Recent content by johne53

Haha - presumably you haven't got the activematic gearbox then (which is one of the worst automatic gearboxes I've ever owned!) Seriously though, I've just booked an appointment with my dealer to have this problem investigated. This morning I was showing the problem to one of my neighbours when...

Good question - mine is called Phantom Blue. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I just checked Mazda's web site (in the UK) and I could only find one dealer with a Phantom Blue model for sale right now. I wonder if that's significant? Rust ?!?! That's all I needed to hear. Interestingly, some...

The whole car was 'Supaguarded' by my Mazda dealer just 6 weeks ago and I'd hoped that this might lead to a reduction (if not a cessation) of these mysterious scratches appearing all the time. But it hasn't. Hardly a week passes without me noticing a couple of new ones. I'm seriously thinking of...

Thanks. The strange thing is that I had the old scratches re-sprayed only 6 weeks ago (though they weren't in the same areas as these new ones). It's almost as if the original paintwork has never hardened properly for some reason. Does that seem feasible?

Thanks for the reply, Jungldbll. Can you explain what you mean by "painted prior"? I've never heard that expression before. Do you mean it was re-sprayed before I bought it?

And here's another example. You can see that it started raining by the time I got to this last one and my umbrella's reflected in the paintwork. About one quarter of the way down from the top of the photo (and in the left-hand side of the umbrella's reflection) you can see another small vertical...

Here's another example. Unfortunately, my remaining photos are out of focus - so the scratches look thicker than they appear in real life (they're actually the same thickness as my earlier example). In the first photo, you'll see a reflection of me taking the picture with my mobile phone. Where...

Here's a photo of one of the scratches. Approximately in the middle of the photograph you'll see a very fine, almost horizontal scratch (next to the curved bit of the plastic window trim). This one appeared about 3 nights ago when I left my car overnight in a secure company car park (i.e. with...

Thanks to you both, guys. I'll try to get some pictures but I'm not hopeful. Mostly they're thinner than a human hair so I doubt they'll show up on a photograph.

Thanks. I do appreciate your help but I don't understand why a pressure wash would cause this effect. And why would it cause the scratches to appear several days later when the car's just been sitting on my driveway overnight? In any case, I've washed all my cars the same way for 25 years and I...