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Originally Posted by gerard vaglio
A few years ago I was getting out of my car, opened the door and the door stopped at the normal detent. As I turned to get my bag on the passenger seat the wind picked up, caught my door and opened it right into the car next to me.
This was like something out of a movie.
At the time the other car was a six year old Toyota with little scratches and dings on several panels. The mark my car door left didn't remove any paint, just left a 2'' dent.
I contacted the person and said I would pay for a paintless dent removal, $150, because I've have good luck with this service with my own car and that is the path I would take if her car were mine.
She agreed.
When I called to see how the repair went she told me the guy got most of it taken care of but she was not completely satisfied and wanted the door repainted. Repainting the door would have been $5-600 and would have made it the best looking panel on the car.
I politely declined to go farther then what we originally agreed to even though the dentless repair may not have been absolutely perfect.
Was I right, was I wrong?
There is something about these situations that are inherently hard to resolve.
I'd enjoy hearing others experiences with this type of problem.
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I had the same exact thing happen to me. I was in my RX7 as I was about to get out the wind caught the door and it hit a very old Saab next to me. When I tried to find the damage I did it took a few minutes because the Saab was covered in scratches and dents.
I felt I still needed to talk to the owner. When I found her she freaked like I hit her brand new Mercedes. Instead of showing her the ding, I ask her to come out and see if she could spot the damage. She could not find it.
I opened my car door really slow so it would line up with the ding, then I told her I would be willing to pay to have the ding pushed out and that is it. I also told her I would not tolerate her trying to cash in on me to get the whole car fixed. I was actually rude to her even though I did the door ding because I could see she was going to try to play me.
I gave her my business card and I never heard from her again, this was about 4 years ago.