someone just hit my car
 

well came out of the grocery store today and saw damage to my car on back bumper. i dont know if its from a car or if its from a shopping cart but im piss just wanna kill someone. i got a platenum grey color car do u think i should take it to dealer to get fix so they will have the right color or take it to a auto paint shop? i was so piss today i just sat in my car for like 30 minutes. do u think i need to replace that foam thing thats inside the bumper not sure what thats called (can someone name it for me).more money out of my pocket so piss

Take some pictures today. Very sorry to hear this :(

do dealers do body work? wat do u think should i take it to a paint shop or dealer if they do it? maybe i should just buy a new bumper. what if the bumper has deep marking are they able to repair those?

Dealers usually have a body shop on a separate location, if not they'll just refer you somewhere else.

If the paint was not compromised (chipped) you try a paintless repair shop. I have seen some of the the before and after and some of them do amazing work. Good luck.

Man that sucks big time, sorry to hear about the bad news

Thats my biggest fear when I get my car.....ignorant selfish hypocrite morons who dont care about anything but their own stuff.

Sorry to hear what you have to go through.

and to answer one of your questions, dealers do not usually have their own body shop - They have contracts with certain shops to do all their work.

Had too much experience with bumper paint repairs on my wife's last Acura TL. :(

First -- the plastic bumper cover for most cars is about $300-400 unpainted, so a body shop will charge another $300-400 for painting. A little more for metal paints (and other 3-layers, like my pearl white). That plastic bumper cover is about the weight of a $10 Rubbermaid trashcan from Walmart's, but it's shaped slightly differently. ;p

Second -- Most dealers will tell you the name of a body shop they "recommend". All dealers use body shops constantly because of damage, touch-up even on new cars before delivery. The price you get at that body shop is going to be within 10% of the best price you'll find elsewhere. But if you don't like your nearest body shop, ask at the next-closest Nissan dealer. (I have 9 dealers within 30 miles of my home; 30 dealers within 40 miles.)

Third -- the Z is new enough that the factory paint isn't stocked locally yet. (You can't even buy a touchup paint stick from Parts without them ordering it.)

Fourth -- I have heard that this year's factory paint, in most car lines, is not sprayed like the old-fashioned types with high volatile contents. My wife's royal blue Acura TL is a lovely shade of orange peel, all over. And my pearl Z's got a few chips in the hood already. (Am I worried? Naw... it's aluminum, after all. I'll just wait til the dealer starts stocking paint sticks in color code QAB.)

Finally, since it's on the rear, consider getting a piece of plastic to cover the damage and protect you from the next hit. See <cite>www.eurobumperguard.com for different types of front and rear bumper protection. (In New York City, this stuff is a necessity.)

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See if you can get the security camera footage for the parking lot and the exit points nearest your vehicle.
The store might be able to cross reference to their cashier cameras and find out the name of the person making the transaction, based on who went through their door dressed similarly, within the timeframe of how long it takes the average person to walk to the location of the offending vehicle.

Then you can use that information to contact your insurance and the local authorities to report a hit-n-run...

You'll have a name. If they paid by check, you'll have an address...if not you might get lucky on the parking lot, a vehicle description and license plate.


That said, you could probably contact the local authorities, the store, and your insurance and let them go after it. Tell them you will press charges for damages. You could even take them through civil court for extra damages relating to your deductible, depreciation and an increase in your insurance premium, as well as the stress of having to deal with it...

Z is not cheap

iirc stores won't release security footage unless you're a law enforcement of some sort

I remember several years ago I was in the Best Buy parking lot. I just got my Accord brand new from the dealership about 2 weeks prior. I know an Accord ain't no $100,000+ Benz S-class and all. But this guy in a red Suburban parks to my right as I'm still in my car talking on the cell. The Suburban guy opens his door full swing and dings my right side, I felt the shock literally while sitting in my Accord. He was a middleaged dude with a stache. So I step out my car, and I look at the right side of my Accord and I look over at him with a unhappy frown. He casually says something like "uhh...sorry." Then I retorted with irritation but w/o raising my voice, "nah bro, you're going to fix this, sorry ain't gonna cut it." The dude gets all mad and irritated, steps out his Suburban and looks at my Accord and his Suburban and he all of sudden starts denying his fault. The sharp edge of Suburban door i.e. the "crease" where it lines up w/ the delineation of his frame where the front driver door on his Suburban had virtually no damage, but my Accord's flat sheet metal had a conspicuous ding and it was "pushed in."

So he stubbornly denies it, we both raise our voices, some 4-letter words exchanged, some "concerned rubber neckers" stop and gawk and want to play "lawyer" or "judge." So the guy finally gives in and asks something like, "what you want me to do?" I said, "I'm gonna get an estimate, and you're going to pay for this, otherwise I'll report it to your insurance." So the this place called "Ding King" in my town charges me $120 to fix it. The dude's insurance company cuts me a check like 90 days later for it.

