scratched my paint

[spclone]

i scratched the hell out of my paint the other day, i had to use a shovel to get the snow off the car and apparently the plastic scratched alot of spots on my hood and my roof, i have like a four long scratch on the rear pass. window also. does anybody have any suggestions on what to do? it looks like its only the clearcoat that got damaged.

[Redog]

If you think it's just the clear coat, Just buy Clear coat polish from a auto store and buff it out.

While your there see if you can get a soft brissle snow brush for that snow on the car

[99Olds]

"Ah Oh better get macco"

[Silentalero]

lmfao, omg tell me your not serious??

you used a shovel on your car!!!!!!!!!!!!!??? :blink:

[johny_boy32]

ouch...my only thought is dont use touch up paint...you can tell the difference...

[Travis99Alero]

why would u use a shovel to get snow off your car?

[OpalaAlero]

Originally posted by Travis99Alero@Jan 28 2004, 02:31 PM
why would u use a shovel to get snow off your car?

[Silentalero]

omg, i remember a girl used a scraper end to get th ice off because her GAGT was frozen (ridiculed forever for it to), but i think this takes it

[OpalaAlero]

He'll never live this down.

[al3r0_g1rL]

yah trying to touch up paint makes it more noticable ... esspecially in summer or whenever you wash n wax your car. My old beretta got keyed at the mall and my "brilliant" brother tried fixing it and made it look worse by doing so. I'd either leave it be or maybe take it somewhere unless you REALLY know what you are doing!

~Crystal

[misslindseysue]

Hey, I've had to scrape my car off before. When it's in the parking lot at school with an inch of ice on it, you don't have much of a choice. I did try to just break it up and pick it off with my hands, but still.

You can't really do anything about it now, unless you want to pay someone to do it. In the spring, get a clay bar, paint cleaner, polish, and wax. Clay bar and paint cleaner will prep it good, then polish should fix it, with wax to seal it. You may have to resort to buffing it, but if you know someone who knows how to do it, it's not hard to do.

[spclone]

well when you wake up in the morning and find about 2 feet of snow sitting on the damn car you really dont feel like being there all day using a cheesy snowbrush to get it all off, next time that happens im calling in though :D im peeved cause i was being really careful not to touch the car and apparently i did. yeah i know im going to continually hear about it, but i dont care as long as i can get the scratches out :P

[aLeRogrL21]

why use a shovel to get snow off your car...have the car heat up for 15-20 minutes.

[spclone]

:huh?: so the car running 15-20 min is going to remove 2 feet of snow? damn, can i move to where ever your at?

[boarder211]

aLeRogrL21 Posted on Jan 28 2004, 06:06 PM
why use a shovel to get snow off your car...have the car heat up for 15-20 minutes.

Ahhhhhh.. the ignorance of the southern-bounded individuals who've never known a REAL winter...

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

Originally posted by spclone@Jan 28 2004, 08:11 PM
:huh?: so the car running 15-20 min is going to remove 2 feet of snow? damn, can i move to where ever your at?
no. here's the full procedure:

1) with your gloved hand, brush away the snow around your driver side door and get in the car.
2) start the motor
3) turn on the heat, full blast and the rear de-foggers and get out of the car--CLOSE THE DOOR!
4) brush off all the snow with a snow brush.
5) there will be residual ice on your entire car. use the scraper on ONLY wth windows. Forget about the other ice. It will fall off when you are out driving.
6) Get to where you gotta go. Your done.

*as a supplement to step 5, you may use hot water from your house to melt the ice on your windows. You may need to takee multiple trips. If you're in a bad neighborhood, leave the motor running and detach the keyring fob to lock and unlock your doors at your descretion.

