To whomever punched or whacked my Toyota Highlander a week ago with their luggage at the O’Hare airport daily lot in the hybrid parking spot near elevator center 2, please contact me to arrange a $400 payment. I parked all the way at the edge of the spot to take advantage of the 4 foot buffer to the handicap spot next to it and, yeah, still some swell person still nails it and doesn’t own up to it. rly? thx.
Someone inconsiderate or angry ding your car? Feel free to lament here.
I’m always the idiot that dings my car. Never into other cars, thankfully. Walls. Shopping carts. Snow banks. If you are a stationary object, beware me!
cpsdarren, sorry that happened to u
One would think that right at a major overnight lot elevator center, there would have been at least one security camera. Presumably multiple cameras at one of the world’s premier airports, given the emphasis on security these days. But no, this is the response I received:
“I am sorry to say that there are no Standard Parking security camera’s at the airport parking facility. The liability for damages to vehicles parked at O’Hare belongs to the vehicle owner unless the vehicle is parked in the Valet section or the cause of the damage is due to a Standard Parking action or a structural problem.
Again, my apologies and any further questions or inquiries can be directed to me at the contact information below.
Thank You”
Maybe the last remaining camera fell on my car? Message to fliers: don’t travel alone if you part in the O’Hare daily lot! Or maybe they lied to me. Either way.
I’m sorry about your Highlander. 🙁 I would be even more upset if I had a newer car and something like that happened.
Yes! Twice in the same year! The first time, I was parked on a city street in a residential neighborhood. My car was not far from a stop sign and the road was covered in slush. It was quite clear to me that someone didn’t stop slowly enough and knocked off my mirror + caused minor scratches. I paid for a new mirror that didn’t match the color of my car rather than pay the $250 deductible. My car is old.
Second time, I was parked in our driveway, at home (!!). We share the driveway with 5-6 neighbors. No one ever confessed and neither did their friends. Trust me, I looked over every.single.car in the driveway. I had a pretty decent size dent on my back passenger door. I got it fixed under my car insurance because the paint was peeling on that side anyway so now it’s painted. 😉 I also got my son’s Frontier 85 replaced because it just so happened to be installed next to the dented door. Normally, I had it in the center. I donated the “crashed” seat to my CPST instructor.
I have a spot on bottom of my passenger side door about the size of a quarter where some lovely person hit it with their door. About a month after the entire driver’s side had to be repainted, thanks deer that covered the scratch that went from my back to front door, someone dinged my paint all the way through the paint. Yes, I drive a small car, but it’s Bright Blue! Bright. Blue. How do you not see it. (This statement really applies to those driving on the road who like to attempt to run me off the road or too close for comfort almost head on collisions.)
Terrible! That happened to me at the grocery store when I’d had my first brand new car for only a month or two. I came out to find a dent a little bigger than that in the rear back panel, probably from an errant shopping cart since no paint had been transferred. I was so mad I could hardly drive the 1/2 mile home. There was no way to fix it myself and the dealer wanted $500 to fix it, something my 19 yr old student self didn’t have. I hate careless jerks. They know they’ve done it yet sneak off like snakes.
I tend to keep in mind that its just a car, though I’ve never been able to afford anything nice or new. But one time I did have a big spot on my car that clearly came from the car next to me (it was covered in my paint!) so I left a note on the windsheild telling them to call me and how dare they do that without even leaving a note. I got a phone call soon after from a terrified young guy who I did nothing to (because it is after all just a car), but I think he learned something.
Dh and I ding each other’s doors in the garage daily.
I would like to thank the giant black pick up truck in the Home Depot parking lot. It was so nice to find a lovely chunk of paint missing & 500 little scratches from your stupid tire. I know it was you who scratched my year old car. As it was the only place I went before it snowed again & I parked the car again. I parked in that spot as it was a way from all the big vehicles. If you can’t drive it park or park the sucker. Don’t drive it!
Wow thanks I feel much better.
Thanks to the tiny parking spaces on college campuses I have a nice scratch on one side of my car and a small dent on the other side. I’m so glad they make the spaces so small…
We somehow got a hole in our back bumper. Totally looked like a bullet hole, which probably made me seem pretty badass in my Honda Odyssey. No idea how it got there, but we didn’t feel like fixing it, so we left it there for a year or so. It would still be there now except a couple days before we left California, DH was in a parking lot and a guy with a mobile dent-repair business walked up and asked if he wanted it fixed. DH balked at the price, but the guy went a little lower, so DH told him sure, if he followed him home, he could fix it. So our unknown damage only cost us $125.