So mad...some @#!$%* just hit our new car

[Minnie824]

I just need to vent so I apologize in advance for that. So, I took my DD to tumble class today. 4pm class. park the car (I backed in the spot in the lot) go in and watch her class. Come out an hour later with a huge scraped up dent on the front drivers side of our car. I am SO mad. What makes it worse is that this car is brand new...literally 3 months old. AND this rude scum of a person didn't even leave a note. I mean is it so difficult? A note, insurance info, phone number, maybe come inside and say, hey I accidentally hit a car, is it yours? I'm guessing it was someone either pulling into or out of the spot next to me (although there was no car there when I parked). But the thing is there is NO way they didn't know they hit the car, and their car has to have damage. From the paint scrape, we're guessing its red. We checked the red cars there, but nothing. I can't even imagine how much this will cost..yeah we have insurance, so hopefully it's just the deductible but still. I wish there was some way to find out who did it..no security cameras at the place, I checked on that too. Ugh, just so frustrating.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

Aw..I feel for you.
About 2 months, not even, after we got a new 2010 Honda CR-V, we were stopped at a light behind a BIG truck type. It was carrying stuff in it, I guess. When we started moving, a tiny rock hit our front windshield and put a giant crack in the glass

 

[mom2boys]

That stinks!

My van is 6 months old and had already been in the body shop twice. I got rear ended (2x - same incident) on the highway and then the entire passenger side was dented and scraped in a parking garage. It's was one of those where they take your keys because they block cars in. The garage actually paid. I wsa pleasantly surprised.

 

[mrodgers]

Yeah, the insurance may pay for the damage, but that doesn't help when you expect the car to last 15 years like I do and it rusts out in the damaged area in 5 years. That's the part that would get me.

 

[golfgal]

Insurance will pay and better yet it will be a comprehensive claim vs a collision claim which means no rate hike. I would put a camera in your car and keep an eye out for red cars that come and go to tumble class. Chances are it is someone picking up/dropping off a kid. I would also suggest filing a police report-which you should have done before you left the class-for future information. That is technically a hit and run.

 

[hereyago]

Memorial day weekend, a 77 year old turned right on red, which you can do, but he didn't stop at the light and look first. DD and her friend were in the car with me, luckily we weren't hurt. But this man preceded to tell me he didn't think he hit my car. Really?

 

[Minnie824]

Insurance will pay and better yet it will be a comprehensive claim vs a collision claim which means no rate hike. I would put a camera in your car and keep an eye out for red cars that come and go to tumble class. Chances are it is someone picking up/dropping off a kid. I would also suggest filing a police report-which you should have done before you left the class-for future information. That is technically a hit and run.

Thanks for the info...I'll follow up to make sure its a comprehensive claim. I did file a police report before I left there, so we have that. Next week, I'm sitting in my car during part of the class doing look out for a damaged red car.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

It really stinks when people don't take responsibility for what they've done!

Several years ago, my sister had a brand new BMW that she was very proud of. We went to my cousin's house for a family gathering and when we came out, we found a huge dent in the driver's side fender of her car. There was no note. No one bothered to knock on the door. None of the neighbors saw anything. Luckily, my cousin owns a body shop and had all kinds of cool tools in his garage. He was able to pull the metal out far enough that it was no longer rubbing on the tire and my sister could open and close the driver's door. He recommended a good body shop in our area and her insurance covered it.

The same BMW got hit again in front of my parents' house a few months later! It was one of my parents' neighbors and she did take responsibility and pay for the damage. My sister just got another BMW. I'm just crossing my fingers that it doesn't get hit!!!!!

 

[Maridw]

Sorry to hear about what happened to your car. Such a frustrating thing to happen.

In August 2001 we bought our RAV4, in November we were rear-ended by a drunk driver. $7k damage and 6-8 months with a rental car. Now my car is two different colors where the original paint has faded and the repainted section did not fade at the same rate. Plus the section above the rear door is peeling & flaking. The person had limited insurance, but it did cover it.

My DD recently went to Wal-mart and came out to find that someone had backed into her car. It was obviously a truck with a tow hitch because you can see the round indentation from the ball of the hitch. No note or anything. She did file a report with security at Wal-mart. Unfortunately she is on a limited income and can't be without a car because of her baby. Thankfully a friend pulled most of the dent out.

 

[DebbieB]

One time I was coming home from a business trip to New York City. My flight from LGA was delayed for hours. I'm finally driving home after midnight and I got rear ended at a light at the end of an exit ramp. There was a parking lot right next to it, so I pulled over. The idiot in a red pickup truck spead off. It was dark and deserted, I just wanted to get home and I didn't call the police. There was only paint damage but it ticked me off that someone hit me and spead off. Probably drunk.

