Paint Problems
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you are right the paint job is of poor quality! my sti is silver and already the front end is losing paint after only 3000 miles.i checked with dealer about obtaining a front end bra which i really dont like but i drive 80 miles a day! no bra is available as of yet acording to subaru.
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los angeles freeways are not in the best shape. theres always a truck throwin' rocks. plus 12000 miles in more than a year means that you barely drive. when your on the road 60 - 100 miles a day you'll see what i mean. 9k in 4 months
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My car (98 wagon)'s hood was covered with pock-marks, especially in the front when I got it. I figured the previous owner was a tailgater; he/she probably wasn't- since then the hood has taken quite the beating under normal driving. I heard somewhere that they use "environmentally friendly" paint, which turns out to be not so rock-friendly.
On the freeway in the winter, It's nearly impossible to avoid flying gravel. Whenever someone switches a lane, the gravel in the middle gets spit up and thrown so far you dont need to be tailgating to get tagged. Also, one time (as I was driving home after installing a brand new windshield) on the freeway I was passing under an overpass just at the right time for the gravel truck on the overpass to shower me with gravel and give me some fresh new chips/dings in my windshield.
For now, I've given up on trying to protect my car's finish. And whenever I think how nice it'd be to get a paintjob, I realize how much it would suck to either be uber-**** or get it all dinged up right away.
On the freeway in the winter, It's nearly impossible to avoid flying gravel. Whenever someone switches a lane, the gravel in the middle gets spit up and thrown so far you dont need to be tailgating to get tagged. Also, one time (as I was driving home after installing a brand new windshield) on the freeway I was passing under an overpass just at the right time for the gravel truck on the overpass to shower me with gravel and give me some fresh new chips/dings in my windshield.
For now, I've given up on trying to protect my car's finish. And whenever I think how nice it'd be to get a paintjob, I realize how much it would suck to either be uber-**** or get it all dinged up right away.
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you guys should really see my front end, rocks chips up the ****** wazoooo! anyways i'll show u a pic. current mileage 33456 in one year 7 months.
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I bet I can out do ya.... I'll post a pic soon also...
EDIT: then again, I'm at 120K
We should have some kind of contest! I think jest is a great way of bringing attention to something that is WRONG (sh*tty subaru paint, that is)
EDIT: then again, I'm at 120K
We should have some kind of contest! I think jest is a great way of bringing attention to something that is WRONG (sh*tty subaru paint, that is)
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hey scoob
if you get a new paint job you wont have to settle for subaru paint. chances are you'll be able to get a more durable cover.
you'd think that a car that comes directly from rally racing would have super strong paint. i wonder what the team cars must look like
if you get a new paint job you wont have to settle for subaru paint. chances are you'll be able to get a more durable cover.
you'd think that a car that comes directly from rally racing would have super strong paint. i wonder what the team cars must look like
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People always rant about this, but I must point something out -- Subaru isn't exactly the ones at fault about the paint. Almost any car painted after 1998 had to stick to the environmental regulations regarding car paint. My wife's '98 Civic, my mother-in-law's '01 Nissan minivan, my Uncle's '00 Altima and my own 02 WRX show serious signs of wear and tear (the Civic even had sun damage, the entire clearcoat layer burned off the roof) after a few years of Arizona sun and gravel highway medians. Meanwhile my friend's '96 Camaro gleams and shines with its factory cherry-red metallic finish. Damn I hate that car.
Some of the rock hits on my front lip were so hard they actually dented the ABS plastic; no paint is strong enough to survive that kind of impact. I'd go for the 3M RockBra, as suggested, but I've already got some serious road rash on the poor front end
Some of the rock hits on my front lip were so hard they actually dented the ABS plastic; no paint is strong enough to survive that kind of impact. I'd go for the 3M RockBra, as suggested, but I've already got some serious road rash on the poor front end
Last edited by meilers; Feb 16, 2004 at 10:03 PM.
Originally posted by grycoleman
you'd think that a car that comes directly from rally racing would have super strong paint. i wonder what the team cars must look like
you'd think that a car that comes directly from rally racing would have super strong paint. i wonder what the team cars must look like
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Originally posted by sigma pi
no one drives infront of them
no one drives infront of them
----one year 3 months 33,000 miles later, 5 chips, 2 ding, one crack and paint blemishes on hood(sprinkler-ithink) and i have nothing to cry about. its a car not a work of art. i'll just spend 500 bucks and paint it again(hood/front end)
