you know, i got my tC in february, i baby the thing. although it's really dusty in the pics. anyways, i was pulling into my garage when i hear a scrape, so i stopped right away and got out to look. turns out my mom put the garbage can close to the edge of the door...it's a plastic garbage can and it ate through my paint, into the metal/maybe primer. scions have some weak ___ paint, this would have left a clearcoat scratch on my corolla.
i ordered a color matched scratch pen and clear coat pen from paintscratch.com, i'll try and rub it with rubbing compound (my car will not tolerate wet sanding)
anyways, heres some pics, i tried rubbing compound and different polishes, but it's scratched good. i can feel it lightly with my fingernail. it doesn't look terrible, the pics with the flash make it stand out alot, i haven't looked at it in daylight yet though i wanna cry

 

dood, i know how you feels. i got hit twice less than 24 hours the second month i got my car. side scrap took a good size 2inch chunk of paint off my sideskirt while scratching my rear fender. and some idiot rear-end me lefting a bulge on my rear bumper the next day. both hit and run, i almost cried.... boiii was i mad!

 

ouch, that's gotta hurt. welcome to the club man. happens to all of us at one point.

 

xnevergiveinx...I feel ya man. The day after I bought my car I was making the 350 mile drive home from the dealership (the only FM in Cali at the time) and a semi through a rock and scratched my hood and chipped my windshield all in the same motion.

Has anyone considered having a bodyshop squirt another layer of clear coat on? I wonder if it would help with future scratches. I can't imagine it would be that expensive and if it works it would be money well spent!

 

well at least now you get out of the babying it phase and get ready to do some real driving.

 

good point duma. i never take this thing out and have any real fun, i'm always scared of snapping a cvt joint or burning the clutch.

 

Trust me when I am parking in my garage I get out make sure the path is clear, the its like watchin me park the Enterprise LOL , Nice and slow and watchin ever friggen angle LOL

 

Damn... why'd ya buy it then?

 

Ouch man I feel ya pain. IIP is such a hard color to keep clean and scratch free. Hopefully you have some good luck with the touch up pen and buffing that out. I also feel like I don't want to drive my car too much cause of fear of messing it up,, but then I think ahh it's just a car! Good luck

 

i kinda do feel like scions have a weak paint job.

 

thats cuz they do