Sal123

I took a cardboard box out of my trunk, and it was bulky so I couldn't hold it with one hand. Lazy b*stard that I am, rather than put it down, close the trunk and pick it back up, I used the box to close the trunk. I didn't think anything of it until yesterday when I walked out of work and noticed the light scratches on the trunk lid! They're very light and will probably come right out with some scratch-X, but damn! That is soft!

Just a rant... carry on with your day.

ohsogood

iTrader: (5)

Mine is even dumber.. I was placing bags of compost in the trunk and I did something similiar and laid the bag on the edge of the bumper while opening the trunk. It left scratches all on top of the bumper!
Lesson - Don't even dare lean on the car cuz anything including your jeans will ruin the car.

Hi Alt G

As I have said before, they should just wrap the whole car in "clear bra" material when it get to the end of the assembly line. Then we would not have to worry. Impractical of course. But, I too, am tired of paying 40k for cars that have paint that is so easily chipped, scratched and marred. Solution? Next time I'm shopping for a cheap car to go along with the cheap paint! LOL

XsG

If the scratches are very light, they should disappear after a while thanks to the "scratch shield" paint. Check again in a week or two.

Creepers

^ scratch shield paint is a 2009 thang. not sure if these guys have that model year.

hispeed-lowdrag

iTrader: (7)

even if you don't have the "self-healing" paint you can get some good product and get all those swirls/scratches out

Hayabusa02

3 weeks and I already have a big ding in the front bumper from a rock on the highway. Gotta love New England sand trucks and street sweepers! I was shocked how deep and large the ding was... Took me almost 2 years in my previous German cars to get anything this bad.

blnewt

iTrader: (13)

I have at least 30 chips on my hood in 6 months. I love the car but HATE the paint, by far the worst paint (along w/ my 07 G35) that I've ever seen

Presto

tell me bout it, and i have a black car
infiniti fix the damn paint please
ive seen 10 yr old German cars with far better paint.

ozzypriest

iTrader: (2)

The new water-based paints are great for the environment, but terrible on the pocket book or ego...they are all like this now, from I understand.

blnewt

iTrader: (13)

My wifes' 06 Hyundai has twice the miles that our 07 had and no significant chips, our 07 probably had about 40, and like I said our 09 has about 30, even a nice big chip on the roof
I know the low VOC standards have a big effect, but Infiniti is still the worst I've seen as far as being chip prone, and it's not even close.

Kwang

iTrader: (1)

I have a dumb experience as well... I tried juggling things out of the trunk while holding a whole container full of coolant and wham! I actually hit the car twice -- the second time was from inspecting the first scratch while still holding the container.
Dumb, I agree. lol

ozzypriest

iTrader: (2)

Oh no, my Australian-painted G8 GT was just about the same, if not worse. Paint would just flake off some of those cars for no reason. Really, really, thin paint.

Sal123

Exactly. 2010. No magic paint. But, maybe magic leather! Another blunder of mine was putting the baby car seat in for a day. There was a really bad dent and wrinkles left in the headrest. I was planning on trying the hair dryer trick when I got out of work, but when I went out for lunch it was almost completely gone! Fortunately I had parked in a pretty sunny spot and the car was Africa hot when I got in. It worked even better than the hair dryer would have.

tomimbler

My second infiniti, and can assure you that the paint is MUCH softer and prone to scratches than my Audi S4---night and day comparison. And I am finding it much tougher to get rid of the swirls on the G37, use the Zaino line of products that worked like a charm on the Audi (both black cars).