 

[msmayor]

Speaking from the other side of the fence...about 18 months ago I received a frantic phone call from my daughter. She'd had her license only about 6 months and had gone to the mall with a friend. Her inexperience was a problem, as she backed out of her parking spot and didn't come out far enough before starting to turn the front wheels.

She 'hooked' the rear bumper of a pickup truck parked right next to her with the front wheel-well of my car, ripping a gash in my sheet metal. She called me and said "Mom...now what?"

I told her to park back in the spot, and call the police. She couldn't tell me what damage had been done to the pickup...she described it as a VERY old truck that had lots of other damage. (so old that it still had chrome bumpers...which is why MY car had the gash!).

I got a ride over to the mall to meet with her and the officer. Indeed, we couldn't tell at all whether there was damage. The officer asked me if I wanted a report (I said no...I'd handle the damage on my own) but said that if the driver of the pickup wanted one, he'd have to complete the report and my daughter could face a citation. The ball was in the other driver's court if he wanted her cited.

My daughter was nervous, but I told her she did the RIGHT thing. It would have been very easy for her to just drive away since no damage was apparent...but we taught her that an accident is an accident, and she must take responsibility for her actions.

We never heard from the other driver. My guess is he saw the note left by the officer and, like us, really couldn't find any damage at all. I can only hope that he appreciated the actions of a young 17-year-old driver by owning up to what happened and doing the right thing.

 

[kellyg403]

We had our Yukon for 7 days when teenage vandels went around the neighborhood one night. They carved vulgarities in the paint, cut all the tires etc. It was a nightmare. I know the feeling of being totally p'od!

Hopefully it was not cause an insurance issue. It does suck when someone doesn't realize that they need to take responsibility for their actions. I would sit out there next class too.

Kelly

 

[RadioFanatic]

I got my first "new to me" car when I was 19. The day after I got it, someone rear ended me. Boy did I cry and cry. Thankfully at least, the person who did it couldn't have been nicer and everything worked out fine. I'm sorry that's not the case for you. I feel for you.

 

[jen0610]

Thanks for the info...I'll follow up to make sure its a comprehensive claim. I did file a police report before I left there, so we have that. Next week, I'm sitting in my car during part of the class doing look out for a damaged red car.

If you do happen to see the car, please call the cops. Give them the police report number and let them know that you believe you have spotted the other car that was involved in the accident.

Do not approach the person directly. If you can, discreatly, take a picture of the car, their damage, the plate number and the person who is driving the car. If you can't get a picture, write down the plate number for the police. This is just in case they leave before the police show up.

I can't stress enough not to try and talk to them yourself. You never know, the person who is driving the car that day may not be the same person driving the other day and if they feel like they are being accused by you of something they didn't do, they could go off on you. Or it could be them and if they didn't have a problem thinking they got away with a hit and run accident, but to find out that you actually did reported it and that you have now called the cops and they are on the way, that could send them over the edge as well.

 

[The Princess]

That happened to me too. I had to pay 500.00 to get it fixed.

 

[npmommie]

This happened to me too years ago, a brand new Honda Accord, I had only had for maybe 6 months.
and it happened in the employees parking lot at the hospital where I worked. so it was a co worker who did it and did not leave a note.
I came out to my car at midnight to find the passenger side door completely dented in, there was no way they didn't know they hit it.
it was snowy out and slippery so its understandable it could happen, but at least fess up!!
so my insurance paid, and the car was perfectly fine after, I had it more than 10 years and the area never rusted out.
and I never found out who hit me either.

 

[DVC-Don]

Insurance will pay and better yet it will be a comprehensive claim vs a collision claim which means no rate hike............

Wrong, it is considered a collision claim. Comp is fire, theft, vand. The OP said the car was "hit". Whether it is surchargable depends on how the insurnace company codes it and amount paid out.

Side note: Once had a fellow who claimed his car was hit while he was fishing up in the Adirondacks. State Police later contacted me as it turned out he had done a hit and run where he hit an FBI car and took off.

 

[Nette]

We had our Volvo s40 all of one week when some jerk rammed into DH's passenger side door as he pulled out of a parking space. What's more, the other driver was uninsured. Joy.

 

[swanmom]

Any chance there was video of the parking lot from one of the stores nearby?

 

[ZachnElli]

Wrong, it is considered a collision claim. Comp is fire, theft, vand. The OP said the car was "hit". Whether it is surchargable depends on how the insurnace company codes it and amount paid out.

Side note: Once had a fellow who claimed his car was hit while he was fishing up in the Adirondacks. State Police later contacted me as it turned out he had done a hit and run where he hit an FBI car and took off.

I was going to say the same thing. It's collision, not comp.

OP'r my first new car got hit by a red light runner 20 days after I got it. Took a month to fix it, I was really bummed.