I know how you feel(more) (archive)

I have always driven in the truck lanes of the NJTPK but it was very hard on my '97 528iA. Well with my new '00 i swore to use car lanes regardless of how crowded. Being impatient(How could that happen to an owner of a 540iA???), I went into the truck lanes and a truck kicked up a rock and produced a double gouge down to the sheet metal ON MY HOOD less than one week after i took delivery. Always remember as I have said many times before....it is just a car and it will get dinged and scratched...nobody hurt...if yes then you had a good day....that noise could have been you hitting someone you did not see. I am waiting for my touch-up paint.....

Hang in and Good Luck
ED Todd
'97 528iA
'00 540iA

: I have been crying all day (figurely) because of what happened last night.

: I was backing out slowly in a crowded parking garage (they had cars parked in the access lanes). I stopped momentarily because I saw another car waiting to get by. The pressure of another car waiting and the fact I am not yet proficient with the manual transmission of the BMW, I backed up some more for extra leeway to manuever, but I didn't look. As I slowly backed up I hear a sound similar to running over a styrofoam cup. I looked in my side view mirror and I see I have hit the black bumper of an old BMW. There's black stuff (probably from the old BMW) on my rear bumper just below the strip trim moulding. How can I get that stuff off? Do you think there's any internal damage?

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