Why do People Key Cars?

[Choo]

Only just caught up on this thread, it s really shocking. I'm seething after someone has mindlessly dented my daily driver door by opening theirs on to it. So I can only I only imagine how I'd feel on the Tiv. I think the corrective work you've done to try and cut them out looks great. I hope it does get sorted for the car and the culprit! Matt.

[sjohnstone39]

Tie him to the top of the garage upside down, cut the flesh between his toes and pour vinegar into the wound.

[ChimpOnGas]

Thanks again all, your responses show what a great bunch the TVR community is.

I'm building up my knowledge base on smart repairs and buying in some dedicated materials & supplies to have a second go at the scratches.

There's some good tutorials on YouTube and I've found other useful tips online.

I know I'll never be able to make an invisible repair of it, but with patience and the right products hopefully I should be able to make the damage less obvious to the casual observer.

If any of you have first hand experience of this type of paint correction I'd very much welcome your advice.

Of course what it really wants is a trip up to my mate Malcolm (Potato Muncher) at Surface & Design for a professional job.

The truth is there really is no substitute for the years of experience gained by painting thousands of TVRs in a proper bodyshop environment.

Sadly I have neither

[EGB]

Perhaps already mentioned. Try and park where there is a CCTV camera. We should have freeedom of access to the pics to prosecute the B.....

[SILICONEKID343HP]

Have you thought about letting chipsaway have a look at it ?

The jealous Bd should go to work earn his money then he could buy his own car .These people are loosers .

[Sardonicus]

SILICONEKID343HP said:

Have you thought about letting chipsaway have a look at it ?

The jealous Bd should go to work earn his money then he could buy his own car .These people are loosers .

And we are the mugs who pay taxes to keep the little gobstes

[ChimpOnGas]

anonymous said:

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Thanks cossers, that kit is actually rather good, if perhaps a little expensive for what you get.

It's what I used on the morning I found the damage, well I used the sanding pads which took out about 20% of the damage, its still a long way off the clear coat stage.

I'd bought the Turtle Wax scratch repair kit a while back to flat out some other little blemishes, it completely eliminated the lighter scratches and proved ideal for flatting my stone chip touch up paint blobs.

But this time the challenge is far greater.

So far I've brought the scratches out as much as dare without breaching the surrounding clear coat.

The next stage will be 3m Red Acrylic Putty 05098, followed by some more very light 2000 grit wet flatting using a de-nibbing rose.

After that it's the careful application paint to the scratches, more light flatting & clear coat a day or two later over the fully cured paint.

Then a final flatting followed by three grades of progressively lighter compound to remove the haze in the clear coat from wet sanding and to blend out the repair into the original undamaged surface around the scratches.

Well that's the plan, truth is it'll never be invisible, Crimson Starmist has a lot of reflective flake in it so when the light hits it you can always see touch up repairs.

This means I'll likely end up with a line; in my experience even when the flatting is done well it's very easy to make the panel look worse than if the scratch had just been left untouched.

This is what I'd really like to use for the process...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3M-Perfect-It-Denibbing-...

But at £450 for the kit I'd be better off paying for a professional repair.

So I'll be building up my own hand de-nibbing kit (in three grades) from here.

https://www.monzacarcare.com/products/?category_id...

Still not cheap if you buy all grades & the de-nibbing rose.

Edited by ChimpOnGas on Saturday 21st September 13:03

[TVRJAS]

Late also picking up on this thread and saddened at the sight (The car not the ginger pk).

I would be included to engage any of the punishment listed above but I would need more evidence than quote
"The thing is I've got a good idea who it was, every neighborhood has a little fekker & ours is "Ginger Kid"."

My approach is that we need more evidence so installing a camera is way cheaper than selling your house.

Once installed go get that ginger thing and point out what you have installed.

Then give the little ginger st a piece of paper with the information of this thread. Point out that TVR enthusiasts don't deal with police and will handle in their own way.

So Ginger scumbag if you ARE reading this I am telling you that if TVRJAS ever catches you doing that to my car that any of the forms of torture you have seen above you will think you got off lightly.

I will be the first on the list of TVR vigilante to make you suffer for what you have done. But Chimpongas lets make sure we have the right offender before you gain my assistance. Jumping into things to quickly has proven costly on my behalf therefore a 100% plan is needed before operation.

Good luck with sorting the damage out.

[selym]

Hammer frozen sausages into him. Job done.

[eff eff]

IMHO It's the parents who need the beating

[CHIMPDREAMER]

Choo said:

Only just caught up on this thread, it s really shocking. I'm seething after someone has mindlessly dented my daily driver door by opening theirs on to it. So I can only I only imagine how I'd feel on the Tiv. I think the corrective work you've done to try and cut them out looks great. I hope it does get sorted for the car and the culprit! Matt.

