Paint Warranty?...

[Eat The Rich]

...do LCR's come with any kind of paint warranty? If so, what does this cover?

The reason I'm asking is cause I'm getting really wound up with the awful paint quality on my LCR (thought it was bad on my Civic Type R, this is much worse!). My car is an '05 black LCR with 19k on the clock and the bonnet/wings are absolutely battered!

If there's nothing the dealer can do, can anyone recommend any decent places in the NW to get my bonnet/wings resprayed (can't believe I'm even thinking about this on a car that's not even 2 years old!)

 

[lordgibbness]

I know what you mean. I do quite a bit of fast motorway driving and my front bumper and front portion of my bonnet is marked with streaks that I cannot seem to remove through cleaning.

The front usually get covered in dead flies - not sure if this is attacking the paint work?! I will try getting it cleaned with a high pressure hose down the road next weekend to see if that helps remove the marks, but I am not hoping for much.

I don't think that they are stone chips, I did wonder for a while...

Maybe I should post a pic once its had a clean.

 

[skahigh]

it might be worth getting it properly detailed, have a look at detailingworld and the detailing section on here, some quite dramatic results can be achieved with the right equiptment, practice and time....

 

[CRAIGLCR]

I know what you mean. I do quite a bit of fast motorway driving and my front bumper and front portion of my bonnet is marked with streaks that I cannot seem to remove through cleaning.

The front usually get covered in dead flies - not sure if this is attacking the paint work?! I will try getting it cleaned with a high pressure hose down the road next weekend to see if that helps remove the marks, but I am not hoping for much.

I don't think that they are stone chips, I did wonder for a while...

Maybe I should post a pic once its had a clean.

be careful with those jet washes - as sometimes they can take the paint off your bumpers and the like!!!!!!! some of them are way too powerful to be used on a car!!!

 

[Eat The Rich]

Cheers for the replies guys

I wouldn't mind this if I did a lot of motorway driving but I don't... they're still getting worse

 

[Big_daddy]

what colour is the car? Its mainly red and yellow that suffer!
they have reguler polished - some of the polish are good such auto glym that can restore colour and protect it for 25 washes!

 

[CRAIGLCR]

what is it then is it corrosion????? or is it stonechips???

 

[Big_daddy]

sun uv damge! can cause damage!

 

[CRAIGLCR]

some of the lads on here use that clay bar on the car!!! its supposed to be realy good. i have noticed with mine that you have to keep ontop of the cleaning and polishing of it!!!!! but i tend to do mine every weekend. i use a little clio for transport to and from work so it only ever comes out at the weekend really!!!!!

 

[lordgibbness]

be careful with those jet washes - as sometimes they can take the paint off your bumpers and the like!!!!!!! some of them are way too powerful to be used on a car!!!

In that case I'll give it another clean by hand and then take a photo to see if you guys can work out what it is and how I can sort it out!

 

[CRAIGLCR]

yeh no worries mate!!!there are alot of car care products available on the market so im sure one of them will do for you!!!!

 

[Eat The Rich]

My car is a black LCR...

I absolutely cherish it (like with all my cars I've had) but the paint on the bonnet ain't doing too good, despite how well I look after it.

CRAIGLCR - Nah it's not corrosion, it's just purely stonechips all on the bonnet, bumper, wings and a bit above the windscreen

 

[Big_daddy]

soory to say, but you may need a repsray! there is no way you be able to remove all the stone chips!

 

[lordgibbness]

Speaking to guy at work who knows quite a lot about cars (infact he is picking up Clarkson's old Ford GT this week!), he reckons that the streaks on my front bumper and bonnet are the residue left behind by my favourite pasttime of bug-killing.

He says that using a good polish like MER should do the job. But I was wondering should I use a tar/bug remover first? Has anyone had this bloody bug problem that I seem to suffer from before!??

Here's an example of bug remover: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/...rumb_33958-33974-33995_parentcategoryrn_31407

 

[Danny_FR]

Talking about paint, the paint on my front bumper seems to be fading. It's not due to stone chips, it just looks like there isn't enough paint on it!

 

[nibbles]

Had mine repainted under warranty ( bonnet & wings 6 months ago ) as the bonnet became streaked,i was cleaning it this weekend and i couldn't believe how many stone chips i have already.
the car has only done 11,000

 

[Eat The Rich]

Yeah it's unbelievable. Like I said, mines only done 19k and the bonnet is awful

 

[Danny_FR]

Yeah it's unbelievable. Like I said, mines only done 19k and the bonnet is awful

Maybe we should go to Hobins together and demand a full respray... Power in numbers lol!

 

[lordgibbness]

Well the waxing did the job - removed all of the streaks and mess left behind by the dead flies that cleaning alone couldn't remove. Very good stuff that MER wax!

 

[Eat The Rich]

Yeah I've got some Mer at home, I used all three Meguiars stages last so the paint is in decent condition - gonna give it a wash and a session with the Mer at weekend then