just got my first door ding!
06-04-2006, 05:47 AM
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RE: just got my first door ding!
That's what is a pain about having a new car or a car with a new paint job. I'm expecting to see some things show up on my car, but hopefully not. Some people have a lot of luck in not getting any but most cars get a few dings and scratches.
My car got a big dent in the rear fender after I got it back from the body shop. That made me pretty upset, so I got a cop down to check out the scene. He said it was too late but I actually found the car that hit it, had some of my clearcoat on its bumper so I took a dozen pictures of the car and sent it to my insurance. I don't know if they did anything or not, but if they really were concerned about it simple forensics would trace the chemicals down to the paint on the other bumper I would imagine. So after I got that fixed, a few months later I went to SF and a couple other places and noticed a new dent on the same fender the next day while washing the car. I found a guy called dentmender on the internet and he fixed it for $60 (it'd cost at least $300 but probably $600 at a local body shop to fix that). And now it's still the same, I can't even figure out where the dent was the job was done so good. You might want to look into that if it is that kind of dent. If it's a scratch then that could require some work. If it's a metallic paint then that can be pretty difficult to touch up.
Oh yeah the garage door... since my car has a chrome bumper, I always have to check the door as it comes down to make sure it doesn't hit. I think it hit the body once, but it didn't leave any mark. I'll probably have to do the same with the mustang because it is longer too.
That reminds me of something slightly off topic, I went to the dealer a few weeks ago and they had one Windveil blue V6 and I noticed the bumper had a crease in it. So I showed one of the salesmen and he reported that in. Apparantly nobody knew til I pointed it out. Maybe someone took it on a test drive and got bumped. I wonder how hard you need to get hit to put a crease like that in the bumper, hopefully very hard because I'm hoping the bumpers hold up to impact, they don't on my current car. I think the car I have is only good for maybe 2mph impact at most and that's probably pushing it.
My car got a big dent in the rear fender after I got it back from the body shop. That made me pretty upset, so I got a cop down to check out the scene. He said it was too late but I actually found the car that hit it, had some of my clearcoat on its bumper so I took a dozen pictures of the car and sent it to my insurance. I don't know if they did anything or not, but if they really were concerned about it simple forensics would trace the chemicals down to the paint on the other bumper I would imagine. So after I got that fixed, a few months later I went to SF and a couple other places and noticed a new dent on the same fender the next day while washing the car. I found a guy called dentmender on the internet and he fixed it for $60 (it'd cost at least $300 but probably $600 at a local body shop to fix that). And now it's still the same, I can't even figure out where the dent was the job was done so good. You might want to look into that if it is that kind of dent. If it's a scratch then that could require some work. If it's a metallic paint then that can be pretty difficult to touch up.
Oh yeah the garage door... since my car has a chrome bumper, I always have to check the door as it comes down to make sure it doesn't hit. I think it hit the body once, but it didn't leave any mark. I'll probably have to do the same with the mustang because it is longer too.
That reminds me of something slightly off topic, I went to the dealer a few weeks ago and they had one Windveil blue V6 and I noticed the bumper had a crease in it. So I showed one of the salesmen and he reported that in. Apparantly nobody knew til I pointed it out. Maybe someone took it on a test drive and got bumped. I wonder how hard you need to get hit to put a crease like that in the bumper, hopefully very hard because I'm hoping the bumpers hold up to impact, they don't on my current car. I think the car I have is only good for maybe 2mph impact at most and that's probably pushing it.
06-04-2006, 06:48 AM
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RE: just got my first door ding!
I work in the same shopping center as a grocery store. All day I watch old ladies swing there doors open with no concern for the person next to them. NEVER park near the front of a grocery store. Last time I took my father to the grocery, he asked if we could take a cab to the store from the parking spot.
06-04-2006, 11:22 AM
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RE: just got my first door ding!
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amyster2u got it right. I park WAY in the back to avoid others. I go to UCSD for one night in their cramped parking lot to find some idiot in a white beamer dinged me. Right behind the passenger door on the quarter panel. Quoted $75-$125 to fix it as it's in a difficult place.
amyster2u got it right. I park WAY in the back to avoid others. I go to UCSD for one night in their cramped parking lot to find some idiot in a white beamer dinged me. Right behind the passenger door on the quarter panel. Quoted $75-$125 to fix it as it's in a difficult place.
06-04-2006, 11:23 AM
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RE: just got my first door ding!
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someone did the same thing to me but on the driver's side...it is dinged and has a big crease in the back quarter panel. i now park at the very back of the lot every where i go. people are just plain inconsiderate.
ORIGINAL: SPARTAN VI
amyster2u got it right. I park WAY in the back to avoid others. I go to UCSD for one night in their cramped parking lot to find some idiot in a white beamer dinged me. Right behind the passenger door on the quarter panel. Quoted $75-$125 to fix it as it's in a difficult place.
amyster2u got it right. I park WAY in the back to avoid others. I go to UCSD for one night in their cramped parking lot to find some idiot in a white beamer dinged me. Right behind the passenger door on the quarter panel. Quoted $75-$125 to fix it as it's in a difficult place.
06-04-2006, 05:05 PM
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RE: just got my first door ding!
That totally sucks man, I'm sorry to hear about that.
On a side note, let's all be realistic though - if you went shopping and left a cart in the lot, and as you were driving away you saw roll away and hit a car, would you stop and leave a note on the car that it hit? Probably not.
If you accidentally opened your door into another car and made a small ding, but you saw nobody witnessed it, would you leave a note on that car? Probably not.
I always park far away, and I am extremely careful never to ding other cars (hasen't happened yet), but human nature is just that - human nature.
Greg
On a side note, let's all be realistic though - if you went shopping and left a cart in the lot, and as you were driving away you saw roll away and hit a car, would you stop and leave a note on the car that it hit? Probably not.
If you accidentally opened your door into another car and made a small ding, but you saw nobody witnessed it, would you leave a note on that car? Probably not.
I always park far away, and I am extremely careful never to ding other cars (hasen't happened yet), but human nature is just that - human nature.
Greg
06-04-2006, 07:29 PM
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RE: just got my first door ding!
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That totally sucks man, I'm sorry to hear about that.
On a side note, let's all be realistic though - if you went shopping and left a cart in the lot, and as you were driving away you saw roll away and hit a car, would you stop and leave a note on the car that it hit? Probably not.
If you accidentally opened your door into another car and made a small ding, but you saw nobody witnessed it, would you leave a note on that car? Probably not.
I always park far away, and I am extremely careful never to ding other cars (hasen't happened yet), but human nature is just that - human nature.
Greg
That totally sucks man, I'm sorry to hear about that.
On a side note, let's all be realistic though - if you went shopping and left a cart in the lot, and as you were driving away you saw roll away and hit a car, would you stop and leave a note on the car that it hit? Probably not.
If you accidentally opened your door into another car and made a small ding, but you saw nobody witnessed it, would you leave a note on that car? Probably not.
I always park far away, and I am extremely careful never to ding other cars (hasen't happened yet), but human nature is just that - human nature.
Greg
