The Mayan Prophecy Comes True For My Apricot BMW.

[Rain Man]

Okay, it'll survive, but it's a bummer.

My wife was walking to the car after her yoga class, and some fellow was trying to parallel park in front of her. As she walked up, he apparently decided that there were two parking spots, not one, and decided to back into our spot.

Tell me how this happens, but somehow he ended up more or less broadsiding our car. He hit the side of the car BEHIND the driver door, right in front of the back wheel. It didn't affect anything mechanical, but now it's got a big ol' dent in it, and my bigger worry is that it scraped up the paint.

This car's paint is very unusual. BMW didn't go to market with it, so it's not a normal BMW color. It looks like some places sell touch-up paint, but will it match on a big swath of the fender? Or am I going to have to repaint the whole car? It's 12 years old, so I'd suspect that there's some fading.

I would really hate to repaint the whole car.

[HemiEd]

You are going to pay out the wazoo, but call your local beemer dealer and ask what body shop they use. You won't be disappointed.

[TribalElder]

Suddenly, I realize my problems are so normal and boring.

Repaint the whole car apricot with some gold flake

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

It is strictly up to you how particular you are. It is all about compromise and how perfect you want it.

A first rate body shop will make it look very nice by painting the panel and blending it.

A bit of apricotade where life gave me apricots is that it looks like he missed the driver's door and only nailed the quarter panel. So at least on that part it's not a disaster if the paint's not a perfect match.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

A bit of apricotade where life gave me apricots is that it looks like he missed the driver's door and only nailed the quarter panel. So at least on that part it's not a disaster if the paint's not a perfect match.

Yes it will be. It's going to have to be very close or it's going to be obvious. If it was just the front or the rear, something that a body line breaks up, it wouldn't matter as much
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[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

Yes it will be. It's going to have to be very close or it's going to be obvious. If it was just the front or the rear, something that a body line breaks up, it wouldn't matter as much
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How close can you get on a 12 year-old car? I'm kind of afraid of the answer.

[cdcox]

Wow, my new Mazda 3 had a similar brush with death Thursday night. Some drug addicts came around the corner, the wheel came off their car and it (the wheel) hit my front bumper. No damage, amazingly.

So there was something to the end of the 13th Baktun after all. Evidently the Mayans for saw the formation of Sandbox Simulations and knew that on this date (within 24 hours) both of the founder's motor vehicles would be threatened by ridiculously careless people.

There were a couple of other pointers to this event that we should have seen this coming. My previous vehicle was a bright yellow Ford F-150; so we both had exceptional taste in motor vehicle color. And my tire event had been foreshadowed by a similar event a couple years earlier http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?p=7032496

Spooky.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

How close can you get on a 12 year-old car? I'm kind of afraid of the answer.

If the person taking the picture and mixing the paint know what they are doing you can get really close.

A good body shop will know what to do. They won't use the original paint code. They will probably picture the door which will be the closest spot in terms of fade etc.
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[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by cdcox

Wow, my new Mazda 3 had a similar brush with death Thursday night. Some drug addicts came around the corner, the wheel came off their car and it (the wheel) hit my front bumper. No damage, amazingly.

So there was something to the end of the 13th Baktun after all. Evidently the Mayans for saw the formation of Sandbox Simulations and knew that on this date (within 24 hours) both of the founder's motor vehicles would be threatened by ridiculously careless people.

There were a couple of other pointers to this event that we should have seen this coming. My previous vehicle was a bright yellow Ford F-150; so we both had exceptional taste in motor vehicle color. And my tire event had been foreshadowed by a similar event a couple years earlier http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?p=7032496

Spooky.

Evidently there was a slight mistranslation on that Mayan calendar. There was no apocalypse, but rather an apocarlypse.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

If the person taking the picture and mixing the paint know what they are doing you can get really close.

A good body shop will know what to do. They won't use the original paint code. They will probably picture the door which will be the closest spot in terms of fade etc.
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Ah, so they match the faded paint and not the original paint? I had no idea.

So would you paint the whole car or just the quarter panel or just the damaged part? It's not as if a ton of paint came off - it's just scrapes and a few small areas maybe the size of a dime where the paint was scratched off.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Ah, so they match the faded paint and not the original paint? I had no idea.

So would you paint the whole car or just the quarter panel or just the damaged part? It's not as if a ton of paint came off - it's just scrapes and a few small areas maybe the size of a dime where the paint was scratched off.

Let the shop decide that. They will know where to fade in the new paint.

I wouldn't paint the whole car, but that's just me
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[mlyonsd]

Thoughts and prayers your way.

Originally Posted by cdcox

Wow, my new Mazda 3 had a similar brush with death Thursday night. Some drug addicts came around the corner, the wheel came off their car and it (the wheel) hit my front bumper. No damage, amazingly.

So there was something to the end of the 13th Baktun after all. Evidently the Mayans for saw the formation of Sandbox Simulations and knew that on this date (within 24 hours) both of the founder's motor vehicles would be threatened by ridiculously careless people.

There were a couple of other pointers to this event that we should have seen this coming. My previous vehicle was a bright yellow Ford F-150; so we both had exceptional taste in motor vehicle color. And my tire event had been foreshadowed by a similar event a couple years earlier http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?p=7032496

Spooky.

Yeah, I was just thinking about that other incident. It might seem as though you are likely to die eventually through some incident with a Goodyear. But I would suggest that you may live life around tires with reckless abandon. You've survived your share of tire-related accidents so you're safe now.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Yeah, I was just thinking about that other incident. It might seem as though you are likely to die eventually through some incident with a Goodyear. But I would suggest that you may live life around tires with reckless abandon. You've survived your share of tire-related accidents so you're safe now.

I predict that someday they'll find cdcox dead in a tire swing, having strangled on the rope.

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Yeah, I was just thinking about that other incident. It might seem as though you are likely to die eventually through some incident with a Goodyear. But I would suggest that you may live life around tires with reckless abandon. You've survived your share of tire-related accidents so you're safe now.

In the first incident I stayed in my lane and I got hit.

In the second incident, I changed lanes and I got hit.

Must be doing it wrong.

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I predict that someday they'll find cdcox dead in a tire swing, having strangled on the rope.

I predict Seedy Cox passes of kidney stones.