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Camaro Research Group Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: 69Z28 on May 12, 2014, 08:54:07 PM
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I know this isn't Camaro related, but I do own one. My wife and granddaughter went to Lowes in Dover for flowers and this is what they found when they came back out. Diane, my wife, said there was nothing near when she parked and nothing around when they came out. What could have made this damage that high up? Man I hate people. Sorry guys, I don't hate everyone, just the ones that do things like this.
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Some lumber tipping over or someone turning around with a 4 by 4 on their shoulder while someone was loading it into there car or truck. Is that a horizontal scuff mark running from the dent across the tail light where wharever it was continued on its way to the ground.
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that sucks Gary, hate irresponsible people
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Gary, check with Lowes to see if the parking lot is under video surveillance.
Paul
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A long shot, but maybe call and see if they have cameras covering the parking lot?
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There is a mark on the lens. No paint rub off, but more of a rubber or black like film that starts at the leading edge of the well and goes back to the tail light lens. I can't get much info out of my wife except for I don't know, we were only there for 15 minutes and there wasn't anything around the truck when we parked and nothing close when we came out. Weird, what ever it was that hit the panel was about 4 feet off ground level. Maybe something sticking out the back of another pick up. No other damage down lower or on the tire or the rim.
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Gary, check with Lowes to see if the parking lot is under video surveillance.
Paul
X2 along with what Pete said similar! Report to Lowes on what happened.
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X3 (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-angry032.gif) I cannot believe they drove away without a word!
Do check with Lowes. Even if there is no security video, someone may have seen it and told Lowes....
Not much consolation, but at least it wasn't your Camaro....
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Hate when things happen like this...hopefully your friends , here, will restore your faith in humanity by lifting you up. If not, go out and yell and kick something...won't help, can't(scratch that) could hurt though!!
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Probably a Mustang tipping over while trying to park in a parking space - while idling. Scrape was the antenna.
Seriously, hope you catch the perp. "Accident" has no meaning here when you hit something and run, the cowards -
Regards
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Just got back from Lowes. The manager said call Dover police and have them come to the store. The officer came and took my statement which I told him was after the fact. He read me the riot act saying my wife and grand daughter should have never left the scene of a hit and run, he sited that the accident could have happened during the time they were on the way home and not at Lowes. Makes sense. They get that kind of stuff all the time the officer said. He wrote a report for insurance purposes anyway. The hit and run was between 3 and 3:30 from what little info I could get from the wife and it was after 6:30 when I got the truck back to Lowes to ask about the cameras. When the officer was done with the report he said he was going to look at any footage that may have been caught. One thing he told me was that this Lowes has one camera and will most like not show any thing past the closest parking spaces which he was aware of from a similar incident that happen sometime before. Something the officer said was the damage was very high up on the panel and that Lowes has delivery trucks, he found no paint rub off anywhere, just what is in the pics I posted. There was a white box truck in the parking lot when I got there, I should have measured how high the bottom of the box was from the ground, the lowest damage is approximately 4 feet off the ground. I didn't bring my tape with me so I couldn't compare.
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sorry....try to have nice things.
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I don't drive my Camaro during the day...ever. Night time can be iffy with Deer and small animals but I don't find that a problem if my eyes are open. I'm a a night owl so I get my Camaro kick after mid night when the roads are empty. I've seen too many rear ends get slammed sitting at street lights in town during the day. Even the country crossroad up from me gets plenty of activity, had a t-bone just last week. Too many arrogant drivers and crappy attitudes to suit me.
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sorry....try to have nice things.
Try to have nice things?? It can be tough.
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I'll ad, my dailys are not newer or that pristine, but it still burns me when someone is so inconsiderate as this and, yes, I get mad when a ding shows up on anything I own, no matter how ratty. Just the idea that no one seems to care. My newest car is a 97, with 40k on it I will ad. Yea, I'm cheap, but it just doesn't seem to pay to have anything nice in today's world. When the kids were in car seats, I bought my wife the only new car we ever had and someone prompty "keyed it" down both sides and that was 20 years ago...still frosts me.
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Hate when things happen like this...hopefully your friends , here, will restore your faith in humanity by lifting you up. If not, go out and yell and kick something...won't help, can't(scratch that) could hurt though!!
I gave up hitting things in anger years ago. Now I just scratch my a** and wonder...WTF. I use to be a very trusting sole, but now a days my faith in humanity is slim. I'm glad I have you guys...awwwwh man can I get a hug??? Actually it's my wife who really needs it. She was having an anxiety attack when she show me the damage, she's so upset she went to bed when she got home.
