Ok so about a week ago. I come home from work and park my car in the driveway thinking it would be better protected, well god went and proved me wrong once again. My father managed to back into my left front fender and scratch on my bumper. about 4" long and 3/4" wide. He is paying for it in full. But surely enough he did managed to hit my car before i could make a payment on it.

Took it to the bodyshop today. turns out it's somewhere between 12-1350 to fix. replace front fender, repaint the bumper and blend the exisiting paint on the car if need be.

Though this might help or entertain someone out there.

 

jesus sorry to hear i got my first foot long scratches one payment in myself

 

my first scratches came in 2. gonna cost 650 bones for me to repair

 

that's a lot of money for a small scratch...

 

well sadly but fortunately my first real scratch was from a driveway on the front right side way under where the bumper rolls under the car, cant really see it but a scracth none the less

 

Its okay, i already scratched my rims parallel parking =(. Any tips on preventing scratches when i am parallel parking in a REAL tight spot. I am a pretty good parallel parker, but sometimes i cant see the curb on the side and its hard to tell if you're tight towards the curb!

 

angle your right side mirror down to face the curb, i remember they taught that in driver's school, and they even told you to put the mirror down before you go take your onroad test for your license so you can see the curb and tell how far you are or if you'll hit

I've come within a few inches of the curbs, especially at work in my parking lot because my tC's already been hit there, I'm hugging a corner spot against a curb every day from now on, just be careful getting close to them curbs and make sure your wheels are straight when you're done parking, or make sure you remember where they're pointed so you don't turn your wheels straight into the tight curb you'll be backed up against

 

reading these posts scare me and give me goose bumps...

 

yea seriously, i dont have my tc yet but u guyz are makin me nervous with these stories

 

Yeah, your heartaches when something happens to your tC.

 

Yeah, I had some _____ clip my driver side mirror and gouge the car from just after my door all the way to the taillight. It was deep too! Including the rear tire which is now multi-colored. This was going at least 20mph....I think about it now, couple inches more and we got crazy airbags deploying everywhere.....Cost her $2,200 2 days before christmas. I am, however, still without my car right now. I think this ride is a magnet.....

 

Be careful you don't cause your own problems if you have ground effects.....curbs are pretty scary in the beginning. I haven't done it yet, thankfully, but i think that's inevitable too.

 

it's okay... you could always find some weird ___ dent on the side of your car from god knows what. btw.. it's definately not a door ding.

 

This thread reminds me of the male bonding scene on the fishing boat in the movie 'Jaws' when Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw start comparing scars they got from sharks. Here's my tale:

I'm minding my own business traveling about 30 mph on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, just thinking about what a cool car I have, <begin Jaws theme music> when I see a large wheel cover, rolling toward me on edge. There was no time to react and no place to go, with traffic to both sides of me. I hit the brakes and slowed a bit before we made contact but couldn't really stop because there was traffic behind me too. The cursed thing made a 5" scratch in my heretofore pristine car. I had driven my Camry for 12 years and my Volvo for 7 years before that without getting a single scratch. Guess my luck ran out.

 

i came to work early yesterday, and the front gates werent open yet. so i pull up and stop around the corner where i have line of sight with the main gate. a big rig trucker manages to get by me except the for the very end of his trailer. clips my driver side mirror.

the worse part of this is, i was at a 'no parking zone' and there isn't much i can do to get his insurance to pay for it. she (the tc) was 2 days from being a month old.

 

In the first two months I had my tC, someone in a truck with a trailer hitch backed into my car (while I was elsewhere) leaving a 1/2" x 2-1/2" rounded hole in my front bumper. The dent/hole itself isn't so bad, it's the $250-$350 it will cost to fix it, or the $500 to replace & paint the front bumper cover. They can't stay new forever you know.

 

I'm just gonna knock on wood and not say anything else

 

tCholleration, looks like a golf ball hit your car!!!

My tC's first "opps" happend the day I got it. I was making a little u-turn on a slim neighborhood road. I was going to drive though some of my friends neighbors yard. Sure enough it was a big hole. Scrapped under the pass. side little scoop/hole on the sidewalk. It starts from the grill and goes under pretty far. Not that easy to spot but if you see it you'll never forget. Im sure it would cose over $1000 to fix. It needs to be resprayed and blended.

Sorry to hear about your tC's It happens to the best. So far no dents on ours.....
Knocking on wood

 

Giddy's avatar looks a lot like mine!

 

I cropped this image of Chris Walken as the Continental on SNL from a photo of I pilfered from www.ojaiwan.net. I compressed it for use as the avatar I've been using here for months. Is that what you really look like? The similarity is really astounding isn't it?