The car is barely 3 years old! But yes this side does face the sun
It's possible, but it's been extremely cold and overcast where I live for the past month. If anything, the rain froze and popped it off?
The couple of reasons I jumped straight to it being a person are the streaks that really look like nail marks and the area I live in. People around here (without giving away EXACTLY where I live, of course) are either young and reckless or on some sort of drug (be it meth, opiates, etc). I can absolutely see someone walking up to it in a parking lot, seeing the already cracking clearcoat, and chipping away at it!
I was hoping to get some comments asking for more information so I could give more relevant answers, but everyone seems to be assuming I live in suntown USA!
Luckily no neighborhood beef, my closest neighbors live over a half mile away!
Oh yeah, for sure! I was hoping I could hold off a little bit to save up for a fancy cover but this might have tipped the scales a little faster than I wanted
Just curious, did it also have those streaks? Obviously my first thought was fingernails (could be because I have the urge to peel cracking clear coat and I'm projecting lol). It's just bizarre happening when it did, and where I live since it's essentially been cloudy and overcast just about every day this month! I needed to get it fixed regardless, so no harm no foul I guess?
Thanks for the tips, and here's to perfect clear coat and smooth paint to you!
I'll catch you someday. I know it!
No, I'm just assuming based on the streaks left by what I assumed to be nails
I didn't know that sub existed, thanks! I'll wait on posting there until I've confirmed it was actually fingernails, since the other comments said it may be something else 😉
Not necessarily a stone chip, but likely a tree branch chip that started it! This is the rear wing on my car so I feel like a stone hitting it is a little unlikely, but ultimately not impossible I suppose. The spot wasn't growing at all when I originally noticed it, then one day it was massive. I always took care around it because I obviously didn't want to make it worse by washing it.
I suppose it's possible that the horrendous rain around here did it though!
The sun started it (combined with tree branch scratches), for sure! But those streaks scream nail marks to me, since the spot wasn't getting any bigger until one day it was massive
This is a little more infuriating than "mildly infuriating" but I can't think of a better place to post it
Edit: I'd like to clarify that I live in East Tennessee, not an area like Florida! I do appreciate the hints that it might be clearcoat goblins though, and I've left a saucer of milk and cheese out to ward them away
Queens in the Stone Age?
edit: the embeds weren't working because of me! fixed now
Imagine you were in my weirdly dirty shoes, driving along a back road somewhere between 30 to 35 miles per hour, behind a pickup truck. Oh no, tragedy strikes!
"TINK TINK TINK TINK TINK"
Damn. You just got this car, too!
Alright, now back to my perspective. First of all, out of all the times for my car to start making this noise, it had to be when I was driving like a civilized human being?! I knew it wasn't the engine, I knew it wasn't the transmission. The "tink" was coming from the rear. I pull off on the side of the road and get my body as low as possible to the ground and poke around. Brakes look fine, axles look and feel fine, suspension looks fine. Nothing's wrapped around anything and slapping a piece of metal. Damn.
Fast forward to a handful of yards down the road in a parking lot, still "tink"ing when it rolls. Tink going forward, tink and a little clunk going in reverse. It's gotta be the differential. I've lost all hope, so I start calling a local dealership for the closest date I can bring in my car to get it looked at by a real mechanic. Nothing available today. After some more "close" inspection, I eventually accepted defeat and drove (very slowly) back home.
After the heart wrenching (and tink-y, but thankfully short) drive back home I realized I can easily check my rear differential by jacking up the rear of the car and spinning the wheels by hand. I do just that, and it spins freely with no "tink". What?
Wait, what's that?
Oh. There looks to be some sort of nail. What's that saying? Can't see the forest for the trees? What a fool can't see he can't believe? I'm not sure.
Keep in mind, the sound it made was LOUD. Like, someone hitting a wood spoon onto a pot lid, LOUD. I'm not sure if "tink" is really the right word, but I'm rolling with it. I assumed it was mechanical, because when a car makes a sound like this you automatically think worst case scenario.
By this time, I had called my brother in law to help. He had a theory: what if that "nail" was long enough that when it had the weight of the car on it, it would hit the inside of the wheel?
That very well could be the case.
Luckily, the penetration could not have been in a better place to be plugged! (Mostly because I don't want to replace all 4 tires at the same time just yet!)
I drove (still, slowly) to a tire shop a couple of miles down the road. I wasn't entirely convinced this would fix the main problem, but it needed to be removed anyways.
I wait in the lobby for who knows how long. Eventually, one of the shop guys comes into the lobby and drops a piece of metal on his desk.
Holy shit. That'll do it! That pin is almost 5 inches long, about twice as long as I have sidewall on my tires! It absolutely solved the tink problem 😉
Moral of the story: if your car sounds like it's hitting a wooden spoon on a pot lid, double check and make sure you didn't run over a metal rod longer than your wheel is thick before looking for mechanical issues!
And that's my first experience with driving over nails (or other pins and metal pieces) in over 4 years of driving! I hope my little story was fun to read, and I hope you immediately realized it was something in the tire unlike me over the course of several hours!
I'm not sure when this actually started, but it's been mildly annoying. I'm not able to find any results online about what causes it, or how to fix it.
In the case of the screenshot, it appears when I click the "Health" tab of Wintoys. This error also sometimes shows up when opening the Settings app, and every time I launch Forza Horizon 5. The error always shows 3 times, one after another, then as far as I can tell nothing else happens.
From my research it has something to do with updating, but I'm not sure why it tries to load it in Horizon 5.
Steps I've taken (not in this specific order)
Tried every built in file system/windows error checker (found no errors)
Tried copying over an "older" version of the DLL from a previous update stack (required SYSTEM permissions, so didn't press further)
Tried repairing using Windows Installation Media ("couldn't repair")
Tried updating windows (no luck)
I'm trying here because I'm hoping maybe there are some helpful anecdotes that might be able to fix it! I am using a Ryzen 7 5800X, just in case this is caused by an incompatibility that I don't know about. I can provide more specs/information if needed :)
Edit: reformatted the steps I took, since it looks like it turned into a big wall of text (at least on Sync)
Edit 2: added the edit text 🤫
Not entirely sure if this fits here, but it's development related
Yeah, I asked a really dumb question in hindsight
All for the low low price of 300,000 atlantian dabloons!
Also it's in an HOA.