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It was bound to happen...my first scratch...

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Old May 15, 2007 | 07:54 AM
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Exclamation It was bound to happen...my first scratch...

I was pulling into my parking spot this morning when I arrived at work. Well, I pulled into a little TOO far. Scraaaaaappppp. Uh-oh.

I got out and looked. The very bottom of the front spoiler scraped the top of the curb.

It was bound to happen sooner or later. They can't stay pristine forever.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 08:07 AM
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Eh, thats an okay one though... no one will ever see it and youre the only one that will ever know its there. Dont worry, its okay
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Old May 15, 2007 | 08:08 AM
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now you have an excuse to buy a front lip spoiler.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 08:16 AM
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as you said , it was bound to happen.

yesterday i was parking and as you did i went too far but luckily the sidewalk was low and it went underneath the car and touched that rubber thing which i think it was for protection.. no damage this time.

it's a bad thing you can't see the frontend of the car.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 08:22 AM
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Nice to know. At least you cant see it.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 11:54 AM
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just touch it up if the bare black bumper bothers you.

you cant see it anyway.

touch it up if it will make u feel better
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Old May 15, 2007 | 12:08 PM
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it happens... my friend told me once that it's the things you worry about the most that always get damaged hahaha.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 02:53 PM
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That sucks....sometimes hard to always remember about curbs when pulling into a spot. I am guilty of parking 3 feet away from the curb sometimes and having to get back in the car to move forward a bit so my *** end is not sticking out too far in the lot.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 04:22 PM
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I feel ya man.... just scrapped mine yesterday trying to go up to a friends driveway......... some friend not warning me before hand. And the car's only 3 weeks old.. oh well as you said it was bound to happen.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 04:37 PM
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Happened to me on several occasions. Now that I dropped my car, I back up on curbs. Don't worry no one will notice the scratches unless an **** (not U of course - R U? lol) looks really close.


Originally Posted by RobbieR
I was pulling into my parking spot this morning when I arrived at work. Well, I pulled into a little TOO far. Scraaaaaappppp. Uh-oh.

I got out and looked. The very bottom of the front spoiler scraped the top of the curb.

It was bound to happen sooner or later. They can't stay pristine forever.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 05:02 PM
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Sorry to hear that..
A similar ACCIDENT happened to me last week. I was holding a card board box for a design presentation and it flew into my rear bumper when it was very windy and it left a very deep mark on my clean bumper. damn it..
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