*mods: feel free to post this in the "how to" section under the subject: teaching southerners how to deal with snow on their cars. :)

[spclone]

yeah well im from syracuse NY myself. as for your ingenius idea of using hot water on cold windows, you have got to be out of your mind, i wonder if my insurance would cover a dumbass move like that... also when the temperatures around here have been around 10-20 below zero (with wind chill, also a term to explain to the southern), its taken me around 30 miles of driving for my car to even be close to warm (after your 10-15 minute "warm up"), that doesnt help much since work is 42 miles away. yeah the southerners that get an inch of snow and EVERYTHING shuts down, great question huh? by the way, stupid me had no winter gloves on either :unsure: (couldnt find them) the scratches happened last week and i just get to see them, hm, yesterday, i guess ice just doesnt disappear from driving especially when its too cold :) and i didnt feel like looking for them :P until you see the first one and then the multiply like rabbits :wah: just looking for advice to take care of it in the spring now

[Purple&Black]

Originally posted by spclone@Jan 28 2004, 08:36 PM
yeah the southerners that get an inch of snow and EVERYTHING shuts down, great question huh?
Come on now...alerogrl21 is from St. Charles, IL. Don't tell me that you think Chicago doesn't get winter. I'm not going to claim lake effect snow, but when the east coast gets pounded, that same storm usually plowed through the upper midwest first.

Although I'd have to agree about the 15-20 minute warm up not doing much, it'll take care of the windows, but that's it. I do exactly what AlbinoMonkeyRat does. And I don't know about you guys, but my car is warmed up and blowing warm air within five minutes. Sooner if it's above 0 degs F.

Funny thing about the east coast...when I was in college (Univ. of IL in Champaign), the people from the east coast were the ones that were surprised when Illinois didn't shut down. I'd ride my bike in 6 inches of snow. It's really not a big deal to Chicagoans.

[OpalaAlero]

LMAO @ albinorat.

[PaulVS]

My $.02 worth....

1. I live in Chicago as well, and for the times I've gotten dumped on with snow, I use a push-broom to get off the BULK of the snow.... making sure to not touch the car with it - although it probably wouldn't scratch it anyway.

2. Also, I've used WARM water to melt ice off the windows for over 20 years with no problem. In fact, I just did it this morning on my other car and it was -5 degrees F. outside. It doesn't take much water - or very hot water - to get ice off windows. Just keep a empty gallon milk container handy in the winter.

3. For small scratches, I've found Kit brand scratch remover is the best. I've used about 4 different brands, and none of them works as well as Kit.

[j{}n]

Originally posted by Silentalero@Jan 28 2004, 04:02 PM
omg, i remember a girl used a scraper end to get th ice off because her GAGT was frozen (ridiculed forever for it to), but i think this takes it
my ex has that beat. she didn't have an ice scraper, so she used a tube of lipstick to scrape the ice off of her windshield. like, the metal part that holds the stick itself. scratched the hell out of it too

[freeze12]

If the scratch is only in the clearcoat & that big You are better off scuffing the panel & re-clearcoating the panel.

[leroBob]

a shovel? ur better off going to Kmart getting one og those ridiculous looking hand defroster that plugs into ur lighter?

[Final-Reality]

Step 1) Park in a garage
Step 2) :cheers:

Glad I have an enclosed parking garage this year, havent had to clean off my car more than twice this winter :)

[aLeRogrL21]

Hey spclone...Albino has a point with instructions to scrap off your car the right way. How long have you been driving for? Key word: SNOW BRUSH! Being in IL, yeah so...I get snow too you know. At one time I lived in Pennsylvania and they get snow also. I guess I can't help that you like to B**ch about that you get snow and don't know how to get it off while your car warms up. Maybe if you took care of your car, you wouldn't have problems. Where's feisty when I need her. lol

10-15 mins., my alero is warm & cleaned off of snow! Thanks, purple&black & paulvs for the extra input.

[spclone]

sweetie, when in chicago has the snow come down in more than 7 inches an hour? a majority of the snow has been between syracuse and oswego. we've gotten enough snow that schools that havent closed in the past 15 years have closed atleast 3 times. so far in the past month and a half we've gotten 115 inches (just onder 10 feet) as of yesterday, seeing how we're going to get another two feet of snow by morning. and you know how the needle for temperature has the 4 dividers, well that particular day it took almost an hour drive to get to the first one, where the car is half warmed up. so yeah i guess that the 15 minute idling will get the car roasty toasty. my point in posting this it to find out an easy way to take care of the scratces in my paint, not to hear a chicky lecture me about owning a snowbrush that moves 2 inches of the 2 feet that was on my car that particular morning. yeah i wish i had a push broom available too, unfortunately at the appartment complex there is really nothing available to move a large mass of snow. so i just had a small plastic collapsable shovel that was sitting in the back seat, and yes a SNOW BRUSH, like i said i didnt want to be out there freezing my butt off all morning :D

as for final, god i wish i had a garage :thumbsup:

