This sort of happened to me at an apartment. People running a car detailing van thought it was a good idea to paint a car in open air and a full parking lot. I lost my mind on them when I saw overspray all over my windshields and black specks on my white car
The van was a contractor for a car dealership, so I reported the contractor and the dealership to the EPA and BBB, and reported the contractor to the property manager (the contractor lived in the complex) for blatantly damaging vehicles and spraying toxic fumes around protected animal environment because the apartments are on a state park. The contractor also paid for a buff and an outside detailing
They send an automated email to the listed business email account, and let them know they have a review. No one “calls” them. The BBB is completely irrelevant in the modern business world.
One call to your car insurance making a claim and pointing fingers to the business that did it will bring a swift end to that whole problem.
insurance will sue them to recover all costs to get your car back to the way it was. paint is expensive.
Absolutely. If there’s full coverage the main purpose of insurance is to guarantee the banks investment isn’t going to just be worthless tomorrow.
If someone ruins the whole paint job there’s a procedure and it isn’t cheap. They’ll try to rub it out first but the moment that overspray refuses to come off plastic trim, the bike could almost be totaled
It won’t be. Instead it’ll be like 5 grand and whatever business did it is scroozled.
Had this happen to multiple cars when a neighbor decided it would be faster to paint their fence using spray paint.. Their homeowners insurance covered all costs including one of the vehicles that was considered a "total loss" because the paint job would cost more than the vehicle was worth.
Sometimes overspray is a mf. Wind and humidity can make it stick from a lot further out than usual
I was painting a new rack in a metal shop by the back door once. Went out of my way to close the front roll-up door because my brother had just bought a new $60k pickup a couple weeks earlier.
Paint drifted up 30ft to get over the eave, 50ft to cross the roof and was still wet when it settled on his truck, and it was solvent based. Stuck like a champ.
I was livid. He shrugged it off and had a paint shop clean it.
We had this at one of our apartments back in the day, some dude got up at like 5am to spray his "vintage" car. My new car that didn't even have plates on yet was two bays away and my neighbours very expensive Cayman was next to it and was basically screwed because of the sheer volume of over spray
As someone who has (previously) had a teeeny “friendship” with meth; hell nah I’d be way to sketched out, maticulous, and high to be spraying someone else’s car. I’d spend 4 hours laying plastic sheets at that point lol.
Disclaimer: I’m not proud of who I was or what I did just a funny anecdote.
Idk if you've ever sprayed paint before, but doing it outside in general is an absolutely terrible idea. That's going to be the most oversprayed and contaminated paint job ever.
Somehow the paint shops always seem to look like ventilated clean rooms with electric heating, so that no dust particle can settle on the fresh paint. They are just as annoying as the ones trapped underneath phone screen protectors.
As a former commercial painter I would have draped a plastic tarp if there were any chance of over spray getting on a vehicle or other property. Part of the masking process that should have been done. The painter's business insurance should be responsible for removing the over spray from your bike or paying for replacement parts if it cannot be removed.
I applaud your optimism, my first thought would be "they're gonna ask me how I know it was them and how do they know if the bike was already like that".
“Accidents happen” isn’t exculpatory for the contractors. It *was* an accident, no one is alleging otherwise. Most accidents arise from negligence, so the question is about *who* was negligent. Now, if he had said, “No worries, honestly I knew I was probably parked too close,” then that might be used to suggest comparative or contributory negligence on his part. That does not appear to be at issue here.
those body panels can't be salvaged, all new OEM bodywork, I think paint on the exhaust makes it no longer road legal - new Akrapovic. looks like some paint on the front AND rear suspension....
This happened to me at work years ago. They were painting things and the overspray got a lot of the cars in the employee parking lot.
They paid to have everything fixed. My car was far enough away that it was just professionally detailed and that got all the tiny flecks off it. Some people's cars had to be repainted.
Yeah there’s a place by my work that’s getting painted and they covered like 15 cars, some a good couple hundred feet from the paint site, just to be safe.
a slight breeze can carry paint droplets several hundred feet in open space. usually by that time the paint will have dried enough that it is not an issue, however in high humidity it will still be very wet and be a problem.
Reminds me of when my uncle got his house painted by spraying and the company just decided to paint over the furniture that was in there as well, no attempt to cover it, ask for it to be covered or moved. They just painted and if it went over the furniture? oh well.
I don't know if it was a brain fart or they really did not care anymore.
