I Said I Wanted My Car to Be a Different Color...
By Yuki
@yukimori (10145)
United States
May 27, 2023 12:05am CST
...and when I went out to go to work this morning, it was! 
Not in a good way, though. 
The foundation crew's equipment takes up a lot of our complex's driveway, so we've been having to park at a nearby park. They get here so early in the morning that everybody has been leaving their cars at the park overnight.
We've all done it before without issue, but apparently my BRIGHT WHITE car was too tempting a target to resist. Someone took a can of brown spray paint and left squiggly lines all down the side of it. 
I took my husband's car to work instead and he dealt with making the police report for me. This evening we went to Walmart and I grabbed a 6 ounce bottle of Equate non-acetone nail polish remover for $1.05. We put it on some microfiber cloths when we got home and with a little elbow grease we got just about all of the spray paint off of it! All that's really left is a little bit on the tail light. 
I'm a little bummed that I don't have a "real" excuse to repaint my whole car a different color, but you really can't beat such a quick, easy, and inexpensive solution! 
Not in a good way, though.
The foundation crew's equipment takes up a lot of our complex's driveway, so we've been having to park at a nearby park. They get here so early in the morning that everybody has been leaving their cars at the park overnight.
We've all done it before without issue, but apparently my BRIGHT WHITE car was too tempting a target to resist. Someone took a can of brown spray paint and left squiggly lines all down the side of it.
I took my husband's car to work instead and he dealt with making the police report for me. This evening we went to Walmart and I grabbed a 6 ounce bottle of Equate non-acetone nail polish remover for $1.05. We put it on some microfiber cloths when we got home and with a little elbow grease we got just about all of the spray paint off of it! All that's really left is a little bit on the tail light.
I'm a little bummed that I don't have a "real" excuse to repaint my whole car a different color, but you really can't beat such a quick, easy, and inexpensive solution! 10 people like this
10 responses
@yukimori (10145)
• United States
4 Jun 23
The color and style matches that of the group that's been regularly tagging the park over the last year, so it was probably them. My husband pointed out that it's perfectly legal where we are to install cameras that cover both our vehicles in the driveway and happen to have enough range to catch activity at that section of the park, so we may end up doing that eventually. After watching how much work the crews do to fix up the damage they cause I'd love to see the whole lot of them spend a few weeks working with the graffiti removal crews.
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@RebeccasFarm (89870)
• Arvada, Colorado
27 May 23
Surely this is not your brand new car is it Yuki?
Damn them all to hell the dirty bastaches.
I am so sorry.
I am so sorry.1 person likes this
Damn them to whichever circle will have them scrubbing off that mess for eternity, right? 
@snowy22315 (180870)
• United States
27 May 23
That is the kind of surprise no one likes! Stupid vandals.
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. It sucks that they did that to your car, but you're fortunate you were able to get it off like that (not everyone can do that successfully).
@Tampa_girl7 (50273)
• United States
4 Jun 23
It’s good that it was such a quick and easy fix.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
27 May 23
I'm glad it wasn't something you had to turn in to your insurance company and the repair work wasn't too difficult.
I had to do something similar to my bright red Daytona ages ago. Somebody thought it was funny to paint racist remarks all over it. 
(I was dating a black woman at the time.)
(I was dating a black woman at the time.)1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
4 Jun 23
@yukimori I don't know, either... I do live in a very small mid-west city but that shouldn't have mattered at all.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16760)
• China
27 May 23
Fortunately they were just squiggly spray paint lines,rather than scratches with something sharp.Utterly detestable ! Who devil did it ? Is there a surveillance video there ?
@JudyEv (340256)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 May 23
That's so annoying that someone would do that to your car. I've had someone scratch the side of my car with a coin. Unfortunately, nail polish remover wasn't any help with that.
