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05-09-2013, 05:20 AM
#21
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Texas
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05-09-2013, 02:21 PM
#22
3rd Gear Member
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Decatur AL
Posts: 823
Most people don't care about their car, so why should they care about yours. It's everywhere it seems. Plus the fact that every place with a parking lot has put as many parking spaces as they could cram in so close together. They sealed & striped all of our parking lots a couple of years ago. They move in the lines about a foot. My car will not go back out there.
05-09-2013, 02:39 PM
#23
Gentleman's Relish
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: AZ
Posts: 13,090
Instead, my wife went apeshiz on him
He plays a lot of video games....hmmmmmm......
05-09-2013, 02:57 PM
#24
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: CA
Posts: 180
I was working on my truck today, and noticed a funny black streak on the front left bumper going back to the tire. The car is dirty from all of the pollen, so I thought I would just wait and give her a good bath in a week or so. Turns out the "funny streak" was not some dead bug that slid, but where some f%$k stick hit me at work apparently. Looks like a bad close call on one of the monster trucks at work backing in. To the body shop I go. You would think that if someone hit me that they would own up to it and have me paged. That would have been fine. Now I am it is out of my pocket, and I am mad. My wife say's I obsess to much over my Mustang.
It happenned to me the very first day I bought my car ;(
05-09-2013, 03:07 PM
#25
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: AZ
Posts: 13,090
Oh I've had worse....2nd week I owned my car, no one else near me on the freeway going to work on a Friday Morning....except for this big gravel truck pulling onto the on ramp three lanes to my right and about 15 car lengths ahead of me. I bumped up my speed a bit to get past him before he started to merge into a lane closer than me...
In slow motion, I saw this friggin tiny piece of gravel fall of the back of the truck...start bouncing, and friggin cross over all the way accross the lanes into my car! I heard a loud 'snap' as it whizzed off the windshield (just above the cowl) I thought for sure it was gonna crack it... Nope, just chipped it. BUT on my hood where it first made contact there is a faint dimple and a 2" long 1/4" wide gash down to the primer of the hood...
FUUUUUUUGGGGGG!!!! I was literraly sick to my stomach that day, nauseated, light headed, pale as a ghost...my boss noticed my physical disposition and asked me what was up. I told him about what happened and showed it to him (he's a car guy too). He gave me the option to go home if I wanted to. He told me he would be exactly the same way.
In slow motion, I saw this friggin tiny piece of gravel fall of the back of the truck...start bouncing, and friggin cross over all the way accross the lanes into my car! I heard a loud 'snap' as it whizzed off the windshield (just above the cowl) I thought for sure it was gonna crack it... Nope, just chipped it. BUT on my hood where it first made contact there is a faint dimple and a 2" long 1/4" wide gash down to the primer of the hood...
FUUUUUUUGGGGGG!!!! I was literraly sick to my stomach that day, nauseated, light headed, pale as a ghost...my boss noticed my physical disposition and asked me what was up. I told him about what happened and showed it to him (he's a car guy too). He gave me the option to go home if I wanted to. He told me he would be exactly the same way.
05-09-2013, 09:38 PM
#26
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Decatur AL
Posts: 823
Derf00, I always wondered if I had a sticker on the back of my truck or Mustang that said "not responsible for objects falling on the road" like a dump truck has, and threw a door **** out the window, let it bounce all over his dump truck or car, what would happen? Compared to yours, mine was a walk in the park.
05-14-2013, 08:59 AM
#27
1st Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Cali
Posts: 113
i always park far away from everyone to avoid stuff like that , i have numerous scuffs and dings from people opening the doors and hitting my car , im not taking chances anymore , most people dont care about their car they sure as hell wont care about yours
05-14-2013, 11:56 AM
#29
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Decatur AL
Posts: 823
This place runs 24/7/365 so there is no avoiding the masses. People coming and going at all times. I did find an ara out by the one of the fire stations yesterday. Not too many people parked around there. In the mornig or evening. Same thing this morning. A lot of empty spaces. I will keep an eye on that area. Right now I am just driving my truck to work.