Well...........I just got my first scratch. Went to the local drive-in root beer stand. The teenage waitress knocked the stainless steel knapkin holder off of the tray & down the side of my door. I about climbed through the window after her. She says "Oh..........don't worry sir, it didn't hit your truck" I said I heard it hit my truck!!!" She says "only this shiny step, here". I got out to look. Sure enough.......2 half inch scratches in the door. I get the owner's wife and she says that their insurance has told them before that this type of thing is an act of nature and they are not liable. ACT OF NATURE.....MY Butt!!!! I rather emphatically suggested she get ready to write a check. What an ordeal. Ruined my whole day!

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Took mine in to get the window tinted Thursday .... they backed the drivers side mirror into the door opening ... smashed it tp pieces ..... new one on the way .... they wanted to just replace the glass ... after a mild discussion ... a new one was ordered .... almost $300 for the replacement ..... they were real good about it .... even coming here to replace it on Monday ...

 

Nothing worse than the first scratch.

Fortunately I was the first person to scratch my new truck. I was washing the trailer with a long-handled wash broom and put about a 3" gash in the truck paint when swinging the handle down.

 

My truck was sitting in Lowes parking lot on a windy day. Upon exiting the store there was a shopping cart on a mission headed straight for my two month old truck. (1998) Oh yea, I witnessed it. The cart hit my truck so hard the truck rocked back and forth. I wanted to cry. The dent wizard guy tried to pull it out, but couldn't get it all.
I haven't thought about it for quite some time now. Some day, neither will you.

 

I completely agree...someday it just won't matter. Since having kids I've come to realize the only thing that matters are kids. Everything else is just filler.

 

Boy, consider your self lucky. My truck arrived at the dealership after 12 weeks wait with two dents in the rear bumper and a missing front hub cap. I have yet to scratch my truck but I am sure if I don't some careless person will.

 

It was dark when I bought mine and the next morning I realized that it had a 3" long scratch on the passenger side behind the cab. I just said to heck with it and now I have about 20 scratches in the same small area and I don't know where they come from......

 

I agree. My 7 year old daughter put the first scratch in my truck. I was unloading 1/2 yard of sand, and the kids were helping. She stuck the wheel barrow under the tail gate the wrong direction, and some sand got trapped between the wheel barrow and the tail gate. Big ol' sand scratches. Maybe they'll come out, I'm not sure.

So what's more important? Teaching your kids how to help you or keeping the truck purdy? She knows a bit better now about what will scratch and / or dent the truck, and I didn't get overly upset.

 

I agree 100% with the comments about our kids being the most important. Nothin' better than family.

Besides, a couple days have passed, and my 2 little scratches aren't nearly as big a deal as they seemed Saturday. I think I can rub them out, anyway.

I had to laugh..........when I got home, my kids looked at the scratches. THEY WERE MORE UPSET THAN I WAS! Imagine that.

 

Scratches are character. I just cover mine up with bullet hole stickers.

 

Kids can be a terror. Here's a good one...

My wife's sister has 3 kids. One of them scratched/etched their brothers name on the side of their new Volvo and tried to blame it on them. Didn't get away with it though. After spending a few days waiting for one of them to crack, the husband finally said he got hold of a surveillance tape which caught the one who really did it. Well, the sister came forward and confessed. About 5 minutes later, the older one asked how long where those surveillance cameras watching the garage and driveway. Husband asked why. Kid said, "Well, last week while we were roller bladeing, I had to go to the bathroom and didn't want to take off my skates to go upstairs so I pee'd in the garage."



It's amazing what kids will do....and what we let them get away with!

 

What's wrong with that??

 

In my garage you'd probably never notice. But they have a nice garage (they drive a volvo).

 

I live in a culdesac.
Second day I owned my truck I backed my truck to the end of the driveway to hose down the driveway and the woman directly accross from me wheels out of her driveway, shoots across the culdesac and cuts her hard. Starting at my left rear bumper with her right rear bumper she only stops at her front fender. The noise was unreal as I watched in terror as my brand new truck got creamed by this dizzy _itch. She did over $10,000 damage to her car but my CTD only needed the rear bumper replaced Then she tries to blame me for parking on the street Any how it all started on day two here.