Guess Who Drove Thru Yellow And White Paint

Stevens03 · August 11, 2011

Well, What can I say.... I F'd up and didn't even know it till I was home.

I decided to come home for lunch, and get subs at a local shop for the family. All was good, as I got the subs and headed home. I had a choice to take the back road or the main road and decided the back road would be more fun. There's were I went wrong. Freshly painted long sweeping turn with LOTS of yellow paint for a non-turning lane, then a turning lane. There was no "FRESH PAINT" sign or truck keeping you back or any vehicles for that matter. When I made the turn, I got on the throttle and kinda straight lined right thru the paint.

When I got home, I opened the door and immediately saw Yellow paint on the rockers and bottom of the door and my heart sank. I closed the door and it looked like the entire side of my truck was splashed with yellow paint, my fender wells are Yellow now... and my mud flaps and step bars are yellow too. I called the insurance and found out the damage is covered, but that doesn't really make me feel any better. This is the kicker... PennDOT is not liable for the damages due to some "Government Immunity" but my agent told me that they will most likely pay for my deductible ($250) but will take a while to get back.

I was already at the Auto collision center and the quote is $1500 to fix/replace.

I just got done spending about 4 hours getting all of what I could get off which ended up being everything on the painted surfaces. I clay bared and used a porter cable to get every speck of paint off the paint. Aside from the inner fenders, mud flaps, and step bars... the paint is in good shape now. The downside was both sides got it in the end. Right side was yellow and the left side was white speckled.

The insurance claim will be replacing both front and rear inner fender wells, mud flaps and step bars, then hopefully get the rest of the paint off the under carriage and other misc places.

NOT a fun evening.

SouthCo · August 11, 2011

Sorry to hear that. That will definitely ruin your day. My parents' neighbor did the same to her ford temp back in the day. She was much older and they never did get it fixed. Glad to hear you got the paint sorted out.

Porter_ · August 11, 2011

heart sank reading the first paragraph, but luckily the story got better . shitty day but at least it turned out to be a completely solvable problem. and i feel your pain on lazy city practices when it comes to fresh paint etc. on the roadway. the 3rd day i owned my new Ram (150 miles on the odometer) i turned down a side street to swing by the post office on my lunch break. i heard a sound similar to driving down a wet road even though it was a clear and sunny day. when i got back to the office i noticed fresh tar all over the rocker panels. i cleaned it all off immediately so it was not nearly the hassle you're going through. even so, a sign on a public roadway goes a long way.

Stevens03 · August 11, 2011

OMG it was a shitty day. When I went back to work, I couldn't even concentrate on work.. the truck was in my mind. In the end I think everything will be ok... but wow... what a feeling to see my near brand new truck covered in yellow paint.

The bad luck needs to end. I came home from vacation with my basement flooded, dealing with the insurance has SUCKED to get things replaced. My solar cover wripped in half for the pool, had to replace that,.. then my hot tub cover broke in half, I sprung another water leak in the basement... my truck got covered with paint... and to top it off my freshly sealed jet black driveway is now partially yellow due to cleaning my truck off. I'm done now... I ready to be back on track.

[email protected] · August 11, 2011

Well I sat and watched the whole "visit my website" slideshow and didn't see any pics of the mess you made.

Stevens03 · August 11, 2011

Well I sat and watched the whole "visit my website" slideshow and didn't see any pics of the mess you made.

I know.... but I was more interested in getting the yellow and white paint off as fast as I could. See below for some quick photos.

Stevens03 · August 11, 2011

The innner liners are toast.

[email protected] · August 11, 2011

That is WAY worse than I was thinking! Now I understand your anger. Looks like the bumper plastic is yellow as well.

Porter_ · August 11, 2011

what a f'in mess. hope insurance takes good care of you.

Dzlbudman · August 11, 2011

They going to Buy tires too? Also your rear bumper?

HawkScot · August 11, 2011

Sorry to hear about your troubles..

Just remember, troubles come in sets of 3. If you get a 4th event, it does not break the rule, it means that you are started on the second set of 3...

Porter_ · August 11, 2011

Sorry to hear about your troubles..

Just remember, troubles come in sets of 3. If you get a 4th event, it does not break the rule, it means that you are started on the second set of 3...

well aren't you a bucket of sunshine

cracked_up · August 11, 2011

I hate hate hate it when PaDot paints the lines and makes the lanes narrower then the trucks we drive. Why can't they just paint the lines wider so this doesn't happen?

Sorry you had to clean your truck, and that has happened to many people. That's hard shit to get off and the sooner the better...

03blackz71 · August 11, 2011

Man that sucks but glad you could get it off the paint.

Did you try and us a pressure washer on the inner fenderwells to see if that could take it off?

MikeNH · August 11, 2011

Did the same in my 03 with the white line. No signs and it was poring rain which made the pain run on the road some too. But at the same time that saved me I think cause I got home, with washing and clay bar I got it off everything except the fender liner (stepside) but even that got the paint wore off after a few months of being blasted with road grit.