The Prius is not even 3 weeks old let!

dang! ding. i leave 'em, that way, i'm not as upset when i get the next one. but hey, if it's their nickel, i'd be all over it too.

 

Looks like they got the mirror too and it has some electronics exposed. That needs to be fixed before water gets into the wiring and motor.
You'll be surprised how much that costs to fix. My wife scraped a hedge branch - really old and big one and it got the passenger mirror and scraped the front and both door panels - and the repair was over $4500!

 

smart move. those people tend to disappear after promising to pay. he should get a texting while driving citation as well. nothing you want more as a shuttle passenger than to see the driver twd.

 

Aw man that looks so upsetting!!

 

Look at the bright side, you have the first ding and can stop sweating about it.

I had a college friend whose uncle took a ball peen hammer to the bumper of his brand new car so that he could get the first dent over with and enjoy ownership.

 

That sucks, sorry to hear about it. I had my new 2015 sitting in my parking lot back in Feb during the all the snow we had, 2 weeks old and the damn snow plow backed into the bumper .

 

That sucks. I'm still waiting for my first ding. Two months and nothing yet. I realize that by saying that, I'll probably total it tomorrow.

 

Just FYI the second bump while not as bad as the first bump still sucks...

Never thought I'd say this, but I was hit by a windshield of a golf cart on the highway is morning.

There was a truck hauling 3 golf carts on the highway at 65 MPH, hit a bump and the plexiglass windshield of one popped out and landed in front of me. It broke into several pieces and thankfully I was able to slow down and avoid most of the big pieces. But one smaller chunk bounced and hit my bumper and gouged the paint, left aanother 4in mark on the clear bra. Could have been much worse.

Thankfully the truck had a big sign on the back and I was able to call them and they will take care of it. $1k in damages- fix and repaint bumper then add the clear bra, which is half that cost.

 

ouch! and i thought getting hit by a golf ball when passing a course was bad.

 

I read this thread a couple weeks ago and thought to myself "ouch! That has to suck!"

Fast forward to today and about a week ago when I was driving down state to take care of my dad who was having surgery, it was 2am and I was not even a mile away from the house, I come around a curve in the road at about 48mph and before I could even notice it from the darkness, BAM! I hit a semi truck tire. Was it laying down flat? Of course not. It was standing straight up. Waiting for me. Menacingly.

It sounded awful as it went under the car. I stopped in the middle of the road and put my hazards on, backed up and looked through my back-up camera to confirm it was actually a tire I hit. Yep. So I get to my dads and pull into the garage and check out underneath the car and I see the bottom of the front bumper has the most ever so slight bulge in it. You can't even see it unless the light hits it the right way. At the very bottom of the bumper, it scraped some paint off, probably two inches in length. It also cracked the plastic shield underneath the car.

Luckily, I have comprehensive insurance and I don't have to pay the deductible, but I got the estimate done today from a reputable Toyota certified body shop. $775 bucks. They said they're going to repair the slight bulge and repaint the bumper, and replace the plastic shield. I'm a bit skeptical if the bumper will come out okay, but whatever. If I don't like it, I'll just keep taking it back.

Just hit 1,400 miles.

 

I'll be happy to take the used messed up shield after you replace it lol. It'll be an improvement for my 2010

 

If you need to pretty much lie on the ground and use a strong light to see the scrapes, they're just character.

 

...and they "all" have character.

 

I don't sweat dings too much but I do try to park away from other cars, usually at the edges of a parking lot. I'm happy to let the obese bozos annoy each other.

 

I look for the out of the way places too... away from the rest of the herd.

 

You could always install those "curb feelers" (yes, they still sell them), and put them on your Prius, but I think most of us would rather live with the scuff marks than the sheer ugly those things add to anything they are mounted upon.