What could have caused this damage?

[FreiWild]

As per the title, I came back home to find my car with the damage you can see in the pic below.




It was parked in a communal parking area which is used by other tenants as well and currently one Mercedes C-Class is missing so I was wondering whether that car could have done it while making a three point turn and reversing into the front.

However I only just took the car off of my sister yesterday night after she had it for a good 2 weeks, without explicitly looking at that corner of the car, so the damage might have been caused by her. Obviously I don't want to confront a possibly innocent party so I will get on the phone to get my sister's account, but thought it might be worthwhile to ask you people, in the mean time, as to the probable causes of such damage.

Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance.

Edited by FreiWild on Tuesday 23 September 17:05

Edited by FreiWild on Tuesday 23 September 17:07

[Monkeylegend]

Possibly something white scraping against the front offside corner Watson.

[TheEnd]

Monkeylegend said:

Possibly something white scraping against the front offside corner Watson.

The game is afoot!

[Crusoe]

I would say it looks more like rubbed against a solid object or the same projection rather than an uneven car for example as the scrape is pretty much full height. More like a bollard or a low wall perhaps? Some yellow colour in there too maybe...

[Silent1]

That looks like it's been driven into a wall

[Monkeylegend]

I have given further consideration and think the culprit could be a white gate post.

Does your sister have such a thing? If so I would inspect it for blue paint.

[mike-r]

Flash Gordon on the way back from the pub.

[ManFromDelmonte]

My immediate thought was that it looks like damage from scraping a wall/pillar in a car-park rather than damage caused by another car. Does the white 'stuff' come off when you scratch at it with a nail?

Can you get a look at the C-class and see if it has any damage?

[TooMany2cvs]

Another vote here for that being scraped down a wall, rather than another car nudging it. The damage is just too consistent across too great a height.

What's the texture of the scrapes like? Does it look like they were caused by something smooth or rough?

[Monkeylegend]

So we now know the car was moving at the time of the incident, very interesting.

[FussyFez]

Another wall/bollard vote.

Looks like a 'I'll get round there...." *crunch*.

[El Guapo]

Monkeylegend said:

I have given further consideration and think the culprit could be a white gate post.

Agreed, there is too much white paint to have scraped off another car.

[anonymous-user]

Monkeylegend said:

So we now know the car was moving at the time of the incident, very interesting.

No. It might have been a dwarf dressed as a white gatepost, running past the car and brushing it.

Remember: eliminate the impossible, and what remains, no matter how implausible, is the truth!

If there are no fixed white gateposts in the vicinity, it can only have been a dwarf.

[rigga]

Greg66 said:

No. It might have been a dwarf dressed as a white gatepost, running past the car and brushing it.

Remember: eliminate the impossible, and what remains, no matter how implausible, is the truth!

If there are no fixed white gateposts in the vicinity, it can only have been a dwarf.

He has a point ...
No idea why that angry face is there

Edited by rigga on Tuesday 23 September 17:44

[ManOpener]

That's very similar to the damage done to the front of my car when a white van dragged its rear arch across the corner whilst pulling out of a parking space, albeit considerably worse.

[Crusoe]

thinking matt blue car probably has white undercoat (to show the stone chips better) so would have been a rough texture to remove as much paint.

[Monkeylegend]

Greg66 said:

Monkeylegend said:

So we now know the car was moving at the time of the incident, very interesting.

No. It might have been a dwarf dressed as a white gatepost, running past the car and brushing it.

Remember: eliminate the impossible, and what remains, no matter how implausible, is the truth!

If there are no fixed white gateposts in the vicinity, it can only have been a dwarf.

But you seem to have forgotten the fact that sis has been driving the car for 2 weeks, and she doesn't know any dwarfs.

[FreeLitres]

I think a wall has carelessly run itself along your car while you were carefully driving along.

[Monkeylegend]

Or he could have been singing along to Snow white.

[anonymous-user]

Monkeylegend said:

Greg66 said:

Monkeylegend said:

So we now know the car was moving at the time of the incident, very interesting.

No. It might have been a dwarf dressed as a white gatepost, running past the car and brushing it.

Remember: eliminate the impossible, and what remains, no matter how implausible, is the truth!

If there are no fixed white gateposts in the vicinity, it can only have been a dwarf.

But you seem to have forgotten the fact that sis has been driving the car for 2 weeks, and she doesn't know any dwarfs.

<steeples fingers and ponders>

She would say that, wouldn't she...


Perhaps she didn't need to know the dwarf. A dwarf in a hurry is a desperate creature. It might have been on the run. To, or perhaps from, a circus. The sis was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time...

OP, were there any circuses in the area at the time of the incident? I think that's where you need to start asking some difficult questions. Of the dwarves. Or their keepers. Or both.