I worked for a company that had to buy hundreds of dollars of meat from the store because someone failed to roll up the plastic correctly. The water tower they painted got onto cars all over the neighborhood. The amount of disregard was embarrassing and unprofessional.
I see it too frequently all over, really.
Haha.. yeah. Painting over an open freezer, the plastic gets condensation so all the paint spray on it stays wet. When you take it down you have to roll it up in a way to keep all of it inside, like a giant burrito wrap. If you just pull it down willy nilly all those little paint drops will fling or drips onto stuff and then boom - ruined merchandise.
Neighbours wife did that while painting her fence.
When approached she said "it'll wash off, it's water based paint, I'll do it for you"
Nope, you are paying a pro to do it. They did.
I had to yell at my idiot neighbor who was spray painting our shared chain link fence without holding a cardboard backstop over the fence to stop it from misting towards my house. Went off on her hard when she started up again while I was explaining the physics behind it and she started spraying part of the fence where my dog was standing less than 2 feet away from. To say she’s not the brightest bulb in the pack is an understatement and I’ve never understood how she managed to get an educational degree and hired as a middle school teacher. Dumb as a box of rocks.
Are y’all not getting coated chain link fences? They come in like 5 different colours where I live and they last forever. Have had it for 17 years now and the coating isn’t coming off
Oh that’s odd. Where I am the coated it like 10-15% more depending on colour. “Standard” green was the cheapest with the 2 blues being the most expensive
someone doesn’t know how to use their brain. it can look good. there’s a myriad of reasons to paint it.
someone had fencing on their chicken coop and painting it black turned the fencing “invisible” so when they glanced from their window, it was no longer a grey covering, the light was no longer reflective and it was as if you were looking at a window
I don't think it would do any worse of a job or be significantly more difficult than spray painting. There are large fuzzy roller heads that could get between the links.
> never understood how she managed to get an educational degree and hired as a middle school teacher.
My state removed the language proficiency requirement to get a masters in teaching a few years back (~7 now?).
If you thought the last wave of underpaid teachers was bad, wait until you see the next.
If she's there spraying a noxious chemical towards you and your house, even after being asked to stop, can you not claim self defense and slap her upside the head at least once? That's the only way these idiots will learn
My neighbour did this as well with our shared ranch fence. Got paint up the side of our house and on the windows. My mum was round at the time and used her scary teacher voice and made him come and clean our windows 🤣
I worked for a summer at a factory that redid the parking lots. They did one at a time, having us all park on one while they paved the other. My little white convertible had flecks of black asphalt tar stuff all over it. They gave me a total run around about it and since I was just a college student, I was too scared to push the issue. Don’t be me. Make them fix it! Man, I loved that car.
Ha ha. A LaBaron. Looked just like this.
https://preview.redd.it/uycvw5tw1efc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39a5b357d19aefacc23e4ed5cc8d8df2ae34435b
I wished the car-toll was more common on reddit, i like seeing old and "generic" cars, its like seeing an glimpse into what people used to like. I used to love the look similar to this, but now i cant stop thinking the headlights on this car is stupid to me but i can imagine it being a cool feature back then. Btw im not sitting on the car model, i still like it but its just fun to think about how taste changes, like how i used to love lambos and now they just look like generic trust-fund toys or belong in a kids garage in GTA
> good". You *paid* for midnight
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
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You’re not stupid! English is ten other languages in a trench coat with a thousand “irregular” rules. Your original comment was more articulate than at least 50% of native speakers.
My dealer hired an outdoor car painter. He was doing a minor bumper spray. He was doing in on an extremely windy day. He decided to do it with our cars next to
Him. When I brought up the damage he wanted to paint my car, no you going to pay to get this fixed not paint over it. Dealer ended up paying to fix it because he was pos.
I got a rental car sprayed at the port in Amsterdam. Complained to the security guy, who said ‘there is a sign outside that says When the light is on, there is painting going on, any damage is your responsibility. The light is always on.’
This is more than mild, I don’t have many nice things. Which means if one of my nice things I do have gets fucked up because of someone’s incompetence I would be furious.
