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So I've been lurking around the forums for a while ever since I decided to get serious about fixing the paint on my girlfriend's car and I wanted to thank all of you for the wealth of information here. Anyway, she had it parked at a work lot one day and some sidewalk washing company came and decided to power wash the sidewalk in the parking lot. Lo and behold, what she came back to was not pretty. The following is not for the faint of heart...

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Somehow the guy that was cleaning the floor kicked up a bunch of sand, gravel, dirt, and who knows what else onto the car. We got the surveillance footage from the store and it showed that not only did he kick that crap onto the car, he proceeded to go around the car with the pressure washer!!! :mad::mad::mad::eek::eek::eek:

Anyway, she brought it back home and subsequently had it washed at a swirl-o-matic... And the gunk that was on it just made it a swirl-o-matic on 'roids.

This car is always garage kept and after 4 years has less than 20k on the odometer. It was one of the first new-body Infiniti Gs from '08 when they still had the 3.5 L V6 rather than the newer G37s and it was in great condition up until then... Lesigh...
 
the comapny has no right to do that, I would ask for an apology from them or a law suit if you cannot get that stuff off
 
I've had a similar incident occur to my wife. Her Rav4 was parked at her office and some city workers decided to 'clean' the sidewalks leading up to her office. Needless to say I had the city public works manager on the phone for a good 20 minutes chewing him a new one. He assured me that it would never happen again, which it hasn't in almost 3 years, and he even called the following morning to check on whether or not I found any damage after a thorough wash and inspection. Thankfully after a good foam soak and a proper 2-bucket was, it was back to it's usual flawless state, but it definitely had me upset while I washed it.
 
Wow, Japanese (usually soft paint), feel your pain.

Post up the after pictures.
 
Oh my goodness I would be livid !!!!

I get ticked off when company's landscaping sprinkler systems wet the roadway and I'm forced to drive my spotless vehicle through there mess. Your situation is beyond the pale IMO
 
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My foot would be up someone's ass for that one. Even worse that it's on a black car!
 
I would ask the company to retrain their workers and if he or she argues show them your car
 
Had my car repainted last year because of an employee using a weed wacker in front of my office. There was weeds growing up though the cracks in the asphalt and that idiot decided it was a good idea to use a weed wacker instead of spraying them. 100's of tiny chips all over... Employer's insurance company covered it.
 
Wow that looks bad. I feel Sorry for you.

Keep us up to date on your progress with getting it turned around and dont hesitate to ask question.
 
Wouldnt a pressure washer be able to take that off pretty easily? I dont mean to sound rude/ignorant, as I would be pretty pissed in this situation too, but it doesnt look like anything a good rinse and 2 bucket method wash couldnt fix. Unless im missing something here..
 
Comforting to know that others have been through the same although I wouldn't want anyone to go through that. We've tried to pursue the matter when it happened but it was just too much trouble and we didn't have proof of prior paint condition so I'm just going to take it on as a little project to fix it. And thanks for all the support!

Wheelzntoys said:
Wow, Japanese (usually soft paint), feel your pain.

Post up the after pictures.
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smack said:
Wow that looks bad. I feel Sorry for you.

Keep us up to date on your progress with getting it turned around and dont hesitate to ask question.
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Thanks! I'll be sure to post updates but won't get started until spring as it's too cold to do work on it now. :banghead::banghead:


vman said:
Wouldnt a pressure washer be able to take that off pretty easily? I dont mean to sound rude/ignorant, as I would be pretty pissed in this situation too, but it doesnt look like anything a good rinse and 2 bucket method wash couldnt fix. Unless im missing something here..
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No offense taken. We actually tried to do that but the stuff was caked onto there so hard nothing would get it off. She ended up taking it to a swirl-o-matic and I'm sure that didn't help with the scratches but we weren't sure if there were any chemicals that they used that could have eaten through the paint.

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NotVeryCreative said:
This car is always garage kept
NotVeryCreative said:
Thanks! I'll be sure to post updates but won't get started until spring as it's too cold to do work on it now. :
NotVeryCreative said:
She ended up taking it to a swirl-o-matic...
we weren't sure if there were any chemicals that they used that could have eaten through the paint.
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I most assuredly recommend that you find a heat-source for the garage (and yourself, if need be) and immediately
begin the arduous journey of attempting to remove the chemicals that so far has been "applied" to this vehicle...
(by several means)...Some of which may even be of the cementitious-nature.

Hopefully...There isn't any CC-etching as of yet.
But the longer the wait...Just may ensure that CC damage will, indeed, occur.

Good Luck with this project!

:)

Bob
 
NotVeryCreative said:
Thanks! I'll be sure to post updates but won't get started until spring as it's too cold to do work on it now.
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Dude, First photo with the logo on the seats and I'm saying; :awman:!!!!!!

You need to use the footage and photos you have to demand a through and complete detailing job for your GF's car. Sitting on that all winter just tells them you don't really have any concerns about the damage. (Don't let them win.)

You mentioned the car is always garaged and low mileage. (I can relate to that BTW... notice my avatar)

Chemicals in concrete are dangerous to your paint. The pH of concrete washwater is over 12 which is up there with DrainO! And I know this isn't straight washwater as in out of the concrete truck, BUT you also have been blasted at very high speeds with all the grit, sand, and small rocks that came up out of that sidewalk!

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There is no way you should be waiting till spring to attack that problem. Perhaps a bottle of ONRWW with a bucket of heated water (at the very least) would be in order. That garage would be just fine to keep the chilly winds off;).

Not fussin' at you guys, but WHOA that is enough to get sombody's arse kicked, hard and OFTEN! :bat::eek::bash:

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Story from a guy I went to school with about a pressure washing incident.

So, he's at a Gulf station with a drive-thru carwash. Do a fill-up and get a free car wash.

Looks at the carwash and there is a guy there, cones setup everywhere, that has been hired to clean it via hot water pressure washing. Huge rig, hoses and cones everywhere. Figures it's not a good time to use the car wash so keeps the token for later.

Goes next door to eat a quick lunch. Comes outside and some fool has moved all of the cones and proceeded to drive into the car wash. The car owner is screaming at the top of his lungs, a water hose is now wrapped around the big spinning brush of death and is beating the car to a pulp at several hundred revolutions per minute. He could hear the ends of the hose slamming into the car, busting all the glass, ripping metal.

He starts laughing, which then gets uncontrollable! He turns and looks behind him and the guy that was doing the pressure washing had been eating in the same place with him. Come to find out, the main breaker was turned off, closed signs everywhere, and of course all the cones blocking the entrance. The guy in the car moved it all, figured somebody forgot to turn it on. So he got out of his car and turned the breaker on and before he could even get back inside his car the hose had been snatched from the wall and the truck mounted rig and was now in the process of totalling out his car.

That guy deserved what he got.

You however didn't! Fix the G, fix it quick, and fix it good.:grouphug:

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City workers, at their finest! Picture 4 appears to have some holograms at the nose of the hood, so if you haven't already bought yourself a machine polisher, now might be a great time to pick one up.
 
Sorry to hear about this carelessness act, looks like lime residue if that's the case vinegar will help remove the residue. Where I live we have lime quarries I see this all the time.
 
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