I bought my car new, it's 4 years old with less than 30k miles. But it has gotten dinged by a rock and has a scratch on the bumper somehow. How the fuck do you guys stop this? All the stuff I planned to do with it went out the window because why put money into a broken car? I don't understand how people keep their cars in perfect condition.
>>28992698Well - "A knight in clean armor has not seen battle"
>>28992698Watch some detailer videos, get a small buffer and learn how to paint correct and you can make most small scratches mostly invisible in minutes.
>>28992707Is the car immunocompromised?
>>28992719Unfortunately I can't polish it out. It's down to the primer. I would take it to a body shop but my car is silver and I don't think they'll be able to match it well enough.
>>28992698Why did you buy a new car with the intention of "doing things" to it? Surely anything you planned would have hurt the resale value, so why even start with a new car?
>>28992707Shoulda sold it 5 yrs ago before prices imploded.
>>28992698if you actually drive it its inevitable. good news for you is that the next rock that hits it wont hurt that bad
>>28992722In such a place you store the car that you intend to keep for many years in the best possible condition ,instead of keeping it in a leaky barn where it will turn into a rusty mass
>>28992743It's like a pyramid, preserved so that when the boomer inevitably dies, he can be buried inside of his Jaguar casket.
>>28992726I get it. I had tons of rock chips on one of my last cars (black paint, too, so they stuck out), which was why I went with protective film wrap on my current machine. I'd just get a lacquer paint match pen, and some acetone. Clean it up, paint on the lacquer, and if you fuck up, you can use acetone to redo it, since it'll pull the lacquer right off. Just as a bandaid solution. Who knows, maybe you'll get into a fender bender and have the whole fucking bumper replaced; don't give up hope.
>>28992698I have spare body panels and a detachable bull bar in my glovebox just in case
>>28992698i buy beaters and use them till they break
>>28992698why do you care this much about a scratch and a ding? did the twink you like tell you he won't be seen dead in an imperfect ride?
>>28992993I don't give a fuck about other people. It bothers me.
>>28993094Every time you turn the ignition key shit causes wear and tear, everything is finite.
>>28992698I buy pre-crashed cars
