Is it just me?

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resdm50

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Or is it impossible to keep your car perfect? No matter how hard I try, something always seems to happen. I've owned my car for about 6 months now and even as careful as I am I've managed to clip my side skirt on a curb and also scratch up one of my wheels. What really stinks is that I'm extremely OCD about my car, so every little thing that scratches, scrapes, etc. I want to replace. Sorry for venting, but I'm just frustrated right now.
 
if it's a daily driver.. realistically speaking, keeping at around 85%-90% is going to be good. you'll end up with some stone chips, unexplained scratches/dings, and whatever mother nature throws at it, etc,. trying to keep it in the best shape possible is all you can really do, and your vehicle will still look and be in better shape than all the ones out on the road...
 
BigAl3 said:
if it's a daily driver.. realistically speaking, keeping at around 85%-90% is going to be good. you'll end up with some stone chips, unexplained scratches/dings, and whatever mother nature throws at it, etc,. trying to keep it in the best shape possible is all you can really do, and your vehicle will still look and be in better shape than all the ones out on the road...
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Well said BigAl...just curbed the wife's new Altima (2mos) that I put some after market rims and tires on cause I didn't like the OEM rims and tires. Spent 2200 bucks and now curb rash. Sucks, but it does happen.
 
BigAl3 said:
if it's a daily driver.. realistically speaking, keeping at around 85%-90% is going to be good. you'll end up with some stone chips, unexplained scratches/dings, and whatever mother nature throws at it, etc,. trying to keep it in the best shape possible is all you can really do, and your vehicle will still look and be in better shape than all the ones out on the road...
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Exactly.



I hit a curb in a parking lot 4 months after getting my new (at the time) Mazda putting big scratches across the bottom right side skirt. I was pissed!! Nothing that big has happened since then and I've had the car for 7 years now.



But it does have a lot of pitting in the hood from all my freeway driving. It only has 2 small door dings. I am always careful where and how I park.



The car has 152k miles on it, and most people can't believe it has that many.
 
I def see where you are coming from and I'm kind of the same way. It's one of those things though where if you intend on keeping the car perfect then you better not drive it all, becuase things will happen no matter what.
 
I am the same way. But stuff happens no matter how hard you try. I got some rock chips and a few deep scratches. Hang in there.
 
Heh heh...the huge rocks thrown up by school buses magically find my "perfect" cars, usually when they're brand new :rolleyes:



And yeah, if your vehicle's low enough you'll eventually misjudge some incline and scrape something. Or [heck], you'll deer your immaculate S8 :wall



AND yeah, as I'm always posting, "real cars have stonechips" and I'll add inflicted-by-others dings to that too.



Now curb rash...eh, that's a different matter :nono Now watch me go out and mess up one of my vehicles after posting that :o :nervous:



But seriously, since I've taken to getting retrained/tested on a regular basis, I don't seem to make those little "inevitable" driver-error mistakes much any more. I think it's primarily a matter of taking my driving a lot more seriously 100% of the time, just a different mindset.
 
why do you think garage queens look so good? Your car is a DD. I used to wash my car like 3x a week because it would piss me off if I drove by a sprinkler and got a couple little water spots. Sometimes you just have to let it go and just enjoy how your car looks for the 5 minutes after its been freshly detailed.
 
I understand your frustration, but you will get over it as I eventually did...the first month of driving my new EVO X MR, I couldn't even take it to the grocery store for fear someone would hit it or steal it...someone had hit my other car in a parking lot 6 months previously so I was ultra worried. Then I graduated to being able to park at the grocery store, but only at the end of the parking lot and away from any car. I'm much better now and don't worry so much, and I can park alongside other cars although I still try to park next to nice cars as I feel the owner will respect mine as he hopefully does his! Even with all the worry I did initially, I have a ding in my door, and a scratch from a rosebush, and another scratch from the person who installed my security system...At the time, I had also wanted those things fixed immediately back to perfection. I had actually started to regret buying the car because it was just too stressful for me to protect, so then I just started to say to myself that this has to be something I'm enjoying and not stressing about anymore or what's the point of having this car? Hadn't I bought it to make me happy?...So, I'm now calling any damage a 'war wound'...it's really a battle out there...lol.



And always remember, that no bird will poop on your car until you have just washed and waxed it...Murphy's law. :rolleyes:
 
I stay off the turnpikes in Winter if I can. The rocks are flying. I have 5 cars. Three dont see Winter at all. The other two I clean at work when I am done with their junks for the day. I work at a Volvo dealer so I am not a weekend warrior. This business is largely seasonal ...or you will learn that. Nine months of the year I work 7 days a week. My avatar here is my 1988 Lincoln Mark....I keep it like a mirror ....hence it is my advertising....the only ad I have.
 
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