iPhone 4 bumpers scratch stainless steel band!

Well at least it covers the damage too!

I got my bumper with the phone on launch day and my metal band doesn't have a mark on it. Did you get something caught under the bumper?

Bumper case + Zagg Invisible Shield = Good combo... Shield prevents scratches that could occur from any case or any dust or dirt trapped between the case and the phone

We have 2 phones, and 2 bumpers. No scratches. I just checked both of them after reading the OP.

I'm not saying it can't happen, and certainly not trying to insult anyone. Given the speed at which all of this is being manufactured just to try and meet demand, however, there are bound to be problems.

Think of it - 3 million phones is 3 weeks? That's a LOT of phones by anyone's standards. And probably a similar number of bumpers as well. To expect every single one of them off of the line to be perfectly perfect? It won't happen. Your bumper may have had a tiny manufacturing flaw that caused the scratch. Or, perhaps something abrasive did manage to creep under the edge.

Regardless of how it happened, if you live near an Apple store, I would walk in with the phone and the bumper and see what they say.

I just wish they had made a "clear" silicone bumper so that you could see the stainless steel band through the bumper.

Dayvidpriddy wrote:
I'm very anal with my toys

Yeah, I'm sure you are......

There's no way plastic is going to be able to score stainless steel.

Unless that is there was something harder caught in the case.

Or it was damaged out of the case and you hadn't noticed.

Philips cases are okie they have a silicone bumper and a back plastic to protect the rear of the phone.

Dayvidpriddy wrote:
Uhm no lol. Rub your finder around the inside of the bumper...there are areas of hard plastic. There is/was no debris inside the housing before I put it on the phone.

Plastic harder than steel? Next we'll hear that glass backs break and will all be amazed 🙂

Phil

I think apple should start vetting who can buy their products, nothing too long, just a 5 min interview at the genius bar. I think the products are fairly cool and innovative. Judging by most of the comments on this forum, most of there consumer base is not.

I just took my bumper off after having it on for a full week and there is not a single scratch on the band. I'm not babying my phone either, not anymore than previous iPhones.

Dayvidpriddy wrote:

honeyb27 wrote:

Dayvidpriddy wrote:
I'm very anal with my toys

Yeah, I'm sure you are......

Perhaps you should look up the term "anal" in the definition I was using it in...

Dayvidpriddy wrote:
Uhm no lol. Rub your finder around the inside of the bumper.

Oh gosh, I LOVE THIS THREAD...it's gotten so sexually funny! Haha. 🙂 What's a finder? That just makes it sound so dirty! HAHAHA!!!

Dayvid, are you saying that the 'scratches' have depth? Can you feel them with your fingernail? The stainless band is Apple's own special brand so I can't say for certain here but my past experience with stainless is that it is one of the hardest materials in use today and there is no way that any plastic will scratch it. You may not agree but I believe that your band was scratched before you put the late-arriving bumper on it.

You can test this all out by rubbing a stainless steel spoon, or knife, or fork against the hard plastic of the bumper and it should leave scratches in the stainless utensil. I don't think it will. I believe the plastic could impart onto the stainless and may leave marks on, not in the stainless.

I would like to know if the scratches on your iP4 band have depth...and approximately where the scratches are.

Having said all this, any metal polish should take out normal scratches and scuffs in stainless. Just use extreme caution. Stay away from the glass and rub lightly with the grain. Try to blend in the scratch marks. Don't do it if you're not sure how.

Good Luck.

BTW- My black bumper has not left any scratches on my iP4 band.

Dayvidpriddy wrote:
Took off the bumper tonight to clean my phone down and there are scratch marks on the steel band from the bumper (this is caused from the pieces of hard plastic on the underside of the bumper).

There had to be grit or a foreign substance under the bumper. Plastic will not scratch stainless steel.