When your salary is significantly greater than your driving ability

"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
11/30/2016 at 09:52 • Filed to: None

Here we see a crowning achievement in wallet over brains.

A Tesla model X ($75k) parked in a spot outside Walmart. Well, mostly in a spot. It’s hard to see (sorry it’s a crappy, rushed, 1 handed pic) but he/she has managed to cover both lines with a crappy park job. Additionally, on this very new $75k minivan, is the very obvious “I backed right into that” dent. These have a split screen with both camera and parking sensor data, right?

Here’s to you, rocket surgeon (probably).

DISCUSSION (16)

EL_ULY > Tekamul
11/30/2016 at 10:08

in the high car dealer world, I see this everyday. Camry Dent should be changed to dumbass dent. All cars easily apply

fintail > Tekamul
11/30/2016 at 10:14

How does this not have a WA plate? (at rear, with no front plate even though they are mandatory here, but S/X drivers are above such plebian demands).

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Tekamul
11/30/2016 at 10:22

Pretty sure that was Pastor Maldonado’s problem too.

diplodicus > Tekamul
11/30/2016 at 10:22

Wish I had this problem.

Wacko > Tekamul
11/30/2016 at 10:36

so former average BMW drivers are now buying Teslas

Tekamul > Wacko
11/30/2016 at 10:42

It’s nice they have a wider range of choices. Bouncing between 535i and A6 leases every two years was getting boring.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
11/30/2016 at 11:04

But Camrys seem to have them at an inordinate rate. I always suspected it was less lack of skill and more something about the construction of Toyotas that result in those dents (I also see them on Corollas and Priuses quite a bit). The only cars I can think of with the corner dents among my circles are on Camrys (2) and an old Mazda Protege.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > fintail
11/30/2016 at 11:04

I’m pretty sure that’s a Vermont. Pretty much the same place, just opposite ends of the country.

I hate front plates, but put them on to avoid harassment. BMW drivers are also notorious for disregarding that law.

EL_ULY > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
11/30/2016 at 11:24

Easy math dude. There are more Camrys and Corollas than lets say, Mercedes S-Class. Here at my job, I see people ruin their S-classes all the time. In the general pubic, Corolla and Camry are more common and prone to getting hit or hit. That alone is important, who got it. Also, our customers get a ding and have the money to fix them asap whether insurance deductible or out of pocket. Some college student of regular everyday person might have the means to do so at the present time. Completely understandable.

Or, you can take the route of “elite enthusiasts”. ALL Camry and Corollas are driven by stupid people that should be shot and they all have dents because “they probably feel asleep because of the lack of a V12 and ‘steering feel’ to notice”

smobgirl > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
11/30/2016 at 12:15

I always wondered if it was the type of plastic. Toyotas seem to dent where other cars would crack - there’s a Jetta and a Focus sedan in my neighborhood that have had similar hits but just have holes instead (same for my Fiat - got hit a couple years ago and the bumper cover just shattered). I think folks with cracked bumper covers might be more likely to repair?

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
11/30/2016 at 12:19

It’s not so much that they get hit, but the “Camry Dent”, which is where the corner of the bumper cover gets a nice, smooth, round, dent that doesn’t pop back out.

Kinja'd!!!

It stands out because I feel like I see it so often and most of them are on Camrys.

I always thought it was because Toyotas had empty space behind the corner of the bumper cover, the paint adheres good, and the covers are attached better than on most other cars to result in these dents.

To expand on your thought, I can see why people without money to burn would disregard a nice clean smooth dent in a bumper cover with little-to-no paint loss.

Torch wrote an article on it that didn’t come to any conclusions as well: http://jalopnik.com/the-incredible-mystery-of-the-camry-dent-1785413530

kiwi_matt > Tekamul
11/30/2016 at 12:35

Lol, only peasants care about the state of their automobile

EL_ULY > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
11/30/2016 at 13:30

again, EVERY car can have dents and scratches. I see them here at work and we deal with only high end brands. This whole, “it’s always a Toyota” to me is 100% just stereotypical propaganda that is fiction. Just math. If you look for it, you will find it.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
11/30/2016 at 16:45

I don’t think you understand what’s being described by a “Camry Dent”. It’s not just any body damage (the damage on the Model X that started the thread is not a Camry Dent ), it’s an extremely specific type of dent only in the corner of the bumper cover and otherwise leaving the car intact.

smobgirl has a decent theory about it that might explain it better than anything else I’ve heard.

In any case, it might be the most popular model around, but it isn’t by some huge margin. Accords, Altimas, and Fusions are way up there as well, yet there is no association between them and those curious corner dents.

EL_ULY > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
11/30/2016 at 16:55

EEEEXACTLY! Those have the same dents all the damn time LOL!! If people really wanted to, they could target another car, take pictures, run on the internet and whammo, another stereotype is born.

The whole Mustang crashing joke, guess what, a shit ton of morons in cars wreck at shows all the time.

We cannot continue to feed that sort of adolescent type of enthusiasts. Not on OPPO. I’ve been here enough years and have worked on cars professionally to be proud of that fact. It’s just plain facts over silly stereotypes.

fintail > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
11/30/2016 at 21:20

Rich luckyboomers and transplants, combined with a little offshore money laundering?

I don’t like front plates either, unfortunately, they are mandatory in my state, and I have heard of people being stopped for it. I strongly suspect that enforcement decreases as vehicle value increases.