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Believe it or not, I spent about seven hours giving my new car its first wash/polish/wax on Friday.
You always learn a lot about a new car when you first lavish this much attention on it, and it was no different this time. I noticed that I picked up a couple of small nicks I'll need to touch up. Those aren't any big deal, but I did become curious about some marks I found on the rocker extensions.
On each side of my car, in almost exactly the same spot (about halfway along the rocker, just where it rolls under), the paint's been worn off. It's just a little spot--maybe three-eighths of an inch long by an eighth-inch wide. On the passenger side, it's actually a gouge. I can fill that with touch-up paint and polish it smooth. On the driver's side, it looks like someone beat me to it: there may have been a gouge, but it appears someone with a buffer tried smoothing it out and wore right through the paint. A little M-shaped bit of black shows through. Can't touch that one up, as it's already smooth.
As I mentioned, these symmetrical defects are in the area where the rocker rounds under, so they're kind of pointed downward. The rub-through on the driver's side becomes invisible when you step back, obscured by the overall
glare from the shine.
So I'm wondering how these cars are held down during overseas transport. Would there have been some kind of strap or tether running, say, over the rockers and through the doors? Of course, my Phoenix-area dealer had to transport my car by trailer up from a Yuma dealer; maybe the damage happened then.
These aren't the kind of little scars I'm going to ask the dealer to fix. I'm fairly handy touching up stuff, so I'll just do it myself. Has anyone else found anything similar?
You always learn a lot about a new car when you first lavish this much attention on it, and it was no different this time. I noticed that I picked up a couple of small nicks I'll need to touch up. Those aren't any big deal, but I did become curious about some marks I found on the rocker extensions.
On each side of my car, in almost exactly the same spot (about halfway along the rocker, just where it rolls under), the paint's been worn off. It's just a little spot--maybe three-eighths of an inch long by an eighth-inch wide. On the passenger side, it's actually a gouge. I can fill that with touch-up paint and polish it smooth. On the driver's side, it looks like someone beat me to it: there may have been a gouge, but it appears someone with a buffer tried smoothing it out and wore right through the paint. A little M-shaped bit of black shows through. Can't touch that one up, as it's already smooth.
As I mentioned, these symmetrical defects are in the area where the rocker rounds under, so they're kind of pointed downward. The rub-through on the driver's side becomes invisible when you step back, obscured by the overall
glare from the shine.
So I'm wondering how these cars are held down during overseas transport. Would there have been some kind of strap or tether running, say, over the rockers and through the doors? Of course, my Phoenix-area dealer had to transport my car by trailer up from a Yuma dealer; maybe the damage happened then.
These aren't the kind of little scars I'm going to ask the dealer to fix. I'm fairly handy touching up stuff, so I'll just do it myself. Has anyone else found anything similar?