I was coming home today, and in the same spot on the interstate where I ran over a 2x4 that fell off a truck a few weeks back, I ran over a piece of metal strapping. (The black 1" wide sheet metal strips that's used to secure stuff like lumber together, etc.)
I was following close behind the car in front of me cause it was traffic time, and voosh from under that car comes about 10 feet of strapping. I swerved to the left to try to avoid it, but it still clipped the right side of my car and I ran over it.
Got home, and I have quite a few slash marks on the bottom piece (below the fog's), and about a 1/2 inch long gouge taken out from the piece between the fogs and headlamps. And now in all the slashed/gouged areas, its black (the plastic is black I guess) - so it went straight through the clearcoat, paint, primer, and took a hunk of the plastic with it.
Is there anything I could to do reduce the appearance of the cuts? I'm thinking I'll just peel off the flaking plastic and get a touch up paint pen shipped from Boston Volvo or something, and just try to make it look as good as possible. Sound reasonable?
Modified by vivek9856 at 9:44 AM 4-20-2009
I was following close behind the car in front of me cause it was traffic time, and voosh from under that car comes about 10 feet of strapping. I swerved to the left to try to avoid it, but it still clipped the right side of my car and I ran over it.
Got home, and I have quite a few slash marks on the bottom piece (below the fog's), and about a 1/2 inch long gouge taken out from the piece between the fogs and headlamps. And now in all the slashed/gouged areas, its black (the plastic is black I guess) - so it went straight through the clearcoat, paint, primer, and took a hunk of the plastic with it.
Is there anything I could to do reduce the appearance of the cuts? I'm thinking I'll just peel off the flaking plastic and get a touch up paint pen shipped from Boston Volvo or something, and just try to make it look as good as possible. Sound reasonable?
Modified by vivek9856 at 9:44 AM 4-20-2009