Car still looks great but then this happened....

[sn95jones]

So while meeting my girlfriend's parents I had my car parked in their driveway, they live out in the country on alot of acreage and have cattle roam around the property. The day went great up until I got home. I got out of the car and noticed I had cow #### down the driver side of my car and a very big dent on my driver quarter panel, with cracked paint. So I called AAA filed a claim and explained to them that what sounds like happened was the cow took a #### next to my driver door/ quarter panel, then turned around and as it turned it smeared #### down the side THEN bumped into my car. It was covered under comprehensive so my insurance won't go up but here's the pics..

When I got home:




The day after:

[sn95jones]

Oh and the estimate was for $1200 for 30hrs.

[bigbadbp7]

Thats really... well... crapy

[tuscarora dave]

Originally Posted by bigbadbp7

Thats really... well... crapy

I was thinking "Man that's Bull Crap!!!"

All joking aside, sorry to see that this happened to your ride.

I came out of work one day to find a similar dent in my car. It wasn't a cow that did it, but rather a "Jackass" had bounced his Harley Davidson Fat Boy off the side of it then decided to act as if he knew nothing about it until he realized the witness respected me more than him.

It gives you a sick feeling in your stomach when you first see a dent like that in a car that you try so hard to keep in great shape.

[sn95jones]

Exactly, I was so pissed off, not but the day before we spent 5hrs getting the oxidation off the car and got it looking pretty much like new again and then this happens. Unbelievable how everything seems to target nice cars.

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

This is why I decided to go up.

My last car was a Datsun 260Z and it was hit twice like you show only smaller dents and after the second time it was hit I remembered this type of stuff never happened to me when I had my first big truck so I sold the Z an bought a 1975 Jimmy.





The dent that pushed me over the edge...








I feel your pain....

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

Originally Posted by sn95jones

Unbelievable how everything seems to target nice cars.

Exactly.

If you want to have something nice you're always forced to park in the back 40 and even then people door-ding you. So you drive your other car and that kind of defeats the purpose of having something nice.

[DaveT435]

Damn...that sucks!! Maybe you can find a body shop to work out a deal with repairing the panel and painting the bumper covers and hood??? 1200.00 seems a little high for that dent...

[DaveT435]

Damn...that's the side I polished...and a cow wiped his a$$ on it?? lol

[BobbyG]

I think the cow was temporarily blinded due the the reflectiveness of your paint. I suspect the cow now wandered off course, bumped into your car which naturally scared the crap out of it..... thus ending the story.......maybe...