Shylor

I can't believe it, I lift the hood and noticed a paint chip on the left underside lip of the hood. It might have been a paint bubble that broke open, I'm not really sure. Oh the pain!

Time to buy some Yellow touch up paint.

SMFCPACFP

You better be able to get over the small stuff. Wait until you see what happens to the paint around the rear brake ducts. :eek:

LTC Z06

:iagree: Living in rocky Germany with the Z06's wider wheels I have sand blasted the lower doors and the front of the car. I'm getting a new paint job with some real paint, not the crap GM used, when I get home.

Godspeed

:sad: :sad:

I wish there was a way to drive the car hard and keep it factory perfect too.

samurai

The first paint chip is a real bummer, I anguished over it for days. :cry However, everyone that drives their Z regularly will suffer from paint chips. I have a paint chip the size of a dime by the right rear brake duct. I also have scores of tiny sandblast-type chips by both brake ducts and around the nose. It adds character! Enjoy the car and just do not worry about it. :thumbs:

Shylor

Ah no, it doesn't add character. If that were true I would of bought a used beat up one. I do enjoy the car but, do worry as the car isn't even a month old that it will look like crap before it is even paid for.

Tracy

Shylor--don't drive it!!! Ever!

Keep it safe, in a garage somewhere, so that when you go to sell it in a few years, some lucky person will get a perfect car, not a "used, beat-up one". You, of course, will have taken the depreciation hit but will have never had a chance to enjoy the car. Let the next owner agonize over the first rock chip.

Shylor

Okay I won't drive it but, I won't sell it either. And it will be my perfect car, that I sit in every once in a while in the garage.......Nah!


[Modified by Shylor, 11:00 PM 7/6/2003]

Tracy

Shylor--

The sad thing is....there are people who actually DO what you said! :eek: But they're of the same group who occasionally spit out a mint 63 split window, never driven in the rain, etc etc into the market. On the other hand, I remember the buzz about buying a 78 "25th" car and garaging it for a few decades and retiring on th profits. As we now know, they should have taken that $7K or so and invested it in GE or IBM stock instead of a car nobody really wants now. Come to think of it, I haven't heard much talk of taking a 50th car and saving it for posterity and profit, so maybe that hysteria has worn off. You never know what will be a future classic. If we'd known then what we do now, we would have all bought lots of Hemi cars in 1970 and garaged 'em. :hurray:

Glennm27

An 03 you say! Why not take it back to the dealer, especially if you think it is a bubble that cracked open. Maybe they will fix it under warranty!

Good luck! I can understand your pain! Hope you get it fixed ok!

:thumbs:

viperZ06

Get over it and now you can enjoy your car! We all HATE rock picks!!!!!

C5Longhorn

:iagree:

Shylor

Back to the dealer to fix......Not in my lifetime! As I said before, it's under the left side of the hoods lip. Touch up paint will take care of it just fine. If it were on the outside I might consider taking to a dealer.

rbartick

The first few hairline scratches in the front-fenders caused by leaning over & installing mods also hurt.

ScottZ

I ordered a paint chip repair kit from Mid America this weekend. Plan to try it out on a couple of rock chips I got at the track this weekend. Don't know if others have experience with these kits but I'll let you know how it works.

vetteheadracer

Got a stone chip on the windscreen about the size of a dime after a truck flicked a stone straight across the motorway at me. Had it repaired, as no Z06 windscreens available in Europe.

Also got a stone chip on the driver side headlight cover.

Jagrmaister

I've got you beat...I have an inch or two paint "RUN" on the driver side lower panel, a burn mark in the paint finish on the hood where it's not nice and shiny (probably from jacka** and co at the dealer cleaning it up) and a noticeable rock chip on the upper portion of the driver side headlight...OOH!!! And a key mark on the trunk lid that's at least 2 inches long...

Guess I should have the whole thing prepped for a new coat of paint now. :cry

Probably could have half of those fixed by GM, but I've found taking things to the dealer usually stirs up the hornets' nest of problems. I live with them for now...Because I bought the car to drive, and full knowing it was going to get dinged up...I also knew going in that GM does one half-a** paint job on all their vehicles, and the Corvette is no special exception.

Suck it up... :lolg: And have some FUN!!! :hurray:


[Modified by Jagrmaister, 3:05 AM 7/11/2003]