marauder307
09-01-2003, 10:15 AM
Well, sooner or later,...the odds catch up with ya.
I guess we can't have nice cars in St. Louis. Since I've been here,
my roof's been scratched by an anonymous carwash, my front fascia's been sc***** (that one might actually be my fault; damage, now covered by touchup paint, is right around the passenger side foglight),...and now my driver's side rear rocker panel (immediately forward of the rear wheel) has taken a hit.
The scene: This past week, my apartment complex put down some of that nasty-a$$ topcoat sealant in the parking lot. In the process of doing so, they also put some gooey, elephant-schnit-looking sealant on the seams/cracks in the asphalt underneath.
Yesterday (Sun 31st), I start out to the STL Fair and Airshow. Get in the car, crank up and start to back out. There's a POP-SLAM! sound, and I feel an impact on the rear of the car. Before I can get stopped, I look in the rearview and see something sticking out of the rear tire. It comes into the rearview's view as the tire turns.
I think, Oh god...I just backed over a beer bottle that somebody left under the tire and the tire's shredded. It's not unlikely...it's a public apartment complex, people leave cr.ap lying around all the time. Turns out to be worse. When I parked the previous afternoon, the rear tire sat on one of those old seams...y'know, the ones with the elephant-schnit on 'em? Anyway, the parking lot surface was hot that afternoon, and the schnit stuck to my tire and worked into the treads. That night, the schnit cooled and adhered to the tire.
So...when I go to back out and leave,...the tire tries to go...and the schnit tries to stay. Talk about traction! Those BFGs really do stick to the road...and pull it up too. The schnit stretched out like old chewing gum until it broke, and that's when I heard the noise. It snapped back against the side of my rocker panel, with all the gravel that it pulled up with it, and flailed the side of my car.:mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :alone:
Now my rear fenderwell and rocker panel look like the dog chewed on 'em. And it took me about 15 minutes of pullin' and cussin' (the other folks in the apartments musta thought there was a lunatic in the parking lot) to get all the schnit off not just that tire, but the one on the passenger side as well. I've gone ahead and saved all the cr.ap that I pulled off the tires...I intend to go in and drop the offending samples on the apartment manager's desk tomorrow afternoon. Fortunately, the car's still relatively new...and if it'll ever stop raining around here, I can get it to a carwash, clean off the mess, and see just how badly I've been damaged. If there's no dents, I may just go with my Color Magic wax and try to live with it. But I can tell already that the edge of the wheel well has been abraded badly from the gravel and the impact.:help:
I'm getting sick of this. Can't keep this effin' car out of trouble around here!
I guess we can't have nice cars in St. Louis. Since I've been here,
my roof's been scratched by an anonymous carwash, my front fascia's been sc***** (that one might actually be my fault; damage, now covered by touchup paint, is right around the passenger side foglight),...and now my driver's side rear rocker panel (immediately forward of the rear wheel) has taken a hit.
The scene: This past week, my apartment complex put down some of that nasty-a$$ topcoat sealant in the parking lot. In the process of doing so, they also put some gooey, elephant-schnit-looking sealant on the seams/cracks in the asphalt underneath.
Yesterday (Sun 31st), I start out to the STL Fair and Airshow. Get in the car, crank up and start to back out. There's a POP-SLAM! sound, and I feel an impact on the rear of the car. Before I can get stopped, I look in the rearview and see something sticking out of the rear tire. It comes into the rearview's view as the tire turns.
I think, Oh god...I just backed over a beer bottle that somebody left under the tire and the tire's shredded. It's not unlikely...it's a public apartment complex, people leave cr.ap lying around all the time. Turns out to be worse. When I parked the previous afternoon, the rear tire sat on one of those old seams...y'know, the ones with the elephant-schnit on 'em? Anyway, the parking lot surface was hot that afternoon, and the schnit stuck to my tire and worked into the treads. That night, the schnit cooled and adhered to the tire.
So...when I go to back out and leave,...the tire tries to go...and the schnit tries to stay. Talk about traction! Those BFGs really do stick to the road...and pull it up too. The schnit stretched out like old chewing gum until it broke, and that's when I heard the noise. It snapped back against the side of my rocker panel, with all the gravel that it pulled up with it, and flailed the side of my car.:mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :alone:
Now my rear fenderwell and rocker panel look like the dog chewed on 'em. And it took me about 15 minutes of pullin' and cussin' (the other folks in the apartments musta thought there was a lunatic in the parking lot) to get all the schnit off not just that tire, but the one on the passenger side as well. I've gone ahead and saved all the cr.ap that I pulled off the tires...I intend to go in and drop the offending samples on the apartment manager's desk tomorrow afternoon. Fortunately, the car's still relatively new...and if it'll ever stop raining around here, I can get it to a carwash, clean off the mess, and see just how badly I've been damaged. If there's no dents, I may just go with my Color Magic wax and try to live with it. But I can tell already that the edge of the wheel well has been abraded badly from the gravel and the impact.:help:
I'm getting sick of this. Can't keep this effin' car out of trouble around here!