My first door ding - I'm freaking
08-26-2003, 12:08 PM
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My first door ding - I'm freaking
I've just had the car for two weeks - and i'v already got a door ding on the front passenger door. I've been so careful about parking - but i thought I would just xcheck the passanger's side this afternoon, and there it is. I'm not sure what to do; the paint is slightly chipped in a couple of places and there is some white showing through the chip.
I'm so pleased i didn't get BB (got amulet red instead). even yesterday when I saw a BB on the road - I was kinda regreting not getting one (the one I saw was abosolutely gleaming).
So what do you think I should do? I love my a4 but maybe i should have just got a civic or something - this is too much stress!
I'm so pleased i didn't get BB (got amulet red instead). even yesterday when I saw a BB on the road - I was kinda regreting not getting one (the one I saw was abosolutely gleaming).
So what do you think I should do? I love my a4 but maybe i should have just got a civic or something - this is too much stress!
08-26-2003, 12:15 PM
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there a few ways to take it
1. Its a car, it gets you from point A to point B. (most civic owners)
2. Get the dent taken out, get the chips touched up and park way the h3ll away from other people.
3. Its a car, I'll be as careful as possible, but its going to get a few dings and scratches, thats life.
2. Get the dent taken out, get the chips touched up and park way the h3ll away from other people.
3. Its a car, I'll be as careful as possible, but its going to get a few dings and scratches, thats life.
08-26-2003, 12:16 PM
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I feel your pain, found a slight ding the other day....
that could probably be removed with the touchless paint system. Problem is it costs $100 and I already had one removed a few months ago. I also feel like I should be driving something cheaper that I would care less about. It is way too stressfull. To much of my life is being consumed on this stupid car.
08-26-2003, 12:45 PM
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You will handle it much better after you get a second one
I dropped $70 to have my first one fixed...only to get a second nastier one about 6 months later.
Now i just keep it there. I may get it fixed, and yes, it really pisses me off. But at the same time, i handled it a lot "cooler" than the first one.
I'm content to leave it there and wait for a THIRD. THen i may try to get a 2-for-1 special from the ding doctor or what not.....
Now i just keep it there. I may get it fixed, and yes, it really pisses me off. But at the same time, i handled it a lot "cooler" than the first one.
I'm content to leave it there and wait for a THIRD. THen i may try to get a 2-for-1 special from the ding doctor or what not.....
08-26-2003, 12:58 PM
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Obviously you got some money to buy the car... wait a year and paint it.. that's how I look at it..
If you got money.. then what's the big deal... get it painted next year.. I always put about 1000 aside a year b/c after winter my car looks like a tons of bird had **** on my car... salt and stone.. I just go and get it painted again.. obviously this is your first chip.. they'll be more and should you'll realize that it time to get it painted.
08-26-2003, 01:08 PM
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Take a deep breath and let it go ;-)
It's hard to do, I know. After 13 years with one car, I still get bent when I see a new ding, but the fact is that it's a car meant to be used, and dings are a fact of life 
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