As I was about to leave work today, I noticed that the rear bumper was cracked as well as the taillight. Not sure what could have caused this but it looks like a small impact from a door or another car. I am very pissed. now i have to get a replacement driver LED taillight and those arent cheap. I will see if i can pull up the parking lot footage from one of our security cams. Opinions anyone?

 

Nocturnx has been trying to sell his Alteza LED tails, he may be able to hook you up with a deal.

But, to me it sounds like a call to the insurance company and pay a deductible to have the car properly fixed (including cost of replacing the tails).

I also hope you find whoever caused this damage. That bugs me an aweful lot that people do things like that and just leave as it's "not there problem". But, if they get caught, they can be slapped with a Hit-n-Run....

 

You have no idea. At my last job I had the exact same thing happened to me. I replaced my tail light with a used cover that's got some cracks in it but it'll do until Spring. But luckily we have parking lot cameras so we could see who did it. It wasn't even a co-worker, just someone that didn't want to pay for parking downtown and went in our lot (too bad it was around 3 in the afternoon -- we have a rent a cop in our lot from 6am to around noon-ish to keep the undesirables out, but after around 1 everyone is back from lunch so he doesn't stick around after that). But we gave the plates to the Cleveland police and they charged him with destruction of property, trespassing on private property and hit and run.

After that I stopped driving to work and started taking the rapid.

 

It looks as if someone was backing out of their space and tapped my bumper with their rear corner. Like I said, we have 3 parking lot cams and one is looking right where I park so I will see if I can get the footage. Its all on hard drives. I would have been happy with just a note with a number on it. I could kill whoever did this sneaky bull****

 

I really hope you get the bastard!

 

Me too! But I have spent hours reviewing videotape for work and I would give you about a 60% chance of actually catching whoever did it. Definitely let us know.

 

Looks like you will need a new bumper cover as well. Hope the beam behind the cover isnt smashed either.

 

I park by the Brown's stadium on West 3rd, this was before I owned my Monte, I got there and found my passenger side window smashed out and my Sony radio removed (heck the guy even went into the glove box and took the manual to it). Luckily, he did not cut ANY wiring and never went in the trunk to get the changer that went with it.
Plus side, I had my eye on a new JVC unit that supported MP3 play back (the stereo he stole was about 5+ years old and this was the 3rd car I had it in). He gave me the excuse I needed to finally get a new one.
I was more angry I had to replace the glass (got it salvage for $45) then the radio.

I still park my Grand Am in that lot (I've even taken the Monte to that lot too), but I park in a more visible area. Semi trucks pass through that lot ALL the time and there are people at a guard shack for Port-of-Cleveland. I used to park in an area that was somewhat secluded from people passing by. I now park in a more visible location (logic behind it is it would reduce odds of break in as people doing that really don't want seen). Break-ins can happen anywhere, just learn to try and reduce your odds of it happening.

 

I can't say for certain by those photos, but I'd say it was likely a truck that backed into you. Its up awfully high for a car to have done it. The paint doesn't look all that scuffed, so whatever it was came straight at that corner, not a glancing blow

 

I hope you get the jerk that did that. Please let us know if you find out how it was done.