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Car Bumper Damage
Arch Guru XX
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So the wife and I went out to lunch today, and when we came back to my car I noticed that there was a pretty significant set of scratches on the rear bumper on the right corner. The scratches are essentially a scuff mark, probably 20-30 thin straight lines all in a cluster where some jackass scratched against my car. Total the scratches are probably 2-3 inches long, 4 at the most, and about 2 inches from the one at the top to the one at the bottom. About the size of an adult male's hand. Now it didn't look like it had happened at lunch - we were parked in an ordinary parking lot and the person who hit me would have had to do an awful job parking to make that happen.
We get back to our place, which has all parallel street parking. I immediately notice that there is a pickup truck parked right behind where I had been parked when we left, and that said pickup has an identically-sized scuff mark on the left corner of its front bumper - exactly the place where one would expect it, given the damage to my car.
So basically I'm 95% certain that this pickup is responsible for the damage to my car. I have pictures of both vehicles (although my car is now on the other side of the street, since someone else took the spot I had been in). I also have the make and model of the pickup. However, I have no idea who owns it. Also, all the evidence I have is pretty circumstantial - no one saw it happen.
Is there anything I can do to get my car fixed by the owner of the pickup? It is only cosmetic damage, but it's a LOT of cosmetic damage (to me, anyway), and it pisses me off - particularly since the owner didn't leave a note about the damage.
Any ideas?
We get back to our place, which has all parallel street parking. I immediately notice that there is a pickup truck parked right behind where I had been parked when we left, and that said pickup has an identically-sized scuff mark on the left corner of its front bumper - exactly the place where one would expect it, given the damage to my car.
So basically I'm 95% certain that this pickup is responsible for the damage to my car. I have pictures of both vehicles (although my car is now on the other side of the street, since someone else took the spot I had been in). I also have the make and model of the pickup. However, I have no idea who owns it. Also, all the evidence I have is pretty circumstantial - no one saw it happen.
Is there anything I can do to get my car fixed by the owner of the pickup? It is only cosmetic damage, but it's a LOT of cosmetic damage (to me, anyway), and it pisses me off - particularly since the owner didn't leave a note about the damage.
Any ideas?
Should have been a rock star.
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2) There's a reason they call them bumpers. Don't jack up this guys premium because someone might raise their eyebrow for .5 seconds if they ever look very close at your fender.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
unless you own a corvette or a ferrari that is.... Seriously though, I agree with the above post. Also, what's to prove that you didn't back up or pull foward into the other guy, and you're just trying to beat him to the punch. "There's nothing that can't prove right now that you didn't hit him other than your word, and I don't know you man...." That's what you're going to run into when you try to turn him in. Then you're going to have a problem with this guy for a long time afterwards. Just let it go.