The Most Random Damage On Your Car?

"jkm7680" (jkm7680)
10/21/2016 at 16:46 • Filed to: None

Cars get damaged, it’s inevitable but we try to avoid it. What’s the weirdest damage you’ve ever found on your car?

Some background on mine: At the country club I go to, the parking lot is right next to the the golf course, but the golf course faces the opposite direction of the parking lot so cars don’t get hit by balls. I parked smack in the middle of the parking lot, me and a couple friends spend about two hours there and get back to my car eventually. There’s a dent in the roof and somebody left a note with their information on it saying they hit it with a golf ball.

To this day, my best theory was that this said person was playing golf in the parking lot for whatever reason.

So how about Oppo?

DISCUSSION (25)

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 16:48

My wiper cowl. No clue why.

Kinja'd!!!

jkm7680 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
10/21/2016 at 16:49

Huh, that is strange. Maybe the motion of the thing moving somehow fucked up the paint around it?

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 16:51

There’s a single dent on the roof. Wasn’t there when I got it, and I haven’t been near any golf courses. Also, when I got it the pedal for my parking brake was bent and the release ripped out of the dash. Seriously.

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
10/21/2016 at 16:51

*sigh* Man, cowl looks bad.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 16:52

I think it was once involved in a collision and they just bondo’d that area up? I’ve never seen anything like it.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 16:53

Some paint has been scratched off below the front license plate on my car, it’s a very narrow deep scratch. Still no idea how it happened though, since the plate is roughly 1,5 cm thick, and it’s 40cm from the ground, so it’s not a place you’d easily scratch by walking past.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 16:54

When I bought my Accent, I found the glovebox hard to open and shut...it wouldn’t close evenly. Found out last year that one of the HINGE PINS was COMPLETELY MISSING...??? Not sure how the previous owner lost that! A bent nail, in it’s place and it works flawlessly now!

jkm7680 > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
10/21/2016 at 16:54

What the hell? Hahah, that’s really strange.

jkm7680 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
10/21/2016 at 16:55

Possibly, that’s really odd. I’ve seen something similar with cracked paint, but still.

Tripper > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 16:55

Related: When I bought my first car, right after I finished the paper work, the salesman jumped into a car that was blocking the one I just bought. Then promptly backed it into the Explorer that I had just traded and fucked up both cars real good. It was awesome.

wiffleballtony > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 16:55

I have a small ping on my driver door just under the window. A clumsy fast food worker dropped a bag of ice there a few years ago. You may wonder why I was getting ice at a drive through? It was early, I wasn’t thinking clearly and just following orders from my father in law.

jkm7680 > wiffleballtony
10/21/2016 at 16:58

How did that dent it, haha?

Spaceball-Two > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 17:02

I kept finding these long hairline scratches on my passenger door. I thought maybe the mitt I wash with had rocks in it or something. Then one day I was sitting in my car in the garage at work and my coworker pulls in next to me. She gets out and smiles and walks towards the elevator. All the while letting her GIANT Coach bag flop around wildly beside her. I just sat there and watched if drag down my door.

interstate366, now In The Industry > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 17:04

My front bumper has a couple of cracks in it. I have no idea why, because they were there when I got it.

jkm7680 > Spaceball-Two
10/21/2016 at 17:06

Ouch, that’s happened to me many times. Luckily, the kind of scratches those things leave are usually easy to remove.

I did manage to scratch my front bumper a bit while cleaning bird shit off it. Apparently, birds around here eat gravel.

Spaceball-Two > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 17:10

Yeah they buff right out and she’s super nice and smokin hot so I just let it go.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 17:16

One of the strips running along the roof of my old outback under the roof rack was pushed forward about 2 inches. No idea how that happened. It was the middle of the summer so it wasn’t from clearing snow (and I try to push snow over the back anyway). A couple of solid whacks and it was back in position.

Kinja'd!!!

Not my car but it was the second strip from the right which runs backwards along the roof which was pushed forward.

