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thats why i started this thread...i was gonna feel really bad if i was the only one with a fried civic. as for gotti...i did the same thing too, not as bad, but i fixed it myself. I was talking to one of my friends who owns a body shop and he said that the best thing to do is to go all out..THEN pay attention to detail. He has a point IMHO. Ill get my altezza grill, my lip kit and probably honda spolier, maybe a fiber hood, then as a final touch, an all out new paint job. thanks for making me feel better everyone!!!

 
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i got 2 dings on each side on the car. I also have a big chip on the passenger side mirror. My brother was parkin my car in the garage and didn't pay attention and left EBP paint on the side of the garage.

 
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Gash in rear bumper....backing up in a parking lot and someone turned left behind me

dent in drivers side door near the window......the ladder in my garage fell on it.

it sucks..its 4 months old

 
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First new car?

Trust me, dude, I'm with ya. I got overly worried when my civic got a bit scratched up cos I accidentally bottomed it out a bit... Fortunately, all of the damage on my civic is right under the front bumper, and it's only to the plastic. It's not that big a deal in the long run. Because you use it to drive around every day, it's gonna get hit by rocks, hail, snowballs... It'll probably be the target of punk kids on Hallowe'en, or a careless driver... No matter what, your car WILL get scratches, dings, and dents. It's just the way it is. The sooner you realize that, the happier you shall be.

If you are concerned about the scratches and dents and so forth, get it taken in to get repaired once it starts really showing out. With the example of my bumper, it shouldn't cost more than a couple hundred to buy a new one and replace the plastic myself. Scratches on paint can easily be fixed with a new paint job for about $200, and most dents can be taken out. It's not really worth it, though, if you're just driving it around town all the time, unless it's something that makes your car look really bad.

Just remember to like your car and treat it right, and you'll get many, many happy miles from it. Don't get too attached to your car, though, because no matter what, at the end of the day, it's still a car. Get overly attached to it, and it will break your heart worse than a cheating spouse.

Oh, and my car's Taffeta White. It's not a bad color since most damage doesn't show up on it. Plus, ppl are less likely to damage your car since it's so unbelievably visible. *knock on wood*

 
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well, i had a dent/scratch on my passenger door. my whole driver side was ****ed up, and my hood just got dented in from my friend jumping on it. but luckly i got all those fixed. but i do have a little dent a size of a nickle on the passenger side pillar (next to windshield) from a rock or something. besides that, just normal dings and paint chips from rocks n dirt

 
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I've had my vic for a 1 and a half now. Not a mark on her. Anymore that is. Now 6 months ago there was $8700 worth of dents and ripped off pieces all over her. But now, not a scratch. Gotta love those trees!

 
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I guess my car isn't as bad as some of the people's here ...

I only have a bigass dent from where my ex-gf pushed me into the rear qtr. panel.

o yah ... I dunno what u would call it, but my front "lip" is almost falling off. I don't think you would call it a lip since it's made of black rubber ... but anyway yah, that's from bottoming out a couple times. I didn't think the car was -that- low ... it's still stock height ...

 
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I've got one ding on my passenger side door. It's noticeable but not bad. I have scratches on the back of my bumper from people bumpin me. I also have some paint chips I guess from the highway doing about 130mph. Well not that fast but anyway. I think I've taken pretty good care of mine, I've had it for a little over a year now

 
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My paint is scratched on the bottom right of the front bumper. Looks like I kissed a curb or something. It'll probably buff out with some rubbing compound, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

The left corner of my rear bumper is scratched up from some **** hitting me in a parking lot and not leaving a note.

There is a small dent in the trunk lid above the emblem from pushing it closed.

If you look really closely you can see a minor dent in the driver's front fender from one of my ******** friends leaning against it. My car is not a freakin' chair!

 
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My brother just slipped with a hoe (the garden tool) the other day while trying to scrape the ice off of our driveway. Now I have a 2 inch long DEEP gash in my passenger side door. Plus, when I bought my car Honda had already installed the stupid door trim piece that's supposed to keep the door edge from getting dented. Well, they did a CRAPPY job installing it, so now that I've been opening up my door and closing it for about a year now, it has worn part of my driver-side door sill down to the bare metal, and it's starting to rust! I DIDN'T EVEN WANT THE FREAKIN' EDGE GUARD ON THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Oh well, I'm gonna fix it myself b/c the dealerships just really mess up your car. OK, I'm done ranting and raving now.

 
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3rd week owning the car i was rear ended and ****ed the back end of my car good.. i was soo mad. no there is only a few marks from normail driving from rocks, and one verry verry verry tiny ding in my rear 1/4 panel but that is getting fixed.

Before accident 1st week owning car:



Accident:



Post Accident:



I have owned the car for a short time i got it Nov 23rd 2002

 
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Yeah, I did. 8 days before this.

And it was 1000000000000% not my fault. Just some bad luck

 
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i have about 5 dings in my doors from stupid people who hit my car in parking lots and a few dings in my hood from rocks on the highway also scratch on front bumper from who knows what but that will be gone next week when i put my kit on..

 
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Just a very small pushed in part on my drivers side quarter panel from my brother leaning his *** on my car when he puts gas in it for me( its sweet of him to fill my gas tank, but not sweet to leave *** marks on my car) i tell him to stop leaning on it, but its like yelling at a brick wall

 
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Mine got keyed like 20-30 times

Fixed under insruance now theres BAD swril marks Im taking it back as soon as the weather clears up

 
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OH man!.. lets see.. I jumped a blind double dip goin 40 once (on accident), I gotta huge crack in the front bumper from when some mustang with a drunk driver in it crashed into a guardrail right in front of me causing the wooden post to smack right into the bumper. I bottomed out on the sand (beach sand) highway in pismo beach on my way to camp the sand dunes n ride atv's. But after all that abuse she still runs well.The scars kinda visible in the pics..thanx to photoshop for the first 2 poster pics