Just got to rant!

[Johnnystang2018]

Staying in Panama City Beach and going on a road trip for the Fourth of July weekend, parked next to two very nice cars in the parking garage. Both of them had left to leave and noticed a mark right above my Mach 1 badge on my fender. The white Ford SUV that pulled up next to me had opened their door into my car. They were still in the car so that just that happened and I asked them if they had hit my car and they said no. I said show me the back door. my red pant was on their inner door edge. I called my insurance they said get a police report. I called the police. The people said it’s a small scratch that they didn’t do it. They wiped my paint of the door. They were not from here..(out of the United States).They were on vacation and in a rental car they wouldn’t give me their license they were not apologetic. Honestly they where nasty about it. I told them I love this car that I’m not even sure if I would go and pursue a claim. The cop comes out, tells me that it’s considered an accident in the state of Florida, but not a car accident so the only things I could do would be going through civil court. Or they pay me now a agreed amount. Ya that wasn’t going to happen…. Insurance companies suck I don’t understand how this wouldn’t qualify under their insurance. I don’t want them to do all the paintwork into the door our hood. I just wanna make it less noticeable… ps there is a beautiful GT500 at the restaurant I went to. He was smart enough to park away from everyone!

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[RowdyRam]

I hate that. Just about every vehicle I own or have had, this has happened to. People (in general) are just oblivious and/or don't care about other peoples' stuff.

I have scrapes all up and down the side of my daily Ram 1500 from careless COWORKERS who drag their backpacks and cases between vehicles. Unfortunately the parking lot is always full so no way to park away from them.

At any rate, I think a touch up pen or something similar would make it a lot less noticeable.

Good luck.

 

[jpjr501]

Tourists in Florida don't give a flip. Most car people who are from here like myself know to be mindful to other cool cars. That sucks man.

 

[Johnnystang2018]

Agreed, And I’ll definitely try the pen , I had bad luck on my last Mustang color being metallic gray but with race red color should be better. thank you.

 

[ORRadtech]

I know it's vindictive and an unattractive trait.
But I'd have been tempted to leave a very large scratch/dent of some kind in a very noticeable place on that rental. See if they would care any more when the rental company charged them for the damage...

As for the touch-up, look into Dr ColorChip. People seem to have very good results with them.

 

[GrabberBargeCaptain]

I know it's vindictive and an unattractive trait.
But I'd have been tempted to leave a very large scratch/dent of some kind in a very noticeable place on that rental. See if they would care any more when the rental company charged them for the damage...

As for the touch-up, look into Dr ColorChip. People seem to have very good results with them.

Yeah I mean since obviously the cops won't do anything, that means OP could have done that and the tourists would have had to wait months in the country to take OP to court? Or just pay the rental agency's fee for damaging the car...

 

[S550HPP]

That's the new norm sadly.

A very good PDR person may be able to get that out.

Good to have parking cam on high sensitivity.

The same thing happened to me on a different car at Home Depot I told the guy it was on cam he gave me $250 on the spot.

 

[Crew4991]

Door dings happen when that phat-ass can't handle walking an extra 50 feet to find a further parking spot that will accommodate the monstrosity sized rental SUV.

 

[Cwood8656]

You want dr. Colorchip. Best touch up paint their is. I touched up a couple of small chips on my ruby red hood and I can’t even find them today.

Chris-

 

[MAGS1]

Man that sucks. People really blow sometimes.

The Ford touch up pens are good as is Dr. Colorchip. Just do it in layers, a little bit at a time. If you want to get really fancy, wet sand it after you’re done touching it up and polish it out. Just wet sand a larger area so it blends in when you polish. Probably overkill for that size of a chip, but that’s the way my mind wanders…

 

[Zathras]

That sucks. There are assholes everywhere, but especially in tourist areas where people are effectively transient and often in a hurry. It's almost impossible to keep a car "perfect" in public parking lots or garages.

 

[RiotfunK]

It’s Florida. You should’ve just beat flames out of them. You’d get in the same trouble they did. I have cams in mine and motion sensors. I went out today to check my ride since one went off. I parked in lake George and mine went off.

I went out to find some spandex enormity ass fucking my door because she couldn’t fit between her car and mine with 4 feet of room. I cursed her out and was glad nothing happened. My last two rides were totaled by intoxicated people the cops let drive home. F the police. Useless pricks. You should’ve thrown a rock through their window and bounced.

 

[WildHorse]

Even when I park far from other cars ha-ha

 

[Johnnybee]

I am at six years and no door dings yet. I’ve got one large chunk out of the hood, right on the crease line, and dented. I filled it in but it’s pretty crappy looking because of the dent. My wife’s Rogue is scratched up and down both sides due to the co-workers and their purses (before she retired she worked in elementary schools with predominantly female staff). But I feel your pain. The world is full of people who just don’t care.

 

[Ozcraig]

It’s Florida. You should’ve just beat flames out of them. You’d get in the same trouble they did. I have cams in mine and motion sensors. I went out today to check my ride since one went off. I parked in lake George and mine went off.

I went out to find some spandex enormity ass fucking my door because she couldn’t fit between her car and mine with 4 feet of room. I cursed her out and was glad nothing happened. My last two rides were totaled by intoxicated people the cops let drive home. F the police. Useless pricks. You should’ve thrown a rock through their window and bounced.

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