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iPhone 4 bumpers scratch stainless steel band!

Beware guys...I received my black bumper about a week ago now. 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. Not a happy camper here...

HP DV7T-Quad, Windows 7, iPhone 4

Posted on Jul 16, 2010 10:14 PM

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Jul 16, 2010 10:58 PM in response to Dayvidpriddy

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.

Jul 16, 2010 11:15 PM in response to Thimbelle

I'm very anal with my toys, trust me there was nothing inside the bumper or on my phone that would have scratched it when I installed it. It's clearly coming from the hard pastic spots within the inside of the bumper. On the other hand as one user pointed out...at least it's hidden with the bumper! I agree on that point. I'm just saying it ticks me off when I've been babying this phone waiting for my bumper to arrive only to put it on and have that cause a scratch. It's pretty irritating and quite insulting that the bumper is the problem with regards to that.

Jul 17, 2010 8:07 AM in response to Dayvidpriddy

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!!!

Jul 17, 2010 8:48 AM in response to Dayvidpriddy

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.

iPhone 4 bumpers scratch stainless steel band!

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