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06-05-2013, 05:20 PM | #19 |
Drives: 2010 Toyota Yaris Join Date: Nov 2012
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Park further away and add a wireless camera.
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06-07-2013, 07:55 PM | #20 |
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That's down to the urethane, well past the primer. Likely impact damage or bike rack perhaps???
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06-07-2013, 07:57 PM | #21 |
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My wife works at a school and has driven my Yaris to work several times this past year.
So much for my years of defensive parking. Cars a mess now.
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06-14-2013, 04:59 PM | #22 |
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Very late yesterday afternoon I parked my Yaris 'correctly' (at the angle the space was designed to accommodate) at a local Wal-Mart. People are usually courteous re parking in this lot, and the area = very low crime. I returned to my car after making my purchase. A different car was in the space next to mine, and the person had turned back into the space the wrong way (diagonal space meant for a person traveling the other direction in the isle. The car was a fairly new 4-door Dodge R/T. I was pinned into the space. I had to try to 're-angle' my Yaris to get out. I thought I had done this and started to back out. I heard a sound. I thought someone had put a cart behind my Yaris. I got out and the cart return receptacle on the other side of my Yaris had caught the side of my Yaris....BIG scrapes .
I immediately headed of to an AutoZone that was nearby. The rep there recommended Turtle Wax Polishing Compound & Scratch Remover. I followed his advice. With the pad I bought, it was under $8.00. The rep cautioned me that I really needed to rub hard during application. I tried it in the parking lot , and then drove a few blocks to my favorite self serve car wash and washed my Yaris. I drove a few miles, and then pulled into a lot to check. The scratches had returned, so I did the application again...and I improved the area so much that you have to get your eyes within 2-3 inches to be able to tell where any scratches were located. I noticed this morning that the area remained in that same improved state. My Yaris did have spots on the windows though. I decided to throw my 3 big 'car towels' in the back to use later. I later took my Yaris to the same car wash and washed it again and used 2 of the towels for drying...result = no spots this time. I have an 'old' scrape that I've mentioned on another thread. I decided to use the Turtle Wax Polishing Compound & Scratch remover on that stratch to see what would happen and....voila, it did the trick...that scrape is history! Just wanted to let everyone know about my experience with this product (worked well for me!), as the knowledge could help someone else. FYI, my Yaris is Bayou Blue (no room left in my details area to add that back in). |
06-15-2013, 04:56 AM | #23 |
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scratches
Thanks for the info. I also have a blue 2009 sedan that has a few scratches on it that I'll be removing. I watched 2 videos on you-tube about scratch removal and they showed different methods. First guy went in circular motion with the compound and second guy went in straight lines(back and forth method). Which do you recommend? I plan on using a rubbing compound then a wax.
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06-16-2013, 11:51 PM | #24 | |
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06-17-2013, 12:06 AM | #25 |
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You can do plenty of touch up paint and make it almost unnoticeable. Just a matter of how much time your willing to put into it.
By hand will work for very small stuff. But anything with any kind of depth requires LOTS of elbow grease or a decent machine. |
06-17-2013, 06:26 PM | #26 |
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^^^^^ Yeah, even my scrapes required lots of elbow grease. By big, I meant more the surface area that they covered rather than the depth. There are other places (not too many though) on my Yaris where there are small but deep chips. I think those would fall more into what you are referring to. My big (in area) scrapes weren't THAT deep.
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