Thread: Egged :-(
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 11:35 AM
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Default Re: Egged :-(

First off, I'm really sorry to hear about this. There's an election coming up next week and I'm all for making this sort of vandalism a capital offense. Think I'm joking?? Try me.

I hate to say it, but one of the absolute worst things that can happen to your car is for it to be egged. I've seen it many, many times (though, knock on wood, have never been a victim of it myself) and it's never pretty. Surprising as it sounds the shells can, as they break on impact, actually chip into the paint all the way down to the primer. And it just gets worse from there. The proteins and enzymes in the egg yolk will etch very deeply into the paint in short order. If you catch it very quickly you can sometimes wetsand and buff the area to correct it, but that's rare.

In caught's case here he has two serious things working against him: the egg etched into the paint over time, and his car is black. The damage will be severe and the color will show everything, even if you just wetsand and buff the effected areas.

I would spend some serious time shopping different body shops and talking to them about not just repainting the areas but also their finish work after painting. A lot of body shops are very good at spraying paint, but horrible at the finish buffing process. A black car will show rotary buffer holograms like crazy if the body shop isn't good at buffing, and if all they do is hide the holograms with a glaze they'll show up after you wash the car a few times. They're easy enough to remove with a D/A buffer and a body shop paint job will likely be easier to work with than the Crossfire factory paint is, but still.

Good luck with this whole process, and let me know if I can offer any further help/suggestions/etc.
 
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