A car magnet is a sheet that lives on painted steel in weather. It is not a fridge plaque. Grit between the pad and the paint will scratch if you slide it. The fix is ordinary care, not a lawsuit.
Lift, do not slide
Magnum Magnetics tells vehicle-magnet buyers to lift the sheet off the panel. Do not drag it. Sliding a dirty magnet is how you sand the clear coat with parking-lot grit. Peel a corner, lift, then set it down on a clean spot.
Wash the panel and the magnet face when the car is dirty. A hose and a soft cloth. Grit hides at the edge. If you leave a sheet on through a week of I-4 dust, lift it before the next rain so water does not hold sand against the paint.
Move it so paint does not fade a silhouette
Florida sun fades around a shape that never moves. Six months of the same outline can leave a darker patch when you finally peel the sheet. Magnum’s usual advice is to take the magnet off now and then, wash both sides, and park it a few inches over. The door stays one color. The magnet still reads.
Do not put a car sheet on a freshly waxed panel and expect it to stay. Wax is slip. Wait. Do not wrap a magnet around a sharp body line where the sheet bridges air. Air plus vibration peels.
Fridge plaque is a different object
The red enamel face here is a kitchen plaque. The tab at the top is a hang hole for a fridge hook, not a suitcase handle and not a car-magnet flap. Do not stretch a fridge plaque over a fender. Do not treat a vehicle sheet like a souvenir disc. Weight, pad, and weather are different jobs.
How the pad holds on steel is how a magnet holds. Shop the fridge wall on Shop. Car-care listings belong on a vehicle magnet, not on a 2-inch city disc.
Get this Florida jumbo state magnet. A large state face. Still a fridge or locker sheet, not a car wrap unless the listing says so.
Get this Florida small state magnet. A smaller state souvenir for painted steel at home.
If a listing does not say it is a vehicle magnet, keep it indoors. Painted kitchen steel. Dry. Lift to clean.
A week on I-4 dust is enough grit to matter. Lift the sheet when you wash the car. Rinse the back. Dry both faces. Set it down a hand-width from yesterday’s outline. That is the whole care page. No threat. No lawsuit. Paint lasts longer when the magnet moves.
Hotel parking lots bake a door by 2 p.m. A sheet left on a rental through a long weekend can leave a cleaner rectangle than the rest of the panel. Peel it before you return the car. Wash the panel. That silhouette is sun, not a defect in the magnet.
Owned car versus rental
On a car you own, pick a door you wash. Lift every wash. Move a few inches each month. On a rental, skip the sheet. Hotel lots on International Drive bake paint. A silhouette on a returned door is an argument you do not want.
Magnum writes for flexible vehicle magnets. Follow the listing. If Amazon does not say vehicle, it is a fridge or locker face. The red plaque hang tab is still a fridge hang hole.
Do not treat this page as a threat. Lift. Wash grit. Move the sheet. That is the care.
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