[Z06] My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip!
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Le Mans Master
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My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip!
I can't believe it, I lift the hood and noticed a paint chip on the left underside lip of the hood. It might have been a paint bubble that broke open, I'm not really sure. Oh the pain!
Time to buy some Yellow touch up paint.
Time to buy some Yellow touch up paint.
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Shylor)
You better be able to get over the small stuff. Wait until you see what happens to the paint around the rear brake ducts. :eek:
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (SMFCPACFP)
You better be able to get over the small stuff. Wait until you see what happens to the paint around the rear brake ducts. :eek:
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Godspeed)
The first paint chip is a real bummer, I anguished over it for days. :cry However, everyone that drives their Z regularly will suffer from paint chips. I have a paint chip the size of a dime by the right rear brake duct. I also have scores of tiny sandblast-type chips by both brake ducts and around the nose. It adds character! Enjoy the car and just do not worry about it. :thumbs:
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (samurai)
It adds character! Enjoy the car and just do not worry about it. :thumbs:
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Shylor)
Shylor--don't drive it!!! Ever!
Keep it safe, in a garage somewhere, so that when you go to sell it in a few years, some lucky person will get a perfect car, not a "used, beat-up one". You, of course, will have taken the depreciation hit but will have never had a chance to enjoy the car. Let the next owner agonize over the first rock chip.
Keep it safe, in a garage somewhere, so that when you go to sell it in a few years, some lucky person will get a perfect car, not a "used, beat-up one". You, of course, will have taken the depreciation hit but will have never had a chance to enjoy the car. Let the next owner agonize over the first rock chip.
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Tracy)
Okay I won't drive it but, I won't sell it either. And it will be my perfect car, that I sit in every once in a while in the garage.......Nah!
[Modified by Shylor, 11:00 PM 7/6/2003]
[Modified by Shylor, 11:00 PM 7/6/2003]
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Shylor)
Shylor--
The sad thing is....there are people who actually DO what you said! :eek: But they're of the same group who occasionally spit out a mint 63 split window, never driven in the rain, etc etc into the market. On the other hand, I remember the buzz about buying a 78 "25th" car and garaging it for a few decades and retiring on th profits. As we now know, they should have taken that $7K or so and invested it in GE or IBM stock instead of a car nobody really wants now. Come to think of it, I haven't heard much talk of taking a 50th car and saving it for posterity and profit, so maybe that hysteria has worn off. You never know what will be a future classic. If we'd known then what we do now, we would have all bought lots of Hemi cars in 1970 and garaged 'em. :hurray:
The sad thing is....there are people who actually DO what you said! :eek: But they're of the same group who occasionally spit out a mint 63 split window, never driven in the rain, etc etc into the market. On the other hand, I remember the buzz about buying a 78 "25th" car and garaging it for a few decades and retiring on th profits. As we now know, they should have taken that $7K or so and invested it in GE or IBM stock instead of a car nobody really wants now. Come to think of it, I haven't heard much talk of taking a 50th car and saving it for posterity and profit, so maybe that hysteria has worn off. You never know what will be a future classic. If we'd known then what we do now, we would have all bought lots of Hemi cars in 1970 and garaged 'em. :hurray:
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Shylor)
An 03 you say! Why not take it back to the dealer, especially if you think it is a bubble that cracked open. Maybe they will fix it under warranty!
Good luck! I can understand your pain! Hope you get it fixed ok!
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Good luck! I can understand your pain! Hope you get it fixed ok!
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Glennm27)
Why not take it back to the dealer, especially if you think it is a bubble that cracked open. Maybe they will fix it under warranty!
Back to the dealer to fix......Not in my lifetime! As I said before, it's under the left side of the hoods lip. Touch up paint will take care of it just fine. If it were on the outside I might consider taking to a dealer.
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Shylor)
The first few hairline scratches in the front-fenders caused by leaning over & installing mods also hurt.
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (Shylor)
I ordered a paint chip repair kit from Mid America this weekend. Plan to try it out on a couple of rock chips I got at the track this weekend. Don't know if others have experience with these kits but I'll let you know how it works.
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (smwalsh)
Got a stone chip on the windscreen about the size of a dime after a truck flicked a stone straight across the motorway at me. Had it repaired, as no Z06 windscreens available in Europe.
Also got a stone chip on the driver side headlight cover.
Also got a stone chip on the driver side headlight cover.
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Re: My 2003 Z06's First Paint Chip! (vetteheadracer)
I've got you beat...I have an inch or two paint "RUN" on the driver side lower panel, a burn mark in the paint finish on the hood where it's not nice and shiny (probably from jacka** and co at the dealer cleaning it up) and a noticeable rock chip on the upper portion of the driver side headlight...OOH!!! And a key mark on the trunk lid that's at least 2 inches long...
Guess I should have the whole thing prepped for a new coat of paint now. :cry
Probably could have half of those fixed by GM, but I've found taking things to the dealer usually stirs up the hornets' nest of problems. I live with them for now...Because I bought the car to drive, and full knowing it was going to get dinged up...I also knew going in that GM does one half-a** paint job on all their vehicles, and the Corvette is no special exception.
Suck it up... :lolg: And have some FUN!!! :hurray:
[Modified by Jagrmaister, 3:05 AM 7/11/2003]
Guess I should have the whole thing prepped for a new coat of paint now. :cry
Probably could have half of those fixed by GM, but I've found taking things to the dealer usually stirs up the hornets' nest of problems. I live with them for now...Because I bought the car to drive, and full knowing it was going to get dinged up...I also knew going in that GM does one half-a** paint job on all their vehicles, and the Corvette is no special exception.
Suck it up... :lolg: And have some FUN!!! :hurray:
[Modified by Jagrmaister, 3:05 AM 7/11/2003]