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Ever get out of your car at a parking lot and "half"open your door as to not swing it into the car next to you and then when you get out the motion of the car swings

your door "full" open? Yep, I couldn't catch it and put a little chip on the edge of my door. I hit the the car next to me in the strongest part of the door handle so

nothing to the other vehicle anyway. I hate to say it...I have to though....The other car was so un kept even if I would of dinged it I doubt the owner would have

noticed. That's bad right?? I HATE parking lots!!!!
 
Hellspawn said:
if that was the first chip, now the stress is over.
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Yes it was the first chip. Heres where my problem is....I have a hard time forgiving myself for things that are my fault. I mean I'll get over it but .....
 
^^ I am the same way man. I beat myself up and get sick to my stomach every time i think or look at things too
 
I have not had that happen. But I hate it when you park on the street and the curb is tall and the road angles on the sides and you passenger isnt careful and opens the door like usual and it slams into the concrete curb.

Or when getting the car, same situation as above, your passenger opens it carefully so it does not hit, or lets it rest on the grass and when you are all in the car the weight of us lowers the car just enough to get the door stuck to the curb or in the grass. The second one made me laugh when it first happened only because it got stuck in the grass.
 
This has the makings for a great thread on mishaps.

There's a silver lining to every cloud hand...at least it wasn't a friend or family member that was guilty of the chip. Then, you might be looking at them sideways whenever they get near your car.
 
I feel your pain. That's why we really hate to take our Black SVT Cobra anywhere near a parking lot. It was a garage queen for its first 15 years when we bought it so any new nick or scratch I agonize over how it got there and if I could have prevented it. But the reality is we enjoy driving it and it's not a museum piece. That's not why we bought it. BUT! , I totally understand obsessing about something like that. Bright side you didn't leave a door dent in either car. That would have been much worse. Spiney-Dave
 
did you leave your name and number incase the owner of the vehicle noticed you hit his door? Even if it was the 103rd blemish to his car
 
rock012345 said:
did you leave your name and number incase the owner of the vehicle noticed you hit his door? Even if it was the 103rd blemish to his car
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It hit the strongest part of the door handle assembly on the other car so there was no mark .
 
Here's a novel one. New SUV less than two weeks old on kid pickup. Another kids is throwing a plastic water bottle in the air and catching it when it clips a branch, and flings off and hits the c pillar. Bottle full of water puts a nice shallow dent in the metal.

Bloody punk then says, it's only a car. Snot nosed 7 year old.
 
what'sinaname said:
Here's a novel one. New SUV less than two weeks old on kid pickup. Another kids is throwing a plastic water bottle in the air and catching it when it clips a branch, and flings off and hits the c pillar. Bottle full of water puts a nice shallow dent in the metal.

Bloody punk then says, it's only a car. Snot nosed 7 year old.
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Ouch! It reminds me of when I was young and went to my friends grandpas house. He just waxed his car and I leaned up against it. He got so mad and yelled at me

that he had just waxed it. I thought to myself "geez! its just a car" Theres carma for ya!
 
We obsess over our cars and trucks and any nick whether self inflicted or not causes great pain. If it's a little chip get some touch-up paint. Clean the spot with some alcohol then dab on a drop. You'd be amazed at how less noticeable the defect has become... :props:
 
Brings back a memory...

Wife and I had just loaded our flat bed truck for a big plumbing job, and stopped to have breakfast at iHop on the way to the job. Sitting there eating, I see this older gentleman and his wife backing out in the parking lot... he was getting close to the 12' metal flat bed on the back of our GMC truck.

Just when I thought the guy was gonna brake, he guns it in reverse, and lifts my whole truck bed up like 6" as he buried the trunk of his Crown Vic underneath my truck.

Before I could get out the door he sped away. I expected to see damage to my truck... nothing, nada, zilch. Just a ton of silver paint collected on the ridge of the truck bed and my a few scratches on my trailer hitch.

Never really saw how bad his car was damaged, but from the amount of paint my truck bed collected... they probably had a huge body shop bill.

My wife and I felt bad as his car looked brand new from what we could see. Our waitress couldn't believe we didn't sustain any damage as she saw it happen too.

I miss that truck, thing was a tank!
 
BobbyG said:
We obsess over our cars and trucks and any nick whether self inflicted or not causes great pain. If it's a little chip get some touch-up paint. Clean the spot with some alcohol then dab on a drop. You'd be amazed at how less noticeable the defect has become... :props:
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Good Idea Bobby. Good little project for the Easter weekend coming up.
 
I can empathize with your recent self-inflicted vehicle damage, but I agonize more over dings, chips, and other blemishes to my vehicles caused by "outside-sources" that are usually out of my control. Hail damage being the worst for me.
Running a very close second are the parking-lots folks that display and are afflicted with cases of infantile/juvenile amaurotic idiocy!

Note:
We often know them better as:
Ignoramuses, scatterbrains, buffoons, birdbrains, fools, dummies, dunces, a$$es, dimwits, dullards, lame-brains, simpletons, imbeciles, morons, dumbbells, dopes, cretins, nincompoops, chuckle-heads, nitwits, meatheads, jackasses, crackpots, did I say fools?, half-wits, loons, knuckle-heads, bunglers, clowns, bumblers, blunder-heads, fumblers, boneheads, blockheads, goofs, dolts, yokels, clods, oafs, clodhoppers, botchers, idiots!!!

Anyway...Good Luck with your repair, OP.

:)

Bob
 
That's too bad, but take BobbyG's advice, it's better than "take two aspirin and call me in the morning". lol
 
Perhaps the most relieving thing for us is when we see a scratch, go to investigate and notice it is only paint transfer, no ding and not finger nail catching.

Am I the only one who keeps Scratch X 2.0 in their car? lol
 
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