I hate my garage

[mrjones]

I'm not going to explain much here.
Two loose pieces of shelving decided to slide off their brackets (TWO at once, WTF!?!?!) and made a semi-soft landing on my C280's hood and fender.
I've already emailed a paintless dent-removal company - this is my best excuse to get all those other nasty shopping trolley, parking, etc. dents removed as well. I was going into the second attempt to buy the horribly-expensive OEM third brake light, but that will have to wait. Again.
My collegues agree that it's ironic how I drive through traffic with all those hooligans and taxis out there, but I manage to ding my car right in the garage. :(

http://www.stierado.com/pics/benzsport/9654.jpg
BTW, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section...

[AMG203]

Originally posted by mrjones
I'm not going to explain much here.
Two loose pieces of shelving decided to slide off their brackets (TWO at once, WTF!?!?!) and made a semi-soft landing on my C280's hood and fender.
I've already emailed a paintless dent-removal company - this is my best excuse to get all those other nasty shopping trolley, parking, etc. dents removed as well. I was going into the second attempt to buy the horribly-expensive OEM third brake light, but that will have to wait. Again.
My collegues agree that it's ironic how I drive through traffic with all those hooligans and taxis out there, but I manage to ding my car right in the garage. :(

http://www.stierado.com/pics/benzsport/9654.jpg
BTW, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section...


LOL dont worry about I dont think the sections matter but what luck you have there well if you were in Miami I would of mentioned "Dent Wizard" I had a dent in my car and they took it out in 5 mins or less leaving the car dentless so it was pretty good.

[mrjones]

Originally posted by AMG203
...well if you were in Miami I would of mentioned "Dent Wizard" I had a dent in my car and they took it out in 5 mins or less leaving the car dentless so it was pretty good.
I just found a company called Dent Magic, and they're about 20mins. from here. Let's hope they have some time for me. :)
If they can't do the job, I'll UPS my car to Miami.
Are there any GTG's on in that area? ;)

[Ozzie Bob]

Damn man, that don't look pretty :eek: :(

How soon do you want that 3rd brake light? Lemme see if I can find one for you. I'll ship it with that CD I'm yet to burn :o :D

[mrjones]

Ozzie: Thanks, that would be great! I'm going on a little MB expedition tomorrow (read, dealerships & scrapyards) but do let me know what you come up with - and what they're charging. :)

My dealership quoted me R870 for the light, R450 for the cabling, and R380 labour to total R1700 installed.
Rand / US$ is around 8.2:1 now.

As for Dent Magic, the guys makes HOUSE CALLS!! I'm waiting for him to pitch up any minute now... :cool:

[Shude]

Nothing worse than "hangar rash" (term used to describe damage to planes, while on the ground :) ).

[redline]

or "dock rash" term used when examining a boats hull to see if the driver is an idiot and can't park.

[C280 JR]

oh jones,

I feel so bad about that, i would totaly freak out if i did that to my car...but i have a smiliar problem.....my family is very inconsiderate of my car, so when ever they park their car first in the garadge they take op almost most of the space, so when i need to park my benz i have to park it at an angle away from their car door...but still either way, i get 3 new scratches on my door from their door per week..its like they dont care how they open their door,and on the other side i have my oem exhaust, that i have no other place to put, so when i park at an angle, i usually forget it sometimes...and i hit my driver door and make a scratch on....it freaks me out....i need to do something about that

Elvir

[MB300E87]

oh no!!!! and such nice paint too. glad it didn't take any with it.

moving to BNZ Car Discussion.

[HaFaMaCa]

Sorry about your car :( Hopefully they can be removed without repainting!

BTW- check your mail!

[mrjones]

Thanks for all your comments, guys!
Dent-Magic is going to work their magic tomorrow morning at our office, taking 14 dents out for R950. That's not even US$90, and they are accredited by 3 Benz dealerships and the local BMW dealership too! :)

HaFaMaCa:: Got it, thanks. You should hopefully have snail-mail within the next 2 weeks! :)

Elvir:: That's terrible! :( I was brought up to respect a car and not just treat it as a daily conveyance from A ---> B.
My brother once drove my C280 into our garage in Swakopmund and scraped a bit of the front bumper on a cupboard... he apologised profusely and insisted on paying for repairs. I had the front bumper resprayed a few months later (stone chips) and when my brother found out, he still bought me a nice bottle of wine! :)

[mrjones]

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:) :D :cool:

[Ozzie Bob]

Sweet! Like it never happened :) In fact, why is this post here :confused: :D :P

[mrjones]

Originally posted by Ozzie Bob
...why is this post here... You can whack it, if you want to... :bored: ;) :P