Why do I even bother?
02-24-2012, 03:53 PM
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Why do I even bother?
How the HELL does THIS HAPPEN? Could be a number of things. My car was parked outside for the past 2 days and I just noticed that. The good thing (if anything) is that it looks like a door ding. No kink or anything so it should be easy to pop. (I hope).
I have the worst luck. My car looks like a turd now. My dinged bumper (lady backed into me) my dented hood and now this. You can't tell unless you look at an angle but still.
I screamed so loud I am sure my whole development heard me. 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54027258@N07/6780642736/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54027258@N07/6926759895/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54027258@N07/6780642350/
I have the worst luck. My car looks like a turd now. My dinged bumper (lady backed into me) my dented hood and now this. You can't tell unless you look at an angle but still.
I screamed so loud I am sure my whole development heard me. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54027258@N07/6780642736/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54027258@N07/6926759895/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54027258@N07/6780642350/
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02-24-2012, 04:20 PM
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Any scratches at all?
02-24-2012, 04:23 PM
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Cheer up man, it could've been a lot worse! This was my 2G TL after a stupid pine cone decided to drop on my rear window. Mind you, it was also raining and I had no idea until after the rain stopped. 
02-24-2012, 04:28 PM
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That sucks ^.
Not a single scratch.
Glad to hear it was taken out! How much did it run you?
Not a single scratch.
Glad to hear it was taken out! How much did it run you?
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02-24-2012, 04:34 PM
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anyway, i had dings on both front fenders, my pass. rear qtr panel and my trunk which were all PDR'd. my roof was repaired (dings and a few scratches)and re-sprayed.
curvy areas like where yours is (the upper pillar)...may or may not be able to be pulled. tough area to access for PDR. i remember someone that had hail damage on his TL with a huge ding in the pillar (i think it had to be repaired the old fashioned way, iirc).
pricing...my driver's fender cost the most to get pulled ($365) with probably 4 dings nothing huge, but they were in tight curvy areas of the fender one near the headlight. the others: trunk lid 3 dings $110, rear qtr 3-4 dings $165 the other fender $165. the car looks like new now (literally).
the ding on your hood iirc was huge. how you drive with your car the way it is...
would drive me nuts. if you have other dings in your car...might as well get those done too. the PDR guy (sublet) at the body shop, pulled a crease out of one of my doors as a courtesy.
a friend of mine had a squirrel get eletrocuted on the wire above her honda pilot, and fall on her sunroof. the dead fried squirrel shattered the sunroof!
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02-24-2012, 04:41 PM
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I think they will have to pull the liner down and pop it out. Hopefully. Eitherway its going to have to wait. Hopefully by spring.
Mine is also on the passenger side. Any pictures? You decided to live with the dent, or fix later on?
Mine is also on the passenger side. Any pictures? You decided to live with the dent, or fix later on?
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02-24-2012, 05:03 PM
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there were dents on my roof because some dumb ass decided to jump on it, I attempted to fix it with a suction cup things like this.
Me, being a moron, couldnt remove it when "sucked" so i used my body weight to try to lift it, ended up causing dents in the same spot as yours due to BOTH my forearms indented REAL deep into them. (my body lifted up as I tried to remove it, and it indented inwards on the car).
Pretty much left 2 HUGE dents as wide as my forearms and deep too, way worst than yours. I dont have pictures, but i ended up paying $300 to fix the 2 dents and the roof dents too, looks like new now.
Me, being a moron, couldnt remove it when "sucked" so i used my body weight to try to lift it, ended up causing dents in the same spot as yours due to BOTH my forearms indented REAL deep into them. (my body lifted up as I tried to remove it, and it indented inwards on the car).
Pretty much left 2 HUGE dents as wide as my forearms and deep too, way worst than yours. I dont have pictures, but i ended up paying $300 to fix the 2 dents and the roof dents too, looks like new now.
02-24-2012, 05:06 PM
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Had a similar dent, worse tho, had a big tree branch fall on my car during that snow in October. It wasn't able to be PDR'd, it was about $900 in damage all said and done
02-24-2012, 05:39 PM
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man thats some bad luck going on with you....but hey it can only get better....chin up bro
02-24-2012, 05:52 PM
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Yeah I do have bad luck. Fortunately I have a new front bumper waiting to be painted/installed. Will knock out these two dents at that time. I am guessing $250 for the hood and hopefully $100-$150 for this. My friend showed pics of his TL that had hail damage from that hail storm last summer in NYC and they got them all out. Its not even big, at the right angle it looks big.
02-24-2012, 10:15 PM
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Sorry to see your luck hasn't changed for the better, Orange.
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^^^ 
02-26-2012, 04:36 PM
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Haha more or less. The trees in that neighborhood are really old so they're extremely tall. I still have the pine cone. Cheeky bastard cost me $800 bucks so I decided to just hold onto it for memories' sake
Nope, just a pine cone. I would've known if it was a person because I actually left a lot of my valuables where they could be seen. When I first saw it, I thought that I got jacked but thankfully, nothing was stolen!
It's funny because I actually drove the exact same Pilot in the video before I got the 2G TL and the 3G TL-S. And no, I'm not the one driving in that video. 
Looks like that guy's from the east coast...and I lived my entire life on the west!
Nope, just a pine cone. I would've known if it was a person because I actually left a lot of my valuables where they could be seen. When I first saw it, I thought that I got jacked but thankfully, nothing was stolen!
Looks like that guy's from the east coast...and I lived my entire life on the west!
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02-26-2012, 07:02 PM
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Sorry to hear buddy =(
02-27-2012, 07:16 PM
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