up and turned a bit too sharp; rammed the front bummer of the van right into the side of the T-bird. Did not make me feel any better that it was dark and the T-bird is black, but I used this for my excuse.
TED
Oh shiznit, that made me laugh out loud, literally :rollin::rollin::rollin:
Don't feel bad, Karen - we've all done stupid things with/to our cars. A few months after I started working at the Saturn dealership (back in 1993 - God, I feel old) I left the Christmas "decorating party" (where we decorated the dealership). It had started snowing, and of course the rear defrost in my '85 T-Bird didn't work (terminal pulled off glass - bet none of you four-eye owners have ever seen that), so even though I had cleared off the rear window, I couldn't see. While sitting in the car waiting for it to warm up one of the salesmen pulled his SW2 demo car up behind my T-Bird, and when I shifted into reverse (carbureted car, still on fast idle) I plowed arse first into the driver's door of his car. It was the most sickening sound I ever heard, and when I got out I was horrified to see a basketball-sized hole in the so-called "Dent resistant polymer panels". I thought for sure I'd just gotten myself fired, but the owner of the dealership said "Don't worry about it". He actually put the thing through warranty - called it a "stress crack" :hick: I ended up with a busted tail light.
That was accident, btw, was #1 of three in three days in that poor ol' Bird. #2 was the following day, when I T-boned a pizza driver doing an illegal U-turn. It was snowing, so speeds were low. I dented a fender. Pizza guy gave me a pizza and $100 (after initially denying fault - he claimed I was at fault because all four of his wheels were on the ground). #3 was the day after that, when I was entering the parking lot at work and another salesman started backing his demo out of a spot. I stopped to let him out - I wanted the spot myself - and he backed right into me. Broke the front corner light on the 'Bird. Because I had gotten away with busting the Saturn a few days earlier I didn't even try to get the dealership to pay...
LMAO... I don't even know Karen, that was just plain funny.
Eric.... you are sooooo in trouble for that comment!:flip: :beatyoass: :ies:
LMAO! I've never seen such a good "burn" for a burning bra comment before, kudos Eric.
I can get you back to Alex! :p
Well Karen IF you did scratch that car on purpose,:nkhk: :screwy: (which I HIGHLY doubt, hence the ACCIDENT part) then you dont deserve to be driving a nice cougar like that and need to go back to your caravan.... :flip: :nono: :hick: :D
I doubt it is that bad, lets see some pics so we know what kind of repairs need to be made.
If its the only scratch then pay someone to fix it. We have this guy that comes every Monday and fixes scratches and dents in our used cars (and some of the new ones with the junk Chevy sends now a days, or the fact the idiot truck drivers who can't back a car off a transport.) every monday.. He could make it invisible.
Rj, of course I didn't scratch it on purpose, however a scratch is not a car accident in my book. Like I said I haven't had any car accidents....I'm pretty sure everyone knew what I meant.
I was just giving you some . That’s the same way things work around here also. I talk tough but I also know my place, I would give Leanne the "equal rights speech" then she would just blank stare me (if she even listened at all) or just say “oh you’re so cute when ya get all tough like that” then I would just go fix the scratch.
LOL, I figured that.... I was giving it back to ya. ;) (Hence the burning bra comment). :rollin: