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Sorry to hear about your new car being damaged man. Hopefully you'll have it taken care of and back on the street in no time!

-Clay

if i can only find the guy id choke him out till i cut off his air supply. or maybe torture him alittle bit like sticking bamboo shuts in his finger nails or cutting his eye lid and throwing salt in his eye haha maybe not that far.

so i went to this auto body shop and they told me the bumper is a shade lighter than the main body. is this true for me i cant tell the difference they look exactly the same color

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Originally Posted by thispecialk (Post 112958)

aa to bad the obama administration is in.:shakes head: you would have gotten a job in the cia as an (interrogator) in the bush era lol

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Originally Posted by thispecialk (Post 113259)

so i went to this auto body shop and they told me the bumper is a shade lighter than the main body. is this true for me i cant tell the difference they look exactly the same color

Go outside with it on a clear day...if you still can't tell, then it's good enough for you.

yea working with USAA is your best option.

now all i need to do is get the rock chips fix and ima be super happy again

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Originally Posted by shumby (Post 112129)

not to get off topic but you should look into Dr. Color Chip online. there chip repair system is great and workes really well. brings the chip back up to the level of the paint. I was not sure at first but said WTH and gave it a try. I will never go back to a paint stick again.

It looks like you get quite a lot with their system for forty bucks. However, I'd be concerned that the paint might initially match up, but then not fade or last the same way factory paint does.

Not to sound like a rocket scientist know-it-all, but usually premium paints contain titanium dioxide to give the brightest, best-wearing appeal. Lower grades contain other things. An imitator can get a good color match under specific lighting conditions, like broad daylight, but then when you look at the same spot with night street lighting (for example) the paint that isn't mixed exactly the same would have a "muddy" appearance. (And if it still looks OK with street sodium lights, then check it in the garage under fluorescent lights.)

I said early in this thread that I had too much experience with painting plastic bumpers. Any decent body shop is going to sand and fill all the specks, then paint the WHOLE bumper to make it look good and blend with the paint on the rest of the car. With a tricoat paint, they do it three times: base, metallic, and clear coat.

So an $8 Nissan paint stick isn't the worst way to fill small nicks. You can pay a little more, and get worse ... or pay a whole lot more, then wait for someone else to hit-and-run your bumper again. In NYC, the damage in these pictures wouldn't even get touched up. (That's what happens, and the Z owner should be lucky the bumper cover didn't get completely ripped off or a hole punched through it.)

I wish I can paint I really want to learn

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Originally Posted by jginnane (Post 113822)

Yeah, though in NYC, you could get away without owning a car :)

But, you illustrate the reason that I'm looking at the LANGKA system, as it uses touch up paint...they just give yo ua process for working it...

I'll definately try it out on our Honda Civic first, which even has a rust spot where a chip has existed a while...

If it covers that up and makes it look great, then I'll be happy, and might even get brave enough to try it on my Z...

back from the body shop paints done still not completely finish missing badges. they said car is to brand new that nissan dont keep them in stock so they gotta order the badges. ima probably just gonna keep the 370z badge and have them put only the nissan badge on
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they said no waxing for 1 month and half

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Originally Posted by thispecialk (Post 115557)

they said no waxing for 1 month and half

paint cure time...looks good though :)

guess they wouldnt budge on fixing the rock chip by the gas cap...too bad...does the dealership have touchup paint? I had a bottle for my mach that I used for rock chips, worked well enough...

Wow...
I'm sorry to hear about this.
Have you asked for the video of when your car was hit?
You should ask the grocery shop owner for a copy of the video or ask the police to check it out. Maybe you can find who did it.
I would that person's *** down and I'm 100% sure you can.
lol!