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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
X2.
I completely understand the potential for one slight mistake to ruin your entire day.
Not quite as bad...........but, I backed the BMW out of it's shed in the dark and got the angle wrong.........too much swing. Checked the sideview mirror to look for the cement pillar at the driveway entrance to square it up and realized that I was way wide of it...........and heading further right.
Hit the brake.........just at the moment the RR bumper hits the old Dodge van (sitting awaiting the junkyard). Of course, the van couldn't care less. The BMW, however, completely destroyed the plastic POS bumper and it wraps all the way around the vehicle. 
My sincere condolonces...........my $500. mistake pales in comparison. |
another story for R Leo to feel better-
Guy I know who lives down the street, had a 98 or 99 volvo wagon, 5-speed, was in mint condition with low miles before the event I will describe.
He went way out of his way to find an in town apartment that had its own included private garage, which was a little stand along building from the teens with just enough room to park a modern car in it.
Hes a bit of an excitable guy, one day while starting to back out, he starts to scrape one side of the garage. Unbelievable, he has three thoughts that coincide, one, to get out and inspect the damage, two, to cut the wheel the other way and get away from the wall, and three, to get completely out of the garage.
So what he does is open the drivers door, crank the wheel all the way the other direction, and floor the gas in reverse.
ends up bending the door so bad its nearly ripped off as it catches the garage wall, destroying the front fender on the driver side, wrecking the door and front fender on the passenger side, tweaking the hood and front clip, and damaging the driver side suspension when the car slams into the garage stone entrance. End of the story is he totals his pristine car trying to back out of the garage.
I walked down there with another friend and we were both speechless looking at the chaos.