Cleaned her and fcuked her

[Andy.]

Went out this evening to get some petrol and thought I would give the car a quick spray to remove a build up of tree sap, bird sh*t and general muck from the week.

Stuck 2 Euros in the jet wash and the dirt fell off the paint thanks to the polishing and waxing that I did the other weekend. I moved around to the front bumper and gave it a little squirt when my paint work decided it was going elsewhere.....

Here is the question, I have had the car almost a year, it has a years warrantee from Renault and the day before I picked it up, somebody had driven into the front bumper in the showroom and scratched it. They repaired this for me with a respray and all was fine.

I noticed a few weeks back that the laquer was coming off around the edges on the bumper and figured that they had not done a perfect job.

Should the paint on the bumper just fall off so easily? I was not mms away and blasting to get flies off, I was just passing the water jet over it from 50ish cms away. Can I claim on the warentee or is it my own fault for using a jet wash?

The garage is miles away and I really cant be arsed to go all the way over there to argue it out with them but a resprayed bumper is money that I can well spend on other things!

Advise please!

 

[Dan Page]

i'd try and claim for it if i was you dude.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Claim, loads of people use jet washs but it shouldn't do that.

 

[Rich]

Get them to sort it, poor finish.

 

[Alan]

Just say no to jet washes!!

 

[Brand86]

Paint should be able to withstand high pressure and moderate temperature. A pressure washer as used in garages should be perfectly safe, so bad paint job. Go get them mate!

 

[182_blue]

i wouldnt mention the jetwash, but would complain, it looks like a bad paint job

 

[Blue4Ever]

oooh, wafer thin there and poor finish, get complaining. Explain everything but don't tell them about jet wash, just say you were washing normally.

 

[Nebdingo]

Have they use tissue paper an coloured it in?!!

GET IT BACK TO THEM!!! jetwash or NO jetwash, if its painted correctly it will last forever!!

 

[MRBILLYUK]

Take it back to Renault mate . Looks like bad prep work before the respray if its flaked off like that . I wouldn't mention the jetwash tbh , even though jet washes shouldn't affect the paint . i use my powerwasher all the time with no problem so if the paints coming off because you used a jetwash it was bad paint job in the first place .

 

[kully]

defo renault the next step m8

 

[Gareth]

i had the exact same problem with my 172, used a jet wash on the sills after a trip to cornwall and it lifted the paint off the sill. It cost me £60 to get Chipsaway to sort it, my advice though, get it sorted STRAIGHT away, if you don't the area for repair can become massive.

 

[Friction]

had the same problem, company who colour coded my car hadnt degreased area's of my bumpers properly - mainly the edges, the bits that are more difficult and time consuming to degrease. I've still not had it fixed, we're now a year on from when it started happening, and its finally stopped losing bits of paint

so in short, take it back, and dont let them refuse to fix it...