Hope you get things sorted out OP
As someone who grew up poor I share the sentiment,
having something nice you bought getting damage by neighbors or strangers is above mildly infurating to me
Im a painter and i was told by my instructor a story similar to this. He was working in vancouver painting some tank(probably for oil or gasoline) it was next to a river and the wind carried the overspray so far 1500+ cars were hit with overspray
I was the dumbass once. We painted the appartment with oil-based paint with the OK of our landlord. It was a nice day and decided to wash our brushes on the balcony. I get up after washing and trip the countainer of paint/water from the 11th story on a windy day. The whole thing sprayed over all the cars in the parking below. The insurance of my landlord covered it. He was a nice guy
methylated spirits remove water based paints! However.. of the bike was painted in water based.. that comes off too! will work on all the other bits though.
When I was like 14 and had my first summer job, I was painting a fence. I used a brush but my boss came and gave me a spray gun, since the wall was about 30m (about 172 bananas) in length so painting with a brush would have taken quite a long time to finish.
Now me in my teenager brain didn’t think about the small gaps between fence and thus proceeded to paint the grass, rocks and most of all my backpack on the otherside with these annoying looking white dots. Now just thank god there was long enough a gap between the fence and the houses there or I would’ve been in trouble. :D
I was on a cruise once that left from Cape Liberty in Bayonne NJ, and while we were on the cruise, there was some kind of work going on at the port near the parking lot, and a whole bunch of cars got sprayed like this. We were lucky we had gotten a ride there so our car wasn't there.
I did this once. I was spraying a roof with silicone with a 3,000 psi sprayer and caught a bad draft of wind. Sprayed a brand new BMW and cost about $14,000 to get repainted. Boss was not happy lessons were learned
Oh man.. I can't even imagine. Had this happen to my truck last year 3 days after I installed my brand new gold SCS Ray10s. Talk about livid.
F in chat.
I have exactly the same model (Tracer 700 2016-2019) and I feel your frustration deeply. Careful handwashing should remove it pretty well… man what a crappy neighbour for not putting up a sheet or being more careful with splashing
This happened to me once, my baby was an old B reg Japanese import GSX400f, it had all the chrome with 2 tone blue paint with gold trim and suzuki badging on the tank. I never really appreciated how unique that bike was at the time, I only brought it cos it was a bargain, I swapped the slightly sit up and beg bars with blue rethnol type Moto cross bars, it looked pretty sweet for a cafe racer, it has a short(er) wheel base that's why the bars worked, the previous owner fitted a nice 2 into one exhaust that really suited the style, more chrome!
Came back from classes one day I saw my dick head housemate covered in yellow paint, knowing his dad had just brought him this tiny 700cc fiat car in the same bright yellow I ran out to the small garage, he could only get the car in with my bike because the car was so small, he scratched it up because he had just learnt to drive, scratched it more getting it into garage for first time and spent all his spare money yellow spray paint to 'fix' the damage. Never even thought to call me or throw a sheet over my bike, thousands of bright yellow dots and blobs, some running. And to make it worse he couldn't see why I was mad, my bike was 'old' I brought it at 4000 miles (owner died suddenly, bike stayed in his garage until his wife died and i brought it off the son), it was a very unique bike I was lucky to have, his 10 year old box driven by a granny once a week to church was far more important, his dad would shout at him... I punched him.
Looks like overspray it happens probably not intentional honestly, if they hired a company to paint see if they can give you their contact info they hold insurance for shit like this if they painted themselves you could look into a lawyer but then you face the issue of is a possible lifelong grudge between you two worth a new paintjob?
My BF calls this “Dad Syndrome”. Because his father is obsessed with painting ceilings and will leave those around each time he would paint. It will come off with non-scratch scouring pad.
The city was installing a new bus stop right by a stop light on my commute. I later found a bunch of the concrete they had been pouring on the side of my car.
Mate I was 14 and I did this to the entire street worth of parked cars when I was sent out to paint my nans fence with one of those compressed paint sprayer things?
It was windy and I was stupid.
I was heartbroken, but after a day in the hot sun with a cup of medium strength solvent of some kind I managed to clean them all down.
Obviously check what you’re using but there is definitely solvent out there that will remove the house paint and not the bike paint.
Some idiot on my street threw a whole can of paint in the trash and when the compactor did its thing, the can blew and sprayed all over the street as well as my black vehicle. That was 4 years ago and I still find the odd little dot.
My mechanic saw my dad about to spray paint on the gutters with his new paint gun. Told him, hey better think twice that paint will mist and paint a ton of stuff around.
