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    Son of a... rear ended myself

    Pulled a real bonehead move last night. I was backing the Marauder out of the garage last night and smacked right into my wife's Escape. Too dark outside, too bright inside, tinted windows, not looking at what the hell I was doing... one of those "ah *****" moments.

    Paint on the top of the rear fascia split in several places and a couple of nice spider webs 3 inches on either side of the MARAUDER text. The wife's Escape took it like a trooper (like I could care). I'm so pissed with myself.

    I took it to a collision repair place this afternoon and was quoted $650 for R&R and repaint. Took it to the dealer's body shop and was quoted $500. Both estimators said it was only paint damage, the plastic seemed ok. So after talking cars with the body shop manager for awhile and wound up cutting a side job. Knocked a $100 bucks off the estimate and promised me a better job that if I ran it though the front door.

    So joy oh joy, I'm pulling off the SS inserts out and removed the fascia tonight and deliver it via truck bed tomorrow. Good thing I had practice on TMF's car, know that I know where all the body bolts are. I better get to work on it. Someone give me a good swift kick in the a$$. I deserve it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HwyCruiser
    Good thing I had practice on TMF's car, know that I know where all the body bolts are. I better get to work on it. Someone give me a good swift kick in the a$$. I deserve it.
    See?? I told you you'd learn something by helping me out!!

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    Ahhh....don't be so hard on yourself. Almost everyone has made bonehead moves like this at least once in their life. Consider it a learning experience, because you will now ALWAYS look befor you backup

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    Yeah... I got a fresh painted ready to go new fascia to go on my butt end too.... you don't own the patent on boning yourself.

    Hey, now you can put your feet on it to tie your shoes without any worries.... ahhhhhhh freedom!
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    How about dropping a drag radial on the topside of the facia while pulling it out of the trunk? Left a 295/35 gouge that I got to stare at every time I looked at the back of car. Some compound did the trick, but my eyes still see that goof every time I look there.

    I won't tell you what laying a strip of velcro on the topside of the dash in the summer does to the interior vinyl...Still see that goof too.

    Live and learn, eh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rich_Long
    Yeah... I got a fresh painted ready to go new fascia to go on my butt end too.... you don't own the patent on boning yourself.

    Hey, now you can put your feet on it to tie your shoes without any worries.... ahhhhhhh freedom!

    boning himself ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by HwyCruiser
    Someone give me a good swift kick in the a$$. I deserve it.
    No Backing Without a Ground Guide.

    We've all been there and done that !! No we haven't .... I was just trying to make you feel better. How'd I do?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DefyantWife
    boning himself ??
    Figure of speech, K?

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    **** happens
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    Man, I know the feeling. Good thing you can still laugh about the mistake with others.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DefyantWife
    boning himself ??
    Intriguing, isn't it?
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    JD, Ouch. Maybe it broke all the really bad joss.
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    I did the same thing backing my stang out into my friends CRX. It was just after I put a new tranny in. I thought the slam was the tranny falling out...

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    Hang in there. . .it happens to all of us. . .I think.

    I did it once years ago, so after that I started backing into the garage.

    Then one day I forgot I parked my new bike in the garage and promptly backed into it!

    yep, it happens. . .

    hope to see your ride someday at work
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    I dont know Cruiser too much light inside, too dark outside plus "maybe" a beer or three.

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