Used a grinder near my corvette, now paint has hundreds on small rusty pits!!!

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My idiot brother-in-law was grinding on his trucks ladder rack with my Vette 3 feet away directly in the path of his sparks!!!!

Now the car is covered with 100's of small rust color spots and each one has pitted the paint and they were hot enough to even pit the back glass. I know the glass isn't repairable.

I'm so angry.... Though I can't fix the glass what are my options to fix the paint?

Thanks for your help,
Guy
 
ouch man I feel your pain. Without pics it may be tough to correctly diagnose how bad the paint is, but it may need to be repainted.
 
Top of left and right quarters, 8-10" trailing edge roof, entire back glass, vertical of right quarter, entire rear fascia.

At first I thought it was pollen.

Gave me the typical Erkel response, "Did I do that?". Of course no offer to make it right.
 
Sorry to hear that. You can try buffing out the glass with Ceriglass which is cerium oxide. You will need a rayon pad with a rotary. A DA buffer might work, but it will take a lot of passes.

Hard to say about the paint, but hot metal looks like it needs a repaint, I would try to wet sand and buff first..nothing to lose if you are going to repaint anyway.
 
I would file a claim with the homeowner's insurance and repaint.
 
Wow the brother in law deserves a hard punch in the face imo. Why are people so selfish? I can guarantee he wouldn't use a grinder near his corvette.
 
Insurance should cover it under negligence. Was it at your house or his house?
 
fightnews said:
Wow the brother in law deserves a hard punch in the face imo. Why are people so selfish? I can guarantee he wouldn't use a grinder near his corvette.
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Violence won't solve his problem.
 
Get a couple of estimates; then,
give your BIL the opportunity to
make restitution.

No reason you should have your
insurance pay for his momentary
lapse in judgement, IMO.


Bob
 
Sounds like a great opportunity to put kamikaze artificial clear coat to the test.
 
I don't even know how I would react. I'd probably be in prison after that.
 
FUNX650 said:
Get a couple of estimates; then,
give your BIL the opportunity to
make restitution.

No reason you should have your
insurance pay for his momentary
lapse in judgement, IMO.


Bob
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It will depend on whose property it was on. If it is on the OP's property, it will be on his homeowner's insurance. He could get the BIL to cover teh deductible. If it is on BIL's property, OP should be covered by BIL's homeowner's insurance. If it was on neutral ground, that will be on OP's auto insurance.

I went through an insurance situation recently with a windstorm and a tree limb.
 
The kind of guy who grinds right by your corvette and ruins the paint ain't exactly the kind of guy to own up and pay restitution. Just something to keep in mind before you destroy your own sanity and the mood of the next 5 holiday get togethers.
 
Ernie Mccracken said:
The kind of guy who grinds right by your corvette and ruins the paint ain't exactly the kind of guy to own up and pay restitution. Just something to keep in mind before you destroy your own sanity and the mood of the next 5 holiday get togethers.
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That's why you let insurance deal with it.
 
KirkH said:
That's why you let insurance deal with it.
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And then your premiums go up because of your brother in law is an imbecile, no it's called accountability. And I highly doubt any insurance company given the "true" facts in this instance would pay a nickle to fix it. Being an adult, he's accountable and he should pay whatever it takes to fix it.
 
custmsprty said:
And then your premiums go up because of your brother in law is an imbecile, no it's called accountability. And I highly doubt any insurance company given the "true" facts in this instance would pay a nickle to fix it. Being an adult, he's accountable and he should pay whatever it takes to fix it.
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Insurance would pay. If wind blows a healthy tree limb on your friend's car, homeowder's insurance will not pay because that is an "act of god." As I found out.

Rates should not go up. There's a word that the insurance agent told me that I have forgotten, but basically means your premiums won't go up because it wasn't your fault.

your state may vary.
 
Or OP can choose to have a go at getting the money from his brainiac brother in law.
 
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