The point is, if you would've caught the perpetrator, it's worthwhile to put up a fight granted you can stay as civilized as possible. But most "parking lot hit & run" perpetrators will lie through their teeth denying their faults.

If the muthaf*cka would've pulled out a gun, I would've been like "uhh yeah, that ding was there before" and run LMFAO!!!

I had the same thing happen...some girl hit my door while I was in my truck. She tried to deny it and take off...but stopped once she saw me snapping pics of her car and plate with my cellphone. Then she gave me her insurance info.

No, but you can get them working on it. That, and you're not asking them to "release" the information to you, you want them to get started on collecting data for the LEO/investigator. Some places have a camera system that rolls over every few days...some weeks, and others are months. The faster you act, the less there is to sort through.

OP should also file an accident report for hit-n-run.



On a similar (camera related) note, we had a guy at work that stole credit cards from a couple of fellow employees, then went on a shopping spree...during work hours! Our internal camera system wasn't working (ie, recording) at the time, so no dice there - but the places dude went to sure were...they knew when/where to look because the credit card companies had record of the charges, etc...

If that's not a reason to get a cell phone camera, I don't know what is.

not to get off topic but you should look into Dr. Color Chip online. there chip repair system is great and workes really well. brings the chip back up to the level of the paint. I was not sure at first but said WTH and gave it a try. I will never go back to a paint stick again.

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just got back from maaco there asking 537 for repairs. and i gotta leave my car for 3 days

I have heard nothing but HORRIBLE stories about Maaco. Do you have any other shops in your area? How much the dealer want?

talk to my insurance there telling me to stay away from maaco lol now i gotta find another shop

i havent tried the dealer

but my insurance company(usaa) told me to go to classic body works. they said if once there done and i dont like it. its easier for my insurance company to yell at them and fix it again

lol. havent tried the dealer

u can see damage here and a tiny rock chip near gas tank

just exhaust clip

These people deserve a little pain, for the pain they put us through.

Should I just buy a body kit and replace everything

Yeah that looks exactly the same as when my neighbor backed into my car within 24 hours of taking it home. New City recommended me to ColorTyme (I think that is it). Anyways, it cost $220, I sent the bill to the neighbor and he paid.

There was an idiot at that KMart in Waikele that threw his shopping cart attempting to make it into the cart return but it slammed into my Camry as we were walking out the store. Him and his friends started to laugh but when I said WTF...he pulled one of those "you like beef" lines. I wasn't too happy so returned the cart to the side of his Titan just as he did mine.

colortyme? where is that at? usaa told me to go to classic body works so they got more control over the transaction and if the job isnt to my standard they can help me out. thats pretty cheap price they quote u is my car damage worst than urs? maaco is the one who quoted me first but usaa said stay away from them. did u have to change the foam inside

o yea how many days did it take to fix ur car i hate being car less. i have to ask my wife to give me a ride to work

where is colortyme located i cant find them on google

Sorry to hear about your new car being damaged man. Hopefully you'll have it taken care of and back on the street in no time!

-Clay

if i can only find the guy id choke him out till i cut off his air supply. or maybe torture him alittle bit like sticking bamboo shuts in his finger nails or cutting his eye lid and throwing salt in his eye haha maybe not that far.

so i went to this auto body shop and they told me the bumper is a shade lighter than the main body. is this true for me i cant tell the difference they look exactly the same color

aa to bad the obama administration is in.:shakes head: you would have gotten a job in the cia as an (interrogator) in the bush era lol

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Go outside with it on a clear day...if you still can't tell, then it's good enough for you.

at the shop dropping z off


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yea working with USAA is your best option.

now all i need to do is get the rock chips fix and ima be super happy again

It looks like you get quite a lot with their system for forty bucks. However, I'd be concerned that the paint might initially match up, but then not fade or last the same way factory paint does.

Not to sound like a rocket scientist know-it-all, but usually premium paints contain titanium dioxide to give the brightest, best-wearing appeal. Lower grades contain other things. An imitator can get a good color match under specific lighting conditions, like broad daylight, but then when you look at the same spot with night street lighting (for example) the paint that isn't mixed exactly the same would have a "muddy" appearance. (And if it still looks OK with street sodium lights, then check it in the garage under fluorescent lights.)

I said early in this thread that I had too much experience with painting plastic bumpers. Any decent body shop is going to sand and fill all the specks, then paint the WHOLE bumper to make it look good and blend with the paint on the rest of the car. With a tricoat paint, they do it three times: base, metallic, and clear coat.

So an $8 Nissan paint stick isn't the worst way to fill small nicks. You can pay a little more, and get worse ... or pay a whole lot more, then wait for someone else to hit-and-run your bumper again. In NYC, the damage in these pictures wouldn't even get touched up. (That's what happens, and the Z owner should be lucky the bumper cover didn't get completely ripped off or a hole punched through it.)

I wish I can paint I really want to learn