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YOUR RESEARCHRear wiper scratched my car (pics)
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Seems many P-car owners have had great luck w/ having the scratch filled w/ touch-up paint, scraped, then buffed w/ no evidence of damage.
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Washed my C4 this afternoon and the rear wiper sprung back and scratched my car. I'm amazed that this could even happen as there is no protection to the sharp metal wiper blade end at all. Bad design.
Here's the scratch :-
<img src="http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pix/911/scratch.jpg" alt=" - " />
Here's me holding the wiper blade showing it's position when it sprung back and hit the car :-
<img src="http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pix/911/wiper.jpg" alt=" - " />
What do I do about this? I'm so very careful with my car I'd be amazed if I was the only one to have suffered this problem. What will my Porsche dealer say? Will they fix it or blame me? Anyone else had the same problem?
Yeah that is a really ****ty design. I'ts happened to my car twice in the last year, once I did it and the second time a hand wash place did it. Both times the scratch was so deep that it couldnt be buffed out and I had to have the whole panel repainted. Miserable to say the least. I now have a black tie-wrap around the pivot point of the blade so that it cant spin around.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by CjN:
<strong>Yeah that is a really ****ty design. I'ts happened to my car twice in the last year, once I did it and the second time a hand wash place did it. Both times the scratch was so deep that it couldnt be buffed out and I had to have the whole panel repainted. Miserable to say the least. I now have a black tie-wrap around the pivot point of the blade so that it cant spin around.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Can you post a picture of your "black tie-wrap" fix?
Thanks for the warning. It's off to my garage to zip-tie my rear wiper.
There was a thread similar to this recently re: hood being opened w/ front wipers extended during detail, resulting in big scratch.
Seems many P-car owners have had great luck w/ having the scratch filled w/ touch-up paint, scraped, then buffed w/ no evidence of damage. Best check this out w/ your or your dealer's detailer/reconditioning guy before you go painting an entire quarter panel.
Good Luck,
DT
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