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How many dents do you have on your car?

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Old 03-23-2013 | 12:10 PM
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"Dad, why do we always have to park and walk from far way when we go to the store ?

"Walking is good for you"
This. Haha
Old 03-23-2013 | 12:11 PM
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No dents, but a small ding on the rear passenger I think. Only visible in certain lighting. Almost not enough to bother me, almost. From the previous owner.

I had the front end repainted due to rock chips that drove me nuts early last year. The previous owner must have tailgated. Now a few chips have appeared again, but after a waxing they are hard to see.

I just noticed a small scratch on the lower front bumper. Have no idea how or when that could have happened. I will go to work with a polish and see what I can do.

I, too, park like a paranoid OCD patient which is the only reason the car looks as good as it does after 4 years and 35k. But it pays off for the car's condition and for resale!
Old 03-23-2013 | 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike24
"Dad, why do we always have to park and walk from far way when we go to the store ?

"Walking is good for you"
Yep. Kids love it when we take "Dad's" car, but groan out load when we get where we're going and they remember how far away Dad is going to park.

LOL. Been parking like this for 32 years.
Old 03-23-2013 | 12:48 PM
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1 small ding but its really small and in a spot thats hard to see. If its not creased a body shop should be able to pop it out without any paint damage for a fair price.. with 3 dings your headed to a golf ball look
Old 03-23-2013 | 01:07 PM
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No dings or dents on side, back and top. Hood has some small rock chips. Front fascia is pretty beat up with rock chips.
Old 03-23-2013 | 01:48 PM
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0 door dings. Just a few tiny rock pits on the front bumper.
Old 03-23-2013 | 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Rochester
Actual dents? Wow, no. That kind of thing gets fixed ASAP.

Dings? Not a single one. Then again, I've only got 12000 miles on the car, and I park it like a paranoid dad with his first new born. If I can't find a comfortable place to park, then I give up and don't park. Crazy, I know.
No, you are not alone. That's exactly how I keep my G37 free of dings and as shiny as the first day I brought it home. My old Maxima has zero door dings in the first 10 years of its life, I was careful where I parked just like I do to my G. But now it's the beater goes where I don't want to go with my G, guess what, it gained 3 ugly door dings in just a month by just randomly parked along side of some random careless folk's or soccer mom's. This amazes me how much difference extra care could make to a car's appearance. I wish they would invent a car that can capture licence plate and face of the owner who just put a ding into my car.
Old 03-23-2013 | 04:25 PM
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10 years of Maxima ownership here as well, 00Max00. Only two dings the entire time, one stupidly self-inflicted. Both were repaired with the paintless ding-removal process.
Old 03-23-2013 | 07:52 PM
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2 dings on my car... both on the rear quarters, above my wheels and both are from me and the stupid jack hitting it when i was doing suspension in my car. Stupid stupid.
Old 03-23-2013 | 11:05 PM
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10 years of Maxima ownership here as well, 00Max00. Only two dings the entire time, one stupidly self-inflicted. Both were repaired with the paintless ding-removal process.
You were lucky having just minor metal deformation without paint damages. The dings in my Maxima scraped deep enough that reached the primer, these idiots at least let me know what color their cars were.
Old 03-24-2013 | 12:20 PM
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My G37 is less than 1 1/2 years old and has no dents or dings. I did have the driver's side mirror cover knocked off by an idiot driver who veered into my lane and sped away, but I had the dealer replace it. He charged of course, as it wasn't the car's fault.
My old Subaru Outback had many dents in the doors from inconsiderate drivers. Nothing you can do about that.
Old 03-24-2013 | 02:13 PM
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Just got my first door ding the other day on my passenger door from some idiot and as I write this post, I got a guy in my driveway fixing it right now. Only problem is it's located at the upper half of my front door and he says there is usually a beam located in most cars right where my ding is so hopefully he can get to it easily so he can massage it out. If not I have to go to a damn body shop and pay alot more than $60 to get it fixed.

And I always park as far away as I can in parking lots but you still get morons who decide to park next to you thinking you have located a special area for parking and they better park there too.
Old 03-24-2013 | 08:16 PM
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i have three dings,two were put on by my kid sob!
i have about 4 chips in the hood
Old 03-24-2013 | 08:20 PM
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There was one ding on the side behind the rear door but above the crease when we bought the car; no clue how they managed to get that one. We immediately took it to have it PDR'd, and now nobody will ever know!
Old 03-27-2013 | 01:01 AM
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I have 1 new dent and 1 new scratch all in one day after I left my car yesterday at the dealership to replace the trunk because it started to rust, when called the service man he said " that is the first thing I saw, I think it was someone who park the car to close to yours and hit it twice" and that pisssss me right off, specially when 30 sec prior to look at my car he was looking at another customer and he told him to come back next week and they would fix his.



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