will anyone pay for me to get my bumper repainted? exactly.

i'm not the "track-star" that likes to drive his car around with a f**ked up bumper and show off my "battle scars."

 

bah, you spend thousand of dollars of bling race parts. use them.

 

its ok dude.
simmer down.
we are just messing with you.
poor blue trees.

 

Man, you guys are harsh. I'm glad I use white tape when I'm on track, otherwise you'd be ribbing me, too.

When the car is a full-race car, then I'll live without the tape. But until then, I still consider the car to be something that I might need to re-sell. Nobody wants to buy a car with a sandblasted front-end, and if I'm having to sell the car, then I probably won't want to invest several hundred dollars for a re-spray.

 

you get more sandblasted on the freeway.

Do you wrap your couch in plastic?

Just like the people who have a old Ferrari and think its cool there are only 100 miles on it.

-Ry

 

Dude, think of the children...

 

He did used it.

 

This is why people use blue tape.

 

 

No, but that's because I consider sitting my chunky butt on the sofa to be "normal usage" (plus, I never intend to "resell" my sofa, so who cares if it wears out?). However, if I had kids and the sofa was in a highly visible location, I'd probably put some sort of protective/decorative cover over it for day-to-day use, and remove it when I had guests, so that it would be more attractive looking. There's a difference in using something and abusing something. I would consider having kids jumping up & down on a sofa to be abuse, rather than normal wear & tear, just like I consider nose-to-tail driving at high-speeds to be abuse, rather than normal wear & tear.

I don't get significant sandblasting on the freeway because I don't follow too closely, and because most drivers aren't running super sticky tires that suck gravel off the road and vault it into the air.

Regardless, to each their own. Honestly, I've been too lazy to tape my car the past few times I've been to the track/autocross, but that's mostly because I plan to convert it to a racecar in the future, so it won't really matter in the end. However, if I planned to use it as a daily driver and wanted to be able to shine it up & have it be pretty when I take it out on the town, I might treat it differently.