OMG i hate boston... My mini is two months old and i took her into boston for the day with my girlfriend and some other people to go hang out, we live close so we would have taken the trains if they WERE RUNNING! but they werent so we drove in...
so this is the first time ive driven my mini into boston and we start near the commons and we park in one of those parking lots in the middle of the city, while driving around i already had a bad feeling but i was with my Gf so all was well. the ride was intersting... soo many potholes..
ok so yea we get to the lot and im looking for a space and theres a car in front of me and they pull into a spot and i see one and go for it, so as im going behind this now parked car she starts to back up!, and mind you these lots are tight, so not alot of space on my left and all of a sudden a toyota avalon is backing up!!
everything happend very fast. and you may know how it is so bear with me on this. in the split second i realize that she could either hit me or stop in time, if i continue to drive forward she would hit me and it would just drag across the side of my car and be much much more dammage or i stop and hit the horn and hope shes hears it and stops.
so i stop lean on the horn and she continues to back up and im looking at her car the whole time, and see my mirror get pushed in and then she stops.. pulls forward and im already with my head in my hands...i get out and she does too... sorry but she was blonde and i was just like of course...and her car is fine of course but my mini takes the brunt of it.
about 10 inches of scratches and scuffs and two dents on the front quarter panel and the leading edge of the door, the one on the quarter panel is like right on the edge of the fender and about 2 inches in diamater and the one on the door is tricky, tough to explane.
so yea. great... my mini, my first car, that i've papmered for the last two months has been violated... i was, well not in the greatest state of mind at that point and i didnt really think. and i didnt get her insurance info... we looked at it, and someone who was there saw it and said the scratches could be buffed out easy, the dents i didnt really notice at first... and found them later.. but.. well, i was with my gf and shes knows im really in love with my car but i didnt want to make a scene so i just swallowed it and parked and well just tired to put it behind me.
i came all the way from maine to see her for the first time in a week so to make it an all day event would have kinda been bad.. oh and of course as soon as it happned it started to rain...and continued to rain...all day..and we were soaked..and so were my new pumas... so you would think it was a really bad day...
well the begining of it wasnt good, but once i was able to laugh at it, and see the irony in it pertaining to stuff ealier that day, it turned out pretty good, i mean i was there to be with her. the car can be fixed...
btw i did get the girls cell phone number in case i do decide i want to contact her for something or reason. like i said i wasnt thinking when after it happened and i didnt think to take any pictures or anything.
so today, i got up this morning and had the ingenius idea to clay it! because it wasnt
that bad when i started to look at it this morning, it does look like whats left of it now could be taken out with some compound.. so i cleaned the area, clayed it, used nufinish scratch remover 3 times and then put a coat of nano wax on it only because that was the only kind i had. it looks alright, from 10 feet it isnt noticeable, from 5 it kinda if you know where to look but even from right next to it you have to know where to look to see it.. but the problem is I KNOW ITS THERE! and the dents arent that bad but like when the reflection is warped so it hits you that theres a dent there.
no body in my family has noticed yet but then again, no ones been around my car in particular today... so far i havent told my parents, and im not really looking forward to, i dont think they will be too thrilled...
so i was thinking of taking it into my own hands and taking out the sratches out on my own, already taking car about that, and the dents i'll have to find out a way to get them out.
this is where i call out to you my fellow mini drivers. if you have any tips on how to get out small dents and scratches please let me know, i need your help. i'll try and get some pics of the infected area and the dammage. i just want my mini back to perfect, i know its going to be hard but im a perfectionist. haha.
oh and on the way back to maine driving at like 11 i see a pair of headlights coming up fast and im like o0o0 whats this... and then suddenly a GT R blast past!! im like WOAH!! and try and keep up! haha yea right. but the good thing was that he got off at my exit and was going thru my town so i was able to catch up to him on regular roads and snap a pic or two.
so yea dispite my mini being hit and walking around boston in the rain soaking wet. it was a pretty good day, if i was with anyone other than my gf it would have been a much much much much worse day. and i thank her for that
.... wow long right up, sorry, haha. but thank you for your time.
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