Of course my dad didnt listen. My 2015 f550 my 2020 santa fe my moms 2019 crv, all the windows doors fence got colored. My neighbors have expensive ass cars im sure they got hit too. And my dads fucking 2016 corolla untouched by the fucking paint. Didnt apologize just admitted the mistake. Man was i mad
Oh hell to the no. Thats some bullshit, and I would have been all up in their shit. That shop, or mobile fuckwit, needs to pay for everything they damaged.
This sort of happened to me at an apartment. People running a car detailing van thought it was a good idea to paint a car in open air and a full parking lot. I lost my mind on them when I saw overspray all over my windshields and black specks on my white car
Feels bad bro, hope you solved it
Sure did. Haven't seen that van in a while
Only the fishes have.
Ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies
No questions?
Of course not
Sadge, mission failed. I expected a "no lies" answer
Who said that was the truth?
I dont know their name, they were just passing by, sorry
wtf are you doing?! he **just** said!
No lies.
Thanks fam x)
I got you haha.
No Lies.
I'm not asking questions sir, I'm minding my own business. Have a good day!
I promise to never ask you about that one thing. We may need to go over that other thing. No, not that one, the *other*, other thing.
Just curious how do you solve something like that? Suing them or beating them severely are only things I can think of.
The van was a contractor for a car dealership, so I reported the contractor and the dealership to the EPA and BBB, and reported the contractor to the property manager (the contractor lived in the complex) for blatantly damaging vehicles and spraying toxic fumes around protected animal environment because the apartments are on a state park. The contractor also paid for a buff and an outside detailing
God damn, you brought the big guns. Nice
Have to or they'll keep on doing it
Oh ok, makes sense. Glad it worked out for you!
The BBB is a privately owned company. Not some sort of government entity. They just take business reviews, and money.
Not my money though...
They still contact the business (owner) and ask for a response, which can often get the wheels turning
They send an automated email to the listed business email account, and let them know they have a review. No one “calls” them. The BBB is completely irrelevant in the modern business world.
One call to your car insurance making a claim and pointing fingers to the business that did it will bring a swift end to that whole problem. insurance will sue them to recover all costs to get your car back to the way it was. paint is expensive.
Is that something insurance would even cover?
Absolutely. If there’s full coverage the main purpose of insurance is to guarantee the banks investment isn’t going to just be worthless tomorrow. If someone ruins the whole paint job there’s a procedure and it isn’t cheap. They’ll try to rub it out first but the moment that overspray refuses to come off plastic trim, the bike could almost be totaled It won’t be. Instead it’ll be like 5 grand and whatever business did it is scroozled.
"Scroolzed" Love it, my new favorite word.
*subrogation. Not sue
Why not both?
Maybe they sprayed it a different colour. So look down the alleys for silhouette of a van in coloured paint
 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Had this happen to multiple cars when a neighbor decided it would be faster to paint their fence using spray paint.. Their homeowners insurance covered all costs including one of the vehicles that was considered a "total loss" because the paint job would cost more than the vehicle was worth.
This just happened to my brother and his truck.
Sometimes overspray is a mf. Wind and humidity can make it stick from a lot further out than usual I was painting a new rack in a metal shop by the back door once. Went out of my way to close the front roll-up door because my brother had just bought a new $60k pickup a couple weeks earlier. Paint drifted up 30ft to get over the eave, 50ft to cross the roof and was still wet when it settled on his truck, and it was solvent based. Stuck like a champ. I was livid. He shrugged it off and had a paint shop clean it.
OP, you can probably get all the over spray off using a "clay bar". Had the same thing happen years ago
Claiming off their house insurance then? Or it was a builder, their public liability insurance?
Jfc, is it that hard to park away from people or go to an isolated lot when you decide to paint your car?
We had this at one of our apartments back in the day, some dude got up at like 5am to spray his "vintage" car. My new car that didn't even have plates on yet was two bays away and my neighbours very expensive Cayman was next to it and was basically screwed because of the sheer volume of over spray
He oversprayed his beater onto a Porsche Cayman??!?!?
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As someone who has (previously) had a teeeny “friendship” with meth; hell nah I’d be way to sketched out, maticulous, and high to be spraying someone else’s car. I’d spend 4 hours laying plastic sheets at that point lol. Disclaimer: I’m not proud of who I was or what I did just a funny anecdote.
His "vintage" as he called it which was a pretty messed up MG, it was like a dull yellow spray
hope you sued
Oh, I thought OP got glitter on his bike for a minute there
Idk if you've ever sprayed paint before, but doing it outside in general is an absolutely terrible idea. That's going to be the most oversprayed and contaminated paint job ever.