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Where that damage is on the panel...what would I be looking at for repair? Any ideas? Would this warrant a full panel? Just curious.
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My sister has a 6 inch long mark from lowes here. Looks like a bash with a door. Lowes was not real interested in helping here
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Probably someone had a long load that hung out well past a closed tailgate (or on the flatbed type of Lowes truck you saw) and when they turned in the lot didn't expect that the long load would sweep a wider area behind, and whatever was protruding got wedged up against your truck in the process..
Had this happen at my camp when a next door neighbour had a delivery truck drop off some building materials at his home and the driver used my driveway to turn around in. Don't think he even knew what he did to my fencepost as it was out of the view from his side mirrors as he swung out and around the corner..
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Probably someone had a long load that hung out well past a closed tailgate (or on the flatbed type of Lowes truck you saw) and when they turned in the lot didn't expect that the long load would sweep a wider area behind, and whatever was protruding got wedged up against your truck in the process..
Had this happen at my camp when a next door neighbour had a delivery truck drop off some building materials at his home and the driver used my driveway to turn around in. Don't think he even knew what he did to my fencepost as it was out of the view from his side mirrors as he swung out and around the corner..
Yeah. I gotcha. When I was in the Air Force working on C5's and it was time to tow one for whatever reason you better damn sure have a wing walker on both tips. When those baby's made there turns around buildings the wings looked like they grew the length of a football field. Of course it's just an optical illusion but it can strike a hanger if your not on your toes. The way the truck was parked in the lot I don't think anyone was making that kind of move. Not that it's impossible but it looks more like somebody was backing up rather close or maybe pulling between my truck and something else parked out there. There just isn't that much room to swing things around where my wife had it parked. Lowes does use box 6 wheelers for delivery and the loaded pick up makes sense but I can't see how it was done in my mind. Just doesn't compute.
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Hate when things happen like this...hopefully your friends , here, will restore your faith in humanity by lifting you up. If not, go out and yell and kick something...won't help, can't(scratch that) could hurt though!!
I gave up hitting things in anger years ago. Now I just scratch my a** and wonder...WTF. I use to be a very trusting sole, but now a days my faith in humanity is slim. I'm glad I have you guys...awwwwh man can I get a hug??? Actually it's my wife who really needs it. She was having an anxiety attack when she show me the damage, she's so upset she went to bed when she got home.
You need to be kind and understanding. Both of you can be mad together at the real villain.
I bought my first classic Chevy when I was in high school. Some guy ran right into it when my father was driving my car, claiming he was "trying to get a better look". It's a little awkward when your father has to come home and tell you that your car has been hit. I told him it wasn't his fault and we could just be mad at that "up-close car admirer". I've never regretted that attitude.
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40K on 97? Do you have about 30 daily drivers? My newest is a 2000 Cadillac STS and it has 206000 on it and I add about 30K a year. I'm driving that until the wheels fall of it (which will probably be in the next 12 months). Then to show you what a glutton for punishment I am, I'm getting an 03 or 04 Range Rover. Need something to tow the boat, and i need to brush up on my electrical troubleshooting skills, so we'll give a British car a go, plus they plummet in value worse than the Cadillacs do after about 6 years so you can get one relatively cheaply.
Wife has a 2010 Toyota with 34K on it, although her comute is only 6 miles each way, and i won't drive it.
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Reminds me of a time a friend of mine stupidly dented the family car and never mentioned it to his wife - till a couple of weeks later after she had thought it had been hit while she was out shopping.
I wash the daily tranportation cars weekly, like most of you that do the same I know every chip, scrach, smuge, or ding.
VT
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Hate when things happen like this...hopefully your friends , here, will restore your faith in humanity by lifting you up. If not, go out and yell and kick something...won't help, can't(scratch that) could hurt though!!
I gave up hitting things in anger years ago. Now I just scratch my a** and wonder...WTF. I use to be a very trusting sole, but now a days my faith in humanity is slim. I'm glad I have you guys...awwwwh man can I get a hug??? Actually it's my wife who really needs it. She was having an anxiety attack when she show me the damage, she's so upset she went to bed when she got home.
You need to be kind and understanding. Both of you can be mad together at the real villain.
