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Old May 14, 2001 | 11:22 AM
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Round gray spots in my paint

Okay, so you all know about my paint chips, but that's not the problem this time.

Well for the past 5 weeks my cable modem has been not working so every week I washed and waxed my car twice. And sunday after washing my car I noticed these patches of gray circle patches about 4 inches wide on my car. One on the trunk, one one the hood, one on my side panel behind my drivers side door. and also when I openen my passenger side door theres 1 inch paint line going down, as if the car just got painted and it was dripping down. about 1/8 above the normal paint.

I waxed the living hell out of the patches but was unsuccessful. you really can't tell unless you get up real close after u wax it but I know its there.

Should I go to acura and bitch? or what?

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Old May 14, 2001 | 11:25 AM
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i've noticed something similar on my spoiler. I'm going to say something when i take it in for service.

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Old May 14, 2001 | 11:31 AM
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Serious question. Do you wax wearing any kind of eyewear?

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Old May 14, 2001 | 11:37 AM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Al Uminum:
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Serious question. Do you wax wearing any kind of eyewear?
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Old May 14, 2001 | 11:44 AM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by soopa:
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LOL... Must mean to protect the eyes from that Zaino shine!

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Old May 14, 2001 | 11:59 AM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by soopa:
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Twice I Zainoed wearing polarized sunglasses. On both occasions I noticed a 4-5 inch rectangular gray area on the roof in the same spot. The paint in that spot IS different. No doubt about it, its a defect. I have a white car and the area is only visible when polarized. So I thought maybe Nova.........
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Old May 14, 2001 | 02:47 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Al Uminum:
Twice I Zainoed wearing polarized sunglasses. On both occasions I noticed a 4-5 inch rectangular gray area on the roof in the same spot. The paint in that spot IS different. No doubt about it, its a defect. I have a white car and the area is only visible when polarized. So I thought maybe Nova.........</font>
No, I don't wear anything. but I only notice it when my car is very very clean. After I wax it and right around when the sun sets it reflects everything like a black car and looks so shiny. Im going to the dealer next week after I wax to complain.

Any other white car having this problem?

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Old May 14, 2001 | 02:49 PM
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Actually u know what I wore my glasses that day. Usually I wear contacts but on sunday I think I wore glasses when I noticed it. let me check again today, I got my contacts on.

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Old May 14, 2001 | 03:34 PM
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Welcome to the White CL TypeS with bad paint club See my post about paint defects and the pics I took.
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Old May 14, 2001 | 03:47 PM
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I notice the greyish (actually just shines darker white) area when its VERY sunny and right after a wax and only wearing my polarized shades. It's very weird. I cannot see it at all if those conditions aren't met.

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Old May 14, 2001 | 04:24 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Al Uminum:
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I notice the greyish (actually just shines darker white) area when its VERY sunny and right after a wax and only wearing my polarized shades. It's very weird. I cannot see it at all if those conditions aren't met.

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This is some funny stuff. While I went out to lunch I put my sunglasses on and took a look. WHAT DA YA KNOW!!! the gray patches were visiable.
If it is a defect what am I going to tell the dealer. "hey put these sun glasses on and take a look at my paint?"


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Old May 14, 2001 | 04:29 PM
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LOL... this is some crazy shit!



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Old May 14, 2001 | 05:38 PM
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LOL....great pict soopa.

Nova, yeah your right. There is a bit of a problem about telling your dealerships service guy to try on glasses so he can see those strange grey areas.

But you might get him to do it if you do this. You know there are some people who look crazy because when they're talking to you they focus their eyes ABOVE YOUR HEAD and not on your eyes. You know the type, they have eyes like a dead fish or some mannequin. Well when you go to the dealer you might try telling him to look for those grey areas with your eyes focused somewhere ABOVE his head. Let them think you're the baddest section eight that has ever been. Tell him that you feel the same way about your dealership the way Timothy McVeigh felt about the FBI. Hey maybe they'll toss in a free oil change.
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Old May 14, 2001 | 05:46 PM
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Wont work- we know about those types


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Old May 14, 2001 | 06:05 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by wayneg:
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Old May 14, 2001 | 07:53 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Al Uminum:
LOL....great pict soopa.

Nova, yeah your right. There is a bit of a problem about telling your dealerships service guy to try on glasses so he can see those strange grey areas.

But you might get him to do it if you do this. You know there are some people who look crazy because when they're talking to you they focus their eyes ABOVE YOUR HEAD and not on your eyes. You know the type, they have eyes like a dead fish or some mannequin. Well when you go to the dealer you might try telling him to look for those grey areas with your eyes focused somewhere ABOVE his head. Let them think you're the baddest section eight that has ever been. Tell him that you feel the same way about your dealership the way Timothy McVeigh felt about the FBI. Hey maybe they'll toss in a free oil change.
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ROFL , LOL OMG.
actually in asian culture its not good to look at someones eye directly. (disrespect, or wanting to fight) if u look at someone directly in the eye. Sometimes its Really hard for me so when someone talks to me I usually look at them for a split second and then look right below there eye or somewhere else. Just feel uncomfortable staring at someones eyes constantly.




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Old May 14, 2001 | 08:10 PM
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don't you know, when you look into someones eyes they caputre your soul.

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