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skoles · 09-01-06, 10:26

My hood is so chipped to hell you can notice it when you're 3' from the car. Nice down to the metal chunks.

I have plenty of dings all above the door ding guards so I removed those useless things. My trunk lid has a 1/4" chunk of paint gone in the corner where my friends bike chipped it when he got a flat and I picked him up. I have a scrap on my front bumper from when my friends neighbor backed into me (and didn't say anything until I confronted her) when my car's alt died in front of his house. Someone placed something on my roof when getting into their car because I have a 5" scrape down to bare metal. My factory paint appears to be bubbling from behind on my drivers door (I gotta take pics for you guys here).

But my prized piece is when some old lady scraped her '68 Chevy Malibu along my passenger side rear 1/4 when pulling in next to me in a parking lot. She didn't just nudge the car and stop, nor did she stop when the alarm went off. Nope, she took it to the limit and put a 2 1/2' scrape down the rear quarter and pushed in about 3sq ft of metal along 2 bodylines. I was inside at the time and came out to her looking at the damage. Wow was I pissed. I managed to bang about a good amount, but some of it is too fine for the tool I had so I'll need a dent repair pro handle it. I hate it so much cause when the car is clean you see this horrible ripple down the side.

I guess my favorite section is the front passenger 1/4 panel. It's the only one completely unscathed.

09-01-06, 10:26	#7 (permalink)
skoles Professional Lurker™ skoles is offline Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Mass Posts: 33	My hood is so chipped to hell you can notice it when you're 3' from the car. Nice down to the metal chunks. I have plenty of dings all above the door ding guards so I removed those useless things. My trunk lid has a 1/4" chunk of paint gone in the corner where my friends bike chipped it when he got a flat and I picked him up. I have a scrap on my front bumper from when my friends neighbor backed into me (and didn't say anything until I confronted her) when my car's alt died in front of his house. Someone placed something on my roof when getting into their car because I have a 5" scrape down to bare metal. My factory paint appears to be bubbling from behind on my drivers door (I gotta take pics for you guys here). But my prized piece is when some old lady scraped her '68 Chevy Malibu along my passenger side rear 1/4 when pulling in next to me in a parking lot. She didn't just nudge the car and stop, nor did she stop when the alarm went off. Nope, she took it to the limit and put a 2 1/2' scrape down the rear quarter and pushed in about 3sq ft of metal along 2 bodylines. I was inside at the time and came out to her looking at the damage. Wow was I pissed. I managed to bang about a good amount, but some of it is too fine for the tool I had so I'll need a dent repair pro handle it. I hate it so much cause when the car is clean you see this horrible ripple down the side. I guess my favorite section is the front passenger 1/4 panel. It's the only one completely unscathed.