The Curse of the FR-S claims another
 

So I got backed into in a parking lot......

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Here it is as it stands now...being fixed!

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as you can see, all cosmetic damage to the bumber and tail light. My first "incident" in years...and it happens with a 3 month old car!

Sucks to hear. Would the back end be more or less of a pain to fix in such case? Wondering if I should reverse park or not.

I guess the only good thing to say is 3 months old is a lot better than if it were only 3 days or 3 hours old.

that's sad. At least it's only cosmetic, no need to worry about damage to the structure of the car.

ah man that sucks !

did the perp at least fess up?

Strategic choice of parking spot can help to minimize the chances of parking lot incidents e.g. park at the farthest corner of the lot and try to choose end spots. Door dings can be minimized by parking next to other nice cars.

I found parking next to small 4-door cars minimizes this the most... Small doors :)

No the perp didn't :thumbdown:

Yeah my choice of spots was a bad one...right in front of a Starbucks, where cars are constantly coming and going!

I'm still surprised by the idiots that can actually get a Drivers license.
Some people don't deserve to drive.

That sucks!

It's so sad that someone would hit someone else's car that bad and just leave...
Sorry that it happened.

:( :( :( that *really* sucks!

Learning the hard way ftl. Hopefully your share of bad parking lot karma is out of the way now. Another tip I just thought of - loose shopping carts prey on new cars :-O

That killer stuff.

Sorry to hear about this. Was it just the bumper & taillight? It looks like it took the damage pretty well.

I have found thru my own research that when i purposely park away from everything, cars are magnetically attracted to my car.

Best of luck with the repair looks to be a pretty straight forward fix.

I usually park mine in a last spot where I'm protected by the curb on 2 of 4 sides. ;) Helps a lot!

Sorry to hear about your woes! I'd be devastated!

I can back up your research! My findings are exactly the same. I have also found these attracted cars tend to be POS with obese slobs who can't manage to get out of the car without throwing their door all the way open.

I always park my car all by it's lonesome to avoid getting dinged. I would rather take long ass trek across a parking lot than come back to some dillweed dually driver or housewife raping my cars parking space sorry about your luck man.

Sweet...so my car will be done tomorrow! Im surprised they got the parts so damn fast!

So what's all y'all's parking strategy to avoid damage?

Park along side everyone else, act like you dont give a shit, and magically no one notices or hits your car.......


Its hard to do at first, but you will get used to it, just like when i stopped washing my car, birds stopped shitting on it.

What i did with my hill-climb MR2 was put lots of caution, explosive gas stickers on it as it was nitrous injected. Of course the lines were disconnected, as its illegal in my state, but never got backed into, tail-gated or even parked next to a majority of the time.

he/she F$%k up the Tofu!:D