I went to go wash and wax my car on saturday and look what I found. It's directly above the pre drilled licencse plate hole on the right. What should I do, I'm puttin the car away for 4 months in a house garage, should I wait 4 months then deal with it, or should I get it fixed now? OHHHH it pisses me off

 

If you ask me, it looks very minor. Probably will buff right out.

 

theres a dent and 3 scratches(cuts) that go through the paint and you can see the frame, plus any minor damage to my car is major.

 

No, that wont. It's obviously gone through the paint and gouged the plastic material itself.

Not really sure about filling scratches in the flexible nose material. This might require a new nose piece. And spot painting metallics is chancy at best. Even if the nose can be repaired I bet it will require a complete repaint of the whole part.

joe

 

....I know who!....those new car killers..."The Supermaket Cart Gang"!!

 

to me I can hear it scream "NISMO NISMO NISMO GET THE NISMO FRONT BUMPER!!!"

but that may just be my own car screaming it.... who knows.

oh yeah, and Im insane.

 

lol

 

ooh.. bummer man. I'd get a replacment quick before the rest of the paint fades, or you'll have the nose be shinier than the rest of the car.

 

It looks like the dimple for the front plate.

For some reason, my dimples became more prominent from one day to another and now look exactly like that..

 

whats the nismo bumper look like, ive seen the front spoiler. And I dont think it was a shoppin cart cause I park very far away from anyone, but I could be wrong.

 

I dont think Nismo Kit replace the whole bumper..do they? As I remembered, its just an add on front lip under the stock bumper....but then with the lip on, everyone's attention will be on the lip instead of the bumper to notice anything wrong with it...so...that could work!

 

It's the stock license plate.. When they drill the front license plate holder, and put the dealer plate in, the screws are too long and they scratch the bumper..

 

No its not the plate cause I never put it on, and it wasnt there 2 weeks ago when i washed it last.

 

Then you and I have the same problem. I also did not put on the front plate. The dimples just got deeper and larger..as if the paint inside dried up and sucked it in or something. They were not as deep or prominent when I got it..

In either case, it doesn't bother me at all...

 

Have it fixed ASAP, before you garage it. That way when you get it out of the garage in 4 months, the paint is cured, ready to wax, and you won't have the defect bothering you when you really want to drive it. Plus if you wait till after it comes out of the garage, ithwill go back into some elses garage for repairs when you want to be driving it. Re-painting sucks, because it is never as good as OEM. Fix it, and Clear Bra it.

 

I wonder if the dealer put one of their own license plate frames on there and had it in the show room for a couple of hours before you could get down and pick it up. If so then I guess you could have over looked if they buffed in up real good. Then after you gave it a couple washings the flaw began showing.

I would put the plate support on and see if it lines up with the license plate bolts.

In the pic I can only see a slight flaw up a bit and slightly to the right. So it is really just a guess.

 

Im not sure if everyone understands, that dimple is the spot where the dealer would drill if he were to install the plate, since it is undrilled, that would signal to me, that a plate was never there.

also, that dimple is not the mark he is reffering to, it is that "area" that almost looks like a reflection in the picture.

 

heres advice you wont like...


forget about painting it until something worse happens. Trust me, after market paint over will suck...for some reason it is never the same. matching is an issue as well.

I have had several bumpers and parts painted in my life, and every little rock that would otherwise bounce off, makes a nick. I think you would have to buy a new bumper and then paint that, and this is money not well spent. Cuz then two weeks later youll hit some wall and really scrape it (murphys law).

if you dont like this advice, Id say wait the four months and maybe some really cool but subtle front bumper will be available at that time and these are usually cheaper than factory parts.

 

I would suspect a hitch from some bozo sport puke that backed into the spot in front of you. The seems to be an unspoken rule (or spoken maybe, I've never owned a sport ute, so I don't know what goes on at the meetings) that you have to back into parking spots. I have never understood this, it would seem to be that backing out into a asile would be eaiser than backing into a narrow parking space.

 

ARES you hit the nail on the target thanks for clearin it up, and I think that I will do somethin in 4 months, cause its xmas time and i need to start savin money. thanx for all the help