someone just hit my car

thispecialk

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

AK370Z

Take some pictures today. Very sorry to hear this

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thispecialk

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?

jginnane

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 www.eurobumperguard.com for different types of front and rear bumper protection. (In New York City, this stuff is a necessity.)

shumby

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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nicknick

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

jginnane

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.)

kannibul

Yeah, though in NYC, you could get away without owning a car


But, you illustrate the reason that I'm looking at the LANGKA system, as it uses touch up paint...they just give yo ua process for working it...

I'll definately try it out on our Honda Civic first, which even has a rust spot where a chip has existed a while...

If it covers that up and makes it look great, then I'll be happy, and might even get brave enough to try it on my Z...

molamann

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

mrarroyo

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.

StLRedrider

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

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Cjanik

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.

kannibul

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

molamann

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

kannibul

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...