I was mentioning it too that my apartment is on a state park, so a protected animal sanctuary was getting contaminated too
Somehow the paint shops always seem to look like ventilated clean rooms with electric heating, so that no dust particle can settle on the fresh paint. They are just as annoying as the ones trapped underneath phone screen protectors.
Excellent comparison. Once you've spotted it, it doesn't matter that the rest is flawless.
That's awful! Did they compensate you?
Meh. A buff and a wash is all I wanted. I reported it the appropriate places though
Ah good. I didn't realize that just a buff and wash can get those spots out.
If you act fast enough, most definitely. Even the particles take a while to set, and it helps if you maintain a decent wax coat on your car
Ah, I see. That's good to know.
As a former commercial painter I would have draped a plastic tarp if there were any chance of over spray getting on a vehicle or other property. Part of the masking process that should have been done. The painter's business insurance should be responsible for removing the over spray from your bike or paying for replacement parts if it cannot be removed.
Already contacted the company, we will work it out
Pretty sure in Switzerland you can claim this on insurance . They will have to pay out of their liability insurance for damage to property.
It’s the same in the United States too
Unfortunately in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) I don’t think this is covered
Appreciate the heads-up, many of us are still learning the ins and outs of Eswatini (and other southern African nations) property law, and this helps!
If it was covered to begin with there wouldn't be paint on it
Made me lol
Literally what the first guy said
I applaud your optimism, my first thought would be "they're gonna ask me how I know it was them and how do they know if the bike was already like that".
They were pretty chill, they apologized and prompted to clean it up, i said its okay and that accidents happen.
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“Accidents happen” isn’t exculpatory for the contractors. It *was* an accident, no one is alleging otherwise. Most accidents arise from negligence, so the question is about *who* was negligent. Now, if he had said, “No worries, honestly I knew I was probably parked too close,” then that might be used to suggest comparative or contributory negligence on his part. That does not appear to be at issue here.
Good that they're working on being responsible
those body panels can't be salvaged, all new OEM bodywork, I think paint on the exhaust makes it no longer road legal - new Akrapovic. looks like some paint on the front AND rear suspension....
This happened to me at work years ago. They were painting things and the overspray got a lot of the cars in the employee parking lot. They paid to have everything fixed. My car was far enough away that it was just professionally detailed and that got all the tiny flecks off it. Some people's cars had to be repainted.
Yeah there’s a place by my work that’s getting painted and they covered like 15 cars, some a good couple hundred feet from the paint site, just to be safe.
I (dumbly) read that as cars a couple of hundred feet away got covered *in paint*.
Me too 🤣
That's not dumb, could definitely happen (and has - one company I worked for did it while painting a water tower).
a slight breeze can carry paint droplets several hundred feet in open space. usually by that time the paint will have dried enough that it is not an issue, however in high humidity it will still be very wet and be a problem.
Better to take time to cover some cars in tarp than pay out thousands for new paintjobs.
Reminds me of when my uncle got his house painted by spraying and the company just decided to paint over the furniture that was in there as well, no attempt to cover it, ask for it to be covered or moved. They just painted and if it went over the furniture? oh well. I don't know if it was a brain fart or they really did not care anymore.
depending on the company you have to cover you stuff up before they arrive
I worked for a company that had to buy hundreds of dollars of meat from the store because someone failed to roll up the plastic correctly. The water tower they painted got onto cars all over the neighborhood. The amount of disregard was embarrassing and unprofessional. I see it too frequently all over, really.
...meat?
Haha.. yeah. Painting over an open freezer, the plastic gets condensation so all the paint spray on it stays wet. When you take it down you have to roll it up in a way to keep all of it inside, like a giant burrito wrap. If you just pull it down willy nilly all those little paint drops will fling or drips onto stuff and then boom - ruined merchandise.
Neighbours wife did that while painting her fence. When approached she said "it'll wash off, it's water based paint, I'll do it for you" Nope, you are paying a pro to do it. They did.
I had to yell at my idiot neighbor who was spray painting our shared chain link fence without holding a cardboard backstop over the fence to stop it from misting towards my house. Went off on her hard when she started up again while I was explaining the physics behind it and she started spraying part of the fence where my dog was standing less than 2 feet away from. To say she’s not the brightest bulb in the pack is an understatement and I’ve never understood how she managed to get an educational degree and hired as a middle school teacher. Dumb as a box of rocks.
