I took the CS out for a ride last night. While on the highway, a large metal cylinder of some sort fell off of a pickup and hit a car about 75 yards in front of me. The cylinder bounced off of the concrete median and was spinning on it's end into my lane.

I thought about going into the left lane but a car was there and if I moved into the right lane it might hit the side of the car.

I hit the hooks..a car was right on my a##. He moved to the left lane just in time and almost hit the car that was in the left lane.

I heard a thump on the pass side and it sounded like it hit the floor board with a tinking sound like it hit the exhaust.

When I got home, I looked at the floor. No damage.

Today, I cleaned off the bugs and noticed a dent in the front fascia just to the right of the front plate bracket on my car. It's about an inch long right at the top edge of the facsia. There is a dent in the front plate too! No other damage.

It could have hit the front and bounced onto the hood, windshield or any other body panel the way it was spinning.

With a large as that thing was and how it was spinning, I guess I was lucky!!!

 

Ouch - glad no one was hurt.

 

It's the new car curse. Something will always happen to a new car, you can only hope the fix isn't bad.

 

But it's not new.

This is the first "major" ding in almost three years and 26K miles.

I'm pi$$ed but it could have been a lot worse!!

 

Oh, I missed the "CS" The shop that put my tint on, when my car was one day old, broke my windshield. He was putting the visor tint on and couldn't get it low enough to cover the mustang design they have in the middle, so he tells me he has to remove the rear view mirror. He proceeds to "try" and remove the mirror when 30 seconds later, he pulls it off the windshield, cracking it in half.

 

I know what you mean.

The first new car I bought (we won't discuss what it was) had a door ding 6 hours after I took delivery.

 

Ouch, reminds me of one of the times I made the trip to RID. Traffic was creeping along RT64 on the way to Richmond Va and when I finally get to the reason why, a dumptruck is stopped ahead of a BMW, the truck had an unsecured tool and it had at some point flew off the truck and speared the driver's side light on on the BMW as well as crunched the surrounding fender.

 

As a rule, I never follow any trucks or cars with loads. Most yahoos don't know how to tie stuff down or properly bind a load. Then there is always the flatbed truck that the driver thinks all of his stuff will magically stay in there when he hits a bridge joint, etc.

I once saw a full size gas lawn mower fly up and out of a pickup truck bed.... you know, one of those gardeners that runs around. At 65 mph, that mower caught an air current, flew up and out of the bed of the truck, hit the freeway pavement on it's wheels, zipped across the lanes, hit the center wall, bounced back across 4 lanes and hit the curb at the shoulder. That frickin mower was going 50 mph at one point.

Anyway, people are dumb about stuff they carry. Stay back and to the side.

Glad you only got clipped.

 

Wish I had a mower that did 50 mph........With a blower. That would be cool.

 

If that's all that happened, you definitely lucked out. Glad you and your CS are OK!

 

Had something similiar happen back when I just got my '96 Vert, except it took out 2k in insurance repairs, and two tires.

 

I had something similar happen to me a couple years ago in my 05 GT. I was on the highway and a truck was in front of me losing his load of stones all over the highway. Long story short, got his license plate, made police report, insurance repainted my entire car. Didn't even have to pay the deductible.

 

I hate trucks and dump trucks. Earlier this week there was a semi with a beat up trailer going down I-95, and huge chunks of wood- like over a foot long - were flying off it. I took the first exit I saw. Learned my lesson earlier this year when I had my Audi on the highway and a dump truck blew by with rocks flying out. Clocked me in 2 places and broke my windshield...

 

When my 2011 Mustang GT had just 3k miles on it, a dump truck pulled out in front of me while I was doing 55mph. A friggin 3" diameter chunk of wood came off the thing and I hit it doing 50. It twisted up my driveshaft, blew out the rear end and cracked the case of the MT-82 transmission as well as dented the crap out of the underbody.





Total cost to repair was over $6k. New trans, D/S, rear end and body work. Car drives better now than it did before though. LOL!