Why the fuck are cars so fragile, so expensive to repair bodywork?
They're basically giant $40,000+ soda cans that must float through the universe not touching anything. Even some fucking lowly bushes will scratch it, my fingernail will scratch the doorhandle area, rings, whatever.
If you happen to touch another object, not even because you're a bad driver, but if someone else scrapes your car at a lowly speed of 5 mph, the bodywork will easily >$1,000 (for an entry level luxury car--which is actually super common/attainable like Gucci purses every ghetto queen owns).
What the fuck? Why aren't cars made of special rubber/polymer? They can satisfy all the safety pedestrian-cushioning laws that way too.
I'm fucking full out autism raging and OCD raging because I take extreme narcissistic pride in maintaining my shit perfectly and it's basically impossible to do that in a car without having a goddamn anxiety attack anytime another driver gets within 2 feet of you. Anytime you park your car someone can ding it, scratch it, etc.
Cars can never be perfect, or back to perfect! Bought a fucking $60K new car from the dealership and it came with minor scratches, the dealer took me to their prep area and had some guy buff it but it still didn't come out.
WHY THE FUCK ARE CARS SO STUPID/IMPRACTICAL?!?!?!?!?
Leo King
I hit a pukeko yesterday morning at 100km/h as it flew infront of my van and dented just above my bullbar ):
Chase Hill
1) About fragile paint, blame muh environmental regulations that force to use water based paints. That's also why you have more orange peel than before. 2) Bumpers are made so that at very low speed (like during parking) they can absorb hits. At higher speeds the body absorbs the impact and saves your life. It just sucks during moderate fender benders.
Zachary King
>Bought a fucking $60K new car
textbook error
Austin Ramirez
why no one is making plastic body panel that is not structurally important?
Colton Gray
Actually be that obsessed with something that gets your from point A to point B. Just make sure the mechanicals are good, famalam.
Wyatt Carter
>Cars can never be perfect, or back to perfect! Bought a fucking $60K new car from the dealership and it came with minor scratches, the dealer took me to their prep area and had some guy buff it but it still didn't come out.
A daily is never going to stay showroom perfect, not unless you plan on legit buffing it every 3 months and respraying it every 3-5 years.
Normal cars aren't meant to be perfect. They're going to get scratched, dented, dinged, all that and more. The best you can do is address the bigger damage once a year or so and try to avoid fucking it up more when you can.
If you want a perfect car, just don't drive it. That's why most show cars get around in an enclosed trailer....
Caleb Gomez
Note that everything you want can in fact be obtained.
You can indeed build a car that can take a few blows with almost no damage, never rust, and so on.
You would just need to pay out of your ass for a car that would not be able to get above 80mph because it is so heavy.
They make cars out of flimsy materials because for some reason everybody expects their car to zoom zoom and be super inexpensive. Same reason they make the speedo go to like 160mph on every car nowadays.
Kayden King
They do, e.g. Corvette but it's for weight reduction and doesn't respond any better to minor impacts.
If you want a vehicle that can play bumpercars with little to no damage get an old steel bumpered body-on-frame car from the 50s they're tanks just don't expect to get into a highway speed crash and live.
This makes me ponder why nobody makes aftermarket heavy steel fenders and bumper covers. Probably it would be in violation of safety regulations.
