First dent on any car 😂👍

[Hien]

Laughing away my pain and frustration....

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[Janice]

I did the same. It’s more of a pseudo stress relief.

 

[Hien]

I did the same. It’s more of a pseudo stress relief.

Luckily it's tiny

 

[Syeeee]

Pdr

 

[BrettMRC]

It'll never not hurt!

 

[puzzled]

That sucks man, sorry to hear. Hope you can get that fixed soon.

 

[Hien]

That sucks man, sorry to hear. Hope you can get that fixed soon.

Already working on getting it dent repaired. I just really wanna know who did it ?

 

[jtsang25]

I think I'm blind. Where is the dent?

 

[Evolution]

I think I'm blind. Where is the dent?

Guessing here

 

[Hien]

Got it fixed today

 

[Extreme Power House]

Got it fixed today

 

[Zoomie]

North Americans have a special, maybe unhealthy, desire for our cars to stay perfect. I've seen people threaten physical violence just because someone put their hand on a vehicle.
It was a big shock to my system when I went to Italy where the average car has dented bumpers and cracked mirrors because they park by 'feel'.

I still hate every ding and dent on my vehicles. I find it especially infuriating when other people are careless or malicious around nice cars.

I've watched someone in a truck intentionally bump his door into a nicely done up 350Z. I left the owner a note with details of the truck that did it.
I've watched a kid ram his car door repeatedly into a nice Audi while his mom half-heartedly told him to stop and finally went over - looked at the obvious damage - sighed - and then got in her mini-van and drove away.
I've had to replace two windshields because pickup trucks can't stay in their lane and keep throwing gravel at me from the breakdown lane. I'm sure it'll happen again with my Supra.

At the end of the day it's just a thing. But it's a nice thing and I 100% understand the rage when it gets even the slightest blemish.

 

[Hien]

North Americans have a special, maybe unhealthy, desire for our cars to stay perfect. I've seen people threaten physical violence just because someone put their hand on a vehicle.
It was a big shock to my system when I went to Italy where the average car has dented bumpers and cracked mirrors because they park by 'feel'.

I still hate every ding and dent on my vehicles. I find it especially infuriating when other people are careless or malicious around nice cars.

I've watched someone in a truck intentionally bump his door into a nicely done up 350Z. I left the owner a note with details of the truck that did it.
I've watched a kid ram his car door repeatedly into a nice Audi while his mom half-heartedly told him to stop and finally went over - looked at the obvious damage - sighed - and then got in her mini-van and drove away.
I've had to replace two windshields because pickup trucks can't stay in their lane and keep throwing gravel at me from the breakdown lane. I'm sure it'll happen again with my Supra.

At the end of the day it's just a thing. But it's a nice thing and I 100% understand the rage when it gets even the slightest blemish.

What ticks me off is the lack of common courtesy these days.

 

[Supra_UK_]

I have to respectfully disagree with any form of justification or "normalization" of any careless behaviour leading to property damage. I get it, some of you guys track your Supra, so you have more stone chips than paint left, but others actually care about how it looks and don't want it damaged, period.

It doesn't matter if it's "just a thing", that "thing" is no different than your house, most of us at least (the regular non-rich folk) have a finance contract for that 'thing' and we work our asses off to pay the bill for it every month, no different than paying a mortgage.

The best way to change your perspective is to think about it in terms of your working hours:

Think about the cost of the damage, then equate that to your working hours: now, for the sake of this example, let's say that repair costs around 5 hours of your pay rate.

Think about your sorry ass working 5 hours straight, almost a full time shift, and every second of life you spent in those 5 hours, has been taken away from you, stolen essentially, by a mum in a minivan or a jealous crack head.
I want to know how many of you blatant stoic philosophers here, still claim it's "cool" and it doesn't matter, "it's just a thing".

If someone comes on your property, and damages your front door, what are you gonna do about it?

How is it any different than damaging your car's door?

This has happened twice to me, I witnessed 2 careless people dinging my door, (fortunately not the Supra) and I was unable to do much about it simply because of my temper, I either go full insane rage, or nothing, and I'd rather not go to jail, yet at least.

 

[XtremeMaC]

add the hassle to deal with it. that's the number one issue I have
Claim with your insurer. fill out their forms, provide pictures.
Wait for resolution. Get calls at random hours when you're busy. Call them back. Go thru stupid prompts. Wait for parts. Pay deductible. Wait for service to have time for you, be carless or be with crappy loaner car for few days. go on about your day. stop at grocery store with loaner. some idiot trucker leave an imprint of their door edge on the loaner! deal with that hassle. end up costing more than your repairs.
true story.

I don't know what people are driving in Italy, maybe bunch of Fiat 500s that they don't care to use as bumper cars, but that's also the home of many exotic cars.. I heard that people behave differently in Italy though. As in, if you stop at red, you'll be rear ended ?

Anyhow, to each to their own, but I agree. It's your property. If it's damaged it's devalued. It may never get back to factory condition. Some don't care about money as it's materialistic, some do. If you knock a lousy mailbox, that's federal offense ?. If everyone is OK with being careless on the road, yeah sure, I'll accidentally pit every car I don't want on road. lol. There's common sense, you share the road. that's why there is insurance, liability, etc. You have to respect others. Be cautious. Own up to your mistake. don't brake check. don't brake check trucks especially if you're on a f'ing motorcycle. don't ride your bike in the middle of the road. don't signal right and make a left turn. don't slow down almost to a stop, then signal. etc.
if it's careless mistake that caused the accident, it's more frustrating. if it's genuine accident, like your tire blew up, lost control, someone else crashed into you and you crashed into me, it was snowy, even with snow tires and proper distance car couldn't stop. if it was icy. these are acceptable by me as genuine reasons. others, I was putting make up on, I was head banging to my fav music, was juggling balls.. brakes busted, tires bald, no mirrors, unacceptable.....
windy day, shopping cart left unattended.. un-f'ing-acceptable.

Man! I just got this car. you did? ok lemme smash into it.

in this day n age, rear camera, parking sensor, BSM, should come standard. Car's have gotten heavier and more expensive anyhow. what's a $100 more gonna do. save you from an accident.

my $0.02. no hold on, I take that back. $0.00

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