Getting fed up -thinking about selling

Zsteve · 12-11-2010, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by chops

my z has a clear bra covering the entire bumper, entire hood, entire a pillars, entire mirrors, fenders and even the rear fenders. ive been daily driving it on the freeway for the last month and not a single issue that i can see. clearbra was probably the best money ive ever spent and i had it on within a week of purchase of the car

Damn you should have just done the whole car with it. lol. But what I am curious about is, why dont they put some of the material in the paint to begin with and make it stronger?

semtex · 12-11-2010, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Zsteve

Damn you should have just done the whole car with it. lol. But what I am curious about is, why dont they put some of the material in the paint to begin with and make it stronger?

Well, as one forum member once explained to me, it's a performance feature. Thin paint means less weight, which makes the car lighter, and therefore quicker.

Zsteve · 12-11-2010, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by semtex

Well, as one forum member once explained to me, it's a performance feature. Thin paint means less weight, which makes the car lighter, and therefore quicker.

Well Nissan should win all races with their paint.

shadow2k · 12-12-2010, 11:59 AM

18k miles - no chips, no clear bra.

SoCal 370Z · 12-12-2010, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by shadow2k

18k miles - no chips, no clear bra.

You get a rep point for either a massive amount of bullsh!t

or driving at 1 mph in-and-out of your driveway. Seriously, no rock chips at 18K miles? When I was shopping for a clear bra (and I was one of the first to apply a clear bar a 370Z) there was one installer who told me to take all side streets to his shop as the paint on Nissan Zs sucks and chips easily. There is one large rock chip on our Z and it's just past the clear bra on the left front fender where a rock came down out of the air and hit the fender on the highway (I should have had the full fenders covered).

shadow2k · 12-12-2010, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCal 370Z

You get a rep point for either a massive amount of bullsh!t

or driving at 1 mph in-and-out of your driveway. Seriously, no rock chips at 18K miles? When I was shopping for a clear bra (and I was one of the first to apply a clear bar a 370Z) there was one installer who told me to take all side streets to his shop as the paint on Nissan Zs sucks and chips easily. There is one large rock chip on our Z and it's just past the clear bra on the left front fender where a rock came down out of the air and hit the fender on the highway (I should have had the full fenders covered).

Rock chips come from crap thrown out from the car in front of you. I don't drive behind other people. I stay way back, or change lanes...hopefully both. I also tend to be the car in front, not the car in back. Some of that has to do with how I drive, and some with when I drive.

I don't ever have to drive during rush hour, I don't normally take the highways, I don't drive the Z in wet weather. I live in a rich area, where they are always repaving roads that don't need it. There are few rocks around here to kick up to begin with.

My beater has some paint chips, but I drive it completely differently. If I drove my Z like I drive my beater, yeah, it would have a lot of chipping going on. But I don't. Sometimes I'll pull over and answer emails or smoke a cig instead of following a line of cars that won't get out of my way. I like to take less traveled roads instead of the main streets, and I've lived here for 34yrs, so I know them all. Sometimes I'll sit at a stop sign or a green light (if nobody is behind me) so that I can be in front of other cars instead of in back. I like to drive fast, but I don't really care how fast I get where I'm going...so it works for me.

Staying out from behind other cars is no harder than playing dodge the pothole where I live. And no, I don't live on a farm. There's more than half a million people in Johnson County, KS...I just don't drive behind them.

PapoZalsa · 12-13-2010, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by shadow2k

I live in a rich area, where they are always repaving roads that don't need it. There are few rocks around here to kick up to begin with.

Oh, well excuse the hell of the rest of us that live in poor area...

c41006 · 12-12-2010, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by shadow2k

18k miles - no chips, no clear bra.

Im going to have to agree with socal on this one If true I think you are the first person to accomplish this on any car ever

ZYGOTE · 12-12-2010, 12:25 PM

To those saying that they have no chips and no clearbra - let me go over your car with a fine-toothed comb. They are definitely there, trust me....

mick · 12-12-2010, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ZYGOTE

To those saying that they have no chips and no clearbra - let me go over your car with a fine-toothed comb. They are definitely there, trust me....

haha. they must have perfect roads where they live.

c41006 · 12-12-2010, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by ZYGOTE

To those saying that they have no chips and no clearbra - let me go over your car with a fine-toothed comb. They are definitely there, trust me....

I had two rather noticeable chips within the first 1500 miles it does not take long at all

Jeffblue · 12-12-2010, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ZYGOTE

To those saying that they have no chips and no clearbra - let me go over your car with a fine-toothed comb. They are definitely there, trust me....

i have 0 rock chips.... but i have a full hood/fenders/bumper/mirrors/side skirts clear bra

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shadow2k Base Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Overland Park, Kansas Posts: 143 Drives: 09 PG 370z 6MT Rep Power: 17	18k miles - no chips, no clear bra.

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ZYGOTE Base Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NE Posts: 80 Drives: 09 6MT SP Rep Power: 16	To those saying that they have no chips and no clearbra - let me go over your car with a fine-toothed comb. They are definitely there, trust me....