How do I get a fag burn off my bonnett?
How do I get a fag burn off my bonnett?
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joelk

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175 posts

284 months

Saturday 19th July 2003
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Gutted... One of the local jealous pikey scallies must have flicked their lit fag onto the bonnett of my light blue Cerbera. It left a brown burn mark like you might see on a pub toilet seat.

Does anyone know how to get the brown mark off, without wrecking my paint work? It's quite an unusual pearlescent light blue; might be called ice blue?

Does anyone know a specific product I can use?

Many thanks for any advice...

Joel.

PS I don't even smoke! (fags)


dazren

22,612 posts

289 months

Saturday 19th July 2003
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Magnum, Berretta, Uzi, Luger or Purdey if you've just won the lottery. Suggest you speak to a professional fibreglass bodywork specialist.

Always dissappointed to hear of vandalism by jealous scum.

DAZ

>> Edited by dazren (moderator) on Saturday 19th July 17:00

T88CAN

3,474 posts

285 months

Saturday 19th July 2003
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Bar stewards sorry to bare bad news but a think your Donald ducked i dont know of any thing other than a respray? You could try Chipsaway but i would`nt build up your hopes Sorry Tony

Don

28,378 posts

312 months

Sunday 20th July 2003
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Some jerk did this to our Chimaera. The (lit) fag-end stuck in one of the bonnet vents and burned down for an inch leaving the kind of mark you describe in the V of the opening.

Happened in Windsor in the wife's company's car park! Unfortunately the rail station was right next to it and we reckon some tw*t flicked their butt right off the platform onto the car.

I'm afraid there is no proper cure other than a respray.

Ours is about to go for its first respray at five years old and is really in need of it.

Whilst waiting for the job to be done I used a coloured wax polish to make the dings, light scratches and the bl**dy burn mark less noticeable.

I hope the above helps - I know how frustrating and annoying this sort of thing is. Best of luck with getting it fixed...

simpo one

92,564 posts

293 months

Sunday 20th July 2003
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This is only a bodge-up but will look better than a fag-burn. First, get an aerosol of the correct colour (Halfords can make them up from the paint code if it's an unusual one). Then take a piece of cardboard, eg from the back of an A4 pad, and cut a small round hole in it a bit bigger than the mark you want to cover. Hold it about an inch above the mark and spray through in tiny bursts, judging the effect as you go.

Like I say, it's a bodge and it's bound to show, but less than a fag burn!

jessica

6,321 posts

280 months

Sunday 20th July 2003
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I had a woman in a Fiesta deliberatley wind down her window(coming other way towards me).Just so she could flick her cigarette out at me as i drove past.

Sheer scum or what.!!!!!!
she missed.
i was furious i can tell you. God knows what i might have done had it hit the spot.

jigs

1,840 posts

278 months

Sunday 20th July 2003
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Can you not just cover it with a big pink ribbon or flower - what you doing wearing a bonnet while driving your TVR anyway?

What's wrong with wearing a baseball cap like the rest of us - unless you're one of these girlies with their Trevors!

>> Edited by jigs on Sunday 20th July 22:54