Massive chip

[dmar]

hey guys,

yesterday i gave my car a mid week blast at the car wash with the pressure hose. Thought i had some bird shit on my bumper so i blasted it...

MASSIVE FLAKE OF PAINT FLICKS OFF!! RAAAGGEEEE

its like 10cm x 4cm diagonally down my bumper.

fortunately its matte black under the black paint but it still looks horrible.

so, my question is, what should i do?

is there anything i can do to stop the flaking from continuing?

how much would it cost for a respray of the bumper?

should i sell the car or kill myself?

anyone else had any paint rage experiences?

[cxcxcxvcvcvc]

hey guys,

yesterday i gave my car a mid week blast at the car wash with the pressure hose. Thought i had some bird shit on my bumper so i blasted it...

MASSIVE FLAKE OF PAINT FLICKS OFF!! RAAAGGEEEE

its like 10cm x 4cm diagonally down my bumper.

fortunately its matte black under the black paint but it still looks horrible.

so, my question is, what should i do?

is there anything i can do to stop the flaking from continuing?

how much would it cost for a respray of the bumper?

should i sell the car or kill myself?

anyone else had any paint rage experiences?

Sorry to hear mate, I personally have not had a prob like this but my next door neighbors magna (07 model i think) has large chunks of paint just falling off her front bumper aswell! From what she told me, the bumper had a hit @ some stage and was resprayed and the paint is not sticking, could your bumper have had a respray at some stage?

[Phoen1x]

Hey mate, my front bumper is full of chips, and I think it is due to the reason stated above. I got quoted $350-400 to get the whole front bumper resprayed.

Daz

[jaisvz]

350 is pretty steep!
in the past ive paid $200 and $250

[Phoen1x]

350 is pretty steep!
in the past ive paid $200 and $250

Well im glad I didnt go through with it then haha, it was only the first quote, I just wanted a starting point. He said it was prolly worth getting a new bumper coz some of the clips holding it on were broken.

[dmar]

yeah im not sure cxcxcx, i got it at 40k so its possible. was in disbelief at how much came off, very very angry.

id pay $250 to get it shmick again but then id probably get my back bumper done to as it had some paint tear marks when i got it.

[andyman]

pretty common for ba/bfs to peel paint, there is a ba sedan getting round town that missing almost half the paint off the bonnent, and my next door neighbours bf wagon is peeling off the top of the tailgate,

[Torquative]

peeling paint on door handles on the VZ seem common too

[dmar]

yea mine are doing that all round, looks horrible beige plastic behind black paint.

[dmar]

so what would you guys do?
ive got a massive vans sticker ill probably stick over the top for the time being to stop it peeling away more. will look quite chat though.

[mainpath]

yeah im not sure cxcxcx, i got it at 40k so its possible. was in disbelief at how much came off, very very angry.

id pay $250 to get it shmick again but then id probably get my back bumper done to as it had some paint tear marks when i got it.

I recently got Quote $200 for mine whilst it was in for an insurance job, so around that much I would assume.

[social]

fknoath that is a big peel..

[Chickenboi999]

got front bar paint just over a month ago, Cost $235 have to do again due to some twat doin a burnout in front of my car on gravel NOT IMPRESSED

[whitey5759]

I had that happen on my dark green VS - it had a deep chip in the front middle of the bonnet and that, combined with pointing the high pressure hose directly at the chip caused a big chunk of paint to lift and fly off! I am sooooo careful washing my VZ now - never pointing the hose directly at the paint but more making the water glance the panels.

[Dz811]

I have heard stories of sorts, some people have used pressure hoses (im guessing that are WAAAAY too powerful), and damaging paintwork.
Whilst I have never used any pressure hoses outside dedicated car cleaning service stations, steer clear of them and just use waterless cleaning stuff, it works absolute miracles (evn if it takes a lil longer).

[dmar]

i was always under the impression waterless leaves hectic micro scratches?

[Dz811]

never for mine, (might depend on the product).
I use FW1 cleaning wax, and it works miracles

[Kal123]

Wow that sucks. I'm always to worried to use a high pressure hose on my paint work, even more so now...