A&Q about Lotus
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Originally Posted by MikeC
Can someone explain to me why throwing eggs at a car can do $4000 in pain damage? What damages the paint? Can't it just be washed off, especially if you find it right after it happens?
I know the Elsie is somewhat fragile, but I hope it is stronger than an egg shell.
Enlighten me please.
Get hit by an egg thrown at full force from feet away and see what happens to you. The shell acts like a razor blade and, as someone described, creates a "bullseye" effect on the paint with cuts down to the primer. The body shop guy described the eggshell as a thousand little razor blades hitting at full force.
Also the egg itself has a property to it that eats paint, and if left on due to laziness, or undiscovered, will ruin your paint.
In our case it even ruined the rear tail light, the eggshell cut through the plastic of the light. It's hard to describe. It leaves very distinct marks and depending on how hard the egg was thrown, very deep and damaging marks. They hit ours in several places, one of which was an area which was hard to blend, I forget why.
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Originally Posted by ARedElise05
Got egged last night by some *****, 4 eggs to be exact. 2 landed on the driver side window and the 2 on the rear clam just above the wheels. Took it to a car wash right away and sprayed it down. Now I have 2 areas with chipped paint and some small cracking. Any suggestion on how to fixed? I could use the touch up paint but I rather have it done right. Can anyone recommend a shop in the Chicago area?
Oh man Sorry to hear about this, I hate vandals and thieves!!! Get that fixed before it gets too cold!
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This is but one small example of what it did to the paint.
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my car was hit with a few handfulls of change (pennies, dimes, quarters, etc.) thrown by someone (ex girlfriend, long story) at close range. front clam, windshield, even hardtop were hit multiples times, pretty damn hard.
no damage.
thank goodness it wasn't eggs.
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Oh gesh. Way back in 1988 when I was a young punk, I use to take a friend on the back of a motorcycle and we'd egg cars on coming in the opposite direction. He'd aim at the windshield as I accelerated. No wonder I'm so paranoid on "Cabbage Night."
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I left the car in the garage yesterday for this exact reason..
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Originally Posted by Bane
+1000.
I left mine safely tucked away last night. My friend called me before dark last night to go help him move some stuff so I got left with a HUGE bag of candy (didn't hand hardly any out). Anyone around here want some?
Denver's only about an eight-hour drive...
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Mine rested up in the garage all night. It sucks to read the horror stories on here.
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Originally Posted by ARedElise05
Can anyone recommend a shop in the Chicago area?
I highly recommend Countryside Customs in Warrenville:
30W170 Butterfield Rd
Warrenville, IL 60555
(630) 393-6665
I have taken (unfortunately) many cars there over the years and have always been very happy with the results. I had a BMW 330 that got rear ended with 600 miles on it ($4k), A BMW 325 that got keyed ($2.5k) and a T/A that got backed into by some a-hole in a parking lot ($1.5k). The T/A was black and both Bimmers were metallic. Even at night under the mercury vapor lights of a parking lot, you could not see any color difference or finish flaws. Granted, none of my other cars were fiberglass, but I am sure that they can handle it. They use DuPont paints and I believe that DuPont will stand behind their work for 7 years.
They started out as a rod and custom kind of place but found accident repair to be more profitable. They won several World of Wheels trophies over the years for their work. I will never go anyplace else.
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Originally Posted by Allan Gibbs
Oh gesh. Way back in 1988 when I was a young punk, I use to take a friend on the back of a motorcycle and we'd egg cars on coming in the opposite direction. He'd aim at the windshield as I accelerated. No wonder I'm so paranoid on "Cabbage Night."
You just admitted to be a felon on the internet. Throwing anything at a moving car is a felony - at least in most every state.
It's a good thing that you grew up and don't do things like that anymore.
My buddies and I used to go out on Halloween with a bunch of eggs. We targeted other high school kids that would egg the little kids, houses, and cars. A bit of vigilante justice on our part. Back then I had a car that had been egged. But it was the inside of the car - I never got all the egg residue out of the radio and the instruments.
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Originally Posted by eighteenseconds
my car was hit with a few handfulls of change (pennies, dimes, quarters, etc.) thrown by someone (ex girlfriend, long story).
But are you 'stab worthy'?
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Originally Posted by Scott in Houston
But are you 'stab worthy'?
i hope not.
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Eggs are bad news. My Lotus has been hit twice. Luckily, both times I had the soft top on. All the eggs that were thrown either hit and bounced off the top or hit against the windows or windshield. They hit my engine cover as well, but luckily the plastic sheets took the hit. Miraculously, I never got the razor blade effect.
Since it was so late at night, however, I didn't manage to clean all the paint out of the cracks of the car, so now I have some damaged areas. Luckily they are not very visible.
My car was definitely well hidden in the garage this year.
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Originally Posted by eighteenseconds
i hope not.
LOL. I think you missed it. It was a Seinfeld reference.
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Originally Posted by AttAkker
Mine rested up in the garage all night. It sucks to read the horror stories on here.
It sounds like some of you have a garage space for the Elise but still leave it outside on ocassion???
Why?
I just bought an '88 Toyota Tercel for $1400 and always park it in the garage. If you don't have the space due to too many cars I understand. But if you have the space, wouldn't you always want to use it, especially over night?
On another note; too bad the world is the way it is. Can you imagine if everyone in the world respected other people's property and would not touch it, much less harm it or try to steal it. Can you imagine how much money, time, and aggrivation we could all save if our cars did not have to have alarms or locks; it would save weight too! Too bad, isn't it? Just imagine that you could always walk away from your car and do not have to worry about pressing the key fob; you wouldn't even need a key fob! No faulty alarms either. Anyway, I'm just dreaming.
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Originally Posted by Allan Gibbs
Oh gesh. Way back in 1988 when I was a young punk, I use to take a friend on the back of a motorcycle and we'd egg cars on coming in the opposite direction. He'd aim at the windshield as I accelerated. No wonder I'm so paranoid on "Cabbage Night."[/quote You just admitted to be a felon on the internet. Throwing anything at a moving car is a felony - at least in most every state.
It's a good thing that you grew up and don't do things like that anymore.
My buddies and I used to go out on Halloween with a bunch of eggs. We targeted other high school kids that would egg the little kids, houses, and cars. A bit of vigilante justice on our part. Back then I had a car that had been egged. But it was the inside of the car - I never got all the egg residue out of the radio and the instruments.
Yes, but the statutes of limitations have expired. We only did it once and got tired of it.
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Originally Posted by Scott in Houston
LOL. I think you missed it. It was a Seinfeld reference.
hahah, no no, I got it. sponge.
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Originally Posted by eighteenseconds
hahah, no no, I got it. sponge.
hahaha
That's funny b/c I forgot about sponge worthy... there's another episode about a guy being 'stab worthy'. It ended up being because of how he broke up with people and told Elain that she had a big head.
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RE throwing eggs in youth.
Someone threw eggs off an overpass here and ended up going through an open window and blinding a guy.
I never did anything too bad. I was once involved in a toilet papering incident. It was a neighbor who was always yelling at people to get out of her yard. I actually chickened out and hid in a bush while other people did it. The woman got home an hour later and was crying sitting in her front yard. I felt bad. Thats the worst thing I've been involved with.
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I egged a couple of cars back in my youth. I regret my disrespectful behavior now, looking back, but honestly at the time I did not imagine there was any possibility of permanent damage. Just figured it was a harmless prank that would result in nothing more than a cussing and a washing.
Sure, it's disrespectful, but I suspect most kids caught throwing an egg do NOT intend vandalism/damage.
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