Stories of knucklehead mistakes, Make me feel better about the scratches in my new paint |
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Stories of knucklehead mistakes, Make me feel better about the scratches in my new paint |
stevegm |
Dec 1 2019, 09:09 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,111 Joined: 14-July 14 From: North Carolina Member No.: 17,633 Region Association: South East States |
I got my car out of storage to finish putting it back together. What started as a 3-month quick paint job, turned into a 5-year project. Anyway, I tried to keep the paint job from getting scratched while I pushed the car around the garage over the past couple of years. Everyone in my family knows - Rule #1 of the garage is don’t scratch the silver car. But, I failed. When I pulled it out to start finishing it this weekend, I noticed a few scratches in the paint. I sure would have liked to have driven it before scratching it. How I managed to scratch it, I have no idea. I guess the rule is - whatever you are trying to avoid scratching, will, in fact, get a scratched.
Anybody else scratch their new paint before finishing reassembly? I figured I’d start a knucklehead move thread. A form of group therapy I guess. |
djway |
Dec 4 2019, 12:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 787 Joined: 16-October 15 From: Riverside Member No.: 19,266 Region Association: Southern California |
I was once at the Restoration Shop that had restored many Pebble Beach winners. I felt much better about myself when I found out they too scratch cars new paint during assembly and it is common for them to do final paint repairs before shipping the car off.
Much Better (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
mepstein |
Dec 4 2019, 09:04 AM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 19,142 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I was once at the Restoration Shop that had restored many Pebble Beach winners. I felt much better about myself when I found out they too scratch cars new paint during assembly and it is common for them to do final paint repairs before shipping the car off. Much Better (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) When I worked at the shop the techs used to scratch up paint all the time. They just expected the paint guys to touch it up. The truth is, it’s very hard to touch up and make invisible but the customer expects new paint to be perfect. Every scratch was a huge waste of time and money. I’m my perfect world, I would fit all the major pieces of the car before paint and then install again after. It’s all the work to get parts to fit correctly that tends to mess up paint. I commented on the little red wagon in Doug’s garage next to his brand new 6 conversion because fresh paint attracts falling parts like a magnet. Years ago when I worked at the bike shop we had a customer who commissioned a custom build bike. He bought a new bike rack that fit on the top of his new car. Bike was painted to match the car. We installed the rack and he drove off. Came in the next day, bike was in the trunk in pieces. He explained that he drove home, under the train bridge, like he’s done for years. The only problem was his prior suv had a rear hitch mount bike rack and the new car had the bike rack on the roof. I believe the repair of both bike and car totaled about $12k. |
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