My 1 month old chili red mini cooper s and my bf's mitzubishi lancer evolution got keyed over the weekend when we parked my car in my condo community for less than 4 hours. That stupid idiot keyed both of my door, my left side rear fender , right front fender and right side of the hood... does any one have any recommandation on any body shop in s.cal? or should i bring it back to the dealership?

 

ouch. sorry to hear this. as both of my commuters were either key'ed or got hit by a UPS truck within the first 1000miles of ownership.

 

i guess i am a little better than them since i have 1750 miles on my mini now .....

 

After one month plus two weeks I got keyed in the school lot after only an hour of being there just behind the gas cap all the way to the head light I didn't want o jack up my ins. rates so I got some touch up paint and a wet sanding kit, had it almost as good as new (couldn't tell even up close across much of the car) then 2 months ago I brought it in for the second service, forgot to request no wash and their machine wash brought back all the damage as it washed off the touch up paint, so I'll be at it again soon. If the area was flat, its an act of faith but not too hard to get the smaller stuff taken care of, otherwise find a good body shop, most dealers can reccomend someone good and at a reasonable cost to, if they refer you to how they use.

 

I got an estimate today, the body shop guy said it'll cost me about $1500 ... I forgot to mention.. those stupid idiot who keyed my car also keyed on my window...

 

Sorry to hear about it. I had my last car keyed a few months ago. Very deep scratches, right to the metal. Two doors, and it cost $900 to get it fixed. I ran it through insurance since I've got a clean record and hopefully was a rare event.

 

What the heck is wrong with people???

 

Minitee, did they repaint the whole two doors? do you think they match the color pretty good?

c4, i totally wonder... it's not like they are getting anything out from doing this....

 

Some people get a rise out of destroying things... because they can. Complete and total waste of carbon.

 

Hope your car comes out OK, and really bad "Karma" follows that SOB for the rest of his days.

I got hit on my tailight and hatch when I stopped at a restauarnt for 30 minutes. Wish I saw it happening........

regards,
Red

 

I had mine keyed 3 months after, guessed the main culprit is the indian women whom I politely refused her car wash serivces.

 

red, did you get ur car fix? i assume they didnt even left u a note ?!

smc,... something is wrong with these people...

 

btw, does any of you have an alarm? the oem alarm.. are there anyway you can increase the sensitive level?

 

So many idiots out there... sorry you were their target... Amazing how these low lifes get a kick out of this...

 

I had my landrover keyed not too long ago. Its was on the passenger side from the back door, then to the gas cap. For some reason, they did it twice over the gas cap.

Its just amazing how childish some people are.

 

No. They did not leave me a note!

But a little white compound on the plastic lens and hatch minimized it quite a bit. I would have to point it out.

regards,
Red

 

thats nice.. but what u mean by white compound

 

Plastic polish, I think meguier's makes it.

Sorry to hear about the incident. Some people are just jealous.

 

yeah.. stupid people... it surprise me how many people got keyed

 

kharma goes both ways...

 

Is there a chance that you parked too close to someone and they keyed your car because they were angry?

I remember when I was in college I used to park my car far away from everyone (like I park my mini now) and it STILL got keyed. Some people just deserve to be shot or something.

 

DAMN !

Some peoples Kids - auth to be shot and pissed on !

 

 

here are some pics....

 

Here is another one... and my bf's EVO