Acorn damage to hood and roof.

[clos0791]

OP, was this just a vent or a serious worry?

I cant count how many threads here people are debating spending lots of $$$ or time fixing the superficial small stuff. The age old "Dont sweat the small stuff" comes into play here.

Here is a different view... As long as the paint is intact, the integrity of your vehicle is still intact. Now nature has added a "feature" to your car that allows you to park where you want without second thoughts!

The fact that cars come off the lot looking like jewelry is a true disservice to their primary function, especially a truck. These are tools that hurdle down roads at high speed while exposed to the elements and sit year round in all conditions. Lets not even discuss the perils of parking lots .

I know many people take great pride in their vehicles, and that's great, but it seems to come with a psychological cost that is pretty high. Maybe I need to start a company producing custom molded protective covers for vehicles, much like phone cases. Helping people feel free to use their vehicles as intended.

Maybe vehicles should come stock with just a corrosive coat. Then the cost saved in paint is used to wrap it in a thicker vinyl that also protects?

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Many of us take great pride in our vehicles but, I agree with you, there is a psychological cost. I have dealt with OCD since I was a child. I worry about people leaning on my vehicles, I park far away from others, I avoid freeways as much as possible, I don't like others driving my vehicles, etc. Even simple things like doing mods on my Maverick drives me nuts because I always worry about making sure I don't damage anything during the install. Don't even get me started on doing mods that use double-sided tape, lol.

But seriously, the psychological cost associated with keeping your vehicle in pristine condition is not worth it. Life is too short to worry about these kind of things. However, OCD is a real condition that many of us have to deal with on a daily basis. Furthermore, OCD expands to all aspects of your life; it sucks.

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[Bob The Builder]

OP, was this just a vent or a serious worry?

I cant count how many threads here people are debating spending lots of $$$ or time fixing the superficial small stuff. The age old "Dont sweat the small stuff" comes into play here.

Here is a different view... As long as the paint is intact, the integrity of your vehicle is still intact. Now nature has added a "feature" to your car that allows you to park where you want without second thoughts!

The fact that cars come off the lot looking like jewelry is a true disservice to their primary function, especially a truck. These are tools that hurdle down roads at high speed while exposed to the elements and sit year round in all conditions. Lets not even discuss the perils of parking lots .

I know many people take great pride in their vehicles, and that's great, but it seems to come with a psychological cost that is pretty high. Maybe I need to start a company producing custom molded protective covers for vehicles, much like phone cases. Helping people feel free to use their vehicles as intended.

Maybe vehicles should come stock with just a corrosive coat. Then the cost saved in paint is used to wrap it in a thicker vinyl that also protects?

TC Inc. - Truck Condoms, letting you have fun without worry since 2023!

WAT? No offense but I know lots of people that have the exact same attitude as yours when it comes to vehicles. They all look like pieces of shit too I may add. You know the type, no matter what they buy, a car, truck, house, tools, a new suit 3 days after they bought it looks like they have owned for 5 years.

Some of us are very good at dealing with high psychological costs. It comes from dealing with life.

Good luck with your new truck condom company. Hope you get good patient investors. You're gonna need them.

 

[Grand Nat.]

Is it just the hood that is aluminum?

Yes I believe so. Just do a magnet test like I did and you will see.

 

[Jman79]

Many of us take great pride in our vehicles but, I agree with you, there is a psychological cost. I have dealt with OCD since I was a child. I worry about people leaning on my vehicles, I park far away from others, I avoid freeways as much as possible, I don't like others driving my vehicles, etc. Even simple things like doing mods on my Maverick drives me nuts because I always worry about making sure I don't damage anything during the install. Don't even get me started on doing mods that use double-sided tape, lol.

But seriously, the psychological cost associated with keeping your vehicle in pristine condition is not worth it. Life is too short to worry about these kind of things. However, OCD is a real condition that many of us have to deal with on a daily basis. Furthermore, OCD expands to all aspects of your life; it sucks.

Thanks for chiming in. I hope.that my post doesn't start a debate about how to maintain your car. I mainly want to counter some bad culture that adds to the kind of negative effects you posted above. Which BTW, I have some of the same tendencies, we all do. The post is also a reminder to myself, for when I take delivery, to avoid some of the entrappings of being proud if my shiney new toy!

I will search to see if there is a first dent club thread tonight. If not I will start one. Perhaps we can help put a positive spin on getting through those first blemishes.

 

[Jman79]

WAT? No offense but I know lots of people that have the exact same attitude as yours when it comes to vehicles. They all look like pieces of shit too I may add. You know the type, no matter what they buy, a car, truck, house, tools, a new suit 3 days after they bought it looks like they have owned for 5 years.

Some of us are very good at dealing with high psychological costs. It comes from dealing with life.

Good luck with your new truck condom company. Hope you get good patient investors. You're gonna need them.

Yeah... no offense... but there is a flip side to every coin.

Ya know, like people who write "no offense" in a post online then talk a bunch of . It helps them feel better because somehow they read a post that touched their ego the wrong way. Wound so tight ya missed the fact that the TC Inc was just a joke to lighten the mood and provoke thought about why things are done a certain way?

Seriously, if my post compelled you to write that as a reply, good luck with where your self esteem and enjoyment in life come from!

