The new car continues to collect dings and scratches like it’s made of butter. I thought I would calm down about it when it got some other scratches, for example, the abuse the wheel cover took when I scraped the curb in the hospital lot.
I don’t look at the wheel damage every time I go in the garage, but I am entirely incapable of ignoring the new scratch on the new car.
I can’t stop trying to fix it, either. The car wash did no good. Then I tried a fine point pen; did not adhere. Then I tried Rustoleum and a toothpick, and I had some success with a dot of that but it wasn’t quite the right shade and finish and I backed off. I got an email estimate from a body shop, and after I gaped at that, they suggested I could order touch-up paint from the dealer.
And so I wait for the paint and consider the devil’s bargain of having a new car. The sixteen-year red Mini never had a scratch I noticed, but it was red, and now I understand why every other car on the road is that boring champagne color.
4 responses to “State of the Scratch”
Mine was a 10 year old mini, manual. I sold it 2 months ago because it was worth $3200 and the repairs were $1000. I got a cream one, not a manual shift. Damn I miss my little red mini so much.
KC – I still do too. Don’t miss how it died in the summer because the fan couldn’t keep up, or how the brakes squealed.
Over here, we had a station wagon which came with a dent that was like someone shoved a brick into the back of it, to half the depth of the brick, near its rear light. It was *fabulous* because I never worried about scratches (and because of the damage, we got it for the price we could afford at the time, and it ran for us for 7 years or so).
Scratches showed, though. That is an advantage of Beige. (or silver, honestly; we are now on our third car – silver, teal, silver – and the silver does not show scratches as much as the teal did.)
KC – and now the paint is on back order. Somehow having a solution established has made me stop looking at the scratch.