............................................proble m soved thanks for the help guys

 

if you have any ideas on what i can do to make it look better or fix it please let me know thanks

 

Well thats the suck. How much is your deductable? If its $500 or less, get the insurance to fix it. Any quality insurance company wont increase your rates for that since its obviously not your fault.

In the meantime, try cleaning it really well and waxing it. That might help a LITTLE.

 

will if it came from your house, you could see if home owners will cover it? just gotta watch out for the loop hole (act of GOD clause).

 

WTH is a shingle? and it would be a good idea to run the proper lugnuts with OEM wheels, just my two cents ...

 

A roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements.

 

That happened through the cover?

 

I'll say it. This looks like fraud. Comparing the third and fourth pictures, the scratches do not match and are not parallel. That is one wide shingle. Am I missing something?

 

Actually, in the last picture it looks like the shingle is on the ground by the wheel. Looks pretty legit to me *shrugs.* That paint looks pretty badly swirled from before though.

Scratches are probably too deep to buff out, but you never know. Depending on your insurance, either pay your deductible to get it fixed or pay out of your own pocket if the cost of repair is less than the deductible. Stuff like this happens, especially in severe weather areas...at least it wasn't a tree .

You can safely run aftermarket lugs with OEM wheels. I use Rays lugs on my OEM 16" ITR's with these taper to ball-seat-type conversion washers: http://www.clubrsx.com/cr/SSR-WHEELWASHER.html

Of course, I wouldn't run "tuner" lugs alone on the wheels with the wrong seating configuration. That's just plain dangerous.

 

The last picture was taken first according to the image numbers. I think there was some added work. The non parallel scratches and new scratches are what I am seeing.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...o/IMG_7804.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...o/IMG_7800.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...o/IMG_7797.jpg
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...o/IMG_7792.jpg

 

what is the wheel locking device called?

 

not really its just camera lighting u can so tell by the glare
his paint is rough in the first place.

 

terminator III

 

Heres by first bit of advice:




It depends on your insurance policy if it is covered or not. Don't get me wrong, it's bad and I'd hate for that to happen to my ITR but it could be worse and doesn't look like it'll take that much to fix, blending the paint is where you're going to run into the money. If insurance covers it you may be looking at a whole new paint job. Goodluck.

 

damn.. poor itr needs some TLC with those swirl marks...
it just depends on your insurance... nobody here can help you with that but give you tips...

Call your insurance about it.. they will have the best answer for you

 

the paint is very good its the water that you see in the pics cuz the car cover came off and the car was wet and i took a rag and wiped the area down that was hit by the shingle and that last pic was taken from far . thats why you really cant see the scratches but .....my deductable is 100 bucks but i just got the car so i dont know if i should go through all of that ..i realy dont want this to come up on the car fax later on in the future and haunt me ..people get freaked out when they see that the car was damaged on car fax

 

also the so called swirl marks are my hand prints from me touching the car lol i used some gay *** silicone based wax look at the second pic

 

LOL . . . You learn something new every day in the ITR thread

 

Santa Claus came drunk and slipped.
damage it some more, drop some more shingles on it then call the insurance.

Just mess'in with you, its all about the insurance deductible and if they will increase your insurance or say that your at fault bla bla bla...
look into homeowners insurance...
or find Santa and kick his ***
Put it in the garage next time

 

I'll get your number from Ant... Thats an easy fix, might not need any paint.

 

I just came in here to say that you are the man! I have been wanting to run red lug nuts with my JDM ITR rims with extended wheel studs, but hadn't found an open-ended red lug nut with a ball seat, only closed ones. You just saved me a ton of time, because I was looking into having custom lug nuts made. I had no idea they made these.

*runs off to buy a set*

 

it looks like u have bigger issues with rust that u need to deal with before u worry about scratches

 

If you're referring to your first post above, you can learn how to use this part of your computer keyboard:

 

Seriously? Do you live in one of these:

 

Put the damn car in the garage. Next time your alarm goes off, if you hear it, it will not be from a shingle..