My company pays for me to be able to park in a garage by my office. I had owned my S for about a month and parked it in said garage everyday for work. The parking bumpers were the low ones the car had no problem pulling over. One morning I pulled into a spot and as usual walked around the front to stair my baby in the face before I leave her for the day. When I did I notice the metal spikes on the particular space had not been installed correctly and were sticking about 1.5"s above the top of the bumper. These lovely pieces of rebar managed to punch two neat little holes right in the lower part of my bumper. Needless to say, I was pissed. I had a camera in my car so I snapped some pics then went to the property management company showed them the pics and filled out an incident report in which I stated the bumper had been installed incorrectly and caused damage to my car. A week later their insurance company contacted me asked me to get an estimate for the damage. I went to a body shop and got an estimate for having the bumper replaced and faxed it off. Another week later I got a check for $653.41 in the mail . I explained it real clear...If the bumper had been installed correctly my car would not have been damaged. The insurance company agreed and paid up.

 

"Nothing serious, but with the notorious long front end my Dad pulled up over one of those curbs in a parking lot, and it had to be one with the little metal spike sticking up out of it."

yup, reallys sucks!

happened to me too...
i didn't realize until i was backing out, the front lip (M3) got caught under the metal pipe extruding out, just barely tall enough that it gets caught when you back out (your front tends to go down momentarily when you reverse...). i literally almost ripped my whole front bumper off...

so pissed...

 

yeah, my girlfriend (now fiance) drove up on a curb and scratch my front lip pretty good. UGH! Plus, once she was following me in my pathfinder, and she actually tapped my rear bumper. broke a fog light on my pathfinder.

So she hit me...with my own vehicle.

 

BroncoHound and LudegarH22A7,
You should thanks God for damages only to your cars. You can get serious injuries or even got killed when those things happened on highway. You guys were very lucky in those accidents.

Similar accident happened to my wife a few years back, she drove her 1 year new E430 (it costs me $58k) on Hwy 405 north at the speed of traffic flow, she hit a recap tire with her right tires, she said that she almost lost control of her car (with our daugther in the car), but somehow she regained control of the car. The damage was somewhat substantial, I had to pay $500 deductable and insurance company paid more than $3000 to fix it. But I was very happy that no one in my family was hurst.

 

now that the damage has been fixed for a while and i have forgotten what she looked like with her face all messed up, i look back and think the same thing mostly. i am a top always down type, so of course the top was down during this. had that recap hit any other way and flown up rather then go under the car, it could have easily whipped around and smacked me or my best friend in the side of the head or back of the head. i was also lucky, as you said, that the superior handling of these fine machines prevented me from losing control when driving over such a large, misshapen obstacle. Looking back, i guess it wasn't so bad. Still broke my heart tho...

 

friggin road gators! why we still allow truckin companies to run those is way beyond me. about a month or so ago i was tooling down the freeway at around 75mph, come around a bend in the road and the entire freeway is littered with huge road gators. i was able to break to about 60 and play frogger with them all but im sure people behind me drilled them repeatedly. there was hardly any missing them (except for myself)!

 

Cut your dad some slack and buy a chin spoiler maybe it will cover the damage.

 

eh, I haven't done anything about it yet. I'm hesitant to, because I know I'll probably do the same thing as soon as I get it fixed. He felt so bad about it....