Car Touch Up Paint.

[padi56]

Being a man, you have obviously never so much as chipped your car, let alone scratched it, but it's strange that as soon as you park in a car park, normally between two women. You get back to your Uberwagen some careless ars#h#le has taken all 8 layers of manufacturers paintwork down to the bone.

Even parking in your own driveway is a bleeding hazardous occupation with other cretinous family members passing by with Bicycles,motor cycles or even larger-than-they-can-handle vehicles in a careless fashion.

Really, you are feked,what with Birds doing bomb Dam-buster practise on your bonnet, stones flying around like shrapnel on a world war 11 beach on D day. And the main factor that every other car owner has the manoeuvring skills of a Blindfolded Stevie Wonder in a Submarine in a Sea full of black treacle.

Hence the need for bleeding car touch up paint.

Now in these days of mass production, where even teenage children all look the same, you would think its easy enough to syphon a little paint from the production line, stick some in a little container, and include it in the already huge cost of your new car. Yes?

Bloody No!

Any idiot would obviously deride the idea of having touch up paint manufactured in a different country by colour blind idiots. Leaving the chance of the paint being the same shade, let alone base colour as the original car. As high as seeing the Queen enjoying a bucket of chicken and chips on a Friday night in the KFC car park.

But they bleeding DO!

Whats more, just to add insult to mis-coloured injury, the bloody cruel b@st@rds only give you a tiny smidgen of paint, in a sh!tty little container. With a brush that prefers to drop inside, rather than stay attached to the screw-top lid. which in turn prefers to stay attached to the screw top base. leaving you as buggered as you were before you paid five or six quid for the bleeding thing.

Imagine your glee when the top actually unscrews, and you have fished the brush out of the mis-coloured crap inside. Painted, no 'wiped' the 0.000000001 micro-gram of it over the huge weal. Left by the bleeding woman who used a normal car parking spot. Because some tosser decided to park his Mercedes M class in two of the spacey spots simultaneously...

And the paint it's nothing like 'Obsidian Blue' or whatever...

So, being even more upset than ever, you go to the local dealer for some Aerosol paint.

Now the Aresole paint (They may call it an Aerosol) is three times the price, so MUST be bloody good....but NO! it's actually a transparent version of the touch in pencil, which tints the scratches a different shade of scratch, but still leaves it visible. It's only any bleeding use for tinting your side windows a similar hue to the paintwork, so masterfully, you do just that, but after the first two panes,it sputters to a dribble, as your 0.005 micro-grammes of actual content has ended more prematurely than John Prescott's latest sectary affair campaign.

You can go to your local automotive trade paint supplier and get a half or even a quarter litre paint mixed, they'll even match up your colour by computer now,but the nearest is about 40 miles from me.

So to the Car body repair, yet another area where big business has us firmly by the balls/and short and curlies.First thing they ask if its
a insurance job,it is only a scratch.What the difference I asked
about 4 times as much,but even more if you don't have no claims protection.Now I really don't want to claim from my
own insurance,because I loose my no claims discount.

Originally Posted by padi56

Now in these days of mass production, where even teenage children all look the same, you would think its easy enough to syphon a little paint from the production line, stick some in a little container, and include it in the already huge cost of your new car. Yes?

Bloody No!

This is primarily due to the fact that the paint used at the factory is not something you can apply with a brush at home. It's not really paint as you imagine it is.

Colour matching is tough if the car's paint has faded at all. I have had the body shop give me a small bottle of paint when I've had cars painted in the past, but even though it was part of the actual batch they sprayed on the car, when I used it later on it did not match due to fading issues.

[JJ Irani]

Have to agree with Al on this one. The touch up paints you pick up at REPCO here in Auckland look like nail-polish bottles with an attached brush. Somehow, they will never exactly match up in colour tone with the original colour on your car.

JJ

[padi56]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Have to agree with Al on this one. The touch up paints you pick up at REPCO here in Auckland look like nail-polish bottles with an attached brush. Somehow, they will never exactly match up in colour tone with the original colour on your car.

JJ

Well that is what I said JJ IN MY POST,but if this paint is not suitable for its purpose. How come your car dealership sells this crap in the first place,and the car is about 18 months old now.

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by padi56

Well that is what I said JJ IN MY POST,but if this paint is not suitable for its purpose. How come your car dealership sells this crap in the first place,and the car is about 18 months old now.

My car is 12 years old and a Jap import. I tried to get matching paint from REPCO as near as possible to the original, but it still wouldn't match up.

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

My car is 12 years old and a Jap import. I tried to get matching paint from REPCO as near as possible to the original, but it still wouldn't match up.

That's because your car is 12 years old and FADED.

[padi56]

Looks great for a 12 year old car JJ

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by padi56

Looks great for a 12 year old car JJ

It's in immaculate condition, Padi. I bought it in March '98, have had it for just over 8 years and in that period of time have only gone through two sets of tyres, two batteries and a complete clutch overhaul (mine's a 5-speed stick shift). That's it...no other expense. Shows 79,000 Kms. (almost 50K miles) on the dash.

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

It's in immaculate condition, Padi. I bought it in March '98, have had it for just over 8 years and in that period of time have only gone through two sets of tyres, two batteries and a complete clutch overhaul (mine's a 5-speed stick shift). That's it...no other expense. Shows 79,000 Kms. (almost 50K miles) on the dash.

JJ, my Passat varient is six years old with 103,000km on the clock. In that period, I'm on my second set of tires, second battery, second set of brakes/pads (seriously the OEM stuff lasted until two months ago ) and two tune ups. Since I bought the car, other than tires and the second battery, I've only put $2,000 into repairs.

That's pretty trouble-free driving from an Audi-powered VeeDub!

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Atomic

JJ, my Passat varient is six years old with 103,000km on the clock. In that period, I'm on my second set of tires, second battery, second set of brakes/pads (seriously the OEM stuff lasted until two months ago ) and two tune ups. Since I bought the car, other than tires and the second battery, I've only put $2,000 into repairs.

That's pretty trouble-free driving from an Audi-powered VeeDub!

Not fair, tosser...comparing a Japanese car with a German one. But, in all fairness to the Japs....they do render excellent, trouble-free value for your money!!

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Not fair, tosser...comparing a Japanese car with a German one. But, in all fairness to the Japs....they do render excellent, trouble-free value for your money!!

On the flip side, my wife's car, a 1994 Toyota Camry Coupe has 135,000km on it and in the past five years it has cost well over $5000 in repairs. I hate that car.

Originally Posted by Atomic

That's pretty trouble-free driving from an Audi-powered VeeDub!

Are they Audi powered VW's, or are they VW powered Audis?

Originally Posted by Avalon

Are they Audi powered VW's, or are they VW powered Audis?

Audi powered VeeDubs.

While there's a big VW on the plastic engine cover of mine, all the parts have the Audi 0000 marked on them. Audi provided the 2.8V6 and the 1.8T to VW from 1998 - 2005. Now VW for 2006 (the new B6 version) is going with an in-house VR6-type 3.8 and a 2.0T for the gas-powered mills.

Oh yeah... VW's tiptronic, was designed by Porsche. Yep, superior German car all around.

[padi56]

Japanese cars are very reliable before I retired my journey to work was about 94 miles a day.And in 28 years got though a few cars,the most reliable was a Datsun 1800cc triple S coupe,myself put over 350000 miles on the clock,And engine was replaced at 425000 miles,by a part used low mileage one direct from Japan.But the body was starting to rust bad,so sold it to a mate who just wanted the engine and he run it in his car for several years,Those early Datsun Jap engines just did not wear out,of course Datsun is now Nissan