Probably a woman, with a child. Oops, did I really say that out loud?

[ChimpOnGas]

On it again today, mostly the bootlid.

Ok so while far from perfect, but it is at least looking a lot better.



From this:





To this:





To this:





To this:





Ending up like this:




Not quite finished yet & then there's the N/S front wing which I've flatted, polished, filled with 3M stopper, then flatted & polished again.

Its gone from this:




To this:




The wing photos haven't come out great but essentially I now have a red putty line nicely filling the scratch, but the paint & final flatting is the tricky bit.

You really have to be careful not to over sand & go through the clear coat, been there done that on the boot lid

As expected it's far from an invisible repair, but it is at least much better and doesn't draw your eye like the bare scratches did.

[JPW231]

That's excellent work...just a shame it happened in the first place

[Bassfiend229hp]

Alexdaredevils said:

ChimpOnGas said:

Please add your creative suggestions below on how I should deal with the little shiiiit

Senna

One should always show detail in ones answers Alex...

I suggest that one should tie the scrotes hands behind his back and then pull them down to his ankles, then, using a large Plaslode nailgun, firmly fix his knees to the ground about 24 inches apart.

Using a willing accomplice, one of you should wind the st up out of Senna to the point that he does his manic rabid self impression while the other dons a pair of latex gloves (I can supply these), pops the scrotes twig and dingleberries out of his fly (or over his belt given that he's probably got his keks so low that his entire arse is showing) and then coats them in peanut butter (again - which I can supply). Once liberally coated, release the hellhound!

[hedgefinder]

I remember a few years ago the first time it happened to me - bought a suburban and only had it one day when I left it parked outside a customers house and every car along the whole length of the street got keyed.
It has happened several times since to several cars that i have owned and my wifes, mainly when parked in car parks for any length of time.
I can only describe the people responsible as utter scum.

[jamienshelly]

TVRJAS said:

Late also picking up on this thread and saddened at the sight (The car not the ginger pk).

I would be included to engage any of the punishment listed above but I would need more evidence than quote
"The thing is I've got a good idea who it was, every neighborhood has a little fekker & ours is "Ginger Kid"."

My approach is that we need more evidence so installing a camera is way cheaper than selling your house.

Once installed go get that ginger thing and point out what you have installed.

Then give the little ginger st a piece of paper with the information of this thread. Point out that TVR enthusiasts don't deal with police and will handle in their own way.

I have to disagree, If someone did this to my car I would find the scummiest of scumbags (more than likely him anyway) and beat the living st out of him, and tell him that, if it wasn't him, he probably knows who did it, and he should vent his anger for being beat up on them, then explain that if the car ever gets touched again then its him I will be coming for, this may sound brutal and vigilante-ish, but its what gets the job done, and its the only language that hooligans and reprobates understand.

[Skateboard]

Just joined this thread as well and I really feel for you. All the cash; work and TLC you put into your P&J and some brain-dead jealous toerag comes along and does this.
Not sure if this happened at your home but when I take mine out and park it up I'm constantly having to check it ; if possible I will park it outside a pub window where I can see it. I think (and my wife agrees) I'm being paranoid but when I see something like this I feel my actions are warranted.
If I was 100% sure who it was I would be "keying" him the same way as those "kind" gentlemen in Inglorious basterds !! .... Sympathies.

[TVRJAS]

jamienshelly said:

I have to disagree, If someone did this to my car I would find the scummiest of scumbags (more than likely him anyway) and beat the living st out of him, and tell him that, if it wasn't him, he probably knows who did it, and he should vent his anger for being beat up on them, then explain that if the car ever gets touched again then its him I will be coming for, this may sound brutal and vigilante-ish, but its what gets the job done, and its the only language that hooligans and reprobates understand.

All I am saying is that every military engagement has a strategy plan If you go in reckless you know what happens. Engage the brain as the saying goes. Once the groundwork is done deal with the CORRECT culprit quite rightly as you suggest.

But this is the way I do things and your entitled to do things your way.

What we both agree on if it was our cars is the scumbag who did it is going to feel pain.

ps off topic those cobham services I have found a "welcome" branch is this the one you mean

[DJR 7]

It looks as if the good lord beat you to it!! That's one ugly looking prick!
He'll be like that for the rest of his life! Take comfort in that.
Your pride and joy on the other hand can be restored to its former glory.
Sad when st like this happens.
Hope you get the car sorted .... And the ugly prick!
D

[jamienshelly]

I know that is the sensible suggestion but I am a very simple and Neanderthal type person and would strike out at anyone when I am in a rage, And as I said in a previous post, I don't advise this action.
And O/T its the extra between junction 9+10 and post code KT11 3DB.