Then there was the rock that a semi kicked up which hit the drivers door handle at just the right angle to pop it out. Luckily the actual mechanism attached to the handle was strong enough to keep it from falling off for the last mile to school. I was able to put the handle back on but there is a solid scrape on both the paint and the handle.

Now that I think about it a lot of strange things have happened to that car. There are little white scratches on the drivers rear fender which seem to multiply constantly but I have no idea what could be causing that. Then there was the grille over one of the fogs which magically spun 45*. They go in with 4 tabs which key in 4 places, you can’t put them on at an angle! And then there was the time the hood safety catch managed to get stuck closed while the hood was open.

Then there was that one time at a Rallycross when I managed to rip the heatshield between the muffler and the gas tank loose. It got all the way home perfectly fine. Two days later I was driving to school and it sounded like the right front suspension was falling off. Turns out it was that heatshield hitting the muffler and resonating up through the car.

Orange Exige > wiffleballtony
10/21/2016 at 18:08

Wow sounds like the random dent in my driver side door... Maybe getting ice at a drive thru is more common than we think?

(but really, what drive thru sells ice??)

The Compromiser > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 20:06

I have a nice scrape on my rear bumper corner because my son forgot how to get the snow blower to stop. For those who have no idea what snow is, you let go of the handles....

citizennick > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 20:11

Someone backed into my rear bumper in the Camaro shortly after picking it up. Not really noticeable from a distance but it’ll require a new cover and paintwork thanks to where the damage took place.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > jkm7680
10/21/2016 at 20:30

I’ve got some scrapes on the right rear door from the jeans of one of the mothers of a cadet in my CAP squadron. She had no qualms about resting her fat ass on my car whilst we did formation and calisthenics, and seemed to get indignant when I politely asked her not to lean against my car. She was an obnoxious and overbearing woman that home-schooled all of her kids. Unlike many parents that dropped their kids off at the meetings for a few hours, she was there throughout the entire meeting. The kids just looked worn out and beaten down, and probably could have used a couple of hours a week away from her.

There’s also a small dent/chip on the roof, just past the top of the windshield. This was the first dent I got in my first new car, and as such it stung a little more than any other. I remember seeing the rock get kicked up by a truck wheel and come flying at me. I instinctively ducked as it seemed headed for my face. In retrospect I’m glad it hit the roof instead of the windshield as that would be a pain to repair/replace.

wiffleballtony > Orange Exige
10/21/2016 at 20:36

McDonald’s, apparently. A little more back story. My in laws were moving and we going to have an ice chest with drinks to assist in the move. We were in a hurry and my father in law said McDonald’s would be the fastest. Ultimately the fast food worker let go of half the bag before I had it, allowing it to pendulum into my door.

Orange Exige > wiffleballtony
10/21/2016 at 23:02

Ah man, I can visualize that all clearly in my head... in slow motion nonetheless.

That’s a tough dent to get out too if mine is any indication. Can’t get behind it - even if you take off the inner door panel - and a blow dryer didn’t work for me either :/

wiffleballtony > Orange Exige
10/22/2016 at 00:39

Yeah, it’s actually the only dent in my car.

I’ve tried the compressed air blow dryer trick with no luck. I’m not nearly skilled enough to pull a door apart to try and fix it.

Orange Exige > wiffleballtony
10/22/2016 at 10:26

Not so much a skill as a patience. For one, the inside of the door will have a metal frame and it may not even be possible to get to it from the inside depending on it. There was a sent in my hood that was a pain to get out for similar reasons - a long screwdriver was the only way I could get to it from the inside. And then if course, that made for some rough spots after the dent was out so I had to use body filler and repaint it.

Back to the patience thing though, if your car is similarly evil, the interior will be held together by plastic clips that have a 50% chance of breaking anytime you remove them. The good thing about the big inside door panel though is that even if you break half of them, there’s enough left to still hold it on recently XD