 

[Ham57]

try Osage trees, lots of them along Lake Erie roads

I have seen those oranges twice that size, not kidding and they are hard as a rock !

 

[fossil]

I have seen those oranges twice that size, not kidding and they are hard as a rock !

yeah the one pictured is a baby, didn't want to panic the troops
I hug the center line on a few local streets, and they have bike lanes.

 

[Edge Haley]

Love my Maverick, but the Maverick has the thinnest sheet metal I have ever seen on a vehicle. From probably anywhere you can press your thumb against the sheet metal and see the thin flex of the sheet metal.

 

[catshreds]

"From tiny acorns, do mighty oaks grow!" Just look what this thread has grown into!

 

[BoboysTruck]

THAT'S just nuts!

It is! I'm still waiting for a pic of the damage and these acorns. I wanna see how big these acorns are..

 

[Guv]

OP, was this just a vent or a serious worry?

I cant count how many threads here people are debating spending lots of $$$ or time fixing the superficial small stuff. The age old "Dont sweat the small stuff" comes into play here.

Here is a different view... As long as the paint is intact, the integrity of your vehicle is still intact. Now nature has added a "feature" to your car that allows you to park where you want without second thoughts!

The fact that cars come off the lot looking like jewelry is a true disservice to their primary function, especially a truck. These are tools that hurdle down roads at high speed while exposed to the elements and sit year round in all conditions. Lets not even discuss the perils of parking lots .

I know many people take great pride in their vehicles, and that's great, but it seems to come with a psychological cost that is pretty high. Maybe I need to start a company producing custom molded protective covers for vehicles, much like phone cases. Helping people feel free to use their vehicles as intended.

Maybe vehicles should come stock with just a corrosive coat. Then the cost saved in paint is used to wrap it in a thicker vinyl that also protects?

TC Inc. - Truck Condoms, letting you have fun without worry since 2023!

I would not be happy if acorns had buggered up my newish truck.

 

[Guv]

And tools are hammers, wrenches, ratchets, shovels………
Vehicles cost too damn much, especially today to treat like a tool.

 

[TrailMaster]

The post is also a reminder to myself, for when I take delivery, to avoid some of the entrappings of being proud if my shiney new toy!

I don't buy a new vehicle every couple years. In fact my Maverick will be the first brand new vehicle I have purchased, and it will be my last! While some may see 30k-ish as chump change, it is quite a large sum for me. Your insinuating that being proud and taking care of our vehicles is a personality flaw makes me think you probably live on the other $ide of the fence.

 

[Jman79]

I don't buy a new vehicle every couple years. In fact my Maverick will be the first brand new vehicle I have purchased, and it will be my last! While some may see 30k-ish as chump change, it is quite a large sum for me. Your insinuating that being proud and taking care of our vehicles is a personality flaw makes me think you probably live on the other $ide of the fence.

Apparently I need to work on my openers. I'm admittedly a tough love person and skip the touchy feely part of delivering certain points of view.

Perhaps I should have opened with "That sucks, I often have felt the same. However, when I examine why I get frustrated I find that maybe how we think of vehicles is wrong? How we are influenced to think of vehicles is wrong?

Now some may even read that and think I'm saying they're wrong for thinking how they do. But its more of an observation of something we do wrong as a collective. I say wrong because of the odds your efforts will be undone time and again. As well as the whole depreciating aspect thing.

I am having a hard time thinking of the best way to convey the thought. A vehicle is more like a tool, subjected to things that will blemish it during normal use no matter what you do. We dont polish tools because we know its a somewhat futile thing. So why do we set ourselves up for that with cars? Honestly I think lot of it is learned behavior pushed by marketing that makes us tie our ego's and other aspects of self worth to the purchase. Its a good way to sell a high price depreciating asset.

Id rather look at OP's truck with a couple dings and also point a few other scratches then commend them for using it well vs trying to make it perfect again so it can happen again down the road.

And no, I'm not poor or rich, just overly pragmatic. My current car is 20 years old and in way better condition than most 20yo cars. I'm careful to spend my energy on maintaining it, but not things that will soon be undone.

 

[TrailMaster]

No worries, I'm pragmatic as well and understand that vehicles are material things and tools.

I own two 20+ year old classic motorcycles that still run great, and currently drive a manual shift 02 Ranger that I bought used for 10k around 2005. It has nailed a deer since, and took a heckuva blow after hitting a patch of black ice and finding it's way into a roadside ditch smashing the hell out of the front end. I thought it was a goner but they were able to save it. It's exposed to the elements and the old paint is pretty much gone now. It gets me around the county fine, but I wouldn't feel confident driving it across the state at this point. Still, it's my reliable old tool for getting into the mountains, camping, running errands and moving bulky stuff from point A to point B. I'll be keeping it as my beater upper.

At this point my Ranger won't be getting the TLC and attention my Maverick will be. I'm aware the Maverick won't stay new forever, but it will be be serviced at regular intervals, fluids changed often and kept as clean as possible. Heck, I'll even wash it and use ceramic coating regularly. It'll be my nice vehicle for long road trips in comfort and style.

As far as the OP, I wouldn't be happy if my new vehicle got acorn pockmarks all over it either.

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