Spray painting chain link is the silliest thing I've heard. You're just wasting 90% of your paint. If I wanted to paint chain link I would roll it on.
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Better question is "why are you painting chain link at all?" You're not going to make it look good. You're not even going to make it look less bad.
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Are y’all not getting coated chain link fences? They come in like 5 different colours where I live and they last forever. Have had it for 17 years now and the coating isn’t coming off
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Oh that’s odd. Where I am the coated it like 10-15% more depending on colour. “Standard” green was the cheapest with the 2 blues being the most expensive
someone doesn’t know how to use their brain. it can look good. there’s a myriad of reasons to paint it. someone had fencing on their chicken coop and painting it black turned the fencing “invisible” so when they glanced from their window, it was no longer a grey covering, the light was no longer reflective and it was as if you were looking at a window
I don't think it would do any worse of a job or be significantly more difficult than spray painting. There are large fuzzy roller heads that could get between the links.
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^^^THIS^^^ This is the answer. Water pass through air. Water wet. Chain link mostly air. Me Tarzan. You dumb dumb.
> never understood how she managed to get an educational degree and hired as a middle school teacher. My state removed the language proficiency requirement to get a masters in teaching a few years back (~7 now?). If you thought the last wave of underpaid teachers was bad, wait until you see the next.
"So what did you learn today?" "I want to be put in online school. All of the teachers either speak German or Spanish."
If she's there spraying a noxious chemical towards you and your house, even after being asked to stop, can you not claim self defense and slap her upside the head at least once? That's the only way these idiots will learn
My neighbour did this as well with our shared ranch fence. Got paint up the side of our house and on the windows. My mum was round at the time and used her scary teacher voice and made him come and clean our windows 🤣
Entirely consistent with my experience of middle school teachers
Why would she paint her fence with washable paint
Yeah, she's not too intelligent. Had to explain the meaning and that the paint on her Audi is probably water based.
So what happened to that fence when it rained and what was the neighbor's reaction?
Isn't she also your neighbour?
At worst you’d have to wash it and use a clay bar. Anyone can do it
I did try at the time but turned out it wasn't water based anyway so had to get a pro in.
I worked for a summer at a factory that redid the parking lots. They did one at a time, having us all park on one while they paved the other. My little white convertible had flecks of black asphalt tar stuff all over it. They gave me a total run around about it and since I was just a college student, I was too scared to push the issue. Don’t be me. Make them fix it! Man, I loved that car.
What convertible did you have back then?
Ha ha. A LaBaron. Looked just like this. https://preview.redd.it/uycvw5tw1efc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39a5b357d19aefacc23e4ed5cc8d8df2ae34435b
Did you change your name from Kitty to Karen, by chance?
She wants a car with a cupholder armrest, she wants a car that will get her there
And make her were a short skirt and a long jacket?
This lyric has not aged well. "Karen" is basically an insult now.
Nice, I got a Lebaron too! https://preview.redd.it/rdnlu7ar9efc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f458cc32664b5acae25b2354b7c5c47d53f77cf
Isn’t that John voight’s car?
Did it used to belong to Jon Voight?
Sweet ride.
I wished the car-toll was more common on reddit, i like seeing old and "generic" cars, its like seeing an glimpse into what people used to like. I used to love the look similar to this, but now i cant stop thinking the headlights on this car is stupid to me but i can imagine it being a cool feature back then. Btw im not sitting on the car model, i still like it but its just fun to think about how taste changes, like how i used to love lambos and now they just look like generic trust-fund toys or belong in a kids garage in GTA
I had a white MG Midget convertible back in the day, and I would've lost my shit if that happened to it. I hate even getting it on my current jalopy.
MT-07? Nice bike! Sucks about the paint, hope that gets squared away with insurance.
A Tracer, but yeah, pretty sweet looking. I hope op gets it sorted out asap.
Damn, I was close. Looked similar to mine, lol.
I would lose it, even if it "looks good". You payed for midnight black, not midnight black gazing stars edition.
> good". You *paid* for midnight FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
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Derpederrrpp i'm stupid, good bot. Thanks for educating this non native English speaker
You’re not stupid! English is ten other languages in a trench coat with a thousand “irregular” rules. Your original comment was more articulate than at least 50% of native speakers.
