How does this happen to my car without me knowing?

[ThePresence]

I am the only one that drives my car.
It doesn't look like your typical parking lot scrapes.
I never hit or scraped anything that I can remember.
I don't know how long this was here, I just noticed it.
I'm at a loss.

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[bigal40]

Shopping cart maybe?

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: bigal40
Shopping cart maybe?

Maybe, but that's a lot of damage from a shopping cart.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Shopping cart, someone walking by with a briefcase and running into your car, probably something like that.

ZV

 

[SunnyD]

Sorry, next time I'll leave the crowbar in my car and just use keys.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Could be a truck (garbage or something big like that) scrapped the side.
Really sucks!

Someone scrapped off all the clear coat on the spoiler of my old car. I didn't drive it very often and didn't notice it right away. That pissed me off like you wouldn't believe. Must have taken the idiot a good hour with a key to get as much damage done as (s)he did.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
Could be a truck (garbage or something big like that) scrapped the side.
Really sucks!

Someone scrapped off all the clear coat on the spoiler of my old car. I didn't drive it very often and didn't notice it right away. That pissed me off like you wouldn't believe. Must have taken the idiot a good hour with a key to get as much damage done as (s)he did.

This doesn't look like intentional damage. It looks like I scraped against something. I just can't think of when that might have happened.

 

[moshquerade]

sucks that other people have no regard for your property, either that or they don't know how to drive.

 

[nanette1985]

My secret belief is that it's built into the design of the car, every so often these things magically appear. I have no proof of that, of course.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
Could be a truck (garbage or something big like that) scrapped the side.
Really sucks!

Someone scrapped off all the clear coat on the spoiler of my old car. I didn't drive it very often and didn't notice it right away. That pissed me off like you wouldn't believe. Must have taken the idiot a good hour with a key to get as much damage done as (s)he did.

This doesn't look like intentional damage. It looks like I scraped against something. I just can't think of when that might have happened.

how would you not know you hit something?

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
Could be a truck (garbage or something big like that) scrapped the side.
Really sucks!

Someone scrapped off all the clear coat on the spoiler of my old car. I didn't drive it very often and didn't notice it right away. That pissed me off like you wouldn't believe. Must have taken the idiot a good hour with a key to get as much damage done as (s)he did.

This doesn't look like intentional damage. It looks like I scraped against something. I just can't think of when that might have happened.

how would you not know you hit something?

I have no idea. I'm just saying it LOOKS like that from the damage. I don't think that's what happened.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

It's odd cos you have the straight-ish line, then the spotty bit on the wheel arch. Maybe you clipped a bush reversing out and got scraped by a branch? You wouldn't feel it and if your music was loud enough, you wouldn't hear it.

 

[dabuddha]

I've got a mark similar to that on my bumper. I got it when I was parking my car in a spot that was next to a wall. The left front bumper slightly rubbed against the wall. I had no idea it happened until I got home (didn't feel anything in the car since I barely touched the wall).

 

[Xavier434]

The length of the scratch is long and straight which suggests that something like a shopping cart is the not culprit since they usually bounce off leaving behind small scrapes and dents although I wouldn't rule it out completely. What could have also happened is someone walked by the car holding a reasonably heavy object that quickly bounced once (creating that chip directly under the center of your light) and then hitting the car again with a smaller impact allowing it to be dragged along the car until they pulled the object away.

 

[Juddog]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I am the only one that drives my car.
It doesn't look like your typical parking lot scrapes.
I never hit or scraped anything that I can remember.
I don't know how long this was here, I just noticed it.
I'm at a loss.

Pic 1
Pic 2

Probably got scraped by another car while it was parked. That has happened to me before as well, one time I even saw it happen and the dude just drove off like nothing happened. Someone has even busted off my car mirror while parked on the street.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Juddog

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I am the only one that drives my car.
It doesn't look like your typical parking lot scrapes.
I never hit or scraped anything that I can remember.
I don't know how long this was here, I just noticed it.
I'm at a loss.

Pic 1
Pic 2

Probably got scraped by another car while it was parked. That has happened to me before as well, one time I even saw it happen and the dude just drove off like nothing happened. Someone has even busted off my car mirror while parked on the street.

I guess it's possible.