I bought my first classic Chevy when I was in high school. Some guy ran right into it when my father was driving my car, claiming he was "trying to get a better look". It's a little awkward when your father has to come home and tell you that your car has been hit. I told him it wasn't his fault and we could just be mad at that "up-close car admirer". I've never regretted that attitude.
Yes...kindness and understanding. So far we have no idea who the villain is, so at this point neither of us are angry about it but things like this give my wife huge anxiety attacks, neither of us or her family have any idea why. She's had them long before I met her and still has a hard time of it at her age.
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I bought a 97 S10 with 20,427 miles on it in 2000 and traded it in at just 103,000 in Sept 2012 for the 07 in the above pics with 54,110 miles on it. Since then the OD reads 60,300. I don't drive much myself, don't have a need to really. Working on the farm all the time with no place to go.
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At least the person did not leave you the famed note that says, I just hit your truck. There are people watching me thinking I am leaving you my name and number. I am not. LOL
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You asked about repairing it: I have seen dent pullers get stuff out that was very similar to that. Big dents no paint loss, I would look into that first, they may be able to get 99% of that dent out with the special tools and know how now a days.
Just a suggestion, good luck with it.
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At least the person did not leave you the famed note that says, I just hit your truck. There are people watching me thinking I am leaving you my name and number. I am not. LOL
Now that one would piss me off.
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You asked about repairing it: I have seen dent pullers get stuff out that was very similar to that. Big dents no paint loss, I would look into that first, they may be able to get 99% of that dent out with the special tools and know how now a days.
Just a suggestion, good luck with it.
I'm with State Farm and went to see my agent today. They have a decent list of select auto repair shops and the local Chevy dealer is on it so it's going there for the repairs. Should take it within a day or so for an estimate and will talk to the tech then to find out what the plan of attack will be.
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You asked about repairing it: I have seen dent pullers get stuff out that was very similar to that. Big dents no paint loss, I would look into that first, they may be able to get 99% of that dent out with the special tools and know how now a days.
Just a suggestion, good luck with it.
Here is a better shot from a different angle. With the silver the above pics don't seem to really show the extent of the damage. Maybe the dealer can work it out. Probably will have some filler in there I suppose.
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We haven't done anything yet on the farms. Been getting a lot of rain. No soybeans or corn planted yet. Haven't even been out to turn any dirt over. Some of the nearby farms have rye growing but nothing else.
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Sorry guys I was multitasking and my last response should have gone on the Rain makes corn post.
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Corn makes whiskey !
One better...bought a newly redone 64 Impala SS convertible ,black on red ,in 86 when I was home on leave from the Air Force, drove it a couple of days when someone keyed both sides ,broke the antenna and side mirrors. Suspected who but couldn't prove...jealousy and I'll leave it at that.
Led to a huge headache with a body man, very long story...law suit...engines on a stand ,glides in the Anglia. Lawyer won.
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You asked about repairing it: I have seen dent pullers get stuff out that was very similar to that. Big dents no paint loss, I would look into that first, they may be able to get 99% of that dent out with the special tools and know how now a days.
Just a suggestion, good luck with it.
That appears to be two 2x4 scrub marks; one about 2-3" higher than the other....
Gary
Here is a better shot from a different angle. With the silver the above pics don't seem to really show the extent of the damage. Maybe the dealer can work it out. Probably will have some filler in there I suppose.
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Maybe sticking straight out the back of a pick up over the tailgate and backing up. This truck is huge, somebody had to be blind as a bat if they didn't see that thing in their rearview mirror.
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Yes, that's exactly the way those scrub marks looked to me....
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What's the black film then that was left by 'whatever' struck the panel? The upper damage looks like rubber scrapes, like something skipped along on it's way to the rear, and the bottom damage line from the leading edge of the bulge rearward into the deep dent and across the tail light has a film I can pick off with my finger nail. It's a bit hard to really tell from the pics I posted but there really is a black film substance that was pressed against that panel. Insurance agent thought it bit unusual looking when he looked at it today. IDK, weird. Without being there it's pure speculation, at least on my part anyway.
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If any one cares to know...Just got the OK to get the truck fixed, $1980.00 less my deductible. I think the State Farm adjuster called it a non-driver claim? Going to replace the panel. Chevy dealer/collision tech says it's kind of 'iffy' either way to fix or replace the panel based on where the damage is. The tech says it looks like an SUV with a rear tire on the tailgate hit it or something high enough that had some kind of plastic trim on it.
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Non-driver claim = because the insurance covers the car, not the driver, in this case...
...A Rav4????