I have a new 2016 JKU with less than 3000 miles on it. I have not taken it off road in any capacity, and I have multiple tiny scratches on it.
is the paint just super cheap, any ideas on how to prevent this? I will add some pics later, they are small, maybe just from rocks ont he road or maybe something spit out from the lawn care company.
But i have had a black Cadillac, and a black 300c, and neither had issues
What color? My 2015 hydro blue has been driven through brush, trees, streams, flown down gravel roads, and on beaches and doesn't have a noticeable scratch on it.
What's color, some paints "hide" marks and blemishes better than others. Also, how do you wash your Jeep? Car washes can put marks on your paint, I always recommend washing with the two bucket method and drying with a nice mirco drying towel.
I got scratches like that recently on another car. I visited my mate and his stinking giant german shepherd horse sized mutts jumped on it. Their claws don't retract. Could that scratch be from parking lot retards?
I am definitely in a large office parking lot. I assumed it was the lawn care guys or something. That one is the most pronounced, which is on the front passenger fender, but there are other tiny scratches on the drive side door
A detail shop can only fix it if they clean that scratch, fill it in with touch up, wet sand the area and polish out. Other than that it cannot be fixed as the trailing part of the scratch is down to the primer coat.
I think they cheaped out to be honest. I had a black 12 JKU that had 20,000 miles on it in one year. Trips from upstate NY to FL and to NYC all the time.
Not a single scratch or chip. My brand new crystal granite gets chipped and scratched if you look at it incorrectly.
All paint scratches are there for a reason, kids with their toys, blowing and falling objects, and other who just don't like you, or your new Jeep. Whatever happened, it's sure not Jeep fault.
Took my Granite Crystal off road with 1100 miles on it.
Went through some heavy brush. Slight scratches, buffed right out by hand.
Mud stains are worse to get out than scratches.
I have a 16 the first day I had it I heard a click on the hood on the drive home on the freeway. The hinge that attaches the hood to the body was hit by a rock of some kind. Took a big nick down to the bare metal out of the hinge paint. Went out got a mopar touch up pen. Applied a few coats used an orbital polisher and now you'd have to know where it was hit to find it. I've scratched other areas on trails near the fenders and touched up in a similar manor. One area I got a scratch on was worse near a fender I sanded it down with super fine scotchbrite. Then primed the area. Then used one of those new fancy spray cans with caps on both sides that has oem paint, only problem with them is once mixed they only last 24 hours. When you break the bottom seal it releases some kind of agent into the paint. They match oem white perfectly. You couldn't tell I touched it up if I showed you the area. I'd assume you could get a similar black paint one. The company I got mine from was SEM. For my poison Spyder fenders I actually sanded them down, then sprayed an acid etching black primer. Then painted with their trim black. Any scratches from the trail are a breeze to touch up. IMO if you powder oat, or line anything in your jeep avoid things you can't touch up with paints you can't get locally. Like I rhino lined my rock sliders and first trip out it gouged off som rhino line... wish I hadn't rhino lined them nothing seems to match that stuff not even Berliner. All my Metalcloak products have powder coating but you can use the rustoleum textured black and it's a near perfect match. Scratches are bound to happen on and offroad at some point. So find a paint you can use to fix it yourself and you'll never worry about a scratch again.
Ben
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