I have a black cobalt SS S/C and i notice the Body scratches REAL easy you can run your finger across the paint and it scratches anybody having this problem i just got the car a week ago im about to complain. It already has a couple minor scratches on the hood some pretty big you can only notice them at certain angles.

 

wax it!!!!

 

I put wax on it it hides it a lil bit but the scratch is still there. I never seen any black cars scratch this easy.

 

i also use this turtle wax color cure wax

works awesome

 

have you noticed little scratches though since you had it? why does it scratch so easy?

 

i have swirls on mine from the idiots at the dealership who wipe them down for the showroom. My car still has yet to be handwashed. its only been through the touchless automatic ones... meaning no cloth has ever touched it while the car has been in my possession, and yet it still has swirls on it.

 

my yellow 07 ss/sc if you look at the paint it flakes off.i have more white spots where paint has chipped off from whatever its not even funny.

 

IF you have never owned a black car before, this is why you probably won't ever again. I manage a paint and body shop. There is nothing wrong with the paint on your car. Unfortunately with black, every little flaw is magnified with that color. Every little ding, scartch, scuff, and microscopic peices of dust show up very easily. Black is the highest maintenence color to have. It is very difficult to keep clean and looking great. That is just the pitfall of black. Taking it to the dealer and complaining is not going to do you any good. There are just certain colors that have their faults. White is the easiest to maintain. It hides a lot of flaws because it is so highly reflective, but it turns yellow over time. Red is my personal favorite, but over time it can get a pinkish tint to it. No car is perfect and they all have there flaws. You just happened to buy the worst color in the world to maintain.

 

That will happen on almost any color car, it just that you can see it easier on a black car

 

i'll tell you what though When a black car is clean and waxed theres nothing like it. i Wanted my cobalt in white but the ss s/c doesnt come in white that disapointed me.

 

ditto. I wanted white also. Black would have been my second choice, as black is super sexy when its clean, but after owning a black cavalier, i said to hell with that again.

 

X10 on a freshly washed and waxed black car. They are GORGEOUS

 

wax it with the BLACK turtle wax/chip stick.

where in jersey are u?
i'll teach u how to buff out the scratches if u want.

 

i wax my car like my **** but and its still get scraches but if i wanted my car to look perfect i would have kept it in storage.

 

finally another black ss s/c in jersey

 

gm really cheaped out on the paint. My white car is getting light scratches. a clay bar and waz will clean a lot of it up. I'm even getting rock chips on the bumper, normally the bumpers don't chip because the plastic will absorb the impact and not chip the paint, but i've got 2 scars already. i have a handfull of rock chips on the hood and A pillar. I'm not impressed with the paint at all.

but thats the joy of a black car, they all do it. I've got a friend with a 87 grand national that had a very expensive paint job, all black but it was like the most perfect mirror finish i've ever seen. its scratched looking now, not from a lack of care but because its black.

 

this thread is sad. you guys need to take better care of your cars. i'm gonna go take a pic of mine outside, and post back in a few. note that it ALWAYS looks like this.
be back soon

 

note ive done detailing on many a 100,000 dollar black sl 55. and the only way to get out deep scratch's in a black car is color sanding, a good wash,wax and polish. all dont by HAND. touchlees car wash's will RUIN your paint cause of the water pressure.

 

and my car is a year old. it's not the paint... it's you, not knowing how to take care of it... or not taking the time to do it right.
p.s. i know the body plugs in my decklid are cheesy, but the wing had to go... and i'm still gettin the cash together for the Carbon Fiber decklid

quoted by me.

 

I seen a product that might work for the swirl marks called 3M swirl mark remover. Haven't used it just read about it though.

 

damn bro you must wax that thing twice a day just kidding

 

I agree with this. It is not the paint. I just did a three stage wax from Mothers after a heavey few weeks of snow fall and wiping snow off my car. Finnally had a nice day to wash it and wax it. The car had swirls in the paint and minor scratches which I took out by re waxing it by hand. It took about 5 hours to do all three stages by hand but it was well worth the effort. The only way to get a true sratch free shine is to first wet sand the paint then wax.

I would post pics but we just got another heavey downfall of wet snow so it would be useless. (At least she's now protected by the elements)

Cheers

 

Hey you've got the same issue going on with your right front part of your bumper that I do. It' lifted up a bit over the front headlight. I've tried to get it to go flat like the left side but it just won't. Just wondering if you had noticed that before?

 

Go back to the dealrship and tell wht scrathces you found. I found a couple after having mine few days and they gave me we owe voucher and a number to their paint tech and he was able to buff them out, same with the dents in the hood.

 

I will agree that black is one of the hardest to take care of...that's why I always stray people away from a black car unless they've owned one before and know what it's all about.

I do a complete 3 stage on mine about 3 times a year. I replace mother's stage two with meguire's swirl remover 2.0 and viola: