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Old 07-10-2008, 07:49 PM
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Hey everyone,

Well, to make a long story short, the paint on my hood sucks! It turns out a few months ago when the grass started to turn green and stuff, I guess it would be spring time. I started watering my grass, in fear of the HOA making a big deal about how shitty my grass looks and sending in a lawn crew to fix it and send me the bill. So my sprinkler system comes on in the morning about 5 am and at about 9pm. Both of these times it's dark or I'm in shop where it's dark or asleep. I get up to goto work, there's aways dew on everything and the water sprinkler has already turned off by 6am, no big deal. I goto work and the sun bakes my car. Well, it turns out the my sprinkler water has acid in it and every morning and evening it sprinkles on the hood of my car. All it took was about 45 days of this and see picture below. This is a before and after post. Tommorrow I'm gonna redo the hood, satin black and buff everything else around it. It's just a temporary fix until I get some paint for the whole car.
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Holy ****... are you sure it isn't just oxidation you can buff off? Wow that's so bad...
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wow i never saw that b4
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I was gonna say you are going over board they are just hard water spots but holy **** that's bad.
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It's flat black now.
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WOW that really sucks. I have never seen that either.
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Originally Posted by Kalgorn
Holy ****... are you sure it isn't just oxidation you can buff off? Wow that's so bad...
does that look like something you can just buff off....

ouch... i think the t/a needs a good spot in the garage from now on.



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