ughh.

happend last week but couldent get it off my camera. some kid in the highschool backed into my car with a 03 F-150.

probably wouldent have been so bad if he dident have the hitch in. did $800 in damage. all it did to his truck was scratch the hitch a little. 2" over and it would have hit the b-piller totaling it (to bad he dident have better aim).

Edited by ammolord - 24 December 2008 at 4:36pm

My car has the same type of damage except I was at work
and when it happened so I have no clue who did it. I
walk to my car across the street and there was the huge
dent with paint chipped off. Sucks hard.

I laugh when people drive into the metal towing package junk on the back
of one of my Explorers. I walk out of school and the car is right on my
bumper. I laugh and drive away.

Atleast they stopped and took credit. My friend was backing out, along
with the person opposite him. His Escorts bumper was punctured and
scratched by the girl's Ranger. The girl just drove off, didn't even get out
to see.

You got screwed over Linus. I've had worse repairs for like $600.

I got rear ended yesterday actually.  I stopped behind a line of cars waiting at an intersection (red light) and I looked in my rear view and saw a girl driving a pickup way too fast to stop (on ice especially) so I saw it coming.  Sure enough hits me and sends me into the car in front of me.  We all pulled over, and the car I was pushed into had a crack by his license plate, and her front bumper was cracked, but my car was perfectly fine.  His car was a bit beat up already, and hers was a company vehicle, so we didn't exchange info, and went on our way.  The company vehicle the girl was driving: Bumper to Bumper automotive parts....

That not bad, just buy a new fender.

Ford wrote: That not bad, just buy a new fender.

eh, i also need a new inner and get the outer painted ect.

.636 wrote: Should check your laws. Some places like here its illegal to drive around with your removable hitch attached to your truck or car

  its ND, theres not much that is illegal.

Automotive paint, and all the necessary accessories is expensive, as is body parts from the factory (most insurance companies now replace with factory parts becuase aftermarket parts are sometimes unsafe).

It sounds like a lot, but it's not like the body repair technician is getting rich off of that repair.

And yes, Ford, it is illegal in some areas to drive around with a hitch for no reason, in case you, hypothetically speaking, back your truck into the fender of some guy's Cavalier, so you don't do this:

That's exactly why I have towing hitches on my cars. Nothing says you should have better following distances like 2 inches of solid steel through the radiator.

KBK

ParielIsBack wrote: Kayback wrote: That's exactly why I have towing hitches on my cars. Nothing says you should have better following distances like 2 inches of solid steel through the radiator. KBK Well now that's a method.  Think I can get one for my '03 Volvo wagon?

Why yes, yes I am sure you can.