Car egged outside house!

[DJD66]

Discovered that some thoughtless idiot had egged my car!!!

Cleaned bonnet, t cut it & polished it, unsuccessfully, paint damaged!!!

[DJD66]

Been cycling to work, this was done sometime this week.

[DJD66]

Discovered that some thoughtless idiot had thrown an egg at the car this morning, happened sometime this week, been cycling to work, only found it this morning!!! Paint damaged!!!

[JoseDB]

What the hell? Egg did that!?

[samuir1974]

Ouch! That damage looks really quite deep mate.....  :peek:

Sorry to see this.

[@Lee]

What the hell? Egg did that!?

Maybe a fossilised dinosaur egg

[DJD66]

Yes along with the person who wiped it off!!! Saw mark on bonnet this morning, looked like someone had wiped something off car, I found  3 bits egg shell on bonnet,

told a partly smashed egg was picked up from the path in front of my car a couple of days ago!!!

No idea who did it, or wiped it off!!!

[DJD66]

Thanks, me too! Seems somone tried to wipe it off, don't know who, or exactly what happened, but found egg shell on bonnet, & was told a semi intact egg was found on path in front of car a couple of days ago!!!

[DJD66]

The bonnet has 2 areas of paint damage now, nasty stone chip, (quoted £360+vat) now this, body shop that gave quote, said bonnet & wings would have to be done to match in.

Cars only approaching a year & 4 months old (13 plate, 6100 miles)

Edited 14 September, 2014 by DJD66

[radders567]

My heart sinks when I see the damage caused by mindless idiots

 

Have a look on DW on how to touch up road rash areas like this.  Essentially it will be smear paint across it (sounds scary i know), and then polish the area to remove the paint from the lacquer and leave the paint inside the chip / scratch.

[littleade]

Sorry to hear about your bad luck-it's even harder to take when its an act of mindless vandalism

Personally I think the body shop is having you on. With what effectively is a new car they should have no problem matching the respray on the bonnet to the existing wings- I have a race blue mk2 vRS and suffered a serious stone chip above the o/s headlight. They resprayed the whole wing and achieved a perfect match, you can't tell it's been done and that cost under £200.

My experience with SWMBO Seat might be helpful as the problem you have is probably similar. She has bird muck eat into her topcoat and I removed it with farecela scratch remover and a yellow pad on my meguires DA so it's worth a try if you know someone with one. BTW T-cut is not a product that the members who are skilled in paint correction on here use.

If that's successful then trying a product like chipex might be an option as if you spend loads on a respray you'll beback to square one again soon?

good luck

[devonutopia]

I think that "might" be salvageable but it would be a touch it and see using wet sanding.  Sounds like the egg might have been baked on to the surface by the sun??

 

 

I fear some of the bigger marks could well be chips and require either touching in with a small modelling brush and a "paint & clear in one" touch up pot, or ultimately the whole panel repainted/

 

Shame you're the other side of the country to me, but if you're even in Devon.

[JoseDB]

That's not cool as it's deep scratches right through the paint. Not simple to repair.

[TeflonTom]

Topics merged.

[Dinski]

Hate little vandals, really hope you manage to get it sorted.

Good luck.

[DanHam]

That's terrible :(

Someone dropped a half drunk friji milkshake on the floor behind my car in work, someone drove over it and the sun baked it on, it was only properly gone after it was machine polished!

[DJD66]

I think that "might" be salvageable but it would be a touch it and see using wet sanding.  Sounds like the egg might have been baked on to the surface by the sun??

 

 

I fear some of the bigger marks could well be chips and require either touching in with a small modelling brush and a "paint & clear in one" touch up pot, or ultimately the whole panel repainted/

 

Shame you're the other side of the country to me, but if you're even in Devon.

Think your right about being baked on in the Sun, my Dad found the egg by the car a couple of days ago,but forgot to tell me!