some dirtbag egged my car....
03-14-2006, 11:18 AM
#12
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Posts: 316
RE: some dirtbag egged my car....
That sucks man... I know how you feel, I got it alot worse back in November.
My girlfriend moved to St. Louis to go to grad school and I came out to visit and parked my shiny 05 vert right in front of her apartment (actually, exact same spot as in my sig!)
I get there at around 9pm, visit for a while
then we decide to go get some food at around 9:45. I come out and a whole gallon of white paint is dumped on my car!!!!! Convertible top, hood, trunk, doors... Everything was covered. Luckily it was latex paint. I cussed and yelled and sprayed off the car with the hose then cussed and yelled some more. Took it through a local car wash 4 times in a row. Most everything came off (98% maybe).
Just yesterday I finally had time on a nice day to get out the paint in the cracks and under the hood and what not. There are still some traces in the seams of my top.
I'm kind of glad I didn't catch who did it, because honestly I probably would have done something to them that would have me behind bars.
So here's a question, what would you guys recommend to get dried latex paint off the vinyl top? I have a product called goof-off (in a yellow tin, different from goo-off) that I know will immediately dissolve the paint, but I don't know if it will discolor the top.
My girlfriend moved to St. Louis to go to grad school and I came out to visit and parked my shiny 05 vert right in front of her apartment (actually, exact same spot as in my sig!)
I get there at around 9pm, visit for a while
then we decide to go get some food at around 9:45. I come out and a whole gallon of white paint is dumped on my car!!!!! Convertible top, hood, trunk, doors... Everything was covered. Luckily it was latex paint. I cussed and yelled and sprayed off the car with the hose then cussed and yelled some more. Took it through a local car wash 4 times in a row. Most everything came off (98% maybe).Just yesterday I finally had time on a nice day to get out the paint in the cracks and under the hood and what not. There are still some traces in the seams of my top.
I'm kind of glad I didn't catch who did it, because honestly I probably would have done something to them that would have me behind bars.
So here's a question, what would you guys recommend to get dried latex paint off the vinyl top? I have a product called goof-off (in a yellow tin, different from goo-off) that I know will immediately dissolve the paint, but I don't know if it will discolor the top.
03-14-2006, 11:53 AM
#13
3rd Gear Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location:
Posts: 772
RE: some dirtbag egged my car....
o man... i actually dont think i have the right to be upset now after hearing what happened to ur car.... lol
ORIGINAL: WindVeil05DropTop
That sucks man... I know how you feel, I got it alot worse back in November.
My girlfriend moved to St. Louis to go to grad school and I came out to visit and parked my shiny 05 vert right in front of her apartment (actually, exact same spot as in my sig!)
I get there at around 9pm, visit for a while then we decide to go get some food at around 9:45. I come out and a whole gallon of white paint is dumped on my car!!!!! Convertible top, hood, trunk, doors... Everything was covered. Luckily it was latex paint. I cussed and yelled and sprayed off the car with the hose then cussed and yelled some more. Took it through a local car wash 4 times in a row. Most everything came off (98% maybe).
Just yesterday I finally had time on a nice day to get out the paint in the cracks and under the hood and what not. There are still some traces in the seams of my top.
I'm kind of glad I didn't catch who did it, because honestly I probably would have done something to them that would have me behind bars.
So here's a question, what would you guys recommend to get dried latex paint off the vinyl top? I have a product called goof-off (in a yellow tin, different from goo-off) that I know will immediately dissolve the paint, but I don't know if it will discolor the top.
That sucks man... I know how you feel, I got it alot worse back in November.
My girlfriend moved to St. Louis to go to grad school and I came out to visit and parked my shiny 05 vert right in front of her apartment (actually, exact same spot as in my sig!)
I get there at around 9pm, visit for a while
then we decide to go get some food at around 9:45. I come out and a whole gallon of white paint is dumped on my car!!!!! Convertible top, hood, trunk, doors... Everything was covered. Luckily it was latex paint. I cussed and yelled and sprayed off the car with the hose then cussed and yelled some more. Took it through a local car wash 4 times in a row. Most everything came off (98% maybe).Just yesterday I finally had time on a nice day to get out the paint in the cracks and under the hood and what not. There are still some traces in the seams of my top.
I'm kind of glad I didn't catch who did it, because honestly I probably would have done something to them that would have me behind bars.
