Yay for SUV's
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Stoneage_Turbo
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Just about anything
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MasterMan
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AZhitman wrote:MM - What did you want them to do for you? Conduct a "hard-target search of every vehicle within a ten-mile radius"?
Perhaps you coulda got CSI Miami on the trail - They could do a photospectometer analysis of the composition of the paint and wax transfer and measure the height of the impact at the current ambient temperature and pavement angle until they narrowed it down to the EXACT vehicle that hit your 240.
Then they could blow it off since the incident occurred on private property.
bah screw u, lol.. i thought they normaly wright up a police report.. but whaver.. plus at the time i thought it happened on school grounds in wich case they have to pay for the damage so i police report would of been helpful, otherwise they could say it happened off school grounds.. but as it turns out the marks left on my car were made by a white car and a red car parks next to me at school so it did happen off school grounds..
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Get240DiZzY
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skydragoness
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"A small car COULDN'T have made that big of a dent"That's INSANELY shaky logic. I can make a Geo Metro make that kind of dent. Hell, I can make a potato moving at enough speed make that dent. It's all about point of impact, velocity, angle of impact, materials involved, etc. Logic is essential here.
As far as I can see it looks as if the contact point of the indentation is right at the level most small car's would impact. IE, if you draw a line from the center point of that impact all the way to the front of your vehicle, I believe you'll see that that point is right where your front end would impact. An indentation at that point could easily cause the surrounding area to be dented as viewed. Not only that, but are we ruling out pickup trucks, minivans, larger sedans, etc? If we are thinking large SUVs the impact point most would make is above where your damage is, unless it was a tire impact, in which case you would see large black marks, etc. I believe a Yukon's front bumper ends roughly around what looks to be the top of that damage. Even IF all these assumptions are completely incorrect, to say that IT WAS AN SUV is EXTREMELY shaky. It's almost laughable by a legal standard. That's not to be condescending, but this seems like another opportunity to try to demean SUV drivers. This is America baby, if I want to drive a gas-guzzling, road hogging, pollution machine to and from the grocery store every day I can do it, over and over and over again.
On a purely logical basis, you were in a hit and run, which sucks balls. Exact same thing happend to my S13, in the exact same place, in a Wal Mart parking lot, hell, I even have a white fastback. How much did you get quoted on repair for your door and quarter panel, I've been scared to bring mine in for the quote...........
As far as I can see it looks as if the contact point of the indentation is right at the level most small car's would impact. IE, if you draw a line from the center point of that impact all the way to the front of your vehicle, I believe you'll see that that point is right where your front end would impact. An indentation at that point could easily cause the surrounding area to be dented as viewed. Not only that, but are we ruling out pickup trucks, minivans, larger sedans, etc? If we are thinking large SUVs the impact point most would make is above where your damage is, unless it was a tire impact, in which case you would see large black marks, etc. I believe a Yukon's front bumper ends roughly around what looks to be the top of that damage. Even IF all these assumptions are completely incorrect, to say that IT WAS AN SUV is EXTREMELY shaky. It's almost laughable by a legal standard. That's not to be condescending, but this seems like another opportunity to try to demean SUV drivers. This is America baby, if I want to drive a gas-guzzling, road hogging, pollution machine to and from the grocery store every day I can do it, over and over and over again.
On a purely logical basis, you were in a hit and run, which sucks balls. Exact same thing happend to my S13, in the exact same place, in a Wal Mart parking lot, hell, I even have a white fastback. How much did you get quoted on repair for your door and quarter panel, I've been scared to bring mine in for the quote...........
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colies97~240sx
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skydragoness5 wrote:bah. 95% of the people driving those things are idiots, and can't park them worth sh*t.
"hey, i think i'll drive the house to the mall, why not?"
No joke!!! On campus today I saw some lady in an extended cab Silverado pull in and out of the same spot over 6 times just trying to get the truck straight! And she never did. Its like g'damn, don't own one if you cant drive one... :freak
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skydragoness
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colies97~240sx wrote:No joke!!! On campus today I saw some lady in an extended cab Silverado pull in and out of the same spot over 6 times just trying to get the truck straight! And she never did. Its like g'damn, don't own one if you cant drive one... :freak
DAMN straight! *high fives*and that applies to anyone who drives a car anyway. :pface
oh well time for a sil front end.. eheh