Lots of paint chips on rear side

What's the deal? Is he at least acknowledging that it happened while he had your car?


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He offered to pay for the repaint :)

But the worst part is that we have no idea what happened. The scratch looks relatively normal, but the chips look like someone has done this near the car.

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The location of the chips is odd. Almost looks like another car spun it's tires in dirt/gravel and peppered the side of your car. It doesn't look like whatever caused the chips came off your tires because a lot of the chips are where the quarter panel curves back in. But the scratches looks like they may have been caused by dirt/gravel coming off your cars tire...

Did he park the anywhere there was quite a bit of loose gravel or really small stones??
 
Probably the only way to get it looking correct again is a respray. The scratched area is too large for Dr. Colorchip to work. Sorry.
 
DaveT435 said:
The location of the chips is odd. Almost looks like another car spun it's tires in dirt/gravel and peppered the side of your car. It doesn't look like whatever caused the chips came off your tires because a lot of the chips are where the quarter panel curves back in. But the scratches looks like they may have been caused by dirt/gravel coming off your cars tire...

Did he park the anywhere there was quite a bit of loose gravel or really small stones??
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This seams to be the most plausible explanation. He stoped couple of times in diners near the highway.

rlmccarty2000 said:
Probably the only way to get it looking correct again is a respray. The scratched area is too large for Dr. Colorchip to work. Sorry.
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Sucks to repaint a car with less than 3k miles on it :(
 
If it were me, I'll clean it up and run a 2 step polish on it and then reassess what you want to do. If it still bugs
you after the 2 step polish then do a repaint.

Tom
 
TMQ said:
If it were me, I'll clean it up and run a 2 step polish on it and then reassess what you want to do. If it still bugs
you after the 2 step polish then do a repaint.

Tom
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Good idea. Will test the new G15.

fightnews said:
are you really positive they weren't there before and you are only noticing now because you are looking after he had it?
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Yeap, me and my friend washed the car together the day that he took it
 
xirurg said:
This seams to be the most plausible explanation. He stoped couple of times in diners near the highway.
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diner parking lot sounds about right. Probably some kid trying to show off. You can tell by a couple of those chips that something hit the paint pretty hard. Unfortunately as mentioned a respray is probably going to be the only good permanent fix. I had to have a quarter panel repaired and repainted on my 2010 Camaro SS. It had three stage paint. Fortunately it was a good body shop and they did a great job. Never had any issues in the six years I owned it. It sucks for your friend, but it is what it is.
 
DaveT435 said:
diner parking lot sounds about right. Probably some kid trying to show off. You can tell by a couple of those chips that something hit the paint pretty hard. Unfortunately as mentioned a respray is probably going to be the only good permanent fix. I had to have a quarter panel repaired and repainted on my 2010 Camaro SS. It had three stage paint. Fortunately it was a good body shop and they did a great job. Never had any issues in the six years I owned it. It sucks for your friend, but it is what it is.
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Thanks for the advice) haha, it sucks for me- he is like brother to me, cant take money from him. local Toyota dealer quoted me 300$, probably not a bad deal
 
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