My cars get scratched

[TurboTnZ06]

Anyone else have people scratch your cars and not seem to care or are just clueless about scratching paint? When I say the whole body of my Z06 is composite, that does not mean tap the entire car with your fingernails in awe!

I work out of the house and I rarely drive them anywhere. While taking a break from preparing to drop the M12 from the Z06 today, I check out the Buick. Somehow my GN got scratched sometime in the past couple days bad (completely through the paint to the fiberglass/plastic) on the spolier end piece. I know when I detailed it last weekend there were no scratches there. The MIL and wife were doing yardwork yesterday, in and out of the garage with tools n stuff while I was working in the office. I'm over it, I need my own garage where no one else is allowed to walk through I think.

Ok, back out to the garage to drop the rear cradle from the vette. I think it's beer thirty too!:biggrin:

 

["Turbo-T"]

Yes.

My dad's garage has my 69 Nova in it and his 68 Camaro SS.

One day a guy my dad used to be friends with leaned up against his Camaro and scratched the side of it with the buttons on his coat tails. My dad saw him do it and was shocked. The guy denied it despite even having blue dust (paint) on his coat buttons. My dad immediately escorted him out of the garage.

When at a car show I make a conscious effort to not to touch anyones car or get too close with it with buttons or zippers. Just out of respect.

 

[TURBO 6]

That pic brings back memories when I dropped the cradle in my vette. Those c5's have to be the easiest cars to work on!

 

[no-nos]

do you have any cats? i always wonder'd why my buick was scratch'd till i poped in a tape on the cctv, and see my dam!! cat climbing on the hood , well after i woop'd her ( lightly ) she's never since been back on top of my gn . i was almost getting rid of her too

 

[darkred87T]

I scratched my own when I raked a step ladder along the left rear 1/4 in the garage not too long after I had it painted. Luckily I was able to polish out most of it but it left two small scratches that are through the clear coat. .

 

[TurboTnZ06]

I even managed to scratch the vette today. Titanium muffler left a nice one as I was twisting to get it out. I should have taped off the bottom of the back of the vette... Next time...

 

[INEEDAGN]

I scratched the GN the day I brought it home. Was washing it after the 3 hour drive home with it and the car wash hose slipped out of my hand and went right across the front of the hood. It buffed out.

We will be having a party in our garage this weekend and you can rest assured the GN will be nowhere around.

 

[87NAT]

Fosgate amp fell off of a shelf onto my hood the first week I bought my car.

Its been fixed though.

 

[turbojimmy]

A 4-post lift is a good investment from many perspectives. Protecting the car is one of them. With 2 young kids and all their toys I gave up on keeping the GN looking good. With a lift, however, it's parked up out of harms way all the time. I'm actually thinking of having it repainted, which is crazy talk given the traffic in my garage. But with it up in the air......I have hope it will stay looking good.

Jim

 

[87NAT]

Jim, you need and electric fence and some automated .50 cals with to dobermans. Thats just my suggestion for those pesky kids and thier tricycles.


I get nervous when my 2 boys ride thier toys in the garage. They know that the the area around the GN is a NO Fly Zone.

 

[turbofish38]

do you have any cats?

My cat used to sit or lay on the roof of my GN all of the time. I've seen her do some stupid stunts but there was never a scratch I couldn't fix. If your car got scratched by a cat than I'd be pissed at the quality of the paint and not by the furry bundle of love.

Heck I do more damage to my car when its parked in the garage than I do driving out on the streets. Scratches are pretty tame compared to the dents and dings I inflict with hard objects.