Hood damage from wipers
 

This has probably been posted somewhere here (but couldn't find it), but regardless I figured someone could benefit from my stupidity.

What you see below is what you'll end up doing if you open your hood while the wiper arms are up in the "cleaning" position. I'm repairing a 2" paint scrape on the right side, and repairing a vinyl stripe on the left. Those wiper arms have no mercy on that hood edge. Not the kinda thing I wanted to be doing @ 1200 miles. Sad thing is, I made a mental note NOT to leave the wipers up two washes ago. I was daydreaming and this is the result.

You 5th gen veterans are probably well aware of this, but I figured I'd post for the new guys like me. :facepalm:

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/pictur...ictureid=80622

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/pictur...ictureid=80623

Don't feel bad...I had my car up on stands for an oil change. Hood was up, and I almost wiped it out with the opener mechanism when I brought the garage door down! (Caught it just in the knick of time!...lol)

sorry to hear of this happening. Now ill keep it in the back of my mind, and hopefully it wont happen to me. thanks for the words and pictures of wisdom

Been there done that :(

i did this last month

If it's any consolation, I did the same thing to my first convertible. Right around the same mileage too. Not a single paint chip or mark on the wiper blades. Nope, the hood took all the brunt of it. Like yours, I had about a 2" scrape on the back edge of the hood on the passenger side and a 1/4" chip on the curve of the hood scoop on the drivers side.

I applied touch up paint every day for almost a month and then had a body shop wet sand the spots. Didn't like the way it turned out so I ended up biting the bullet and having the hood repainted. The hood looked good as new afterward.

Fortunately, it's all on the edge. I realized what was happening before I went to far with the hood. It should repair up nicely, and nobody would have noticed it but me. I take a little solace in knowing I'm not alone in my blunder. It's very easy to do, actually.

Still, I feel like a complete idiot. :mad0260:

I did the same thing... And because of the custom paint (scratch went through about 9 layers of paint, all the way to the metal), the only way to fix it without it looking like a scab was to re-paint the whole hood. almost $900 later, and I know I'll never do that again!!!

Ouch!

If it makes you feel any better - doing that with a 4th gen would have in all likelihood broken the windshield!



:yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

(........not that I'd have ever done something like that......:(

Yikes!

Almost screwed up my Firebird like that - as I was raising the hood, my neighbor hollered at me to stop, just in time. Whewwww.

Lots of us have done that, probably more then will admit. Lucky for me there was no damage, not even the 2 time. There will not be a 3rd time!


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That would make me sick. It's one of those horror stories that happens and you think,"That'll never happen to me." Then that fateful day...BAM!!

Best of luck with that repair

Yup. Happened to me too. Man, was that embarrassing.

It's not totally the owner's or the wiper's fault!...Has anybody opened their hood as much with another car compared to these?...lol...Its GM's fault for making a car that we want to admire the engine so much!!!...lol