OT: My car got keyed tonight...

philthygeezer

philthygeezer

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Just got the bloody thing paid for and some jerk kid put a nice deep scratch down one side. Happened in a mall parking lot while I was at a movie.

If I ever catch anyone doing that to anyone's car, they will have to see a proctologist or a locksmith. :mad:

Anybody ever have this happen? How do I fix it? Should I report it to police? Somehow I doubt they'd care, and I am not one to waste people's time. I am also wary of using my first insurance freebie on one thin scratch in my paint.

What should I do?
 
One thing is for sure. If the scratch is down to the bare metal you are going yohave to get it covered with touch up paint or some very hard wax. You don't want to compound the problem by letting it go until rust form in the darn thing. Then you have a worse problem.

As far as the insurance company goes I don't know what Co. you have. Many of the companies in the states require that vandalism be reported whether the police do any thing or not. If they are like down this way probably nothing. I know how you feel. every time I see another ding in my wifes Subaru I get pretty hot. Most of the general public care not one bit for anothers property. Then too jealousy has a part in the equation.

Whether you have them fix the paint job or not it might be a good idea to let them know that this is happening in the area. Perhaps the Insurance company can put some pressure on the law to start doing their job.
 
That kind of Crap jacks up my bloodpressure!:mad: :grumpy: I Just bought a brand new '03 Toyota Tundra and have been thinking about this very scenario. Sorry individuals can't allow people to keep nice things "nice" that they've worked hard for. Probably some sorry ne'er do well or angry adolescent who's momma didn't pay him enough attention.

I don't have any solutions to fixing the paint, but please post what you find out and do.

If I ever found anyone keying the Tundra they wouldn't need a locksmith and a proctologist, They'd need a plastic surgeon, an orthopedic surgeon, and a taxidermist!

Sorry to hear about it, Phil:mad:

-Craig
 
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Dirty, no-good, worthless, whoring, stealing, P.O.S.,scumbag, incestuous son of a b*tch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Godda**it that makes me angry:mad:

I'm really sorry that happened Phil:( I feel for you man. And I'd give you an alibi after you took the bastard out too. Sorry I don't have any good advice on the insurance/repair part.
 
Phil
Sorry to hear about the damage.

As far as the cops, forget it. They won't (can't) do anything. Unless you need a report for insurance purposes, I wouldn't bother. Also, I wouldn't file insurance either. Your rates may be affected and you will pay in the long run. Just consider this as a minor speed bump in the road of life and move on.

Be on the lookout, however. Someone may have it in for you and made you a target. Otherwise, it is just some a$$hole who can't get it up with a woman. This is how they jerk off.

Semp --
 
Unfortunately there's not much you can do. You might want to get a quote on how much repainting will cost and see if it's worth the deductable on your insurance. Or just pay for it out of your own pocket. It sucks either way. If it's down to the bare metal you have to do something.

I didn't know they had vandals on the moon. :rolleyes:
 
dammit, there's no reason for that ****....

that bites.

if it were me, i'd probably spray the scratch w/ the closest color primer i could find and then call the paint shop for an estimate.

damn, i can't abide rudeness. i guess i'm just old-fashioned in my belief that if it aint yours, leave it alone.

Metis
 
A friend had his truck keyed, only they wrote profanities. He had it painted but you could still see the words, they'd been carved very deep.


I'm sorry Philthegeezer. Semper fi is right. consider this the price of admission to our glorious society.

munk
 
I know this may make me sound like an idealist but....

Everyone says "don't bother reporting it to the cops" I disagree. Yeah, maybe this time they won't do anything or even try, but if people stop excepting this crap and doing nothing about it, it may change. How? Well how about this---the cops discourage us from reporting it by saying they'll never catch them...hmmm..I wonder if this has just a little bit to do with the fact that cops are bogged down with paper work and don't want to bother with small time crimes. People are only going to do something they don't want to do if you make the alternative worse. In other words, if you DO file a report, and the rest of us do also that's alot more paperwork they have to do--on a regular basis=a huge pain the neck=eventually the motivation exists to try and do something about the problem. This may not work with random car keying but who knows.

either way I don't see the point in not reporting it to the cops. Seems like if we're all supposed to vote because "every vote counts" we should all file police reports and make the cops do their jobs that our taxes pay for. I'm not saying this is the cops fault, but I have had them discourage me at the time something happened and looking back I felt bad about not doing the right thing.

Want an example of how NOT reporting crime encourages it? Home invasions amoung immigrant communities---textbook case. There are many more but I have to run some errands..

(Climbing off soapbox)
 
Wha Rob said - Report it, even if it is late. Cops hate this as much as we do, and the reports help them put together patterns. It could have been a purely random flake, but if the same patrol teams cover the area shift-to-shift, they will likely know which darling adolescents go out and about, and do things like this while they are unhappy at home with daddy/brother and mommy/sister.
 
I'm sorry this happened to you!
I also just bought a new truck and I try to park a little out of the way to try to avoid this kind of problem. Don't ever park and take up 2 spots so the next car can't park next to you because mean folks see that you don't want someone close to your car and just walk up to it and kick and dent it or key it, it just attracts attention to your car. Good luck and I hope it never happends to you again!
 
. Don't ever park and take up 2 spots so the next car can't park next to you because mean folks see that you don't want someone close to your car and just walk up to it and kick and dent it or key it, it just attracts attention to your car>>>

Yeah, don't ever try to have something nice you worked hard for. Not in our cities.

