Body Grounding Scuff and Road Debris Paint Touchup

How to minimize Bumper Cover Grounding issues:

If you are regularly grounding your lower front bumper cover/valance/splitters consider raising your vehicles to a height at your next alignment so that the lower bumper cover just clears the typical cement parking block. This is still well below the euphemistically called Stock USA "nose bleed" height and will minimize future grounding.

Here is some information on suspension heights.

Using spray touch-up paint to clean up paint abrasions on the lower parts of a 993:

For my car, a non-metallic Speed Yellow car,  I keep on-hand a can of exact OE color matched spray paint to touch up the occasional scuff just on the lip at the bottom of the leading edge of the lower bumper cover splitter. If your car has a metallic paint finish a little testing in an inconspicuous place on your car may be in order to see if the match is to your liking.

It also works well to touch up the bottom trailing edges of the wheel wells where they are subject to road debris abrasion thrown up by the tires.  All this cover-up is down below the line where the original factory finish has a sort of pebble-like abrasion-resistant coating under the body color paint so the variability of spray paint application seems to blend in without notice. Just a quick masking off around the abrasion and a dusting of added paint and it's done, no biggie. It's so quick and easy it can be added to one's regular car wash duties, reapplying it as needed.

I purchased both a couple of cans of body color & clear-coat, from: 

https://expresspaint.com/ 

they have lasted for many years of spot touch-up.

Also here is some more information on spot touch-up of paint chips, nicks, gouges, and scratches.

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