October 31, 2006
Broken and bruised MINI

As I alluded to last post, our 2003 MCS finally lost its original windscreen a couple weeks ago. Something very large and heavy hit the windscreen dead center while Deanne was driving to work. (Sidebar - Deanne has adopted the 2003 MINI as her daily driver and who can blame her. The xB goes up for sale next week.) Anyway, we got the windscreen replaced and last night we went out to dinner with some friends and came out of the restaurant to the following damage to the passenger door.

Some asshat must have literally tried to cause this much damage with their door. There is a nice amount of white paint transferred to the MINI so I can’t imagine whoever did this didn’t realize it. I just don’t get it. There were no other cars in the parking lot except for ours and our friend’s when we came out to find this. While I was pretty ticked off what are you gonna do. I’m glad it took three plus years before something like this happened and I guess I’m glad we didn’t drive the GP last night. I don’t think this will be a simple dent removal but will require some minimal body work and paint. I’ll be getting it looked at later this week.

Posted by todd at October 31, 2006 10:54 AM | Trackback
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That’s terrible that someone would deliberately inflict this damage :(

Posted by: Ian C. on October 31, 2006 03:40 PM

I had some pretty nasty dents taken out of a vehicle by Dent Wizard or a Dent Doctor type company.

Posted by: LTZMTOR on November 1, 2006 07:50 AM

If you want to form a hunting party, I’m game.

Posted by: VespaKeef on November 1, 2006 05:15 PM

HOLY CRAP! Todd posted to his blog AGAIN!

Ok, the dent sucks. Doesn’t look like any paint damage so you can probably use one of those fix-a-dent mobile guys to get it squared away.

Too bad Deanne is driving it, ‘cause chicks dig scars ;)

Posted by: db on November 1, 2006 10:52 PM

Asshat? Asshat! Can I use that? Is that related to big ass crack?

Sorry about the ding, Todd. I deliberatey used to park my car away from the others to prevent this from happening.

Posted by: Timmee on November 2, 2006 12:07 AM

Sorry for the dent but I treat all of my cars the same and GP or normal MCS both should been treated equally.

Posted by: mdsbrain on November 2, 2006 06:58 AM

:/ That dent is terrible. I hate it when people do things like that.

Posted by: Jade on November 4, 2006 10:20 AM

Obviously what we have here is a MINI so depressed
that it is self-inflicting these injuries. A
coincidence that all this has happened
since the GP took over as head-of-the-garage?
I think not. The first step is confronting the problem
by promising more “quality” driving time to the MCS.

Posted by: ylwjkt on November 5, 2006 04:47 PM
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