There's a dent in my wife's truck where some slob pushed their door into hers, ( probably parked too close to her) and then, rather than caring or realizing their mistake, shuffled out of their own car with the door still against the new truck. This left a crater with zig zag marks.

munk
 
You can probably get a body shop to do a cover-up on it, without repainting the whole car. Depending on what model, they might be able to match the paint exactly, it would be cheaper than repainting.
It would obviously be cheaper if you knew somebody's brother-in-law, but it amounts the the same amount of work as Uncle's rust polishing blems, so you might get away OK

Most auto parts stores and dealers also sell color-match paint and you could do it yourself.

There's always a full, new paint job, depending on how much $$$ you want to sink into it.
 
Happened to me. Probably does to most people. Not much you can do about it except wonder what sort of people get their kicks out of destroying other's property. I was able to get the colored Turtle wax and polish most of it out.
 
Report it to the cops. Apparently they do follow up on these things. At least thats what the cops told me and a friend after they stopped us walking home from the grocery store, and finished frisking us. I guess the two of us carrying groceries were very suspicious looking:mad: Anyways, if its real bad damage report it to the insurance company. If its a rare odd occurence they might not raise your rates. A little while back someone threw a brick at my car windshield, while I was driving on the highway. The insurance company didnt skip a beat, and paid for the repair without raising my rates.
 
Here's a few stories for you.

I pull into a slot at costco. I'm next to a planter box out in the middle of the lot and I'm right next to it so I leave lots of space on my passenger side so the person that parks next to me will have plenty of room to get out of their car.
I squeeze out of my door and walk to the tail gate to lock up the canopy. A large brand new suv pulls in right up against my truck. I think "that's too close, he's gonna move it over" and walk off. It's so obvious to me that in order to get out he HAS to move it. no worries ... lots of spaces out there.
I finish my shopping and come out to find the SUV still snugged up against my truck. I put my purchases in the truck bed and squeese down between the vehicles. AARRGGHH! The SOB in the SUV had scratched the hell out of my truck getting out. Big Ding and zig-zag scratch.
I couldn't wait all day for the idiot to come out and I was hot. I leave plenty of room and the idiot still did it!

I just left but I wasn't the only one with a zig-zag scratch in my door.
:mad:

Several years ago... Holiday shopping season... local mall

I have a cold from Hell. I'm going through boxes of kleenex a day. Burning eyes , fever, joints aching, green thing being hacked up...the whole miserable mess. I also have an intestinal disease that was flaring up and had lost 30 pounds in 3 months. From 160 to 130. I looked like a walking corpse. Felt like one too.
I HAVE to run to the drug store for a prescription...no choice. The store is in a strip mall and it's crowded with holiday shoppers. The parking lot is PACKED. I'm cruising up and down the lanes looking for a slot...nothing happening. I've gotta hurry urges are comming.But, right up front is a cadillac parked to take up SIX spaces. These spaces are up towards the front. Now the only way the caddie could have gotten there was if it was someone who had gotten there before the stores open. I had to of belonged to a manager of one of the stores. As I cruised I saw four cars TRY to fit into one of the slots that the guy was blocking. They couldn't do it. They were pissed!
I finally had to take a slot at the far edge. I've got to hurry ...urges are comming, stronger now. I get out and go get my script filled. The pharmacist knew me by name and knew my condition. She saw me shuffling down the aisle towards her and had it ready before I even got to the busy counter. I asked her if she knew anyone driving a caddilac. She said "No, but he's p.o.ed a lot of people parking like that" She knew exactly what I meant.
I paid and shuffled off back towards my truck. By now I'm shaking, bad and I can feel the fever is back in full swing... on top of that I sense that the diarhea that I'd held off was on it's way back too. Great, I'll be lucky if I can get home before shipping my pants. Nose running, hacking up green ones, I shuffled past the caddy keeping my legs together. I turned and put a big green one in the middle of his passenger side window.

He probably thought "people just don't like it if you have nice things". WRONG! He pissed off at least 100 people that day by being an inconsiderate axx!

Yes, I did make it home to the john but just barely.
 
Thanks everyone for your empathy and advice.

This one appears totally random. I have already asked myself what I could have done to provoke this. The answer was 'nothing', and like all victims of crime, I certainly didn't deserve it.

Spent the afternoon talking to mall security at the two malls I was at last night (one dinner, one movie).

West Edm Mall said they might have security tape of the incident and they would get back to me. The other mall said "That's the way it goes, not much we can do." and admitted they only had 2 rent-a-cops on the whole lot last night. :rolleyes:

Oh well, it only takes 5 seconds to scratch a car anyway. I have a nice long one from the front of the rear door right across the back quarter.

Tomorrow I will visit about 3 different body shops and get repair estimates. Insurance company says the usual: "Don't claim! Your rates will go up!". Nice for them of course. Pay for fourteen years straight and then get advised not to claim when something does happen... $100/mo * 12 mo * 14 years = $16,800.00: I am up to my alligator in @$$holes. :grumpy: Mind you, $17K compared to the average price of a car these days may not be so bad...

It is a thin, deep scratch, so maybe they can primer it and buff the paint across it. Here's hopin!
:(


Edited on account of bad grammer, speling nd typos.
 
HERE'S ONE FOR YOU! GUY PULLS INTO REST. PARKING LOT WHERE I EAT! DRIVING A BRAND NEW RED ITALIAN CAR(the one with the little horse emblem)!:D "Man', is he happy, parks, gets his food & is sitting eating & looking at his little red machine! Lady pulls up & parks next to him, opens door & BAM!!!SMACKS HIS CAR WITH HER OPEN DOOR! HE SCREAMS "lady",watch what you are doing! SHE LOOKS AT HIM WITH A FROWN & SAYS,IT'S ONLY A CAR!! DON'T GET SO HUFFY! "He went BONKERS"!!
jim
 
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