some !#!**!# side-swiped my roadster in a hit and run

[zack]

Freakin' makes me so wary. I was on a date in my Mercedes G55 the other day and drove the length of a one-car alley between two tall buildings, and just as I was about to cross the sidewalk and enter the street some numb-nuts guy in a big green GM SUV started to turn in, stopped, then went for it and drove up to my bumper, signaling me to back up the alley. It was a very very long alley and there was a car pointing partway into it about halfway back, and I didn't budge. This bully inched closer and closer to my car until he rammed me. I was so pissed! He didn't have insurance... he lied and gave me a cab card for identification and my insurance company told me I've got to pay the $240 deductible.

 

[PaulM]

Wow, what an ass!!

 

[W.Petefish]

Its nice here that this qualifies as, if I remember correctly, a felony.

 

[VolkerP]

i have never seen damaged CF panels in real life, but - in the pictures supplied by op, the cracks seem to expose card board??! And the second-to-last picture shows some white fabric, makes me think of glass fiber. Isn't CF meant to look black? Or is the fiber structure turning white when cracked?

 

[Jaff]

When the CF panel on the Roadster is "cut or sliced", you can both see & feel the fibers and they do look white...not sure if this is because of a paint primer applied to the CF or not.

The replacement part for my car (driver's side quarter panel & fender) was medium-dark grey when I saw it (before being primed and installed on the car).

I had pictures of my damage (looked like a saw cut just below the driver's side door), but the #@!!&*%% tech who fired up my new Blackberry forgot to transfer them over...:cursing: