Well... IT finally happened. Scraped my baby...

I'm sorry!!!

I had someone knock an entire 30-oz cup of coffee on to the driver's seat yesterday (odo was at 240 mi). Left me muttering under my breath for at least an hour, but the clean-up and carpet shampooing behind the seat seems to have gone well. The leather caused the coffee to pool up and really didn't let much get through it...

 

Ouch! Yeah, I feel your pain! The good news is that it's in an area where a DIY touch up will work pretty well. Find a good step by step guide (and maybe someone else can point one out for you), but basically a little sanding, mask it off and spray it with a few light coats. You of course will still see it, but no one else will! Good luck!

 

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I have a curb rash as well (from the wife driving it, although she has no idea how it happened). It's part of having a daily driver, but you'll stop noticing it after a week once you do a good enough job of covering it up.

 

Oh, that's not so bad, red. Not worth crying about. A shop could fix that for you without too much trouble, or you could fix it yourself if you feel brave.

That piece is plastic, so it's not going to rust if you leave it alone, and it's not all that noticeable. (To everyone else, I mean.)

 

You can cover it with touch up paint, and it will hide it from most people. Or most people just won't care. But for you? It will be the Tell- Tale Heart. The microscopic almost invisible hand painted strokes from the touch-up paint will always be visible. Constantly reminding you of deteriation and the mortality of all things. The center can not hold, your bumper is scraping it's way towards Bethlehem and there is nothing you or I can do to stop it.

Even Bodyshop repair is nothing but a futile stop gap. The demons of dents and shades of scrape exist at every parking lot, every seemingly innocent drive-way. Despite our muttered prayers to the automotive gods, our 3M and Venture Shield cloaks of defense, in the end metal is metal and paint is paint. Time makes Clunkers of us all.

Would it help you if I told you it's not so bad? I suspect not. We are all boys in the bubble protecting ourselves by projecting ourselves into our toys and our enviroment. Every driveway now becomes an auditory gauntlet, listening for the inevitable sounds of the monsters claws as they rip at our flesh.

I will weep for you...and light a candle infront of a tube of touch-up paint. That is all any of us can do. Embrace your wounds! Become proud of the scars. Make it part of the whole. The expectation of perfection and unblemish is Folly despite the sonnets of Zaino and shrouds of Micro-fiber.

It is hideous, beautifully, beautifully hideous.

 

I'd go the DIY route then get the car covered in VentureShield film.

 

Ouch! Major bummer. If it were me, I would have it fixed professionally at this point. Two, three years down the line... perhaps not but now yes. As mentioned, it is plastic so you could wait till the shops are freed up in the summer to take it in.

 

Yes, I have this product.

 

I know it would be more costly, but take it to a detail shop. You will be happier in the long run.

 

Until the OP gets his next curb rash.... They're in the perfect location to touch up and forget after a week or so and it's not like it's smack dap in the middle of the hood where you can notice every time.