Purple&Black: i wish lake effect would only bring 6 inches at a time. unfortunately there is alot more moisture picked up from a few big lakes than from land. im not saying its not the same storm, about 90% of the time it is, but until you get the lake effect we'll talk about it then. its very common for lake effect in my area to dump 3+ feet of snow in a day.

i guess i learned from my mistakes: not to use a shovel to clean the car off, to call in next time there is that much snow, and to find another site to ask a simple question on. yeah dont get me wrong im a little peeved about the scratches being there, but its life, atleast some jerk kid didnt run into it with a shopping cart at the local walmart yet.

yes i found albinorat very amusing :popcorn: very funny, however i am aware of the past, a couple of years ago buffalo got hammered with alot of snow so he's got my respect in an odd way, by using humorous sarcasm :thumbsup:

[fiestyalerogirl81]

Alright here's where I come in. And I"m glad to say that fiesty wasnt the stupid one this time. First off Alerogrl21 knows what she is talking about. We both live near Chicago and we right now are dealing with snow storms. But i'm not here to start a war. This is what I do, since I usually warm up my car before I leave for work. I start up my car let it warm up. I go back inside for 5 minutes , then come back outside, and once the temp of the engine is no longer cold, it goes above the first line reading, I crank up my defroggers and have it on hot as can be. Then I take my dinky little ice scraper and due the windows, and my headlights. And with my gloved arm I just quickly brush off the snow. NOw thats my way of doiing it and i never have any problems. My suggestion is for you to buy one of the snow brushes with the ice scraper on it. Please dont use the shovel again. It might have seemed like a quick fix it at the time, but it ended u with all this trouble. Thats all i'm going to say.

[chicken_dog]

twater roo is the word for you my friend i can't believe you did this a shovel. If i did this i would not tell a soul. Well i would never do this in the first place :shoot: :shoot:

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

At least you're not this wiseguy...are you? :lol:

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http://www.krpower.com/snowtowcar.wmv

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

Originally posted by spclone@Jan 29 2004, 07:31 PM
yes i found albinorat very amusing :popcorn: very funny, however i am aware of the past, a couple of years ago buffalo got hammered with alot of snow so he's got my respect in an odd way, by using humorous sarcasm :thumbsup:
I please to aim! :pimp:

[spclone]

lol cute, nah that's not me, but i imagine it would be hard to say otherwise now huh? im dumb but not that dumb :D

[BLK03GXS]

Now to try and HELP....lol
Croakers Cloth, and some wax/polish
My Grandfather cliped a fence with his Found On Road Dead...(FORD) heh
Paint was scratched, and paint from the fence was on the truck.. this fixed it up good :thumbsup:
i think its know as cheese cloth too?? not 100% sure...

[StealthAlero1]

I scratched my car recently...but not from using a shovel to clean off snow lol...WOW. I slid and began to spin in my neighborhood.

AT first, it was fun...until SMACK. Alero GLS...meet large mailbox. It was violent. I almost cried. I have a dent and a very deep 4" scratch. :(

[spclone]

blk: thank you
strealth: mine's gonna be easier to fix :)

[fiestyalerogirl81]

Ok I lied I"m going to say more. Lol. Spclone I was reading your 2nd to last post about how the apartment complex didnt have anything really to use and you had to use a dinky shovel. Well I just thought of this. When I would be stuck at places and didnt have a ice scraper handy. I would use a cd case to clean off my windows. Might sound like a stupid idea, but it does work. I took a cd case from a band i really didnt care about. Scraped the ice off and everyting and didnt scratch the windows. So if you are ever in that situation again try a cd case u might have lying in your car.

[PaulVS]

Have we gotten a little bash-happy here?

The guy made a mistake.... He knows it.... and just wanted some advice.

Anyone here NOT ever do some dumbass move they regretted? :wacko:

[fiestyalerogirl81]

i'm not bashing i'm just trying to be helpful. B)