Cracked paint

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Cracked paint

Postby LorrenK » Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:48 am

Hi again,
I had my car up on the ramps yesterday, and the bottom of the bar must have touched the ramp because I just noticed some horizontal cracks in the topcoat on one side :(

Are these something that can be polished or buffed out. The paint itself seems to be fine, now I'm just annoyed at myself.

Any thoughts?
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Re: Cracked paint

Postby 05GTLIB » Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:09 pm

Pics?
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Re: Cracked paint

Postby LorrenK » Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:51 pm

I'll take some later. it's 39* and I'm alternating from the pool to the aircon and back... if it cools down later in the evening I'll get the car out and take a couple of photos. I took one last night but it was almost night and just using my ipad mini with no flash I couldn't see anything.
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Re: Cracked paint

Postby LorrenK » Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:55 pm

Hard to make out. I only noticed because I was up close chamoising it dry

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Re: Cracked paint

Postby Sh4wry » Sun Dec 30, 2012 12:38 am

Long story but had it on my gen 3.

From what I understand the plastic bumpers bend to absorb the impacts, however when this occurrs it cracks the clear coat. Mine got worse over time, flaked n bubbled till I got it resprayed.
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