Moving on to the next item on the list and this one actually pissed me off more than anything. I've been driving my truck a bit more than normal lately and when I went to lunch last week with a friend, I came out and some ******* was parked so close to me that I had to crawl into the front seat from the passenger's side. I generally park well out away from other people when parking as the truck is a bit larger than the Jeep and not as maneuverable in tight parking lots so the fact that when I was walking towards my truck and I see someone parked right next to it and so freakin' close I was already upset as I approached my truck.
Well upon getting back to work and walking around the truck I found a nice scrape on the bedside right around where this assholes driver's door would have been. Then doing a little more walking around the truck and removing a couple specs of road tar with wax & grease remover I noticed two additional scrapes from other people's doors.
This one is just behind the fuel fill door about mid-way between the left rear fender flare and the fuel door.
I then found another on the passenger's side rear door.
This one on the driver's front fender flare was the worst one. This one appears that the person opened their door hard enough to put a straight line on the flexible fender flare and actually crack the paint. This was about a 2+ inch vertical line from a door edge.
This one was actually me. I was pressure washing the truck a few months back and the overhead hose brushed across the bedside resulting in a small scrape right above the left rear tail light on the left bed rail.
For small touch up areas I did find that the small Milwaukee M12 polisher works fantastic. For a bit larger touch up areas the Milwaukee Fuel M18 standard polisher also works well. After doing a thorough walk-around the truck to confirm there were no other blemishes to deal with, I started to polish out the scrapes.
This is the passenger's side rear door after polishing out the door scrape.
Here is the finished area from the one I put in it.
This is the left bedside blemish removed and polished out.
Truck wiped down and ready for service again.
Luckily none of the door scrapes resulted in any dings or depressions in the body panels, they were just in the outermost layer of clear coat on the paint.
I am still upset over the fact that people just don't seem to give a **** about anyone else's property these days. Hell, most don't respect their own stuff let alone someone else's. People piss me off lately and it is becoming harder to keep things nice with all of the assholes out there working against you. Although our truck is now nearly 17 years old and just turned over 112k miles, I still love it and don't see myself with anything else but it's getting harder and harder to keep things nice these days.
Last night I received a text from him saying that my hammer had arrived in his stock order so this morning he swapped it out for me.
