I hope this is not considered religious.

Today my wife went to a retreat with her church group. She took our new Mustang, because the dailey driver was in the shop and I needed my F150.

The Stang was in the CHURCH parking lot for 9 hours. When my wife came home she was in tears. The Stang was covered in cake, and cupcake debris. It was all over the car. Some of it scratched the clear coat. I am now just in disbelief. In a church parking lot in Las Vegas. +!*@ me running! In a &*$%#* church parking lot my Mustang gets vandalized.

There is no hope for this world. It is done!

 

Wow!!! That is hard to believe. Maybe it's because you are in Las Vegas. Incidents like yours doesn't happen here.

 

I suspect it was done by some morons that had nothing to do with the church. Perhaps just cruising by. Were there many cars in the lot besides yours?

 

Church is only safe for those who are religious. The church near our house as a kid was actually BROKEN INTO. They didnt take anything, they just busted a few windows, went inside, and threw stuff around, kicked in the locked doors to offices, etc.

 

no respect for the stang. I love that car. maybe someone saw something, or it was caught on camera. Have you checked into these possibilities? I hope you can get some justice

 

Just want to clear something up, your wife went on a retreat at the church? Or that's just where she happened to park before getting in another car to go elsewhere?

Because if she just parked it there and left, maybe there was a wedding, the guests could have thought it would be funny to "cake" the getaway car which could have been a rented brand spanking new Mustang.

Still doesn't make it right, but it's a possibility.

 

"Irresponsibility is no respecter of location"

 

Well bigrigfixer pretty much nailed it on the head. Today we found out that there was a wedding in the social hall yesterday. I guess some group rented it for their occasion. I don't know about the rented Mustang gettaway car theory, but I suspect there were kids there, and maybe not being watched all the time, or something like that.


Looks like I need to do a good clay bar, and some polish work and hopefully it will be back in shape. I think I will put it into storage and replace it with an old army 1-ton. Heck cupcakes would make a rig like that look good. And I would like to see someone try and door ding that thing! (uh honey, honestly I don't know why there is OD green in a cup shape on the door edge of our new SL650!)

 

Tell that to the kids here in Atlanta who are currently seeing a protestant bishop on trial for molestation.

There is no place that is safe from people out to do misdeeds. Doesn't matter what anyone says about their area and that "it doesn't happen" where I live. Six Amish school children in rural country come to mind.

I have a great product recommendation for this situation. I just finished up a weekend working on a tech article for a product that took out scratches and swirl marks on my Roush F150 (my daughter took my prized soft wash brush and let it hit the ground several times when she washed her Ranger, unknown to me when I used it to wash my truck the next day). I can honestly say the truck looks better than the day I bought it.

Go to topoftheline.com and get a bottle of the medium cut and light cut levelers. Both are designed to shine up newly painted show vehicles, to remove swirl marks, small scratches and hazy paint from acid rain. The light cut uses no abrasives (good for the final polish step) and the medium cut uses extremely small polishing agents that get smaller as you rub it so the paint gets shinier the more you work it. The amount it takes off is so slight that even after running it over the entire truck the buffer pad when from white to just barely grey (I have a black truck).

Wash the vehicle throughly 2 times when done. It'll look like the vehicle is hazy after the first wash, but its just a slight film of the stuff left on the paint. The second washing clears it up. Wax with Meguiars NXT Generation paste was (I've used many different waxes and this one brings out the most consistent shine and color of all that I've used, including some of the professional detail products).

I can't say enough about these products, they saved me a lot of grief. Get the smallest bottles, you'll use a lot less than you think you'll need. I got a gallon of the light cut and it'll probably last me 10 years!

 

Hey thanks Ken, that is just what I am looking for. The scratches are not very deep at all, but I am scared to death of some rubbing compounds, as i had a bad experience with one once.

Thanks again,
Rick

 

I tried them out first on the 7 year old Ranger. 5 minutes later on the 2 by 2 foot test area with an electric polisher and I was blown away. Rubbing compounds are good for oxidation... but not for nice clear coat!

These polishers are so fine you can't tell they are polishers. No grit at all that you can feel. I was really worried about using them but consulted with topoftheline's owner for an hour on the phone before getting the products. The ironic thing is that we were talking with them before this incident with the Roush.

My truck was covered in fine scratches that didn't show up until I dried it. My heart sunk and I was just about ready to cry. I've dreamed about a vehicle like this for years, its very limited and all I could think after seeing the paint ruined was how much it was gonna cost me. Instead these two inexpensive products (about $9/bottle) saved the day. topofline line isn't a sponsor yet, but after this I'm going to do everything I can to get them on board. They have a problem solver section on their site which details the solutions for various paint problems. They carry their brands, retail brands and detail shop brands.

I also got a bottle of paint blob leveler from them that I'll be trying next week. I have a small chip on the hood that I'm going to fill in with touch up paint and then use the leveler on it. I have one of those "invisible bra" films on the front of the truck but a small rock got pitched from a vehicle in front of me that hit just above the bra.

Oh... FYI. I spent about 8 hours total on my truck with this. If you have a good electric buffer you'll spend considerably less time on the car since it has a lot less surface to cover... and I also had surgery 3 weeks ago so I had to take it very easy.

I should have the article up by Friday so if you order the products this week you'll be able to use my article this weekend. I've detailed all the steps I took, including photos of the polishing process, based on the procedure topoftheline told me to use.

This has actually turned out to be a good thing because the water spots on the roof which I could never buff out are now gone! They were there on the truck when I got it, probably from acid rain during transport from Roush in Detroit, but I didn't know bout them when I took delivery and incorrectly assumed the first couple of times I washed the truck that it was from the well water we have here. Adding a 5 micro filter to the wash hose and drying the truck with a polymer sweegie proved to me it wasn't my water!

 

Vandalism sucks.... if the cake on the car matches the cake that the group had, Send em a bill for your time

 

Got a screamin deal on a chivee one time. A church had it donated for a garage sale, some local hooligans busted the windows out. I spoke with the pastor, he said a neighbor heard the noise and videoed the incident. He was looking forward to sitting down with the kids, and a vcr...not interested in filing charges when I talked to him.

 

uh oh....<filllllller>

 

I believe in karma, what goes around comes around. Those vandals will get what's coming to them one way or another.....