How many of yinz have bumper scrapes?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by gravitylover

Under bumper scrapes, over bumper scrapes, gravel nicks all over, a little crack in the plastic here and there from people that aren't too good at parking... They're bumpers - they get bumped, it's what they do.

THIS ^
The roof just above the windshield on mine looks as bad or worse than my bumper from flying rocks and debris. It is a car. I drive it. It gets hit by shit. I fix it or ignore it and drive some more. I will never be winning best in show at a meet but at least you can tell the car is used as a car and not a garage queen.

[gravitylover]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

THIS ^
The roof just above the windshield on mine looks as bad or worse than my bumper from flying rocks and debris. It is a car. I drive it. It gets hit by shit. I fix it or ignore it and drive some more. I will never be winning best in show at a meet but at least you can tell the car is used as a car and not a garage queen.

Yeah and don't forget about the windshield that looks like it's been sandblasted or the trunk lid that has had stuff dropped on it, some by me and some by those nice considerate folks in grocery store parking lots. Oh and all of the shopping cart dents too...

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by gravitylover

Yeah and don't forget about the windshield that looks like it's been sandblasted or the trunk lid that has had stuff dropped on it, some by me and some by those nice considerate folks in grocery store parking lots. Oh and all of the shopping cart dents too...

Ahhh yes the windshield that sparkles like a million tiny jewels in the bright sun. People that don't get stuck behind or pass salt trucks just don't get what thousands of dime sized chunks of salt will do to a windshield when they bounce off while traveling at speed.
My trunk lid is relatively unscathed since people here do not generally use other people's cars as tables. It does have a few swirls from brushing heavy snow off but they will disappear when I wax. Just my forward facing surfaces that look like they suffered through an explosion of some sort.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by venturaII

I bought it slightly used, so it already had it's share of diggers, but I've certainly added a few myself until I learned where the front actually was... I can't see them when I'm not laying under the car though, so I pay it no mind..

They get easier not to see when you get older, because you know better than try to get that low - because you know you won't be able to get back up -


humfrz

[venturaII]

Originally Posted by humfrz

They get easier not to see when you get older, because you know better than try to get that low - because you know you won't be able to get back up -


humfrz

The trick is to not wear my cheaters when I'm under the car, and then everything looks factory-fresh!

[Hot-Lava_Dave]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Ahhh yes the windshield that sparkles like a million tiny jewels in the bright sun. People that don't get stuck behind or pass salt trucks just don't get what thousands of dime sized chunks of salt will do to a windshield when they bounce off while traveling at speed.
My trunk lid is relatively unscathed since people here do not generally use other people's cars as tables. It does have a few swirls from brushing heavy snow off but they will disappear when I wax. Just my forward facing surfaces that look like they suffered through an explosion of some sort.

They're battle scars! And chicks dig scars...… or something like that.

[Tcoat]

I don't care if chicks dig scars I want to be able to see out of my windshield in the bright sun again!!!!!!!




It is like getting Chewy to punch it.

[Lynxis]

My front bumper has been through a fence in recent memory so it's totally messed up but even before that, I've scraped curbs, hit it with a jack and other regular wear and tear. I'll take some pics later but I'm at work right now so I gotta wait for the bosses to leave.

But I've got a new bumper that I've painted however the orange peel is unacceptable so I'm just waiting for a nice enough day some weekend when I'm not otherwise occupied to wet sand and buff it out before it goes on the car.

[PetrolioBenzina]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I don't care if chicks dig scars I want to be able to see out of my windshield in the bright sun again!!!!!!!

Griots glass polish.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina

Griots glass polish.

I am afraid it is way beyond polish now.

[DandoX]

I was buying some spare tail lights from another younger user on the forum. When he pulled up in his FRS he scrapped the shit out of his front spoiler. He didn't seem to bothered by it and I was outside next to where he parked, it was a loud screeeeeech. @JCFRS

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by DandoX

I was buying some spare tail lights from another younger user on the forum. When he pulled up in his FRS he scrapped the shit out of his front spoiler. He didn't seem to bothered by it and I was outside next to where he parked, it was a loud screeeeeech. @JCFRS

I have had many people look at me as I grind over a speed bump or slope. It sounds much worse than the results seem to warrant.

[gravitylover]

It sounds really great when the hitch smacks the ground coming out of a parking lot or driveway. Once the car actually got hung up on a drainage dip and the back wheels were barely touching the ground. I had to get pulled out by a guy in a CRV, that was embarrassing

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by gravitylover

It sounds really great when the hitch smacks the ground coming out of a parking lot or driveway. Once the car actually got hung up on a drainage dip and the back wheels were barely touching the ground. I had to get pulled out by a guy in a CRV, that was embarrassing

I got hung up on a speed bump one time. Daughter and grandsons had to get out of the car so I could get off it. Probably looked hilarious to anybody watching.