i think the best way to avoid getting keyed is to have a positive attitutude to everyone (and yes even if you hate them and want to kick them where it counts), i do this and i have never been keyed.....at least so far

 

I have a friend who bought the E class and the first day she got it, it got keyed in china town, poor girl.

Kill those bastards, Karma is always there for him

 

Sorry to hear about this. Take it to a professional when you are ready.

Keep you ears open. In my experience, people like to talk about what they did...

T

 

I hope you find him and nail his ***. This happened to me in a garage where nobody could have known it was mine -- it was just the car. Makes me think of the Pulp Fiction line where Travolta says, after his car got keyed: "It would have almost been worth him doing it, if I could have caught him doing it." Or something like that.

 

Some people are just jealous. Chock it up to Trailer Trash and move on. It is F@@$ed up though. I know I've been keyed too on a custom job.. You could just kill them all and let God sort through them!!!!

 

and option that can be purchased that captures and records images (every 5 second) from 4 different angles, front-back, sides and saves it on a digital memory card (SD, Compact Flash, etc) (they are so cheap nowadays)

With jpg files as little as 25kb, you could capture all cameras to a single 2GB flash for at least 15 hours. Wouldn't this also be good for accidents, since it's recording all the time. It could be used to see how the accidents happen. And for sure this car keying would come to a stop.

Now if they put mask on their face and key cars, that's a different story. but at least they don't know which car is equipped with such device.

I should patent such device and get rich

 

There is one crude but useful method of repairing things like that. Depends on how acceptable the outcome is to you. Your options are basically... respray the rear quarter panel and risk some obvious problems or just repair. Based on the price of the car, you are probably better off with the respray based on recommendations from people in your area for a good body shop. Your other options are....

1. Langka - I know that this product works great. www.langka.com Basically, you overbuild the scratched area in thin layers. Be patient because you want to fill in the crevice left by the scratch so 2-4 layers may be needed. After filling in, you apply the Langka and wipe with a cloth wrapped around a very rigid card like a credit card. The idea is to fill the defect so it is level with the surrounding paint. Depending on the color of the car, this will work awesome. It works based on the fact that the paint has to cure. Any old paint will not be removed but any paint that is applied within 24-48 hrs (I believe) will come off with the Langka. Works will all factory and aftermarket touch up paints etc. I have used it to fill in rock chips and the results are outstanding. Again, it depends on how good a match your touchup paint is. Red, White, Black etc work great. Most metallic paints like silver etc are not good matches even with factory touchup paints.

2. Have a bumper scuff repairer spot repair and blend the paint. If the guy is good, you will never be able to tell it was done. Make sure you tell the guy to mask as much of the car as possible including both wheels on the side of the scratch. I had this done to the bumper of my 745Li and the paint is a very unusual Sterling Grey. I have looked and looked and can't even see where the blend is done. The only problem that I had was there was overspray on my chrome wheels but clay took care of it. The amazing thing is that the guy did it in the dealership's parking lot with an airbrush. Same procedure as standard body work, sanded, primed, shot color, color sanded and then shot clearcoat. Done 2 years ago and you still can't tell where it was done. The guy did such a great job that I had him do my wife's Mercedes and my Denali (small scuffs). All three cars are perfect.

Usually you can call your local dealerships (high end dealers) and ask them who they use to do bumper repairs. There really isn't a downside to this because it's usually around $150 or so. I would try the Langka method... if that is not to your satisfaction, then try the bumper repair guy and obviously if that doesn't work to your satisfaction, the body shop route. You have nothing to lose but a little bit of money for options 1 and 2.


Good luck and I definitely feel your pain!

 

That Sucks....

Sorry to hear... Most likely they won't do it again and risk being caught. They did what they wanted and got away with it. I hope I'm wrong and you get them on camera...

I think your right that since the car is there all the time they knew it was yours. I would think it would take a pretty unhappy customer to stoop to that level. Do you recall any disputes in the recent past??

It could be random, unless you catch them you will never know.

Good luck with the repairs.

 

Thanks for feeling my pain and all the good tips.

I'll give the compound, polish and wax treatment (with the PC) first and see what happens....otherwise i'll give lanka a shot, etc.

As far as pissed off customers... none. Not even a disappointed customer.

Oh well it was memorial day and we were pretty busy, so who knows what trash came out that day.

 

That sucks man, if there is anything I can do to help just let me know.

 

My buddy had his enzo in Toronto, took it out for the day and it got keyed in a parking lot.

What did I tell him? Why the hell did you park an enzo in a busy parking lot?

 

****ING HATERS EVERYWHERE!!
SUX BRO

 

really sorry to hear it. my wife's chevy silverado was keyed a while ago in a public lot. no reason for it. just a lowlife with no regard for others. if it wasn't such an enraging act, its kinda sad.

hope yours cleans up well.

 

sucks, i've had my cars keyed 3x's now. One time was right after it was completely repainted

 

that sucks but at least they just got one panel. they got my front & rear bumper, drivers door and front fender. wasn't a good feeling that someone was out to get me.