Door dings
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Originally Posted by e-man
You could also add to your list that people with 2 door cars are more likely to cause a ding than those with 4 door cars. The doors on 2 door cars are bigger and swing out further.
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SCRATCH-OUT will often take the paint discoloration out out of door dings ( the different-color blob of paint another car doors's impact leaves ) and will leave your own paint looking like new again....but it will not take out things that have gone all the way through the paint, nor, of course, will it un-bend the sheet metal in the dent.
SCRATCH-OUT will often take the paint discoloration out out of door dings ( the different-color blob of paint another car doors's impact leaves ) and will leave your own paint looking like new again....but it will not take out things that have gone all the way through the paint, nor, of course, will it un-bend the sheet metal in the dent.
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Technically, causing damage (door ding) to a vehicle is criminal mischief. But I doubt anyone was ever prosecuted for it. So if you know who did it, you could file a police report and follow it up.
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Originally Posted by BobsGX
Technically, causing damage (door ding) to a vehicle is criminal mischief. But I doubt anyone was ever prosecuted for it. So if you know who did it, you could file a police report and follow it up.
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
I guess then we're going to prosecute the walnuts and acorns that drop out of trees and ding up hoods and roofs.
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Originally Posted by e-man
You could also add to your list that people with 2 door cars are more likely to cause a ding than those with 4 door cars. The doors on 2 door cars are bigger and swing out further.
The new MB S550 has rear doors that are seemingly 20 feet long. Open a door on one and you'll see what I mean. I almost took out a rear window on a smaller car with it. The rear doors on the S550 protrude farther out than the doors on my SC300 and you know how big those things are.
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Now yes, an owner of this car would be careful and conscious of this. But back seat passengers are usually not the owners. Friends, colleagues and children (all standard backseat riders) would easily underestimate that ping-pong table of a rear door and slam it into another car. I almost did and I'm incredibly conscious of door ding avoidance.
The rear legroom in that car is rediculous.
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As for me, at work I try to park on the end spot and I usually time my arrival in the morning with my co-worker so he takes the spot next to mine. This guarantees no dings. He knows me and my paranoia. When you paint your own car and you see how much sanding, bondo, and more sanding it takes to fill in door dings, you tend to become rather obsessive about it.
Parking ***-first on an end piece that's to your driver side puts your passenger side against the passenger side of the car (bogie
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In malls I park at the very end of the lot where it's 30 spaces all empty. If there's shopping carts around I will take them into the store or curb em up onto an island so they won't roll into the car.
If valet parking is the only option, I will leave. But usually you give them $5 to $20 depending on the place and they let you park it yourself. I've been burned once before with brand new wheels that were curbed. They would not admit fault. I'd imagine they don't give a crap about door dings either especially since they CRAM the cars together and they are always in a hurry. Tight quarters and haste is a guaranteed door ding.
It's a constant battle.
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