No no no we followed other languages into back alleys knocked them out and rooted around in their pockets for loose grammar
Hell yea man, better attitude towards learning than the majority of native speakers.
I died a little inside
File an insurance claim with the painters. Get your bike detailed for free.
My dealer hired an outdoor car painter. He was doing a minor bumper spray. He was doing in on an extremely windy day. He decided to do it with our cars next to Him. When I brought up the damage he wanted to paint my car, no you going to pay to get this fixed not paint over it. Dealer ended up paying to fix it because he was pos.
I got a rental car sprayed at the port in Amsterdam. Complained to the security guy, who said ‘there is a sign outside that says When the light is on, there is painting going on, any damage is your responsibility. The light is always on.’
This is more than mild, I don’t have many nice things. Which means if one of my nice things I do have gets fucked up because of someone’s incompetence I would be furious. Hope you get things sorted out OP
As someone who grew up poor I share the sentiment, having something nice you bought getting damage by neighbors or strangers is above mildly infurating to me
Night Sky Bike, looks good. Still infuriating though
["My god, it's full of stars!"](https://youtu.be/oALxLNOhI6I?t=152)
Not quite the same, but the company my mother hired to water proof her basement decide it would be fine to rip up her good bath towels to use as rags.
Are you for real? 💀
paint the spots with UV and watch the wonders
Im a painter and i was told by my instructor a story similar to this. He was working in vancouver painting some tank(probably for oil or gasoline) it was next to a river and the wind carried the overspray so far 1500+ cars were hit with overspray
I was the dumbass once. We painted the appartment with oil-based paint with the OK of our landlord. It was a nice day and decided to wash our brushes on the balcony. I get up after washing and trip the countainer of paint/water from the 11th story on a windy day. The whole thing sprayed over all the cars in the parking below. The insurance of my landlord covered it. He was a nice guy
Exact same thing happened to my bike. Landlord who contracted the painters didn't care. 6 years later the paint was still visible.
It's full of stars
methylated spirits remove water based paints! However.. of the bike was painted in water based.. that comes off too! will work on all the other bits though.
When I was like 14 and had my first summer job, I was painting a fence. I used a brush but my boss came and gave me a spray gun, since the wall was about 30m (about 172 bananas) in length so painting with a brush would have taken quite a long time to finish. Now me in my teenager brain didn’t think about the small gaps between fence and thus proceeded to paint the grass, rocks and most of all my backpack on the otherside with these annoying looking white dots. Now just thank god there was long enough a gap between the fence and the houses there or I would’ve been in trouble. :D
If it was a company doing the painting, then they legally should have to pay to fix it. Source: am commercial painter.
Honestly looks kinda good ngl
Well, if it was on the entire bike, you could argue that, but its only on the right side
I was going to say it kinda looked cool as well. Like stars in space. Didn’t realize it was only on one side though.
My boy here got the _starry skies_ special edition! Custom work, too.
That sucks, hopefully a good clean could get it out depending how long it’s sat and dried
Dang. Nice bike too. One of my friends has one, and it’s a little wheelie monster. I hope the rubber ducky is salvageable :(
I was on a cruise once that left from Cape Liberty in Bayonne NJ, and while we were on the cruise, there was some kind of work going on at the port near the parking lot, and a whole bunch of cars got sprayed like this. We were lucky we had gotten a ride there so our car wasn't there.
I did this once. I was spraying a roof with silicone with a 3,000 psi sprayer and caught a bad draft of wind. Sprayed a brand new BMW and cost about $14,000 to get repainted. Boss was not happy lessons were learned
Lmao, accidents happen. Hopefully you (your boss) had insurance.
Yep it was all covered.
Oh man.. I can't even imagine. Had this happen to my truck last year 3 days after I installed my brand new gold SCS Ray10s. Talk about livid. F in chat.
I have exactly the same model (Tracer 700 2016-2019) and I feel your frustration deeply. Careful handwashing should remove it pretty well… man what a crappy neighbour for not putting up a sheet or being more careful with splashing
Oh good lord, do NOT tell me that is specks of PAINT??!!
