My Baby is damaged goods.

[2019Beast]

I work early morning till 1:30pm. Came out to my truck after work and found a huge scratch. My heart broke. I haven't even made my first payment. I'm furious for one. Second no note was left. So I take pics call the insurance company and file a claim. I pick my boys up from school and mentioned that someone put a huge scratch in my truck. My youngest son who is almost 7 says, " The big white one?" So he did it with his bike yesterday and didn't bother to tell me. I'm so disappointed in him and the oldest for not saying a word.

 

[devildodge]

That sucks. I feel your pain. Would have been better to be your best friend, neighbor, anyone but the kids.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you can get it all fixed up and your kids don't ride their bikes by it again (if the bike managed to survive the night).

I just told our middle daughter the other night she is the sole reason we haven't bought a new truck as she smashed the snack and spilt the drink she snuck in my truck.

Kids. How we love them so.

 

[troutspinner]

My son did that to my F150 years ago, handle bar went down the side. No scratch due to the rubber handle but dented it. Yeah, blood boils on stuff like that.

Same truck, another story. My wife needed to move my truck just a day after I bought it because she was so paranoid about pulling past and hitting the truck with her backing out of the garage....whatever....so she pulled my truck into a T spot of our driveway, goes about her business. The next day I go to get into it and the back sliding window is open and guess what, it poured the night before. Grrrr!! Women have to use the center mirror and not understanding the new truck, she started hitting buttons. There was about an inch of water in the rear cab. I vacuumed it out, left the windows open and in a couple days it dried out. Talk about angry! I don’t think I talked to her until after it dried. Lol.

 

[alacombe]

kids are kids. its just a truck

 

[syddog 2000]

I think all of us with kids have been there. It is a downer though. The good news is that it can be fixed. I feel your pain.

 

[356]

kids are kids. its just a truck

I feel your pain...in 2003 my son put my Europe delivery Porsche into a guard rail...I too had not made a payment. The good news is that he is still alive. The car is long gone, but family remains.

 

[alwi228]

I feel your pain. Last year I was startled out of bed by a loud crunch outside; a crazy lady had rammed her brand new Acura into my brand new Jeep...I walked outside, gave her a kiss and said we’ll take care of it after work. My name is Alex, and I too have been a victim of family assault.

 

[Bwarren2]

I work early morning till 1:30pm. Came out to my truck after work and found a huge scratch. My heart broke. I haven't even made my first payment. I'm furious for one. Second no note was left. So I take pics call the insurance company and file a claim. I pick my boys up from school and mentioned that someone put a huge scratch in my truck. My youngest son who is almost 7 says, " The big white one?" So he did it with his bike yesterday and didn't bother to tell me. I'm so disappointed in him and the oldest for not saying a word.

There are some good videos on YouTube on how to get rid of scratches. It helps you determine if the scratch is in the clear coat or paint etc. Search for Chrid Fix

 

[PorBoy]

Oh please you guys are rookies lol. My oldest daughter called herself helping by driving our new car into our garage. For some odd reason she didn’t bother to stop hence car meets inside of house. Needless to say I also had not made the first payment. My total concern was if she was ok, everything is replaceable.

I’m not trying to downplay what happened to you OP, my current kids who are teenagers still do things and neglect to tell me.

 

[Edwards]

Oh please you guys are rookies lol. My oldest daughter called herself helping by driving our new car into our garage. For some odd reason she didn’t bother to stop hence car meets inside of house. Needless to say I also had not made the first payment. My total concern was if she was ok, everything is replaceable.

I’m not trying to downplay what happened to you OP, my current kids who are teenagers still do things and neglect to tell me.

I would have loved to have seen your eyes as that was happening! Not in a bad way though...

 

[PorBoy]

Lol I’ve learned through my years to value my family more so then my personal possessions. Now don’t get me wrong as I have two teenaged daughters left at home and they try my patience constantly with their makeup laden fingers on my seats/ doors / windows lol. The one forget she had a pencil in her rear pocket and poked a small hold in the seat of my last car.

 

[Edwards]

Lol I’ve learned through my years to value my family more so then my personal possessions. Now don’t get me wrong as I have two teenaged daughters left at home and they try my patience constantly with their makeup laden fingers on my seats/ doors / windows lol. The one forget she had a pencil in her rear pocket and poked a small hold in the seat of my last car.

Sorry to LOL at that comment. Amen about family over things though.

 

[Dusty1948]

Nothing can bring families closer together than a good insurance agent.

Dusty

2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Quad Cab 2WD, 5.7 Hemi, 8HP75, 3.21 axle, factory dual exhaust, 18” wheels. Now at: 003603 miles.

 

[Mike67]

Not a Truck story, but a deer hit my 2004 Cavalier. Took out the front driver quarter panel and broke all of the drive side windows.
So I get that all fixed and then my wife comes in and says she hit my car, she says she was backing up, heard a crunch and the Van wasn't going anywhere when she gave it some gas, so she gave it a lot more and finally realized she was scrapping along my car. She did the same damage to my front quarter panel as the deer, what a Dear.
Then she did it again a few years later trying to rush our dog to the vet. Dog was ok, car wasn't.

 

[Ezshooter]

So if any of our fellow members are obsessive You Tube watchers, you need to look up PapaBear (pretty sure this is the right name) - he bought a black Laramie sport, and started doing Vlogs on it - well he was in the process of getting married, long story short he has an inebriated passenger in the back seat - who gets sick, and I mean really sick! As in, cleaning chunks of vom out of the rear ac vents - I kid you not, the truck was a week old I think. You can tell in the video, he’s over the crying / nashing of teeth and just beat down.... he’s like ‘ yeah, you know who you are. I love you, but... ‘ talking about the passenger. I was almost crying (from understanding- then laughter) from the sad tone in his voice.

 

[rx2man]

Kids will be kids, they cant help it. When adults do **** is when I get pissed cause they know better. Bet they will not scratch it again after seeing daddys reaction to his new toy. I was watching a scratch repair video where they use a squeegee to go over the paint filling in the scratch and looks perfect.....Doctor color chip is one of them but there is another advertised in autoweek that I cant remember. I will look for it when I get home......

 

[TurdFerguson]

Not even a month...

 

[Edwards]

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How'd you do that, BTW? I'm going to put a strip of foam on the inside of my garage door so my tailgate can't accidentally open into it but maybe you have some other wisdom to pass along?

 

[TurdFerguson]

Was picking my daughter up from school. Backing out and one of the extended mirrors on a bus behind me got me. Was watching the bumper in the cam not the mirrors :/

 

[19RamLimited]

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Man.. at least it's steel. You'd be amazed what a good PDR guy can get out. Sorry that happened.

I door dinged my new truck with my old truck.. talk about being disappointed.. something like this is understandable. Doing it to myself I couldn't sleep. Got it fixed like it never happened.

Maybe my old truck was jealous and pushed its door from my hand