Paint ripped off
 

Hi all, so I'm really mad over this. Going home on the interstate yesterday, maybe about 100 feet behind an 18 wheeler. Something flies up from underneath it and takes a chunk of paint off of my roof right above the windshield. I'm not used to fixing things like this so any advice is appreciated.

It's maybe 2-4mm across if that changes anything.

Thanks in advance.

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They sell little paint matched pens if you just want to do a cheap fix. Otherwise, someone can sand the door paint down and re-spray / clearcoat it like nothing happened.

Get a Subaru paint pen. Works great.

You need to do clear coat for that too, right?

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The OEM paint pens from a dealership should come with a base coat applicator on one end and a clear coat applicator on the other. There are also abrasive tips on the pen so that you can scrub off any oxidation / rust before applying the paint.

Edit: I've repaired ~6 chips about that size all over my car. They don't look 100% flat (I could probably do a bit of spot wetsanding and compounding to improve) but the average person won't notice them unless you point them out. It is indeed frustrating to get chips, but to me it's the cost of driving the car daily for fun and not treating it as a garage queen.

I tape off the chips on my car and spray paint them. Order any auto paint code here:

http://www.automotivetouchup.com/index.htm

Yep, like said, I'd suggest you get a pen from the dealer. Clean the area with alcohol (to remove any old wax). Have the artistic member in your circle of friends or relatives, do the painting. Then, quit worrying about it, after all you can't see it from the drivers seat - ;)

Keep the pen, this probably won't be your last chip. - :sigh:


humfrz

Sorry dude that's totaled.
Set it on fire, buy a new car. I recommend a new Civic Si or if you want more power the new Type R.

If you keep driving with that chip dent the windshield is going to come off and it will fall like a guillotine and chop off your **** and balls.

Get a paint pen and fix that. Fix it soon! The lower body has been well done to resist rust. The roof will rust if you breath on it heavy. I can’t get pictures right this second but I have rust spots along there that will make most people on here wake up screaming in the night. The dealer pen will work fine just don’t wait.

Good thing your car is already brown..

The colour isn’t the issue the huge paint bubbles create drag and slow me down.

My entire roof looks like that.

Looks like it is rusted already. Doubt it just happened. Possibly just noticed?

Anyway I would go here.

https://www.automotivetouchup.com/

They can put it in any type of container you want to touch it up. If you do not have spray equipment they will put in aerosol cans. Little buffing afterwards good as new.

Am I the only one scrolling down and keep seeing this thread title as "pants ripped off"?
I guess I am just not used to seeing paint being described as getting "ripped off" and more of it getting chipped or flaked off. Or maybe I just subconsciously want
a thread about pants being ripped off? I mean when was the last time there was a thread in here about pants being ripped off any way?

F- thread title. I came for large sheets of paint being pulled off a car.

Well there was the...wait, no, public forum

Oh and there was that other time...sorry, can't tell that one either.

I remember putting chipped off, maybe it was autocorrect or maybe I'm just stupid. Probably the second one. Anyway, that was either the next day or the day after. I live right along the gulf coast so I'm not surprised at how quick it popped up.

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My bathing suit was nearly ripped off and lost in the Hudson River once if that counts. Got thrown from a towed tube, and next thing I remember I was treading water with my bathing suit around my ankles.

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To the OP, even if it's a terrible repair job no one except you will notice on an edge like that. You might need some primer if it's down to the metal. Then base and clear. Each layer needs to be as thin as possible.

Got a chip on my roof a couple years back driver's side corner next to the windshield, gave it a bit of touch up and it kept coming back where I did the touch up. (I'm not pro and I did a horrible job).

Asked to get it fixed at a body shop last September. Rust spot is back and bigger than ever. It's about the size of a Toonie now and paint is chipping around it. Happened after a touchless car wash. I'm having horrible luck with this roof. I might start to give up on the roof.

The lower body has far, far, far greater rust resistance properties. Chip on my fender has been there 5 years and has a slight haze of surface rust with zero change to the adjoining paint.
Chips along my roof line (8 of them) are about 6 months old and look like a 10 year old car.
Guess they didn't feel that the roof would be subjected to the same damage as the lower body.


Pictures are potato quality but the message is clear.

Yeah, exact same thing for me. I don't care that much about the aesthetics, but when it just looks sloppy it bothers me. I may just sand it down again and reapply a black paint that most people won't notice. As long as it doesn't look rusted.

Didn't used to have that problem - wonder why - :iono:


humfrz

Yep loads of chrome and 22 feet above the road!
Instead the rocker panels disappeared in 5 to 8 years.

Don't like chrome, OK, how about plan B - :iono:


humfrz

Dude. I have had cars with chromed chrome!

Yep, I got the picture - :D


humfrz