Hit and Run

[btailor508]

Came home last night, got out of the car and happen to look at the front left side of the the car and noticed it was hit!

I'm thinking I either got hit at work or at Walmart on Monday. We have camera's at work on all our buildings, however I was parked in the lot across the street of the buildling. Camera does reach that far however trees were blocking it. Spoke with someone from Walmart and he is going to look at footage tonight and call me back either tonight or tomorrow.

On to the pics....








Doesn't look that bad but irritates me very much. Do you guys think the whole headlight assembly will have to be replaced or can they buff those scratches out? Also you can't notice from the pics but the headlight assembly is slightly out of place.

My guess is they can buff the rest of the scratches out, and won't have to use much paint.

[Unleaded20T]

I bet whatever you want that it was at walmart.

[4RingRook]

^ +1. I hate reading threads like this. Sorry about your car dude. The good news is that it doesn't look too bad. That housing will probably have to be replaced, but it looks like you need minimal filler/paint on the bumper.

[btailor508]

^ +1. I hate reading threads like this. Sorry about your car dude. The good news is that it doesn't look too bad. That housing will probably have to be replaced, but it looks like you need minimal filler/paint on the bumper.

Thanks, it does suck but nothing you can do about it. My guess is walmart is not going to come back with anything, just my luck. I just bought the car about 3 months ago too!

Anyways, how much do you think a new housing would cost?

[scoobycarolan]

one of many reasons not to shop at Wal-Mart. Sorry man, but next time try not to save $.50 by buying Chinese.

[Brent27]

I bet whatever you want that it was at walmart.

this is why you park in the way back,because no matter where you go people don't always care about their car or hitting your car. Old people often don't even realize unless they can't gas through it.

park in the back is the lesson to be learned = no door dings less chance for a accident

[toaster]

some woman hit my car and caused 10k worth of damage. my car was in the shop for a month, completely fixed, and completely detailed to be made good as new and better than before the accident.

i get my car back and less than a week later a shopping cart nails it in an a&p parking lot and leaves a nice dent in the rear driver side door.

oh well.

i just think about what i'm going to do when it happens to my lambo or ferrari in the future...THAT'S gonna suck.

park in the back is the lesson to be learned = no door dings less chance for a accident

you are safe NOWHERE.

[Phantom2.0T]

park in the back is the lesson to be learned = no door dings less chance for a accident

Virtually every large scale parking lot that I go to, be it at the movies, super market or work, I always park in a space that is far away from other cars. The crazy part about it is, I go through the trouble to find a spot away from everyone else and when I am headed back to the car, someone is parked right next to me. There could be 50 empty parking spaces all around me, but people always park next to me. Hazard always seems to find me when I am trying to avoid it!

[B7A4WD]

lots of people just like to hit and run audis... pretty lame.

[VTAudiA4]

This happened to me too. I was driving, going about 30, and a hyundai hit me. The guy ran as I tried to stop my car. Here are some pics and more detail.
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178360

I know how it feels. Sorry to see that happen to another fellow Audi owner.

[btailor508]

It doesn't matter where you park or where you go, I try to avoid parking right in the front or where there seem to be alot of card. In fact in this case I think I took the middle spot of three empty spaces, thinking no one would've parked next to me.

Anyone know about the headlight assembly? Think that will have to be replaced, or can they buff those out? I plan on getting couple quotes today.

[i_audi]

Virtually every large scale parking lot that I go to, be it at the movies, super market or work, I always park in a space that is far away from other cars. The crazy part about it is, I go through the trouble to find a spot away from everyone else and when I am headed back to the car, someone is parked right next to me. There could be 50 empty parking spaces all around me, but people always park next to me. Hazard always seems to find me when I am trying to avoid it!

Same thing always happens to me, its like I'm a magnet for the moronic. The good thing is we live in a society where most people are too lazy to walk from the back of the parking lot

[unh112]

I've also learned not to park next to someone with a crappy car. I feel more comfortable parking next to a MB or BMW.

[Louis J.]

The reality is that no matter what kind of car you drive or where you park, this stuff is just part of owning a car. I've always kept my cars pristine and I used to get enraged when stuff like this happened until I tired of it and no I just call my insurance company.

[Phrost]

Fender can be buffed out, bumper will need to be repainted (about $100), headlight lens can probably be polished smooth again or else I would just live with it until I found one at a junk yard. The headlights have some play to move around, so you'll probably just need to loosen the screws that hold it in to re-align it, nothing should be broken.

That sucks, it makes your car look bad and it's a total waste of your time. Lucky for you though it won't cost much, but this crap happens

[btailor508]

Fender can be buffed out, bumper will need to be repainted (about $100), headlight lens can probably be polished smooth again or else I would just live with it until I found one at a junk yard. The headlights have some play to move around, so you'll probably just need to loosen the screws that hold it in to re-align it, nothing should be broken.

That sucks, it makes your car look bad and it's a total waste of your time. Lucky for you though it won't cost much, but this crap happens

Got a quote today for roughly $300 , basically they would paint the bumper, and smooth out the headlight as much as possible. I asked how much a whole new assembly would cost and he said around 700-800.

What do you guys think, is this reasonable? I am not willing to pay 700-800 for a new headlight assembly, I think I can live with the few scratches that are not removed on the headlight.

I was planning on getting chipped soon too, this is just holding it back now!

[cerfus]

that same shit happened to me about 2-3 months ago on my brand new front bumper..I was really mad, but what could I do?..

[Phrost]

You don't need any new pieces, but you may have to live with some scratches in your headlight lens depending on how deep they are. All that is wrong with your car, is some light scratches and that deep gouge in the crease under your headlight. I can't see how deep that is and if it will need to be "repaired", but the shop should probably use some filler so that crease isn't rounded off so bad from the scrape.

It does cost about $300 to paint an entire bumper (I just got quoted that for my rear bumper) but if it's a good place that can match paint very well, you can just get the driver side of it resprayed instead of the whole thing. That is, if the scratches in your fender can just be buffed out and don't need to be resprayed at all either.

When I had to get my front bumper resprayed, I took it off for the shop. It saves about $50 in labor, is easier to paint for them, and it will guarantee it will get a perfect finish. Places that do quick crap-jobs (like if the Audi dealer wants to fix a bumper quick) leave the bumper on every time, mask off around the body line, then after a year or so the clear coat will begin to peel around that edge since the painter wasn't able to get that edge good enough. I'm not saying if you don't take your bumper off it will be a crappy job, but if you take it off you are guaranteed a very good job no matter what. Plus you can take off the grill and reflectors, so they won't need to spend time masking anything off really.

I just noticed clear peeling around my rear bumper's edges, because Audi quick resprayed mine since whoever owned it before got rear ended or something. My edges are peeling, and the paint has noticeable orange peel because they didn't give a shit and wanted a quick/cheap job to sell the car. This happened 2x in a row to me, I'm going to start checking for this clearcoat peeling shit because I'm sick of dealing with it!

[JMG]

I have bad dreams about this kind of thing. Some people are just such inconsiderate assholes it's unbelievable. Hope you have good insurance.

[Vito Roma]

sucks that happened!! Thats why i try to park away from cars (if you don't mind a little walk) or next to a barrier so only one side is exposed. Last week at a bookstore with my girl parked infront a one of those huge lights in parking lots even tho there were closer spots and as we are leaving an old man and wife pull up and he hits the light barrier. If it wasn't there bye bye front bumper. Just a word to the wise. Hope it all works out

[Doctor]

Oh and I thought only people here in Greece ara such assholes...
Seems those kind of people are everywhere in the whole world...

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