Damage to car - wondering what happened

brianb10

Noticed this damage (pic attached) on wife's car this evening.
She said she didnt have any knocks or bumps that she knows of.
Was parked in hospital car park today so maybe something happened there.

Any guesses as to what caused it from the pic.
Two dents and yellow paint on the bottom.

Thanks

Gonad

The fact that the paint is yellow makes me think it was something like a skip that hit it . But you know skips are usually stationary so have a word with the wife

Avatar MIA

Not a minor scrape either, some force required. Of course someone could have hit in the car park. That's always the risk in a public car park.

Avatar MIA

Btw, those tyres look very bald, could have easily had a skid.

AlfaZen

Looks like it hit a pole or something similar painted yellow.
Also that tyre has seen better days - looks lethal to be honest.

Miike

Gonad wrote: »

The fact that the paint is yellow makes me think it was something like a skip that hit it . But you know skips are usually stationary so have a word with the wife

I'd agree with this but the shape of dent doesn't agree. There's a defined ridge between the two dents.

That yellow looks awfully like bollard yellow too!

It looks like a duster so it wasn't a car that did something like that, at the height.

Atlantic Dawn

Looks like something moving parallel to the car hit it or the car hit something parallel to it, doesn't look like a direct collision of a car hiting it straight on.

And yes that tyre is super dangerous to have on a car, replace the tyre before fixing the damage if the choice is either or.

trotskyite1

Dear God that tyre though. You're looking at a blow out there

mikeecho

Looks like one of Michael O'Learys new Boeing 737 maxs' skimmed by, while trying to make an emergency landing.

Honestly.. how do you expect anyone here to tell you what happened.
The driver of the car doesn't even know.




I'm outta here

antodeco

Could she have gone up against a pillar of some sort and ripped the tyres apart as well?

Avatar MIA

mikeecho wrote: »

I'm outta here

Just not in the OP's mrs' car, you'd be safer in the 737.

Often times in car parks, there are low-height walls about the place. These often have yellow chevron-style stickers or steel signs stuck to them.

My initial thought was that she hit one of them, and was too embarrassed to admit it. The issue is the angle, though. She could only have hit it, if it was on her left, and she was either reversing in or out of the parking space (with the wheels locked right, swinging the wing of the car into the object).


Tyre looks like it's got years left on it. Don't mind the other posters.

dogmatix

Avatar MIA wrote: »

Just not in the OP's mrs' car, you'd be safer in the 737.

Not if it is a 737 Max!

H3llR4iser

As some said already, the colour and the "flaky" nature of the paint (it left spots, rather than just streaks) all point to a bollard or a concrete pillar. Now, as far as I know these don't tend to move, so...you know where I'm going.

Left field option that "exonerates" the wife - rubbish collection truck?

colm_mcm

Almost certainly a case that the car hit an object like a fence. Make sure you get it fixed properly as rust protection on Dusters is pretty poor.

uncommon_name

My god get the woman some new tyres.
Also I bet she hit one of those yelllow bollards that do be in car parks all the time.

elperello

Yellow pick up scraped it.

Charles Ingles

Your wife hit a bollard my friend she is lying to you.
Lock her in the kitchen until she admits the truth

uncommon_name

Charles Ingles wrote: »

Your wife hit a bollard my friend she is lying to you.
Lock her in the kitchen until she admits the truth

Or until she makes you a meal so nice you cant be mad at her anymore.

Duane Dibbley

Which hospital was it?

If it was Tallaght they have bollards like this

https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.1859580.1404842814!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg

corks finest

brianb10 wrote: »

Noticed this damage (pic attached) on wife's car this evening.
She said she didnt have any knocks or bumps that she knows of.
Was parked in hospital car park today so maybe something happened there.

Any guesses as to what caused it from the pic.
Two dents and yellow paint on the bottom.

Thanks

Was hit by a DAA Hyundai jeep ( yellow) 4/5 years ago same colour - area,,,,and that's a DAA jeep near Cork airport to add insult to injury

billie1b

mikeecho wrote: »

Looks like one of Michael O'Learys new Boeing 737 maxs' skimmed by, while trying to make an emergency landing.

Honestly.. how do you expect anyone here to tell you what happened.
The driver of the car doesn't even know.




I'm outta here

Be grand, Ryanair don’t have any 737 Max aircraft, so thats not the fault, looks like she simply hit a bollard of some sort

Mint Sauce

Maybe something with a highsided edge hit the car? Dent high on the wing, and scuffs on tyre lined up with dent, scratches, and dent.

Or wife hit something yellow, dodgy tyre, may or not have been involved.