"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
02/16/2016 at 18:14 • Filed to: Regret, GenCoupe
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"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
02/16/2016 at 18:14 • Filed to: Regret, GenCoupe | 3
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So this literally just happened to me a couple days ago, and now I’m going to be out a few too many. Just an instant after you’ve committed the deed you wish you could reverse time, and that seems like the most logical solution to internally bargain for.
I !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ; I backed over a curb when I went too far parking and thought I just bent and broke the plastic undertray that goes under the radiator, but unfortunately the damage goes further.
So I parked over a rubber parking bumper, and when I backed out, it caught on the plastic engine front undercover and bent it out of shape, and in the process it looks like the radiator support is bent on the bottom right (the other side of the radiator support is perfectly parallel to the ground, but as you can see on the right side it is bent at an angle).
Am I looking at major damage here? I don’t think I can simply replace the plastic undercover because the attaching bolt points are now angled downwards, looks like either the radiator support will need to be bent back or replaced?
- !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (Lead picture from here too)
It looks like the piece that bent is ~$700 from Hyundai, and I don’t have the time or space to fix it myself, so now add labor.
[crying internally]
K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 18:32 |
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Don’t even get me started....
This is what I got for accidentally driving over a damn parking block completely. Damn was I pissed and angry and everything. Dealership estimated $800 to repair the damage. It was a touch pill to swallow telling myself it was just a car and that the damage was only cosmetic. Once you get into rational thinking, the pain goes away. I haven’t repaired any of this, and until I saw this post, I completely forgot about it; but it doesn’t bother me even now.
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Tim (Fractal Footwork)
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
02/16/2016 at 18:38 |
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I guess my bumper is scratched too; it will remain that way.
FiST?
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K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 18:41 |
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FoST
Baskingshark
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 18:48 |
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Yeah, it’s not as bad as you but I pulled up to the beach a few weeks ago and the curb is made out of cobblestones rather than concrete. One of the stones sticks out quite farther than the others and I didn’t notice it. I curb-rashed my wheel so bad that day, I was so pissed.
Sweet Trav
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 18:56 |
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So shortly after my dad and I spent 3-4 Months restoring my 86 Monte Carlo SS, my dad must have spent 40hrs wheeling the paint, it was like a freaking mirror. I came home from school one day, and went to pull into the garage on the right side (my father graciously had given me his spot in the garage) I pull in too far to the left, taking up too much room for my Mother’s Blazer, So i back out and pull to the right, I catch the Urethane nose on the corner of the garage and put all kinds of distortion and scratch marks into the nose of the car.
I got out looked at the damage and vomited behind a tree.
WhiskeyGolf
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 19:02 |
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I did something very similar to you. I backed over a curb and damaged the undertray, which seemed to be OK, but pulled through the bolts shortly after. About a week after I had it inspected at a dealership (they ordered a new tray), it caught fire, but I still don’t know if the two things are related.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 19:30 |
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jkm7680
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 19:31 |
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I was on a winding road without street lights, in the rain. I ran over a large stick and it smacked the shit out of the quarter panel of my A6. It put three pretty deep scratches on it and ruined my day.
Some goes for a couple curb rash incidents.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
02/16/2016 at 19:38 |
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I don’t know why those rocker panel mouldings are so expensive, aside from the painting. They’re $300-ish before paint (which is highway robbery). And these things take a massive amount of damage. Mine both have some damage - the left one on the front edge near the wheel (parking lot; not sure how I got away with so little visible damage) and the right one on the bottom (from a tall speed bump).
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 19:48 |
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I am familiar with that feeling.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2016 at 19:50 |
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Yeah, I had a Nissan Frontier before I left Hawaii and moved to the mainland, one time I popped the clutch into the concrete wall at my house and pushed the bumper in. Then just a few months ago I was really tired coming home from work and I scratched my rear view mirror in a parking garage, it’s tight in there. I work on shows and I sometimes work long hours, I have to really pay attention in those garages, my DD is a CRV and it feels pretty huge in an SF garage.
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K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
02/16/2016 at 20:32 |
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It’s the individual clips that connect the molding to the the body. They cost money apiece. But it’s hardly noticeable to anyone so it is what it is.