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The other day I was picking up one of my kids from gymnastics and I parked in a 70%-full lot. I have a tendency to baby my CO Mach-E and strategically park my car for the most part. I'm a little early and waiting in the car with my other child.
In comes a Tesla Model 3 (yes, I'm making a point of this because the smugness of some drivers gets to me) choosing to park right next to me. The mom pops open the passenger-side door in one of the most careless manners I've seen and WHAM. That instant I knew there would be injury.
She jumps out of the car, looks and doesn't realize I'm actually still in my car. She kinda shrugs it off, and proceeds to run to the trunk I think to grab her purse, meanwhile leaving her door open. This prevents me from getting out of my car to even examine the damage. I roll down my window and ask her to closer her door. She goes "oh, oh"... and closes her door but doesn't even acknowledge that she might have damaged my car. No apologies, needless to say.
I get out of my car, making eye-contact with her husband who I believe recognizes that his wife had F-ed up. She has already run off to pick up her child I guess. At least he apologies, but it does little to comfort me. I felt the door (it wasn't well-lit in the area) and knew that it had left a small door ding. There was actually white paint from their Tesla, but I rubbed this off easily as I have PPF + Ceramic coating on my car.
At this point, I'm not angry as I'm just dumbstruck and incredulous at the callousness of what has transpired. I took down their contact information and told him that I'd likely report it to insurance and get an estimate. He acknowledged this was by the book, but added "It's okay, it happens to me all the time."
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That's the backdrop. I did end up filing a claim for it and am waiting for the insurance company's approval to move forward with a PDR (pointless dent removal) estimate.
There was no fault of mine, but why I do I feel like the A-hole??? I imagine maybe 70% of the people out there would just accept that this happens and shrug it off. But I've loved my vehicle and have taken really good care of it in my nearly 1-year of ownership such that there's not a rock chip or a ding anywhere and this is the first one, of which I expect there may be more in the future.
TL;DR -- I got door-dinged while in my car. I was disappointed but didn't act poorly. Why do I feel like an A-hole for reporting it to insurance for a repair on something most people wouldn't notice?
In comes a Tesla Model 3 (yes, I'm making a point of this because the smugness of some drivers gets to me) choosing to park right next to me. The mom pops open the passenger-side door in one of the most careless manners I've seen and WHAM. That instant I knew there would be injury.
She jumps out of the car, looks and doesn't realize I'm actually still in my car. She kinda shrugs it off, and proceeds to run to the trunk I think to grab her purse, meanwhile leaving her door open. This prevents me from getting out of my car to even examine the damage. I roll down my window and ask her to closer her door. She goes "oh, oh"... and closes her door but doesn't even acknowledge that she might have damaged my car. No apologies, needless to say.
I get out of my car, making eye-contact with her husband who I believe recognizes that his wife had F-ed up. She has already run off to pick up her child I guess. At least he apologies, but it does little to comfort me. I felt the door (it wasn't well-lit in the area) and knew that it had left a small door ding. There was actually white paint from their Tesla, but I rubbed this off easily as I have PPF + Ceramic coating on my car.
At this point, I'm not angry as I'm just dumbstruck and incredulous at the callousness of what has transpired. I took down their contact information and told him that I'd likely report it to insurance and get an estimate. He acknowledged this was by the book, but added "It's okay, it happens to me all the time."
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That's the backdrop. I did end up filing a claim for it and am waiting for the insurance company's approval to move forward with a PDR (pointless dent removal) estimate.
There was no fault of mine, but why I do I feel like the A-hole??? I imagine maybe 70% of the people out there would just accept that this happens and shrug it off. But I've loved my vehicle and have taken really good care of it in my nearly 1-year of ownership such that there's not a rock chip or a ding anywhere and this is the first one, of which I expect there may be more in the future.
TL;DR -- I got door-dinged while in my car. I was disappointed but didn't act poorly. Why do I feel like an A-hole for reporting it to insurance for a repair on something most people wouldn't notice?
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