Porsche Paintwork! Lapis Blue

[daro911]

[8|] OK I gave my 1050 Mile old Boxster a good clean today and was dismayed to find to scratches on the nearside wing mirror, so now showing signs of a white' ish undercoat and 2 chips on the front PU at the side just below the side repeater.

Metal bodywork remains unmarked! for now. I am truly amazed how there seems to be no thickness or rather depth to Porsche paint on these plastic components.

As a comparison my similar coloured MCS, Indy Blue, has done 9000+ miles in past 7 months and still remains completely chip & scratch free.

I even cleaned my rental Focus today which was given to me with 20 miles on the clock 3 weeks ago and 1000+ miles later still remains totally unblemished..... Typical that a rental remains mint and immaculate whilst my same mileage pride and joy is beginning to mark up in the plastic places at least.

Am I just unlucky or do you guys think the Porsche paint system is some what fragile these days []

 

[Helen Goff]

I had to get my wingmirrors re painted as i found the tiniest scratch seemed to reveal the white plastic under the paint. been alright ever since.

 

[daro911]

Hi Helen

So what' s that all about?

And did your car go much slower once you applied paint to the mirrors[]

And how' s your BIG exhaust sounding

 

[Helen Goff]

hi,
haven' t got car back yet,i' ve got to go and collect it on wednesday,Brian Goff tells me that the new exhaust sounds really nice......can' t wait to see/hear it.
i know this sounds silly but i' ve really missed my car this week.!

i had to get the wing mirrors re-painted after about two months of ownership,as they seemed to be so scratched.....i' ve owned all sorts of cars and not had this problem before(before you say it' s my driving!)the mirrors where resprayed for a few quid,and i' ve not had any more trouble...so i can only think that they only had a very thin coat of paint on them,not anough to stop normal wear and tear.

 

[Helen Goff]

Nearly forgot, no didn' t go slower, i had to drive faster to help the paint dry....honest mr policeman!!!

 

[daro911]

Not enough to stop normal wear and tear is dead right. My cars done 1000 odd dry sunny day miles and the passenger mirror is a joke IMO. In fact I might even try getting my OPC to repaint FOC [][][] Second thoughts I won' t live that long so I shall probably do what you did when my cars a year old.... []

It' s definitely not the standard one would expect even on an Italian car

 

[Helen Goff]

I had a couple of stone chips on the bonnet and i had also shut my seatbelt buckle in the door,chipping the paint so i got chipsaway out and he did the wingmirrors for next to nothing for me,

if john bellringer is looking in that was in the days when my smile worked wonders on a workman[]

 

[Guest]

Stone chips and scratches are just a fact of life on our roads and even more so when driving a fast car fast. I' ve got a number, some quite bad and others very minor. I touch them in as soon as I find them to protect the underneath and one of these days will no doubt have to bite the bullet and go for a proper respray but you can' t expect to keep it pristine at all times. Ironically, I seem to get the worst ones at the least likely times. I got caught up on a motorway just before Xmas behind a gritting lorry and the car was well and truly blasted but not a single chip or mark, then again I went into our local town centre last week and picked up a nasty chip when a bus flipped a stone back from under it' s tyres, you can' t win!

 

[daro911]

Point taken but so far I have not had a stone chip on the metal work but I have collected
2 chips on side of front PU and the silly light scratches on top of the nearside mirror pod again a plastic item, but the colour is so thinly applied that the white undercoat is showing even though one can hardly feel the actual scratch with their nail! I was just saying IMO the paint thickness applied by Porsche seems to be below the bare minimum required if it' s to last anytime at all [] in todays road conditions etc

 

[Guest]

I wonder if it is more to do with the fact that it is plastic rather than metal and therefore flexes easily or should I say flexes to a greater extent under impact resulting in an easier break of the surface. I must say however, that when I touch in a scratch on the metalwork it fills more easily than the plastic so the theory of thinner paint on the latter might be valid.