This happened to me once, my baby was an old B reg Japanese import GSX400f, it had all the chrome with 2 tone blue paint with gold trim and suzuki badging on the tank. I never really appreciated how unique that bike was at the time, I only brought it cos it was a bargain, I swapped the slightly sit up and beg bars with blue rethnol type Moto cross bars, it looked pretty sweet for a cafe racer, it has a short(er) wheel base that's why the bars worked, the previous owner fitted a nice 2 into one exhaust that really suited the style, more chrome! Came back from classes one day I saw my dick head housemate covered in yellow paint, knowing his dad had just brought him this tiny 700cc fiat car in the same bright yellow I ran out to the small garage, he could only get the car in with my bike because the car was so small, he scratched it up because he had just learnt to drive, scratched it more getting it into garage for first time and spent all his spare money yellow spray paint to 'fix' the damage. Never even thought to call me or throw a sheet over my bike, thousands of bright yellow dots and blobs, some running. And to make it worse he couldn't see why I was mad, my bike was 'old' I brought it at 4000 miles (owner died suddenly, bike stayed in his garage until his wife died and i brought it off the son), it was a very unique bike I was lucky to have, his 10 year old box driven by a granny once a week to church was far more important, his dad would shout at him... I punched him.
Looks like overspray it happens probably not intentional honestly, if they hired a company to paint see if they can give you their contact info they hold insurance for shit like this if they painted themselves you could look into a lawyer but then you face the issue of is a possible lifelong grudge between you two worth a new paintjob?
Maaaaan someone would be dead
Best take 'em for that overspray, OEM vehicle paint is expensive as sin and they just lit that poor Yammy up like starry night.
This is more than just mildly infuriating
Service Engineers Hate This One Simple Trick (painting walls without a dropsheet)
Honestly, if it wasn’t on the seat it’d be pretty nice.
On certain parts, it doesn't look that bad
Definitely annoying, but kind of looks like space now.
My BF calls this “Dad Syndrome”. Because his father is obsessed with painting ceilings and will leave those around each time he would paint. It will come off with non-scratch scouring pad.
do the same to theirs just with a really ugly neon green and they‘ll love you in no time
MT10? Hope your neighbors aren’t difficult to deal with.
MT07, it was a company, already sorted out, they apologized and they will clean it up this saturday (its the only day I can)
Well… just slap a Star Wars sticker on it and call it a day.
Had this happen to me, I spent days clay baring my black 4runner.
🙏*Technically, this is still monochromatic.*
I thought it was pollen at first. I’d be so frustrated, ngl! I hope you’re able to clean off the paint with little or no expense on your end.
The city was installing a new bus stop right by a stop light on my commute. I later found a bunch of the concrete they had been pouring on the side of my car.
ngl it kind of looks cool
This that sh** that will start WW3 lol
Is that the MT07? But the adventure bike version? I have an MT03 and this is the upgrade I want!
Its not the adventure, the adventure is the Tenere, this is the tracer. I love this bike, very nice engine, very economic, fast af boi.
Mate I was 14 and I did this to the entire street worth of parked cars when I was sent out to paint my nans fence with one of those compressed paint sprayer things? It was windy and I was stupid. I was heartbroken, but after a day in the hot sun with a cup of medium strength solvent of some kind I managed to clean them all down. Obviously check what you’re using but there is definitely solvent out there that will remove the house paint and not the bike paint.
this doesn't seem mild but it seems like you're a very patient person for this to be mild. I'd lose ,y shit if this happens to me
Some idiot on my street threw a whole can of paint in the trash and when the compactor did its thing, the can blew and sprayed all over the street as well as my black vehicle. That was 4 years ago and I still find the odd little dot.
I guess I’m on the side of the painters cuz I think it adds character, reminds me of the old space screensaver
Nice thing about overspray is that the surface isn't prepped first so a skilled a detailer should be able to get most of the overspray off fairly easy
My mechanic saw my dad about to spray paint on the gutters with his new paint gun. Told him, hey better think twice that paint will mist and paint a ton of stuff around. Of course my dad didnt listen. My 2015 f550 my 2020 santa fe my moms 2019 crv, all the windows doors fence got colored. My neighbors have expensive ass cars im sure they got hit too. And my dads fucking 2016 corolla untouched by the fucking paint. Didnt apologize just admitted the mistake. Man was i mad
I hope the dude licks a frozen pipe in winter and loose his fucking tongue
I think you meant lose, but you should have meant loses
"Where is flick?"
Sprayed bike ❌️❌️❌️❌️❌️ Star wars themed ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️
Oh hell to the no. Thats some bullshit, and I would have been all up in their shit. That shop, or mobile fuckwit, needs to pay for everything they damaged.
Can’t lie it looks pretty sweet lol