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.

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

"Ah Oh better get macco"

lmfao, omg tell me your not serious??

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

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

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

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

He'll never live this down.

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

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.

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

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

: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?

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

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. :)

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

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.

LMAO @ albinorat.

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.