Yes, I feel really depressed as well, my clear coat is destroyed with scratches and swirls... in a straight line pattern down the car, the front bumper being the worst.

Why is the paint so weak?

 

Get used to it if it is your daily driver. You will get over it.

 

I don't understand how my front bumper is spotless and so is my hood just the sides have really been screwed. Perhaps, I am being dramatic but its my first lexus and I like her to be kept in tiptop condition. My friends call her Monica by the way haha!

 

What color is the paint?

btw, glad you are not dead.

 

Smokey Mica Granite! Best color the car comes in..

 

Wait !!!

Let me trade my silver wheels for yours first....

 

don't stress out so much just be happy you car isn't black....or you would see a whole hell of a lot more rock chips and swirls
here's a pic of my last car...black is so much work to maintain i use to wash and wax this car every week.


here's the a pic of my current car...i wash and wax this car about every two weeks smokey granite mica much easier to maintain.

 

dont worry i just had my car four months and put a lip kit and new rims and got rear ended ..hit and run i was pissed, but it was just the bumper not the body so i guess it could have been worst good thing i got friends on autobody there gonna paint it for me..im pretty sure you can find touch up paint.

 

Rock on the gas pedal was hilarious, but this suicide thread belongs in the intervention forum for all us other OCD members (lol). I would obtain a good buffer in the spring and simply polish it lightly and you will be fine. The paint on the 2gen is very very soft and easily damaged.

 

Rock on the gas pedal was hilarious, but this suicide thread belongs in the intervention forum for all us other OCD members (lol). I would obtain a good buffer in the spring and simply polish it lightly and you will be fine. The paint on the 2gen is very very soft and easily damaged

 

don't do it!

 

I have a ton of marks on my car too, and i'm a detailing fanatic.
The cleaner it is, the more unwanted teenage prank attention it gets !

 

There's a dude in NJ who is a sponsor on this forum and is a professional detailer I believe. I think his name is Chris@Glimmerglass or something like that, if you check the automotive care & detailing forum I'm sure you can find him.