So here's a question, what would you guys recommend to get dried latex paint off the vinyl top? I have a product called goof-off (in a yellow tin, different from goo-off) that I know will immediately dissolve the paint, but I don't know if it will discolor the top.
03-14-2006, 12:01 PM
#14
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location:
Posts: 34
RE: some dirtbag egged my car....
i hate effin **** that think since they dont have something nice then nobody else can...if any of this happened to my s10 or my stang, i would really have no control and go crazy on whoever did it...and i may not know who it was but i would find out even if it took a lil while and i would hang them by their *** crack
03-14-2006, 12:47 PM
#16
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Posts: 316
RE: some dirtbag egged my car....
Oh yeah, also forgot to mention, they hit like 5 other cars on the street. Two of them being a brand new Subaru WRX (they smashed the paint can into the hood, denting the hood and spilling paint into the grille and radiator) and a fairly new Dodge Durango.
Yeah, I am glad I didn't find who did it, probably just some punk kids, because I would have lost it and definitely killed them.
Yeah, I am glad I didn't find who did it, probably just some punk kids, because I would have lost it and definitely killed them.
03-14-2006, 04:11 PM
#18
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location:
Posts: 2,486
RE: some dirtbag egged my car....
people just get bad because they dont know the whole story... i get threats all the time at school cause they dont know i'm working almost every day at 2 jobs and doing odd jobs on the side to pay for it... i'm just glad no one has done anything yet... excep those stupiod kids in my court who think its cool to pay ball and end up hitting my car a lot... bastards
03-14-2006, 04:17 PM
#19
Retired MF Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I live in Canada, eh
Posts: 7,156
RE: some dirtbag egged my car....
ORIGINAL: WindVeil05DropTop
That sucks man... I know how you feel, I got it alot worse back in November.
My girlfriend moved to St. Louis to go to grad school and I came out to visit and parked my shiny 05 vert right in front of her apartment (actually, exact same spot as in my sig!)
I get there at around 9pm, visit for a while then we decide to go get some food at around 9:45. I come out and a whole gallon of white paint is dumped on my car!!!!! Convertible top, hood, trunk, doors... Everything was covered. Luckily it was latex paint. I cussed and yelled and sprayed off the car with the hose then cussed and yelled some more. Took it through a local car wash 4 times in a row. Most everything came off (98% maybe).
Just yesterday I finally had time on a nice day to get out the paint in the cracks and under the hood and what not. There are still some traces in the seams of my top.
I'm kind of glad I didn't catch who did it, because honestly I probably would have done something to them that would have me behind bars.
So here's a question, what would you guys recommend to get dried latex paint off the vinyl top? I have a product called goof-off (in a yellow tin, different from goo-off) that I know will immediately dissolve the paint, but I don't know if it will discolor the top.
That sucks man... I know how you feel, I got it alot worse back in November.
My girlfriend moved to St. Louis to go to grad school and I came out to visit and parked my shiny 05 vert right in front of her apartment (actually, exact same spot as in my sig!)
I get there at around 9pm, visit for a while
then we decide to go get some food at around 9:45. I come out and a whole gallon of white paint is dumped on my car!!!!! Convertible top, hood, trunk, doors... Everything was covered. Luckily it was latex paint. I cussed and yelled and sprayed off the car with the hose then cussed and yelled some more. Took it through a local car wash 4 times in a row. Most everything came off (98% maybe).Just yesterday I finally had time on a nice day to get out the paint in the cracks and under the hood and what not. There are still some traces in the seams of my top.
I'm kind of glad I didn't catch who did it, because honestly I probably would have done something to them that would have me behind bars.
So here's a question, what would you guys recommend to get dried latex paint off the vinyl top? I have a product called goof-off (in a yellow tin, different from goo-off) that I know will immediately dissolve the paint, but I don't know if it will discolor the top.
03-14-2006, 05:06 PM
#20
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 315
RE: some dirtbag egged my car....
Unfortunately, people don't just do this to nice cars. When I was in high school, someone egged my '85 Escort. I was at work, so I didn't see the eggs for several hours until it had dried, and by that point the damage was done and I had discolored streaks where the egg dripped down the side of the car. Anyone who would do this though, is a coward. Seriously. What kind of pansy eggs my car, rather than face off with a 5'7, 130 lb. kid?! 