Paint!

[ColonelPanic]

Well, there's a couple hours of my life I'll never get back!I noticed yesterday that I had a crapload of white paint all over my left rear tire but I didn't see much on the body since the car was a bit dirty. So, I go to the car wash today and sprayed the car down good in the booth first. Sprayed the heck out of the tire and I got some of the paint off of there, and it didn't look like there was much on the bumper or elsewhere so I figured I was ok. I did see more paint on the inner fender, which bothered me, but wasn't such a big deal since it isn't quite as obvious.Since I'm lazy and have a thing against waterspots, I like to run the car through the touchless automatic with the blowdry thingy at the end. So I did that, and as usual, went to dry the car off. I thought I lucked out, but then I found paint splattered all the way from the left front fender, both doors up 1/4 of the way, all the way back to the back bumper, and some even splashed all the way back to the back of the bumper under the trunk lid. About the only thing I had was some wax, which took off quite a bit of it. But what it didn't take off, I had to sit there and scrape off itty bitty specks of paint with my fingernail. They came right off that way. Then, "duh!, lil' gray Hyundai!" I figured I could probably find something at Meijer across the street that may make things easier. lol! I just picked up a can of Turtle Wax bug and tar remover, sprayed that crap down the entire side of the car, let it soak, and viola. Hit it with the detail spray after that to get any remains of that crap off, and finally gave the car a good wax, (its second in three weeks or so) all at 11:00 at night. That sucked. I don't know where I ran into that crap, they've been doing plenty of construction so I'm sure it was somewhere around there. Once this rant is done, I'll be ordering some steenkin' splash guards. If you get nailed with paint, get it taken care of quick! I bet this would have sucked more if I had waited longer...

[kostby]

Maybe your Hyunnie has the super secret 'Paint Magnet' option???

[zionzr2]

i wish our vibes had that!!!then maybe the paint would stick at the factory...

[Toasted7]

Running through paint sucks... had that happen to my in my navy blue S-10.Took me quite some time to get all that paint off. Stupid construction areas!

[MRCN RCE]

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »I figured I could probably find something at Meijer across the streetman i miss meijer... brings back memories of goin in there when i was younger for the sole purpose of seeing how much stuff we could get away with before getting kicked out ::reminiscing::Quote, originally posted by zionzr2 »i wish our vibes had that!!!then maybe the paint would stick at the factory...lol