After 5 years and 35k miles, picked up my second blemish. First was a very slight door ding from a moron in a pickup truck. You have to look down the car in the right light, but it looks like the Grand Canyon to me. Then I parked too close to the garage door and it came down and scraped the rear bumper. I compounded most of it out, but I know it's there and that's all I see when I look at the back of the car. No one to blame but me. XF owner sympathy appreciated because my wife just thinks I'm obsessive about the car. What's wrong with that?

 

I feel your pain, wifes just do not get it.

 

You've got it. Unfortunately any car is only new once. Mine has several rock chips on the hood and even on the roof, not to mention the bumper. The price of HPDE and dirty road courses full of rocks. (I even got a crack in the windshield) I think its time for imagination. Perhaps some tasteful slasher stripes on the "spot"

Les

 

We feel your pain......ours was hit by a train......And it was kept as pretty as petty could be. Check out our gallery.
Go buy something nice for her (the car that is).

Also helpful, pull your car into the garage so as in a safe position, where you want it parked everytime you pull in. Hang a pingpong ball from the ceiling of your garage so it touches the center of your windshield. You pull in, touch the ball on the center of the windshield everytime and you know your in your "safe spot".

 

ouch , it hurts dont it ?

 

I feel your pain, and think the same way............

 

I have a tennis ball hanging in the middle of my garage......

It is only bothersome when the car isnt there....

 

I would raise the electric eye to bumper height.

 

My wife put the window down while we were waiting for a train today ....put her arm on the top of the door & started tapping her fingers to the beat of the music....I asked her not to touch the clean paint unless she had clean white gloves on.....I should have kept my mouth shut!!

Also discovered last night (after all these years of being accused of snoring), that the cat is a ventriloquist & has been setting me up!

 

maybe i'm naive, but can't you have a "dent doctor" (there's a million of them) take that truck ding out? as for number two, i'd do whatever i had to do to get that professionally repaired. otherwise, my wife would tell me to go to sleep at 2:00am and stop worrying about the car.

 

I feel the pain having taken mine to the dealer for the warranty check only to gain a door ding! I did the same first thing was to come here from sympathy, everyone around me was saying whats the big deal! THEY JUST DONT GET IT!!

 

TWO BLEMISHES?? That is two reasons to trade it in on a non bllemished X fire.

See you on the 15th, and will buy you a beer to ease your pain .

Al

 

AH YEA duh...........you want maybe I should mail you some packaging tape and a staple gun? Honestly men are from Mars and women are NOT! Guess we know what else she won't be touching gloves or not.
Ann

 

Take heart, I gave ours the first "ding" did a fine job of it too, ran a cub over, bent the rim of the wheel and cut the tire in two places......Gary was a little relieved he wasn't the first. Now if I were to do that to the Viper-ouch.

 

You ran over a bear?

I made up for the poorly thought out remark.....I washed hers, took her to a Japanese Hibatchi, to a nursery to buy more flowers, mowed the lawn, & we did both win at the casino.

 

It could have been a lion or tiger cub.......

 

XF Redo, I have a 2x4 laid out on the garage floor as a tire stop. Biggest reason is that my son's 2007 XF is still parked sideways in the back of the two-stall garage and I don't want to hit it. I was just careless and did not pull in as far as the 2x4 and everytime I look at the scratch I will mentally kick myself in the a$$. I also realized it is actually blemish #3...I have slight (about 2" worth) of curb rash on the right rear which will be a summer repair project using the instructions off the forum. PS -- I don't believe I can find a 100% unblemished XF after 3-5 years. Most people mistake mine for brand new, they just don't know where to look (closely) to see the "horrendous" damage.

 

Or a very old dead cub ????

or maybe it was a curb made from a very old dead bear? Or maybe I just can't type very well.

 

Well we're glad you're OK.....I was worried it might have been a scout.

 

you mean in michigan? mine are both completely unblemished. that's the unfortunate downside of wanting to take them out regularly. i can park in no ding land and 80% of the time someone will park right next to me!?!? my wife and i are taking a monterey/carmel road trip this summer in the graphite and i'll kind of be hold my breath since it's an over-nighter.